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bigbelterbaby said: "Unfortunately I think the show is too British to appeal to a wide audience. There’s a lot of shows on the West End that have done well there but are so based on British culture and sensibilities that don’t translate. Just look at the tempid reception to Patriots and Cabaret and will likely happen to Sunset Boulevard."

None of those shows you mentioned are 'based on British culture and sensibilities that don't translate'

Ouch. I can only imagine how long it toiok them to get to that point, do 1 production in Leicester and then just have it all binned.  You kinda wonder how it got to that point, surely the production team had heard the music before then

The original score that was written for this by the Grey Garden's team, Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics), was it totally scrapped, or are there still some bits from that in the current version?

Having an American Shakespeare on the US recording is so weird for me. Everyone else, it doesn't bother me, but Sands' Shakespeare was all sorts of wrong.

The pre show is still in the London production

Cabaret getting 9 nominations, despite the reviews it got from the critics,

I guess the Tony voters liked it more than they did,

 

Is there a Van Horn in this AND Witches of Eastwick??

Having not seen the film, I went in blind and whilst the puppetry was well done, I couldnt abide the rest of it and left at the interval. It was SO slow. That first half was longer than the original film was. The GL seems a very small stage considering the size of it at the Barbican

 

The8re phan said: "TBFL said: "I hope they start doing the promo rounds soon. I wonder if this might get lost in Sunset's shadow."

I have tickets for both the same weekend in late October, and am more excited about TF than SB"

Likewise I have tickets for both SB and TF for a weekend in November, and despite having seen them both before, it's TF that i'm coming for.

 

I hope they start doing the promo rounds soon. I wonder if this might get lost in Sunset's shadow.

QueenAlice said: "Rachel has a major following in the UK. Partly from her work on TV. She is more well known there than Mandy Gonzalez is here. I guess I was thinking about when Donna Murphy was the alternate for Bette Midler- Murphy is a two time Tony winner and a Broadway star in her own right. Casting an alternate with no box office power seems risky. They would probably be wiser to just do 7 shows a week rather than do 8 with someone who isn’t very well known."

I loved Amy Lennox's Sally. I get why the Olivier Awards performance was polarising, but it was still thrilling, even more so in the actual performamce.

Does Sally still use a hand held mic in some songs? That still baffles me...

Tonorrow 10am now...