B'WAY TRANSFER WATCH: London's "Sweet Charity"- Page 3

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 2/9/10 at 11:31am

How about Jennifer Garner? Didn't she train as a dancer? I also think she can bring a goofy sweetness as she did in 13 Going on 30.

[PastorErnst]

Posted: 2/22/10 at 12:22pm

Looks like Menier's production of Sweet Charity will be making a stop in Toronto! Is this any indication of a step towards a Broadway-transfer?

Yet another extraordinary woman takes the spotlight in the great Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields musical, SWEET CHARITY. Our tuneful tale of the big-hearted Charity and the girls of the Fandango Ballroom, is an exciting new staging from Britain's cutting-edge Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre.
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[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/22/10 at 12:47pm

We don't need any more of your pretentious crap "SERIOUS" versions of what used to be fun.

But the whole black-brick-wall aesthetic mostly seems uncreative.

Interesting comments. Especially since the production of La Cage I saw in the West End was nothing like either of those descriptions.

And not all of the Watermill/Menier productions transfer to the West and/or Broadway. Just the ones that producers believe will work on Broadway. It's hardly the fault of the British.

Sour British Minimalist-Reductionist-High-Concept-Miss-the-Boat-Entirely-Throw-Out-the-Baby-With-the-Bathwater Charity.

Keep it over there.

The other option, of course, is to let Broadway produce what it wants and you buy a ticket to what you wish to see. If the show should transfer to Broadway, audiences will determine whether it stays or not. So what? I think it would be sadder still to see Broadway enforce some sort of censorship with a narrow-minded view of how any show should be revived.