BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012!

[Rob]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012!#1

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:18pm

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[mallardo]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #2

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:22pm

Hallelujah!!! It's not often that one's prayers are answered.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

[ACL2006]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #2

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:25pm

congrats to the cast & crew!!

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.

[bwayfan7000]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #3

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:29pm

What amazing news! I sincerely hope that this leads to a national tour.

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[Wildcard]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #4

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:29pm

Would love to see the Broadway leads perform in LA too!

[PianoMann]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #5

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:30pm

Wonderful news for the production and for fans out in California! Maybe this will help sustain the buzz come time for the Tony Awards?

[ljay889]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #6

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:31pm

I wonder if this can somehow help the show's Tony chances?

[dreaming]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #7

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:33pm

I am not shocked at all, really (but pleased nonetheless). Good for them! The Ahmanson needed something to fill the slot and this seemed like the most likely candidate. I don't know how it helps the Tony chances, but the more exposure the show gets, the better.
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[bwayphreak234]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #8

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:34pm

YES This gives me a chance to see it!!! LA is a lot closer to me than NYC!!

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[Michael Bennett]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #9

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:40pm

Glad this worked out for CTG.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #10

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:58pm

It's a beautiful production, I imagine the cast transferring is pretty much a given? The cast recording is so spectacular I wish I could watch the production every day.

"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"

[AMH]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #11

Posted: 12/6/11 at 12:59pm

I wonder if Bernadette will cancel a few of her concerts just for this.

"I'm the swell swab on the poop deck."

[PalJoey]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #12

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:06pm

Great news. Now my cousin Arlene, who lives in Los Angeles, can see it again.

She and I saw the original production with the original cast AND the 1973 stock tour with Vivian Blaine and Robert Alda.

She was contemplating flying here just to see this.

Follies lives on...

[madbrian]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #13

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:08pm

Don't know what the performance schedule will be in LA, but maybe we could get a live performance for the Tonys?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[CurtisB]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #14

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:14pm

Looks like it will be ending right before the Tonys. Maybe they did this to keep the show in people's minds and to possibly keep the cast intact and free from other ventures for a number in the Tonys telecast?

[Jordan Catalano]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #15

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:16pm

Good. Maybe they can film it out there.

[SingOutLouise2]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #16

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:31pm

Thank you Santa.

[TheHappyPhantom]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #17

Posted: 12/6/11 at 1:56pm

Now THIS is the kinda theatre the Ahmanson should be producing!!! Here's looking at you, Bring it On..

[bwayphreak234]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #18

Posted: 12/6/11 at 2:19pm

I wonder if the drapes and fabric that extend out into the audience will still be used...

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[ChenoKahn]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #19

Posted: 12/6/11 at 2:49pm

I think that if it does well in LA and like The Scottsboro Boys picks up a lot of nominations it could transfer back if a theater is open.

[Wildcard]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #20

Posted: 12/6/11 at 2:51pm

Ahmanson wasn't the original producer of Bring It On. It was first presented by Alliance Theater. Ahmanson is just the first stop in the tour. Besides, have you seen it? It's actually a good show. Anyway, bring on Follies!

[Michael Bennett]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #21

Posted: 12/6/11 at 3:02pm

Reality check. Its not going to transfer back to Broadway. If it becomes the beginning of a national tour, it could 'possibly' help the show's Tony chances as, in years past, a lot of the Best Revival winners have been awarded to musicals with announced plans to tour.

[Wicked Fanatic]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #22

Posted: 12/6/11 at 3:14pm

Very very happy that I'll get to see this production in LA again. Last time was at the old Shubert Theatre in Century City when I was very young and fell in love with the show. Hoping that most of the Broadway cast will reprise their roles! Most of all I really want to see Elaine Paige who I've always wanted to see on stage missing her performance as Grizabella in Cats when she departed the production just three days earlier than when I saw it in London.

[Gaveston2]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #23

Posted: 12/6/11 at 4:54pm

Thanks to Rob et al. for the word. I realize that most of the time we're just chatting here, but getting this info early may mean the difference between our getting tickets or not getting them. So thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Wicked Fanatic]

BREAKING NEWS: FOLLIES to Play LA's Ahmanson Theatre May - June 2012! #24

Posted: 12/6/11 at 6:12pm

I called the Ahmanson ticket services today and here is what one of the service representatives told me:
Regarding getting tickets for Follies only those subscribers to the Ahmanson season series will automatically get tickets. If you have a Design Your Own Subscription such as the 4 plays that I purchased you will NOT get Follies as an automatic replacement for Funny Girl. When tickets go on sale which won't be announced for awhile I have to call and then add it into my Design My Own Subscription. I'll be watching daily for news so that I don't miss out on seeing this show.