'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
#1'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 5:49amThe new West End musical 'Desperately Seeking Susan' is to close on Dec 15th. The show opened less than a month ago at the Novello Theatre. Its the second big flop for the Novello in just 3 months as the theatre was the London home to 'The Drowsy Chaperone'.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 7:17am
I don't think anyone saw this one coming...
Not.
#2re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 8:16amLike i said on the West End Board its always sad when a new show closes so quickly especially when it was not an awful musical it was just an average one that did not catch on.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 8:18am
Not gonna work without Madonna's Into the groove ! (Im just a big fan of hers)
J*
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 9:45amIm a huge Madonna fan too (god bless the queen lol) and apparently Madonna was approached first about using her songs in the production over 2 years ago.....she said no lol
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
mightydog
Understudy Joined: 10/12/06
#5re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 9:56amI never understood how a film with such iconic music can be made into a musical without the music from the film. Whether it be Desperately Seeking Susan, The Wedding Singer etc... I just don't get it. The emotional connection to these films is more than just the story.
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:13am
The Wedding Singer at least kept some of the songs we loved from the film (grow old with you etc)
Susan was just an odd combination
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:15amThe Blondie songs just never sat comfortably into the story line.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#8re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:22amComfortably....they were wedged in with a shoe horn lol
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:28am
I agree .. Blondie's song does not seem to fit the MOVIE....to turn it into a musical..
It's a common knowledge that Madonna IS Susan.
J*
(from Playbill) 
Oh my god ! this picture is horrendous
Updated On: 11/30/07 at 10:28 AM
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:31am
Its kinda OFF Topic and sorry to thread jack- but it seems to me that I got madonna's fans attention here...
So What happen to Madonna 's new album ? (that supposed to be release this Fall) no info on Madonna.com (news section)
J*
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:16amWho are those actresses?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:17amWHO CARES????????????????????????
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:30am
Kelly Price and Emma Williams. both very well know in the musical theatre in London
Kelly Price was in 'Guys and Dolls', the Donmar production at the Picadilly amongst other shows such as 'Cabaret'.
Emma Williams originated Truly in 'Chitty' at the London Palladium.
Some people do care!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Al Dente
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:34amNot a shot in hell. Surprised it ran as long as it did actually. Songanddanceman, lol to your "wedged in with a shoehorn".
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:41amlol He wasnt joking, it was painful watching those numbers as they meant zero to the plot whatsoever. A total mess and a waste of what was a great opportunity. A very dull evening in the theatre and sat thru it TWICE!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 11:45amThat was fast...
9/10 - Next To Normal, Ensemble Theatre
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
#17re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 12:06pmJust one month exactly to the day it opened. Runs get shorter and shorter. its a long time since a show closed in previews in London.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 1:24pm
For Jaystar
i know Madonnas album comes out in the UK in Febuary/ March with a single the week before
and a HUGE greatest hits album (3 cds and a dvd) comes out at the end of the year and then that is her contract finished with Warner and she moves over to Live Nation
She also starts touring next year wooh wooh
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 1:52pm
Mightydog
There is one two word phrase that explains why the songs from the movie aren't used: rights clearances.
The cost of using those songs is astronomical. It's much cheaper upfront to go new score and hope for a hit than pay through the nose for pop hits.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 2:01pmit is amazing what some people will do for a musical. Next thing there will be a musical with music from Boney M or Earth Wind and Fire....(oh wait....)
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
Trish2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
#21re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 2:51pmHow was Andy B's Choreography?
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 4:01pm
'terminally banal choreography' -The Independent
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Updated On: 11/30/07 at 04:01 PM
Trish2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
#23re: 'DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN' closes in Londons West End.
Posted: 11/30/07 at 4:04pmouch ! and this from the guy who's giving us In the Heights !!??? I liked his work in ITH, though the show wasnt for me. Oh well.
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Posted: 11/30/07 at 4:47pm
Huge Madonna fan threadjacking, too !
"...and a HUGE greatest hits album (3 cds and a dvd) comes out at the end of the year"
songanddance, end of THIS year or end of 2008 ?
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