Whistle Down The Wind is back

urgh i hate this show

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Liverpool 20/1/2010 - 30/1/2010
Southampton 1/3/2010 - 6/3/2010
Edinburgh 15/3/2010 - 20/3/2010

Only dates I can see so far.

Starring Susan Boyle as Jesus! (No I haven't seen the show haha)

i hope so... the bfs been after seeing this one for a while Brownie points for me :)

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Awesome show I loved it, I did not see the original at the Aldwych Theatre, with regret, but saw the show at the Palace.

The trade off between The Man and Swallow in 'Nature of the Beast' is awesome, great story, my 2nd favouite Webber show.

What happened to the US Run, it seemed to just gone overnight?

Kenwright didn't fancy taking on the New York critics after how they layed into 'Blood Brothers'.
As bad as 'Whistle Down The Wind' was/is, I did wish he had taken it to New York and shown them that a UK producer has more guts than any living US producer could hope to ever have.
In its 4 months in Washington DC it became know as 'Whistle Down The Drain' as director, the one and only Hal Prince, demanded $ after $ to get it on its feet. it never found them.

'Blood Brothers' on Broadway got really panned but he said 'fcuk you' to the critics and the show ran an amazing 850 performances.
'9 To 5' producers and many others could learn a lesson or two from him- bloody cowards!



LOVE this art work.
It ran for 9 weeks from Dec 1996 at the National Theatre in Washington.



Worthy of the West End.
1998.



London revival, Palace Theatre 2006.
Am Dram quality!

Updated On: 8/12/09 at 08:42 PM

The beautiful 1961 film version.
The movie and subsequent stage shows were based on the best selling book by Mary Hayley Bell, mother of Hayley.

Updated On: 8/12/09 at 09:09 PM

I saw it twice on its filler stint at the Palace theatre and really liked it (but I liked it at £10 or £15 not at £50!).
No Matter What is one of my favourite songs but I absolutely cannot stand the boyzone version which is invariably the one that goes onto compilations.