The West End is forever in danger of being turned into a giant TV variety studio: three West End musicals, of course, have already had their original leads cast by public vote on reality television, with a fourth on the way; while The Sound of Music replaced its TV found star, Connie Fisher, with …
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A pair of West End oracle acts....
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(Not so) Glory Days for a new Broadway musical....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/05/not-so-glory-days-for-a-new-broadwa/The last musical of the current Broadway season that opened officially on Tuesday night has also become the first to close: the opening night for Glory Days, that arrived on Broadway after premiering at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, was also its last night. …
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The hottest ticket (and theatre) in town....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/05/the-hottest-ticket-and-theatre-in-t/Even though the arrival of the summer, at last, means that we have to start suffering the curse of unventilated, non air-conditioned theatres again, we were at least spared one result of that yesterday: the shirt of the Evening Standard critic actually stayed on all day for the Henry VI trilogy at the Roundhouse. …
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http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shentonotherwise wait until, as they inevitably did, the demand fell away and the supply duly increased. However, what The Producers did soon became a norm, and every Broadway show nowadays has premium seats advertised at their box offices: never mind that last week’s grosses for the limping (but far from limp) revival of The Homecoming, for instance, register attendances of 41.8%, but though regular top price is $102.50, they are offering premium seats at $176.50 on weekdays and $226.50 on Friday and Saturdays.
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The Stage / Shenton's View
http://www.thestage.co.uk/newsbloghave undermined both the integrity of the show itself and the goodwill that might otherwise have been extended to it”. The strategy appears to have backfired badly – only last month co-producer Robert FX Sillerman was back-peddling furiously, and as I blogged here, was reported telling Variety that the premium pricing set the tenor of public perception, and encouraged some potential ticket buyers to believe that all seats were that expensive. And he believes it even influenced the critical reaction, too. “I
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The Stage / TV Today
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtodayIn The Paper Podcasts Shenton's View TV Today
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Musicals of significance (as well as opposed to mere magnificence)....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/03/musicals-of-sign...shift, no matter how hard they try, as has recently been shown by Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein on Broadway – with bad publicity partly self-generated by the hubris of massive over-charging for premium tickets, now swiftly abandoned (as I recently blogged here), but then the failure of the show to deliver on its promise has been even more fatal. It’s not just that expectations were, of course, running sky-high after Mel Brooks’ incredible 2001 musical debut with
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Musicals of significance (as well as opposed to mere magnificence)....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/03/musicals-of-sign...shift, no matter how hard they try, as has recently been shown by Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein on Broadway – with bad publicity partly self-generated by the hubris of massive over-charging for premium tickets, now swiftly abandoned (as I recently blogged here), but then the failure of the show to deliver on its promise has been even more fatal. It’s not just that expectations were, of course, running sky-high after Mel Brooks’ incredible 2001 musical debut with
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The gods of the theatre (or at least the LEB) don't smile on God of Carnage.....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/03/the-gods-of-the-...finally began, about an hour late, and warned us that we wouldn’t be seeing the lighting as it had been designed. Nor, last year, did things go to plan on the first night of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi, when – as I blogged here at the time – the Ishmaelites failed to come riding by, so that Joseph’s brothers had no one to sell him into slavery to. The apparent failure of the revolving stage floor caused the performance to be halted, too – with
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The gods of the theatre (or at least the LEB) don't smile on God of Carnage.....
http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2008/03/the-gods-of-the-...finally began, about an hour late, and warned us that we wouldn’t be seeing the lighting as it had been designed. Nor, last year, did things go to plan on the first night of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi, when – as I blogged here at the time – the Ishmaelites failed to come riding by, so that Joseph’s brothers had no one to sell him into slavery to. The apparent failure of the revolving stage floor caused the performance to be halted, too – with
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Coloured Lights
http://colouredlights.wordpress.comBenjam Yeoh BMI Workshop Songbook British Theatre Guide Blog Guardian Theatre Blog I’d Do Anything (What’s on Stage) Interval Drinks Jason Robert Brown John Morrison London Theatre Blog London Theatregoer Mark Shenton (The Stage) Michael Coveney Postcards from the Gods Sean in the Stalls Show and Stay Steve on Broadway The Alternate Theatre Buff (Seatwave) Theatre Notes Webcowgirl’s Weblog West End Whingers
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Garden
http://garden.patiopondgarden.comA flop you can see coming…. pynk-candy wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Producers are, inevitably, a glass nearly-full breed rather than a glass half-empty one: they always travel hopefully. No one, Bialystock and Bloom apart, ever intends to produce a flop,
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Cloverfield Reviews
http://cloverfield-reviews.blogspot.comGet Complete Video and Audio Collection from:A Broadway institution (and another more obscure New York ... - Stage A Broadway institution (and another more obscure New York ...Stage, UK - Feb 11, 2008... and I was very excited seeing the latest New York disaster movie Cloverfield on Saturday evening to discover Roma, of course, doing the breaking news ...
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