British Imports coming to BroadwAY

[Annetteiago]

Posted: 4/14/15 at 6:53am

Is Sunday Afternoon coming to Broadway

Is Top Hat Coming to Broadway

[theateraddiction]

Posted: 4/14/15 at 7:16am

Nothing is official as far as I know, but there is an FB page for getting Sunny Afternoon to Bway, and I'm sure it's a possibility now that they won the Olivier for Best Musical. As far as Top Hat goes, they did have a developmental lab here in 2014 directed by Christopher Gattelli and it was rumored to be coming to Bway. Tommy Tune was supposed to be somehow involved with the Bway transfer, but I'm not sure what exactly his involvement was.

The FB page to get Sunny Afternoon to Bway

Article about Top Hat transfer w Tommy Tune

Article about Top Hat NYC lab

Updated On: 4/14/15 at 07:16 AM

[Different Drum]

Posted: 4/14/15 at 6:10pm

The award for best musical to Sunny Afternoon has all the hallmarks of an imperial British snub of the two big American imports of Memphis and Beautiful.  Despite winning the top prize, it would seem an enormous gamble for Broadway producers to bring this distinctly narrow British jukebox over to these shores.

[Annetteiago]

Posted: 4/14/15 at 6:15pm

"The award for best musical to Sunny Afternoon has all the hallmarks of an imperial British snub of the two big American imports of Memphis and Beautiful.  Despite winning the top prize, it would seem an enormous gamble for Broadway producers to bring this distinctly narrow British jukebox over to these shores."

 Did Memphis and Beautiful get better reviews?

[Sauja]

Posted: 4/14/15 at 6:22pm

"The award for best musical to Sunny Afternoon has all the hallmarks of an imperial British snub of the two big American imports of Memphis and Beautiful.  Despite winning the top prize, it would seem an enormous gamble for Broadway producers to bring this distinctly narrow British jukebox over to these shores."

 While I agree that it would be a huge gamble on these shores, I don't know that it's necessarily a snub of America. Beautiful is vastly superior to Memphis in my opinion, and then it's another jukebox musical that would be battling Sunny Afternoon. In fact, for that reason alone, I thought Here Lies Love would take it. That said, as possibly the only person who didn't adore that show, I was pleased to see the one show I didn't know grab it.

 

Also, I love the Kinks. Also also, it won several awards, even where the revivals were eligible. So I think it was just generally well loved.