Legally Blonde: hmmm...

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Legally Blonde: hmmm...

Posted: 2/20/09 at 11:23am

I've just been emailed an updated contact list from AKA, which they have accidentally (or seemingly accidentally, perhaps) left the amends on. The last amends were apparently the complete removal of No Man's Land, Piaf and Legally Blonde. Is this telling us AKA are no longer dealing with it, or that they want us to think they're not dealing with it just so everyone will shut up about it? Has it been abandoned altogether? Hmmmmmmmm...

#2

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 11:58am

lol oh you and your conspiracy theories lolol

LB is def happening, i cant stress that enough

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 12:05pm

Are AKA just not dealing with it then? Lord knows how they f*cked up with that marketing book all those months ago!

#4

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 5:10pm

I honestly have no idea, all i do know its going ahead, the auditions have been happening this week and next week, we have been told the contract starts in July for rehearsals and opens in August for previews with an official opening at the end of Aug or beginning of sept.

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#5

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 5:19pm

Do you know yet if you have a part SADM?

#6

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 8:37pm

no, audition is next week for ensemble

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#7

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Posted: 2/20/09 at 8:53pm

He's up for Blonde, but will probably get the Leagal part!

#8

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Posted: 2/21/09 at 7:24am

tee hee!

#9

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Posted: 2/21/09 at 7:27am

According to that sarky evil little thing on the Broadway Board called Blaxx im going for the part of the dog grrrr lol

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Posted: 2/21/09 at 7:46am

I thought Denise Van Outen was up for the dog?

#11

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Posted: 2/24/09 at 6:28pm

A friend of mind has been contacted, creativly wise, but no contract yet given. Also given what he does a venue is still yet to be officially confirmed so if anything happens this year it going to have to be fast!

Not to put a downer on it or anything but Hairspray in 2003 and 2005 had auditions/casted and worked on marketing/advertising and never actually opened.

#12

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Posted: 2/24/09 at 10:18pm

I think the venue is the biggest obstacle for this show because the originally wanted to bring the Broadway set over, however that's not happening now (we are only getting some parts of it).

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:39am

Its the Piccadilly.
Talking to 3 of the stage management on the theatres current 'hit', 'Grease', last night, the show opens there before Christmas and ATG have now, supposedly, moved in as major producers.

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:53am

I bloody knew it!

#15

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:56am

***off topic***
LP - did we have a conversation on here a few months bak about your love of everything Bay City Rollers??

#16

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 6:46am

Possibly... I defintiely remember some mockery about my taste for the Osmonds though. My favourite thing at the moment is my BCR lampshade. Pourquoi?

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 8:10am

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ive been sitting on that news for months Mamma about the Piccadilly lolol

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#18

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 9:02am

And all the time I was saying it, you were trying quite violently to throw me off the scent! Grrr, you're a rogue!

#19

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 9:23am

SADM: Not really, it's one of the worst kept secrets in the West End.

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:33am

The Piccadilly thing has been going for almost a year now! Tough theatre to open in... They are going to some serious good marketing/advertising stunts especially as this year is shaping up to house some big new musicals.

I'm not suprised ATG are moving in as producers, the show probably needs more money now. They were trying to get a bigger house for the Broadway sets but to be honest although that would have saved money, I think they would have struggled to fill a large house for any good amount of time.

#21

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:39am

The Piccadilly has been on and off again so many time, it was off again only a couple of months ago because Grease was going to make way for Flashdance, though that's going elsewhere now apparently

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#22

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:46am

Everyone thinks the Piccadilly is small when its one of the biggest and best equipped theatres in town.
You just have to look at the huge (OK most were huge flops) productions taht have played there in the past 20 years
Metropolis
King
Whitch Witch
etc etc, all had huge sets.

#23

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:51am

Is the Piccadilly stage actually that big, i saw a few things there and it looked pretty small, maybe thats just because im used to looking at the Manchester Palace stage everyday lol

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#24

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:53am

Yea its pretty big.
Bigger than most.
Anything could play the Manc Palace!

#25

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Posted: 2/25/09 at 6:42pm

grease is updating its cast contracting them officially until january 2010, i know because i have an audition, so it would make sense that lb will take the picadilly... as i can't see grease lasting until then, but they must be willing to keep grease there until as close as possible or i doubt they'd bring in a new cast...

but i do fear i spy ANOTHER Grease tour coming up in 2010!!!

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