Sutton Foster replaces Megan Mullally for London revival of ANYTHING GOES- Page 3

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 7/8/21 at 10:12pm

I wonder if Sutton will be blonde again for this production. I really loved her dark hair with the costume in the video. 

[Dolly80]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 12:18am

It is the Roundabout production. With new costume designs

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 12:43am

She’s aged very well! I’ve watched all the seasons of Younger and she looks the same, basically.

And cool! Just wonder why it took so long for the production to transfer!

[sng]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 4:03am

if this is the Roundabout production, I wonder how Megan Mullaly was supposed to pull off the dance numbers like Sutton does. 

[jlindsey865]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 10:54am

sng said: "if this is the Roundabout production, Iwonder how Megan Mullaly was supposed to pull off the dance numbers like Sutton does."

My guess is that some of the choreography from the revival was reinstated when Mullally was replaced with Foster.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 10:59am

This isn’t the Roundabout production

if it was Roundabout would be explicitly credited

[electrode10]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 11:47am

PlayItAgain said: "Wonder if this ends up getting recorded"

I was thinking the same as we know it's a bit easier to record across the pond. Crossing my fingers!

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 11:57am

Sutton looks and sounds incredible! I agree that this wig is a better fit for her. 

[Dolly80]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 12:48pm

You are wrong. Wait and see.

Also that is Sutton’s real hair in the video, she will be in short blonde hair- I’ve seen some of the new costume designs on Instagram.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 1:47pm

i’m sorry you’re the one that’s actually wrong and doesn’t actually understand how producing work

if this was a remount of a prior production the originating theater has to be publicly credit somewhere if you go on their website there is no crediting to roundabout

Updated On: 7/9/21 at 01:47 PM

[NameGreg]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 1:51pm

I figured this would probably be like the 2011 version, though I presume there might be a few small changes here and there. That revival was mostly the same as the 80s version, but it changed a few lines here and there and added a lot more dancing.

I wonder if they might rework the infamous final scene. It was already pushing it in 2011, I don’t think modern audience will go for it. I’m sure with a bit of tinkering they could fix it. And if they handled the Chinese characters in a more tasteful manner that would bring some good publicity to the revival.

As a big fan of the current version of Anything Goes, I also wouldn’t mind a few other changes, though I doubt they’d do anything major. But I feel like you could give Reno some more agency in the plot, the humorless Hope some actual jokes, and maybe change around Erma’s solo. Buddy Beware’s a decent song, but having a fairly inconsequential character sing the last solo right before the end always struck me as a bit odd.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 4:31pm

I’ve always suspected that the next major Anything Goes rewrite might collapse Bonnie/Erma into Reno Sweeney and make her more complicit in the farcical action rather than peripheral to it. Erma feels a bit like “well, Reno is TECHNICALLY reformed so we need a Reno-like character who can be slutty and corrupt in her place.”

I recently saw a production that did some well-intentioned but probably unauthorized rewrites, playing Luke and John as Austrian hayseeds and making the final “disguises” scene a big parade of German stereotypes and accents instead of Orientalist ones. Was it legal? Probably not. Did it improve the last scene vastly? Absolutely.

[Dolly80]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 5:17pm

The set design is the same. The choreography and direction are the same. It’s the Roundabout production with new costumes and lighting.

Getting it yet?

[sng]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 7:29pm

 

 

it is the same production bar the costumes. This gives me the feeling that the show would make a good movie adaptation tbh

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 7:43pm

I thought it was going to be a new production with Megan but when she got fired they just decided to remount the Roundabout production as that would be easier.

[NameGreg]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 10:27pm

Dolly80 said: "The set design is the same. The choreography and direction are the same. It’s the Roundabout production with new costumes and lighting.

Getting it yet?"

I’m sure it’s almost entirely the same, and I’m not saying they’ll do this, but I can still see them changing around the final scene given the many criticisms of racism, especially after the big push earlier this year against Asian hate. Anyway, there was no need for rudeness.

Updated On: 7/9/21 at 10:27 PM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 10:48pm

Can't imagine Megan got fired? She's a name. 

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 7/9/21 at 11:20pm

sng said: "

it is the same productionbar the costumes. This gives me the feeling that the show would make a good movie adaptation tbh"

I would love a movie version with Sutton, she would knock it out of the park. They can cast the other characters with big film names, but let us have Sutton. 

[Dolly80]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 2:07am

NameGreg said: "Dolly80 said: "The set design is the same. The choreography and direction are the same. It’s the Roundabout production with new costumes and lighting.

Getting it yet?"

I’m sure it’s almost entirely the same, and I’m not saying they’ll do this, but I can still see them changing around the final scene given the many criticisms of racism, especially after the big push earlier this year against Asian hate. Anyway, there was no need for rudeness."


my reply was to Lightsout90 who patronisingly assumes I ‘don’t know how producing works’.

They clearly have missed the video that shows the same choreography as the Roundabout production. The set design which is the same (as visible on a few Instagram posts) and the same director and choreographer. 

But sure, yeah, apart from that it’s a totally different production. 
 

Also they clearly didn’t mount a different production after Megan left because there was a photo of the set being built in the UK before her departure was announced, and it was of the Broadway set being recreated.

[Dolly80]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 2:09am

Bettyboy72 said: "I thought it was going to be a new production with Megan but when she got fired they just decided to remount the Roundabout production as that would be easier. "

Yes they can scrap an entire production and build a whole new one at the very last minute. 

Updated On: 7/10/21 at 02:09 AM

[wiggum2]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 9:29am

I do like Sutton but there is no energy in that clip(or any clip I've seen her in Anything Goes)... compare that lifeless performance to this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpjaqswBVIA 

[binau]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 9:36am

I don't really like Sutton but I really enjoyed her in the 2011 Anything Goes revival and thought she commanded the stage, loved her singing and dancing - look forward to revisiting the show when I get a chance. I know what you mean about it coming across as a little vanilla in clips, I don't know why but I just loved her on stage. I do think it's hard for anyone to compare favourably to any Patti LuPone performance though because Patti is on a whole other level of performer with very few peers. 

Patti could probably still be a great Reno Sweeney! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_kz0fhYuS8 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 12:42pm

Sutton is vanilla. But that’s why we adore her. Even watching Younger I cringed when she had to be sexual.

[NameGreg]

Posted: 7/10/21 at 2:44pm

I wouldn’t exactly object to a movie, cause the show is a favorite, but I’m not sure if this material really translates to the screen. Some of the musical numbers could be done cinematically, but a lot of the show is fairly theatrical, and I’m not entirely sure what big names they could get that would do the music and choreography justice.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/12/21 at 3:28pm