Is Enron worth it? — Page 2

Dont be blind its plain to see that 'Brit Bashing' goes on over there, we have been called every name under the sun. I don't care if American Audiences don't like the shows we send over, it means nothing to me, what i mind is Americans on that board bashing british PEOPLE.

I happen to think Enron was very flawed and i knew it would struggle on Broadway.

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I think the big difference between Broadway-attitude-to-West-End and West-End-attitude-to-Broadway here on BWW is that we West End bods tend to crave American product over here, whereas there's no such hunger for West End shows to transfer Stateside. Most of that's down to the embarrassing state of British-born musicals (even those based on American properties), but I think it's a factor in why our attitudes are different.

It means that if a US (or Australian, or whatever) transfer is crap, we tend to knock the show itself - perhaps quite viciously, true, but we don't tell US productions to sod off back where they came from blah blah blah they're all ****, like some people have done about NIGHT MUSIC and LA CAGE recently.

Maybe we should do a trade - they could send us the original production of GLORY DAYS, we could send them TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN...

Honestly, I hear what you're saying - and thanks for the compliment, Phantom, I appreciate it - but in general Americans are anglophiles. We are your biggest fans! I'm sure those of you who have travelled to America have found that to be true.

As to the BWW board, there are a few folks over there still living in the fantasy world of Broadway's mythically glamorous Golden Age with their vast sets and acres of chorines who have found a target for their nostalgic venom in the deconstructed musical theatre that the Menier, of necessity, has been producing. The fact that these shows transfer to Broadway is not because they are cheap but because they are good. All but an ignorant few know this.

Most Americans I know are in awe of the British theatre - and rightly so. When have you been to the theatre here and NOT been surrounded by American accents? So don't let the current flood of insults and ill-will get to you. We're still best friends.

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I agree, even though Hairspray is something we Brits couldn't conceive, we do have great show imagination, even though Enron was a flop, it took a lot of imagination to conceive from the British creatives.

In general we do have a lot of success on Broadway with plays and have done well with the odd musical now and again, who would of thought Billy Elliot, Mama Mia, Phantom and Mary Poppins would of done so well? We do have the odd blip where shows should of done better than they actually did, good examples are Woman in White, Buddy and Bombay Dreams etc and vice versa happens here, Spring Awakening is a prime examples.

When a show is done very well t the American audience normally endorse a show and lavish praise, just watch Warhorse sell like hot cakes.