2018 Olivier Awards — Page 5

gypsy101 said: "just saw the Hamilton performance, it wasn’t great. the hard Gs and Rs were really throwing me considering it’s supposed to be rap and you don’t hear those sounds a lot in american rap, it all felt very forced and strange which may have to do with British actors doing American accents (though usually British actors do very convincing American accents and it’s usually the reverse that sounds odd)"

In my experience seeing shows in London, the accents tend to not be as great as you think. In Good People, which takes place in Boston they seemed to be doing southern or Brooklyn. In A Chorus Line Shelia (from Colorado) had a hard New York accent.

Most West End actors playing American tend to do an over ennunciation thing. My Brit friend says Broadway actors always do English like they're rich Oscar Wilde characters, so I guess we're equally as bad.

Gizmo6 said: "I never said UK would create a Hip-pop pastiche musical.

I would remind you that out of the top ten longest running musicals 50% of Broadway’s musicals are British imports and 70% of West End Musicals are homegrown. "

And no one is saying we didn't have our time. Yes in the 80s and early 90s a lot of influential musicals were coming out of the UK. But we're talking about now and those days are over.

Currently on Broadway there are 25 musicals that originated in the US and 1 musical that originated in the UK.

Currently in the West End there are 11 musicals that originated in the UK and 12 musicals that originated in the US.

The one British musical playing in the US is The Phantom of the Opera that opened in 1986.

On the other hand, the West End has American musicals like Kinky Boots, Wicked, Aladdin, The Book of Mormon and Hamilton. All successful shows that premiered this century.

What I love about West End Theater= and I go to London at least once a year to see shows- is that tickets are so much easier to get- and they are a lot cheaper than NY. We went up to the box office for The Ferryman- about 20 minutes before showtime- and scored fifth row- on the side, but still great- in the stalls- or orchestra as we call it. And on and on....I rarely cannot get tickets to a show- though maybe the ones I am not really interested in are tight- not interested in Harry Potter or Hamilton, because I have seen it- let time, got tickets when we got to London for Jamie, Long Days's Journey, Girl From The North Country, Witness For The Prosecution, Mary Stuart and Julius Caesar- and great seats, too. You could never do this in NY- and the prices were right- all tickets less than 100- and some a lot less- Julius Caesar 30 dollars for a great seat-that is USD not GBP.

I'm sorry, the actor playing Burr made me laugh out loud. What is that accent?

BWAY Baby2 said: "What I love about West End Theater= and I go to London at least once a year to see shows- is that tickets are so much easier to get- and they are a lot cheaper than NY. We went up to the box office for The Ferryman- about 20 minutes before showtime- and scored fifth row- on the side, but still great- in the stalls- or orchestra as we call it. And on and on....I rarely cannot get tickets to a show- though maybe the ones I am not really interested in are tight- not interested in Harry Potter or Hamilton, because I have seen it- let time, got tickets when we got to London for Jamie, LongDays's Journey, Girl From The North Country, Witness For The Prosecution, Mary Stuart and Julius Caesar- and great seats, too. You could never do this in NY- and the prices were right- all tickets less than 100- and some a lot less- Julius Caesar 30 dollars for a great seat-that is USD not GBP."

The West End is great for Day Seats (Rush Tickets) and West End prices are way better on the whole.

And mostly for all shows bar limited engagements you will get tickets on the day.

I agree a transfer is warranted. I think the show would have a real chance of succeeding in New York City.

Basically none of the National Theatre cast came close to the 2011 Follies revival. Some interesting and very aesthetically pleasing staging (except Loveland) but highly, highly overrated. We struck gold with the most recent revival of Follies and it won't be topped for decades.