Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day

[RW3]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #1

Posted: 1/14/16 at 6:23pm

This is why she is leaving Shuffle Along.

https://twitter.com/BazBam/status/687774705713938432

[CindersGolightly]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #2

Posted: 1/14/16 at 6:34pm

YES! Rack up those awards. What a treat for the West End. Also, for anyone worried, she's just leaving for a few weeks in the summer. OP didn't make that clear.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

[Jshan05]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #3

Posted: 1/14/16 at 6:34pm

Ahhhhhhh glad that was cleared up. I had no idea if she was doing a film or what. Now I need to plan my UK trip...

[ACL2006]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #4

Posted: 1/14/16 at 7:22pm

ok, I give her permission now. I just hope there's a legit replacement for her during her hiatus.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #5

Posted: 1/14/16 at 7:41pm

Oh, London. Are you ever in for a treat :)

[broadwaysfguy]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #6

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:59pm

lady day was INCREDIBLE

go Audra!!!!

[ChiTheaterFan]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #7

Posted: 1/15/16 at 12:24am

And I thought my NYC theater trips were getting expensive... 

[RippedMan]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #8

Posted: 1/15/16 at 12:37am

Wonder which theater? It def. needs a more black box space.

[RW3]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #9

Posted: 1/15/16 at 12:52am

RippedMan said: "Wonder which theater? It def. needs a more black box space.

 

Wyndham's Theatre

 

[RippedMan]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #10

Posted: 1/15/16 at 1:29am

Oh interesting. Wonder if they'll keep the same set up.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #11

Posted: 1/15/16 at 3:07am

You'll forget about the set up as soon as Ms. McDonald steps on stage and transport you to Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's such a meticulous and lived-in performance that it's hard to imagine a stage that wouldn't let her shime. And yes, believe the hype, she is *that* good. 

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[c0113g3b0y]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #12

Posted: 1/15/16 at 4:24am

RippedMan said: "Oh interesting. Wonder if they'll keep the same set up.

 

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how was the set up like at Circle in the Square? was it done in the round or with a thrust stage?

The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)

[Mr. Nowack]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #13

Posted: 1/15/16 at 8:34am

It was done in the round, setup to make it seem you were in fact in the club with Lady Day/Audra.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Scarywarhol]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #14

Posted: 1/15/16 at 10:05am

It was a 3/4 thrust set-up.

 

The "back wall" was actually a scrim used to reveal significant objects from Billie's past.

Updated On: 1/15/16 at 10:05 AM

[Jshan05]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #15

Posted: 1/15/16 at 10:06am

The Brits are in for such a treat. I can't wait to re-live the experience on HBO in March!

[RippedMan]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #16

Posted: 1/15/16 at 12:01pm

Kind of a thrust with onstage seating. The end of stage was a bar, which was used. And the back of the set was the stage with a scrim revealing objects and whatnot, which I kind of wish they had used better. I'm starting to think Leon isn't the best director. 

[Scarywarhol]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #17

Posted: 1/15/16 at 12:04pm

Wasn't it Lonny Price?

 

(Who we KNOW isn't the best director?)

[Broadwaystar2]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #18

Posted: 1/15/16 at 2:40pm

CindersGolightly said: "YES! Rack up those awards. What a treat for the West End. Also, for anyone worried, she's just leaving for a few weeks in the summer. OP didn't make that clear.

 

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She's leaving for 3 months! More than a few weeks. 

[AddisonMizner]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #19

Posted: 1/17/16 at 12:36pm

Was the onstage seating decent on Broadway? Thinking about going for the Club Seating in the West End, but don't want to see the back of heads all evening.

[Scarywarhol]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #20

Posted: 1/17/16 at 12:56pm

On Broadway, the onstage seating looked good--she's on a stage ON stage by the back wall for most of the show. She also interacts with the people with table seating a bit. 

[AddisonMizner]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #21

Posted: 1/17/16 at 1:16pm

Thanks. May go for these then, despite the price.

[Bettyboy72]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #22

Posted: 1/18/16 at 3:50pm

I'm happy for London, but it seems moronic to pull her from a current Broadway run to do this. Was there seriously no other time to arrange this?

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[wicked_beast4]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #23

Posted: 1/18/16 at 3:57pm

Bettyboy72 said: "I'm happy for London, but it seems moronic to pull her from a current Broadway run to do this. Was there seriously no other time to arrange this?

 

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Moronic is quite the over-exaggeration. 

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[rjm516]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #24

Posted: 1/18/16 at 4:11pm

Yeah it is strange that they would do it so soon after Shuffle Along opens. Maybe the summer is her only free time and next fall she has even more projects coming.

 

I hope the seating is similar to Broadway. I bought club seats that kind of make it look like they'll be behind her (T3/4) but that CAN'T be, right? Not for the most expensive seats! 

[RW3]

Audra to make WE debut in Lady Day #25

Posted: 1/18/16 at 4:31pm

rjm516 said: "Yeah it is strange that they would do it so soon after Shuffle Along opens. Maybe the summer is her only free time and next fall she has even more projects coming.

 

 

 

I hope the seating is similar to Broadway. I bought club seats that kind of make it look like they'll be behind her (T3/4) but that CAN'T be, right? Not for the most expensive seats! 

 

In one of the articles that came out after the announcement, it said the Audra will be in Shuffle Along until June of next year. Also, Audra was just in London doing a concert and she posted a picture of her outside the Wyndham with a marquee of another show playing there. Thus, the summer was possibly the only time she could do it.