#126
Posted: 10/17/18 at 11:53am
The production has extended through March 30th, so no transfer this season.
#127
Posted: 10/17/18 at 1:06pm
I see where this production is now selling tickets through March 30, 2019! Guess we can hold off on that Bway transfer this season! Happy opening to the cast and crew!
#129
Posted: 10/17/18 at 7:43pm
The reviews are raves so far. LuPone is getting notices that could match some of the best she’s received in her career.
#130
Posted: 10/17/18 at 7:49pm
Shame it's not transferring this season. With reviews like this, LuPone would win her third Tony in a landslide.
#131
Posted: 10/17/18 at 7:49pm
The Guardian gives it 4 out of 5 stars, calling it a "heavenly fling."
Time Out gives it 5 out of 5 stars, saying it's a "tour de force reworking."
Variety is very positive, giving LuPone a special rave: "LuPone plays Joanne with a bitumen-black resolve, every bit as embittered as she is empowered. Cloaked in a fur coat and glinting like a one-woman diamond mine, she’s dazzling and awful at the same time — a martini mixed from measures of exuberance and scorn. She’s joyfully joyless."
#132
Posted: 10/17/18 at 7:52pm
adamgreer said: "Shame it's not transferring this season. With reviews like this, LuPone would win her third Tony in a landslide."
Oh come on now. Kong is acting CIRCLES around Patti. They would still win even up against her.
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Updated On: 10/17/18 at 07:52 PM
#133
Posted: 10/17/18 at 7:52pm
The Evening Standard gives it 5 out of 5 stars. "Wonderfully fresh;" "glorious;" "pops with vitality and dazzles with its wit...a take on Company that savours Sondheim’s subtleties."
LondonTheatre.co.uk gives it 5 out of 5 stars. "Stunning;" "a departure into new territory and a stunning reaffirmation of [the show]'s brilliance."
The Stage gives it 5 out of 5 stars. Calls it "astonishing."
#134
Posted: 10/17/18 at 9:42pm
Seeing as there is only one musical revival coming in this year (and it's a tired re-telling of Kiss Me Kate), it's a shame that they're not fighting for Company to transfer this season.
Broadway World's Fireman.
#135
Posted: 10/17/18 at 9:55pm
LesWickedly said: "The production has extended through March 30th, so no transfer this season."
Good news! For us at least as we're in London in March.
Cake or death?
#136
Posted: 10/17/18 at 10:22pm
Sondheimite said: "Seeing as there is only one musical revival coming in this year (and it's a tired re-telling of Kiss Me Kate), it's a shame that they're not fighting for Company to transfer this season."
I was thinking the same thing!
I wonder if they’d transfer the show with Craig and Lupone and replace them in London for the extension?
#137
Posted: 10/17/18 at 11:39pm
If my sources are correct, they are still trying to land this on broadway this spring. The production is coming over but not the cast. Almost all roles would be recasted.
So basically theres still hope?
I also dont understand, im sure Kiss me Kate will be great but you have an 10000% chance of getting a tony if any other revival opens.
Dreamgirls, Secret garden, Company
This is the season to come in.
So basically theres still hope?
I also dont understand, im sure Kiss me Kate will be great but you have an 10000% chance of getting a tony if any other revival opens.
Dreamgirls, Secret garden, Company
This is the season to come in.
#138
Posted: 10/17/18 at 11:56pm
I want this production here ASAP, but I only want it with LuPone. I’d be okay waiting a season if it means we can get LuPone with it.
#139
Posted: 10/18/18 at 12:37am
i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer....
Broadway World's Fireman.
#142
Posted: 10/18/18 at 1:16am
Sondheimite said: "i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer...."
Anne Hathaway? Emma Stone?
#143
Posted: 10/18/18 at 1:20am
Sondheimite said: "i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer...."
That rumor was on here a few weeks ago, too, and at that point she hadn't signed a contract. There are only a few Oscar winning actresses in the 30-40 range: Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Hudson, or Lupita Nyong'o (with Hathaway being the obvious choice).
These are money reviews out of London for the production, Rosalie Craig, and Patti LuPone. The the kind of reviews that are strong enough to move most shows as-is, cast intact. (Unless Brantley hates it.) The reviews are a double-edged sword: they could scare away an actress like Hathaway and her CAA agents, or they could be a boost of confidence for her to star in an already-great production.
As long as LuPone moves with it, I'd be thrilled to see Craig or rumored-Oscar-winner.
Updated On: 10/18/18 at 01:20 AM
#144
Posted: 10/18/18 at 1:24am
More specifically,
i hear an oscar winner will be making their Broadway debut.
Broadway World's Fireman.
#145
Posted: 10/18/18 at 1:50am
Jennifer Lawrence? Brie Larson?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#146
Posted: 10/18/18 at 2:38am
Leave Patti in London. Transfer the production here. Replace her with Glenn Close.
#147
Posted: 10/18/18 at 2:41am
I think women like Emma Stone (29), Brie Larson (29), and Jennifer Lawrence (28) all read way too young. The stakes aren't high enough if it's a beautiful woman who looks like she's in her late 20s, especially in 2018 when so many people get married and have kids later.
While we're dreamcasting: Amy Adams would be wonderful. (Though she's 44 and not an Oscar winner)
#148
Posted: 10/18/18 at 2:44am
Sondheimite said: "More specifically,
i hear an oscar winner will be making their Broadway debut."
i hear an oscar winner will be making their Broadway debut."
That leaves Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, and Anne Hathaway (I don't think she's ever done Broadway, has she?). The most likely being Anne since she doesn't have anything lined up in the near future and she's the most likely to star in a musical.
#149
Posted: 10/18/18 at 2:44am
^but she deserved one for Arrival
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#150
Posted: 10/18/18 at 6:04am
You kind of hit the nail on the head by saying that "every line reading" of Patti's was spot on. That's what her performances tend to be: a collection of line readings. And they get more arbitrarily eccentric with each passing year.
Maybe- maaaaaaybe- playwrights like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilder can live by smart and clever line readings, but George Furth ain't Wilde or Coward and his linseed to sound as real and natural as possible.
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