Les Miz to tour in 2009/2010, produced by NETworks- Page 2

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:02pm

What was the point of that post. Simply to nay say us discussing this new info that a new tour is coming out?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:02pm

Wasn't Ramin Karimloo in that Scandinavian tour? Can we have him, please?

[Shawk]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:09pm

He might have been, although I don't think he was one of the leads if so.

Unfortunately, Chris Langham was there, though.
Chris Langham's latest claim to fame.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:29pm

I think a concert version is going to let a lot of people down.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:32pm

Not if they bill it as "Les Misérables in Concert."

Of course, then they'd have to say "Without the people you see when they show that other Les Miz in Concert over and over during PBS pledge drives," and that gets awful wordy.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 11:15pm

RentBoy--what makes you think it would be a concert tour?

[Marianne]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 11:21pm

Wasn't Ramin Karimloo in that Scandinavian tour? Can we have him, please?

Not that I know of, but Matt Cammelle definitely was.

[Shawk]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 11:22pm

The concert idea came from the fact that apparently it will play two day engagements, which doesn't work at all well with big sets.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 11:04am

"Yea, that white dress really changed the show. It simply became a whole new experience."

When did they have this dress? I never saw it, and they certainly didn't have it on closing night.

As for the tour, I hate that they are using NETworks...their sets always look cheap and like they are about to fall over. And their talent selection is generally awful (hopefully it will be better with Equity).

[ChiChi]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 11:42am

Does NETworks have a website?

[amalou]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 11:53am

I thought this was going to turn out to be some kind of elaborate April Fools joke.

I'd just be happy if the tour casted at least a few ensemble members over the age of 25. At times, the revival sounded like a good high school edition of the show.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:51pm

Haven't been around long, huh?

And it's cast, not casted.

Updated On: 4/1/08 at 01:51 PM

[theminutepast]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 4:50pm

I'm sorry, but who the hell prefers a concert to an actual production? I can't imagine people racing to buy concert tickets.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 4:59pm

They're gonna have John Doyle reimagine Les Miserables. The barricade will be a series of interlocking translucent cubes of varying sizes, and Javert will symbolically die by slitting his throat with his violin bow and putting on a bloodstained silly hat.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 5:19pm

I'm sorry, but who the hell prefers a concert to an actual production? I can't imagine people racing to buy concert tickets.
Oh gosh, I dunno...in some instances...

[BWNUT]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 5:46pm

"I'm sorry, but who the hell prefers a concert to an actual production? I can't imagine people racing to buy concert tickets."

...yeah, and only a handful of millionaires called in when PBS raised the most money during their pledge drive telecast of the Les Miz 10th Anniversary Concert (which itself sold out the Royal Albert Hall) ...and why they've been rebroadcasting the damn thing ad nauseam...
Updated On: 4/1/08 at 05:46 PM

[theminutepast]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 9:30pm

Both of you are talking about celebrity casted concerts. I also think there's a difference between sitting at home watching a concert and calling in for $5, and actually going out to the theatre for maybe $100. So do you honestly think people will get off their butts to go watch performers they probably haven't heard of or who aren't in an already gala celebration concert?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/11/08 at 7:15pm

Another email, from today:

LES MISÉRABLES

* The longest-running musical in the world returns to tour North America starting Fall 2009, to be produced by NETworks in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh.
* By special arrangement between Cameron Mackintosh Ltd and MTI:
o A select group of regional theatre licenses occurring in 2008, including Walnut Street, Marriott Lincolnshire, Wolf Trap, Kansas City Starlight and Theatre of the Stars.
o Hollywood Bowl’s LES MIZ IN CONCERT to star Rosie O’Donnell, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Melora Hardin. Performances August 8 – 10, 2008.
* www.bbonyc.com/shows/lesmis

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 5:29pm

So I saw this part of a Wicked tour thread over at ATC: http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1575504

I can't imagine this tour is going to be non-Eq if in the press release they said "union actors." Or is there some other stage actors' union that's not Equity? Or did they change their minds?

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 12:18pm

Well, it sure looks like this isn't happening now

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 12:25pm

It's still on their site. I believe the tour is still happening, just postponed.

http://bbonyc.com/shows/lesmis/Default.htm

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 1:06pm

Marriott Lincolnshire? Ugh. I don't want to see this show in the round.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 1:13pm

The Lincolnshire production was about a year ago...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 1:16pm

Ha! I didn't look at the year. Well, at least I can say that I'm not upset about missing it.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 5/7/09 at 2:09pm

It's happening. It is going to be based on the staging seen recently at Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, and the mini tour last year at Wolftrap, KC Starlight, and the Fox in Atlanta.