2025 Olivier Awards- Page 2

[ajh]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 7:41pm

I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 7:51pm

ajh said: "I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical."

The entire original London cast is coming over. All the actor-musicians make it tougher to recast. 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 8:40pm

Sadly, we have no actor-musicians in NYC.

[Bwaygurl2]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 8:55pm

Kad said: "Sadly, we have no actor-musicians in NYC."

Patti and her tuba. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 9:50pm

Owen22 said: "C4b2a3b said: "I guess I should see Giant? I see there are some tickets when I go. Anybody catch it at Royal Court?"

Yes. The thesis of Giant comes down to the bigotted dictum that anyone who is pro Palestinian is secretly anti-semitic. It's why I disliked this play very, very much and I lost respect for Nicholas Hytner who is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn and suppisedly agreed to direct this play to kick the man when he's down. However Lithgowis brilliant in it."

sir this is a Wendys

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 9:54pm

EDSOSLO858 said: "ajh said: "I could see Benjamin Button doing really well in NYC.As the extended run of Once proved, there’d be no problem casting the show for Broadway but I do hope Olivier winner John Dagleish and Olivier nominee Clare Foster get to recreate their work for New York audiences. This show is magical."

The entire original London cast is coming over. All the actor-musicians make it tougher to recast."

I’m sorry, what?

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 10:00pm

Owen22 said: "C4b2a3b said: "I guess I should see Giant? I see there are some tickets when I go. Anybody catch it at Royal Court?"

Yes. The thesis of Giant comes down to the bigotted dictum that anyone who is pro Palestinian is secretly anti-semitic. It's why I disliked this play very, very much and I lost respect for Nicholas Hytner who is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn and suppisedly agreed to direct this play to kick the man when he's down. However Lithgowis brilliant in it."

The Palestinian people desperately deserve allies and supporters who are NOT anti-semitic. It would change the game, and I believe it will happen some day. For the time being though, we get the Roald Dahls of the world, a man who backed Palestinians via unrepentant, blatant anti-Semitism. Decades later, and its Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Corbyn and their ilk, accomplishing nothing but alienation and misery. 

Lithgow will win the Tony next year, fwiw.

[Bette's Turban]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 10:05pm

Last year on this board, in one of these threads, everyone was poo pooing the possibility of a Fiddler revival.  

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 4/6/25 at 11:02pm

Fiddler just locked its position for my next trip, that and a revisit to Giant (such an incredible play that I’m sure breathes better on a larger stage).  
 

 

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 4/7/25 at 9:19am

I hope you like it and I hope it breathes life into in a show that is overdone. 
 

Personally, the last thing I need to see is another production of Fiddler. I’ve seen it on Broadway twice (including the Leveaux production that leaned into casting non-Jews). I’ve seen it in Yiddish. That doesn’t include junior high school, high school and regional productions and the overlong movie.