LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:37pm

http://www.playbill.com/playblog/2010/07/will-love-never-dies-get-a-new-director-for-broadway/

"The Post reports that the London production’s director, Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, and choreographer, Tony winner Jerry Mitchell, may depart the project to focus on their other Broadway-bound show, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; however, no official announcement about such a change has been made."

Hal Prince, no. Rob Marshall, maybe.

"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:43pm

Except that Hal Prince was/is the director responsible for the two best shows Lloyd-Webber ever wrote.

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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:48pm

Never mind, I misread the OP

Here's the link to Riedel's column

....but the world goes 'round

Updated On: 7/7/10 at 12:48 PM

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:57pm

Prince isn't a sell-out, so I don't believe he'd ever do this show.

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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:16pm

Never said he would or should. Just pointing out that his work on PHANTOM and EVITA went a long way towards making those shows the best of the Lloyd-Webber lot.

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:24pm

Prince would never lay a finger on this fast-sinking ship. The show is a tank and a half. Let the love die in London before it occupies a theatre in NY that could go to a more deserving show.

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:43pm

Something told me that we would never see this show on Broadway...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:45pm

When your cat deletes the entire score from your keyboard, is there really anywhere else for a show to go but downhill?

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:57pm

Obviously someone really should have been listening to that cat!

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 2:35pm

Oh, it'll come to Broadway...Mr. Webber's ego simply wouldn't have it otherwise.

Paging Francesca Zambello...

"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

#11

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 2:45pm

I wasn't responding to you in particular, D2, just in general... sorry about that!

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#12

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:12pm

"Paging Francesca Zambello"

Dear god, the mind reels at the possibilities for awesome awfulness.

Can you imagine a Zambello version of Coney Island? Bril!

....but the world goes 'round

#13

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 5:11pm

That's exactly what I fear!

If I were ALW, I'd put this away for 10 years and get it out when the memories were fading and people might be getting more curious about the "lost ALW".

#14

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 6:15pm

As if the direction and choreography were REALLY what's wrong with it.

#15

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 6:42pm

Prince needs to sort out his own mess of a show which has opened to pans here in the UK.

I dont think we will see LND get to Broadway, the London one is not making money at all, its playing at a loss each week. The book is awful, the lyrics are awful and the music feels like a step back by 25 years.

I think it will play out the year in London and then we will see it vanish

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#16

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 9:49pm

Love may never die.... but this show should.

#17

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/7/10 at 10:41pm

Mother's Youngr Brother - it's not than the director and choreographer are the problem, it's that they're over it and don't want to continue with the show.

#18

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 1:24pm

It's just such a shame. Isn't the problem here the same one that faced The Pirate Queen? In both shows the composer(s) had all the power and were preventing changes to the things that needed it the most while tinkering with completely minor issues. In this case, it's the storyline (which Lloyd Webber didn't write firsthand, but he did develop the outline). I mean, my soaps have more nuance and character development. I fear Telemundo would reject this plotline as too over the top (and that's saying something). They also completely ignored an issue that Hal Prince was VERY aware of; Less is more with the Phantom. If you see too much of him, the magic goes away quickly.

Oh well. I'll always have my memories of Davis Gaines. sigh.

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#19

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:20pm

Rumour has it too that they are going to change up the logo all together also, no more mask

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

#20

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 7:30pm

David Gaines... Oh my goodness... What a voice. I recently found the 30-minute featurette that E! Entertianment had broadcast during the LA run in the early 90s. The footage they showed of his performance was in itself thrilling. He seemed electrifying.

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#21

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:18pm

Rumour has it too that they are going to change up the logo all together also, no more mask

Like that'll make a difference

#22

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:52pm

Love Never Dies...sometimes it just smells that way.

#23

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:55pm

Jerry Zaks.

Formerly 'dramarama2'

#24

LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

Posted: 7/9/10 at 7:16am

Hal Prince has always been as good as the material he is given. Evita and Phantom were both solid works where almost nothing was changed from day 1 till opening night.

He is not known for knowing what to do when a show is in trouble. That is not his talent and he should stay away from Love Never Dies. That show needs a miracle-worker and not Hal Prince

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