Witches of Eastwick

The show is based on the 1987 film of the same name starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher. I saw the show in London and the score and book were quite good. I didn't care for the sets which were mostly giant postcards for backdrops and picket fences. The only numbers that I didn't like were Eye of the Beholder and Dance With the Devil, but overall, it is a fun show that I think would do well on Broadway (especially with Kevin Kline). At the end of the first act, the three women fly up and over the audience to the balcony, but the apparatus had a malfunction when I saw it and the whole scene was rather baffling. The women remained firmly seated on the sofa (which resembled a hideously giant pair of lips) and waved their arms in the air cooing, "Oooooh! Wow! This is great!" etc. The orchestra skipped ahead to the end of the scene and there was a sudden blackout and dead silence as you could hear the actors leave the stage. The house lights came up and the stage manager announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we apologize, but the Witches of Eastwick were unable to fly at today's matinee." There was a light smattering of applause, but most people just got up from their seats looking very confused. It was kind of funny, but I was sorry I didn't get to see the effect.

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We saw it in London & enjoyed it immensely

It should come to Broadway although our snooty critics would pan it as not being "worthy" of Broadway ( whatever that means)

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Chenowith would be one

No clue who would play the devil except maybe Tom Hewitt

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I saw it in London.. great show

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Well as you can tell from my screen name, I quite liked this show It was more spectacular at Drury Lane though let down by Ian McShane as a lackluster lead. It was more focused when it moved to the Prince of Wales, but lost all the sets

The origianl Australian production opened and closed in 2002 - changes had been made from London and it was rumoured that it was a try-out for Broadway, but obviously didn't succeed as well as it might have. There is a 're-imagined' version running in Moscow, Russia which is spectacular if weird (www.eastwick.ru)

As for it's Broadway chances - very little at the moment. The producing partners of Cameron Mackintosh apparently wanted a pre-Broadway tour, but after doing the sums found that this would be too expensive, and it's all gone quiet. There was a reading in 2003 at MTC, but nothing came of that either. It has now been released to selected amateur groups in the UK to stage in the coming year.

Incidently, Kristen Chenoweth is actually on the demo recording along with Ruthie Henshall.