Is there a comprehensive list of productions transferred from London to America?
If not...could anyone help me brainstorm?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
Phantom of the Opera
Billy Elliot
Mary Poppins
Les Miserables
Evita
Starlight Express
Cats
Mamma Mia!
Oliver!
A Little Night Music (2009 revival)
Updated On: 10/28/10 at 01:36 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
Most of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Evita
Cats
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Starlight Express
Aspects of Love
Song & Dance
Sunset Boulevard
By Jeeves
Whistle Down the Wind (toured US but didn't play B'way)
Carrie
Martin Guerre
Carrie didnt come from London, it came from Stratford Upon Avon, just saying, plus it was pretty much an American created musical that got some bad staging here in the UK and got shippedback to Broadway.
Gothampc, I think Jesus Christ Superstar actually opened on Broadway first. Definitely could be wrong!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
"Gothampc, I think Jesus Christ Superstar actually opened on Broadway first."
Oops, I think you're right. It was one of those where they had a concept album first, but I think the first actual staging was in the US.
I know one show that won't be transferring; Love Never Dies. :P
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
"I know one show that won't be transferring; Love Never Dies."
Is it that bad?
No, it can stay at the West End for all I care.
Swing Joined: 10/25/10
off the top of my head...and am going back a bit...
Canterbury Tales
Half A Sixpence
Irma La Douce
Flowers for Algernon (Charlie and Algernon)Did do Canada before London
Songbook (Mooney Shapiro Songbook)
am sure there are more.... but not many
Swing Joined: 10/25/10
Stop the world I want to get off
Oh What A Lovely War
Roar of the Greasepaint the smell of the crowd
Swing Joined: 10/25/10
Love Never Dies definitely should transfer.
It is worthy, and will be even more so after it has been revised.
The score alone makes it better than most of the shows on Broadway at the moment.
The more recent ones that I can remember:
Donmar:
Hamlet
Mary/Stuart
Frost/Nixon
Red
Creditors (to BAM)
The Great Game: Afghanistan
Menier:
La Cage
A Little Night Music (2009 Revival)
Sunday in the Park (2008 Revival)
Enron
Pitmen Painters
War Horse (upcoming)
Any others?
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"Any others?"
How can you forget The History Boys!
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"How can you forget The History Boys!"
Quite easily, as it happens.
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""How can you forget The History Boys!"
Quite easily, as it happens."
SHOCKER ALERT Roscoe hated a show
^ Funnily enough another Anglo show, what a surprise!
The Woman in White
Blood Brothers
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