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GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?

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#1GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/22/08 at 10:49pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108587.html

this is from a while ago but i just found this article. does anyone know what happened?

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#2re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/22/08 at 10:50pm

Postponed indefinitely.

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#2re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/22/08 at 10:58pm

I heard the Australian production will transfer to Broadway next season, which its self is a transfer of the West End Revival.

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#3re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:01am

Apparently all the stars backed out because they needed to solidify some screen work before the WGA strike began.

Well...it's over. Can we get this back on track?

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#4re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:31am

It wasn't the WGA strike that caused the issue. It was the SAG strike that might happen this summer. Since the four leads they had lined up were screen actors, they needed to finish wrapping as many films as possible before the strike.

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#5re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:39am

Ack. That's right.

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#6re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:56am

I had though it was due to the possible SAG strike as well. I was going to say that if it was due to the WGA strike then they would have had to wait for the potential SAG strike to blow over. But, that is no the case.

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#7re: GUYS & DOLLS to Broadway Feb. 2008?
Posted: 7/23/08 at 7:21pm

Michael Grandage may have more on his plate at any one time than any stage director in the world.

His schedule is diabolical.

He and Sir Derek Jacoby tried to squeeze the extraordinary "Don Carlos" into their calendars for a limited Broadway run but there was just no way to do. Right on the heels of that he was masterminding "Evita" (which opened to rave reviews) and "Guys and Dolls, which was similalrly regarded.

The guy is probably the best in the world rightnow. He does it all: Schiller, Loyd-Webber, or Frank Loesser, it doesn't matter: he looks at these things and turns them into critical and popular triumphs.

The man is not from this planet.

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