Love Never Dies delayed. New Show for Adelphi for Autumn? — Page 2

I am sure Bill Kenwright's tour of Jesus Christ Superstar is in storage somewhere. Just need to cast it and put it in there if they wanted to. Cats and Aspects of Love have touring sets too.

JCS is due to tour again next year. I don't think he'd pre-empt the new production with a limited run in town.

I actually wouldn't mind seeing a polished up Cats. It's been a few years.

Gypsy would be cool, but doesn't David Ian hold the rights?

Maybe a stand-up comedian/comedienne will play a season?

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" I just was playing devils advocate with Cats and chucked it in the mix, think The Lord will revive Cats in 2011, 10 years after the original closed."

Nope, that'd be 9 years since it closed hehe
It closed 11th May 2002. So today is 28 years exactly since it opened, 7 years to the day it closed.

As a huge Cats fan (don't ask, it was a childhood favourite and I'm a sentimental person), I'd love for it to have a London revival, though I truly believe Cats belongs at the New London Theatre.

Here's hoping that whatever goes ito the Adelphi DOESN'T upset any applecart with regard to "Love Never Dies". Whether anyone likes it or not, actively wishing it ill is pretty disgraceful thinking! Apart from anything else the West End really doesn't need what would be a huge, very public, failure at any time, but certainly not when we are in a major depression.

But re the mentioned JCS tour next year, where is that known from, Devonian.t? I thought the rights had been withdrawn. There was mention of a possible concert version, but that was supposed to have been pulled. And although I have no doubt that ALW wants to revive it for the West End, I am (unfortunately) presuming that he probably intends it to be another reality casting following Wizard Of OZ next year. Would love to see it revived, though, just not like that. It might not be so ridiculous a thought that it could be a fill in for the Adelphi, though. It might not be as convenient as just moving a tour in, but it would depend on how far advanced the plans had got in respect of that pulled tour.

But will a fill in (or a long fill in) be needed at all when the Adelphi is surely scheduled for significant building work. Aren't they amalgamating it with the building next door?

I talk regularly with RUT. It seems generally accepted that plans are still in place for next year's tour.

isnt JCS superstar starting its tour this year?

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Can't be forgiven, no.

Is this still the Marianne Elliott thing, then?

He's actually abandoned that production. The 2009 tour is off and it appears he sees it best forgotten.

It will be something simple that may be on tour now or just two or three limited seasons of one man shows.
Like the Darren Brown season thats about to open there. That may extend or even come back for two or three separate seasons. He's a theatre filler if ever there was one.

Its all a bit last minute so it will be some time until anything is made certain.
'Love Never Dies' was only pulled last week.

Updated On: 5/14/09 at 06:25 AM

And with regard to the Adelphi, albeit I can't imagine that they would choose to have it closed over the Christmas period, what about the building work to extend it? It must have already been factored in, but that will surely have been intended to be tied in with the necessary for "Love ever Dies". So they might still want to wait to uveil it all together. But when would that be now?

How about a limited season of ME AND MY GIRL? There must be s sets and costumes warehoused somewhere there?