NPH to do Tick...Tick...Boom! in London

[TheNPH]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:30pm

This is hot.... Neil Patrick Harris will open Tick Tick Boom! in London!

LONDON -- "tick, tick ... BOOM!," the three-character Jonathan Larson musical that went through several casts Off Broadway, will open at a fringe London venue at the end of May. American thesp Neil Patrick Harris will star.
Scott SchwartzScott Schwartz will direct the production at the Menier Chocolate Factory, previously home to the popular one-man play "Fully Committed," starring Mark Setlock, which transferred to the Arts Theater for a commercial run.

Show starts perfs May 31, opens June 9 and is skedded for a 14-week run through Sept. 3. Production will have an all-British creative team, aside from Schwartz and leading man Harris, whose New York theater credits include "Cabaret," "Proof" and "Assassins." (Raul Esparza originated the role Off Broadway.) The inhouse production team at the Menier in southeast London pegged the capitalization at $130,000.

The success of Larson's show, which was produced in New York after the "Rent" composer's death, will be something of a test case for Off Broadway tuners in London, a town that can be unfriendly to contempo American musicals.

[timote316]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pm

Hm, good for him. I can't really picture him as Jon, tho.

[TGIF]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pm

Thanks. Thats excellent news. Too bad its in over London and I'm here.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:34pm

wow. interesting. now when do the rights become available to us here in the us??? mti still says "currently restricted"

[ikmbway]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:41pm

I wish I was in London. I told my mom that Les Miz was still playing in London (am I right?) but i dont think we are going in the 14 weeks its playing.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:43pm

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! I can't beleive this!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:43pm

*goes to London*

[TheNPH]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 8:58pm

Yeah...I think I need to move to London this summer...

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:02pm

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm DEAD! I'm SO in London! Why did I leave London and move to NYC.... London, it's time I returned for a visit.

QM

Updated On: 4/10/05 at 09:02 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:05pm

I'm going in your pocket, QM!

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:09pm

*puts Emcee in her pocket and start packing suitcases*

QM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:11pm

Wait, I have to pack.

*climbs in*

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:14pm

TheNPH, what's the source of your article?

QM

[TheNPH]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:18pm

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117920622?categoryid=15&cs=1

...But I think you will have to subscribe...so thats why I just pasted it.

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:20pm

Thank you very much. I'm really going, I need to catch up on a few shows anyway and now I have the perfect excuse. I'm 100% going.

QM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:21pm

*flails after QM*
You knowww you want company on the flight!!

[TGIF]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:23pm

Have any extra pockets, QM?

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:27pm

Guys, get the extra cash and we are going to London! Because I'm definitely going.... Sell your young bodies if you have to.

QM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/05 at 9:29pm

*pokes bank statement, hoping it will grow*

[NPH.is.my.God]

Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:14am

Oh bloody hell. Why do I live in Cleveland....

QM - you must video record this!! (kidding. well, ok, not really)

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:17pm

BUMP

Just have to rub into everyone's face that I bought my first ticket for this... and YES, I'm going to London!

QM

[insomniak]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:22pm

And another one for me, right?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:28pm

I'm wondering about how well this will do there, considering that RENT wasn't really as much of a success in London as people had hoped it would be, apparently. I mean, I'm assuming TTB did well in New York because of familiarith with Larson, so I wonder if it will attract attention even if a lot of people there don't know that much about him.... or do they?

[amasis]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:33pm

I hate QM. I just have to say that. Hmph.

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:49pm

Emcee, it's going to be playing at a very small venue. I assume that it might get a good, loyal following and that's all they need.
Rent had a loyal following too but just not quite enough to fill that huge theatre.

And Amasis, you love me really. Nia, I wish you could come.

QM