West End CABARET Revival (and B’way Transfer?) - News & Discussion Thread — Page 19

More important that who plays Sally, which theatre will be gutted for the production? (We saw neither Redmayne nor Buckley - we saw Fra Fee and Lennox - and, imo, those were special performances)

And the ticket prices may set records for face value.

I saw the show in London. It's the darkest Cabaret I have ever seen.

Rebecca Frecknall is supposed to open Julie in Amsterdam March '24 though. Not sure this tea is quite solid?

Piparoo said: "Are we assuming Buckley isn’t involved because she wasn’t mentioned in the announcement, or has something previously been said about her not reprising the role on Broadway? I’m really hoping that she’ll be a part of this production on Broadway."

The scoop says she is "not involved" in the transfer.

No, I think even the trailer for Men was released after her run, and she barely did any promo for Lost Daughter. She also doesn't seem to have anything lined up till Hamnet, but Mescal has to wrap up two films before that can happen. Maybe she got roped into something Marvel-y.

Buckley gets a lot of flack on message boards for her attendance. She unofficially was doing 6-7 shows a week after three months or so, and never missed due to Oscar campaigning or filming other projects, and attended the BAFTAs which took place on a Sunday when the show was dark. Besides, no one missed more performances than Liza Sadovy, who also won an Olivier for her performance in this production. She was out for nearly an entire month and no one said anything.


If Buckley is no longer attached, I am less interested. Her performance in London was out of this world, and NY audiences are absolutely missing out on seeing her Sally. Something I will never forget.

Updated On: 6/14/23 at 09:06 PM

Broadway Journal is LEGIT…so this is definitely happening…just this season alone they reported on Parade and Sweeney before the official announcements

east side story said: "lopside said: "east side story said: "Buckley gets a lot of flack on message boards for her attendance. She unofficially was doing 6-7 shows a week after three months or so, and never missed due to Oscar campaigning or filming other projects, and attended the BAFTAs which took place on a Sunday when the show was dark. Besides, no one missed more performances than Liza Sadovy, who also won an Olivier for her performance in this production. She was out for nearly an entire month and no one said anything.


If Buckley is no longer attached, I am less interested. Her performance in London was out of this world, and NY audiences are absolutely missing out on seeing her Sally. Something I will never forget."

Please don't lie at least. This account has a record.https://twitter.com/WestEndCovers. Liza missed 14 performances (spread through the run), Buckley missed 25."

Not a lie, regardless of Twitter. Liza missed more performances than Buckley."

London productions directly provide the information to the account. They even know who is playing the gorilla on any given day.

JSquared2 said: "Robbie516 said: "Broadway Journal is LEGIT…so this is definitely happening…just this season alone they reported on Parade and Sweeney before the official announcements"


Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Please. Share the dozens of times Broadway Journal has posted an article like this and been totally wrong. I'm waiting.

Ke3 said: "On theatreboard someone mentioned Billie Piper and I'd crawl to NYC to see that. She and Jessie mean about the same here in the states. Although I'd reckon Who gives Billie an edge."

I would sell a kidney, no kidding.

Is anyone else thinking that Lea Michele could be onboard for Sally? She’s stated that she’s already signed up for her next project? I don’t know the show well enough to know if she’s suitable but it seems like a role to project her career and completely different than FG.

Reached out to my industry friends and yes this is happening with Eddie but Sally has not been set yet. I love the idea of Michaela Diamond.

The Hudson has Merrily until January 21 '24

Updated On: 6/17/23 at 01:21 PM

Kad said: "Well, if HLL flops, maybe they can leave the club-renovation and Cabaret can repurpose some of it."

I've seen this sentiment before and it's so weird to me. I just don't understand where it comes from. Both shows build out into the orchestra, but that's the ONLY similarity in their designs. Other than that it's totally different.

I guess people see that they're both technically set in clubs and that's where it comes from? No amount of window dressing is convincingly and successfully going to turn a big disco into a 1920s cabaret venue. It honestly might be a bigger hastle to somehow try to do that than just do it in a different theatre.