The Pirate Queen & Cameron Mackintosh

[outovfashion07]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 8:28pm

Will he pick it up? He has produced Miss Saigon and Les Mis. Now the same writers wrote a new show. So the question is will he produce it once it gets to Broadway.

[creasemouse]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 8:31pm

Im not sure if it a musical as such but more an Irish Dance Show along the line of River Dance and Lord of the Dance

It may not be CM sytle and because of this a new thing (excitement and fears)which can bring many challenges and rewards.

[jo]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 8:41pm

I was also quite surprised that the show does not seem to be attached to Cameron Mackintosh as he discovered Boublil and Schonberg for the West End. He produced the revised LES MISERABLES ( compared to the original staging in Paris), MISS SAIGON and MARTIN GUERRE, all composed by the same team.

Is it more of a dancing show rather than a traditional show with the likes of those three previous shows? I thought it would be more like the team's first three shows at the West End, given the subject of the musical, which is the life of the most legendary woman privateer ( aka pirate) in Ireland.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 8:45pm

i am not sure that thats right..is it?
a dance show?
hmm...it seems to have a story and songs...maybe there is some dancing in there but from what i have read it doesn't seem like a Riverdance kind of thing. do you have more information..an article or something that substantiates the claim that it is a dance show?

[creasemouse]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 8:51pm

Sorry I'm only relaying rumours of what I read months ago on WoS. Someone there may know more but who is to know it is the truth...

[outovfashion07]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 9:06pm

I think that the reason most people think it is a dance show is that it is being produced by the same people that produced Riverdance. Seeing as Colm W. (I can't remember his last name, forgive me) is rumored to be in it along with Stephanie J. Block, I don't really see it being a MOSTLY dancing show. I have heard it is just as much an extravagent show as Les Mis or Miss Saigon.

[Popular]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 9:56pm

There will be dancing. There will be singing (including a song called Because I Am A Wife that, in Steph's own words, has her "belting like I've never belted before!"). Beyond that, it's anyone's guess for now.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 7:32am

Unless I'm not mistaken, post-Martin Guerre, Mackintosh had a falling out with the duo?

[ken8631]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 7:41am

Are the rumorsd about Colm Wilkinson being in the show true?

[Popular]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 10:30am

Ken- I haven't heard or read anything to make me believe it's true at this point. But the rumor of him being in it was definitely strong for a while.

[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 10:38am

I have a friend who is working with the technical aspect of the show. They told me Colm was doing it. But then again that doesn't make it true. But I believe my friends.

[ken8631]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:09pm

Thanks - hoping to see both Steph and Colm on Broadway in this!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 12:26pm

I really hope this show makes it to Broadway!