Ashlee Simpson Confirmed for Chicago (London); Already in Rehearsals — Page 5

Now THAT I would pay to see.

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colleen lee, this is a business, of which I am proud to be in .. with all those lovely union cards in my wallet. Let the Weissler's make the decisions, and others people like them. This industry evolves and changes.There's Chicago with Ashlee Simpson and there's Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh. Make your own decision about what appeals to you and buy the ticket, and let Broadway professionals make the decisions about the theatre as a whole. But by all means, enjoy the right to post on here about your business savvy, prowess, expertise, and how you know better than them.

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The original is still there.

I can't see it for some reason. I was starting to think that maybe it was true that these folks were cast and that the post was deleted because the moderator wanted to wait for the official announcement (like the early "DRS" closing threads).

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First of all everytime a star goes in to a show or a bad show flops or a jukebox musical opens everyone goes on about it been the death of theatre,i think it's safe to say it's not.

What struck a lot of people in the West End as odd though is that she really issn't that well known here.

Chicago ticket sales have been dropping for a while now and it seems like every time you blink there is a new celeb thrown in to the show here.

It's a shame because linzi hately is amazing in this show but she is only known to musical fans so they need so called celebs to get the new buisness in here.

This is the top selling show list in london for last month

1 Billy Elliot
2 Hay Fever
3 Mary Poppins
4 Les Miserables
5 Sinatra
6 Guys and Dolls
7 We Will Rock You
8 The Lion King
9 Phantom of the Opera
10 Wicked
11 Producers
12 Footloose
13 Mama Mia
14 Blood Brothers
15 Dancing In the streets
16 Evita
17 Dirty Dancing
18 The Rat Pack
19 Chicago
20 Donkeys Years

So you can see why chicago needs to get a celeb back in as its slipping out of the top 20 fast(the month before it was at 16).

I still think this is an odd choice though.

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I think she is going to act-synch using the leftover screens from The Woman In White.

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Luckydave, Usher's reviews were lukewarm??????!??? He was amazing! Better than John O'Hurley!

And I hate how Chicago stuntcasting got soooooooo out of hand.
But it's a good show!

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Fantastic? He was good but not fantastic.

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Have they run out of actresses in the correct age range?

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Ah Children we must only hope that Melanie Griffith will be avail to understudy. THEN we will see a true revelation!!
Or is that apocolypse?)

WTF.
I hope she pulls another SNL. Oh, if only I was in London to see that...

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She doesn't even look like the Ashley Simpson I'm accustomed to seeing. CJR, they're rechoreographing the show and incorporating some hoe-down moves, so the audience won't necessarily know the difference.

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I think she looks good.. and I honestly think she might surprise everyone with this.

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