Connie Fisher to star in Sound of Music Tour

Members pre-sale at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton starts tomorrow

At the Mayflower 29th September - 24th October 2009

I hope the public still want to see her in the show as she proved a hard sell once she left what with 2 concerts being called off and not much else being offered except 'Theyre Playing Our Song'.

Southampton was the first of her conccet dates to pulled due to incredibly low ticket sales, the rest of the tour followed.

type cast much lol

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well as much as i enjoyed it with connie fisher, the second time i saw it with connie she was litterally a twig you could have snaped in half ! sorry to connie fans but she lost so much weight and she didnt have the flare and talent anymore she just seemed to have faded away !

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http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/22520/fisher-to-return-to-the-sound-of-music

The tour wasn't so unfeasible for Connie. It was just a bit (extremely) silly in terms of the venues. They were just too big!

I didn't see "They're Playing Our Song", but she was supposed to have been very good in that. The problem with her is that she just doesn't seem too obviously terribly versatile. It's that whole Julie Andrews thing that she has going on, which got her cast in the first place and served Julie Andrews very well, but which doesn't seem to be as appopriate for so much more today. I'm no "fan", but I am quite sorry in a way that she is doing the TSOM tour. It seems a little retrograde. She had moved on. This seems like a step back. But I suspect the rationale behind it was to take her to the people, as it were, given that many who voted won't have been able to get to London.

Updated On: 11/25/08 at 05:14 PM

Yes she is, she is off Monday nights and thurs mats...in Southampton anyway

Oh great so theatre audiences in the provinces are expected to tun out in the thousands to see an alternative on tour. The public will have a good memory of the Palladium fiasco and I really don't see this tour selling around the big houses across the UK. The mid week shows are the ones that will be hardest to sell at any time and will now be even harder without the 'star' name appearing at certain performances.
Not a good move. Why are they even going down the 'alternative' route with this show when every other touring musical doesn't.