REBECCA: THE MUSICAL will have English language production in London

Following 12 successful foreign language productions, critically acclaimed musical Rebecca by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay will get its English language premiere in a new production at London's Charing Cross Theatre in an English translation by Christopher Hampton.

The musical production by the Austrian musical producer VBW (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien) based on Daphne Du Maurier's 1938 novel 'Rebecca' is coming to London's Charing Cross Theatre next year. Performances will run 4 September - 18 November, 2023.

Pre-Broadway transfer!! Gonna take the Booth Theater in 2024!!

 

Joking, but will this show never die?

We saw Titanic in that theatre and it was wonderful. So, this could work?  But, it's a loooooong way off. 

I'm confused by the "new" translation reference. Didn't Hampton do the prior English translation? It was over a decade ago, so it could be revised 

Jordan Catalano said: "I'm so frickin' excited but also confused lol. For anyone who doesn't know the Charing Cross Theatre, this would be like New World Stages putting up "Sunset Boulevard" in their smallest theater."

I don't get it either, wasn't the appeal its massive production?

This sounds more like The Woman in White revival that played there.

They’re using the same configuration for “From Here To Eternity”, now. I think more often than not they have it set up like that. 

ggersten said: "We saw Titanic in that theatre and it was wonderful. So, this could work? But, it's a loooooong way off.

I'm confused by the "new" translation reference. Didn't Hampton do the prior English translation? It was over a decade ago, so it could be revised"

What I am seeing says new production with Hampton's translation (which has never been produced beyond workshops, going back 11 years). I did not see "new" modifying the translation but maybe you saw it elsewhere. (If so it was probably wrong.) 

This is being produced by Steven Levy who coincidentally is the Managing Director and a part owner of the Charing Cross Theatre which would explain the choice. (He's a well known face on and off-b and once owned several off-B commercial spaces some/many will remember like Actors Playhouse and the Gramercy.)

Jordan Catalano said: "I'm so frickin' excited but also confused lol. For anyone who doesn't know the Charing Cross Theatre, this would be like New World Stages putting up "Sunset Boulevard" in their smallest theater."

There was a very successful production of Sunset Boulevard that played in the Watermill Theatre in Newbury which is a similar theatre to The Charing Cross, so stranger things have happened. 

Sounds intriguing, but I cannot imagine that story placed into a musical.

Impeach2017 said: "Sounds intriguing, but I cannot imagine that story placed into a musical."

Try imagining it in German. It's easy.

I know this is not the same production but if you want to learn more about the cancelled Broadway production of Rebecca almost a decade ago, here's a good doc on youtube: 

First performance is tonight! 

The early report says that the visuals are a total letdown, albeit not surprising considering the space in which the show is performed...

...but the 18-piece orchestra, to which most of the budget seems to have gone, is fabulous, and Michael Kunze, hard done by as English-speaking adaptations go, seems happy with it. Maybe it will have time to grow into its skin.

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "The early report says that the visuals are a total letdown, albeit not surprising considering the space in which the show is performed..."

Sadly, that's what I was expecting. If this was running in NY, I'd have no problem flying up for it, but the slog to London is just too long and costly for a watered down production.