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How I miss Whizzer.

Such a talented man.

Farewell.

I just keep thinking of Six Degrees of Separation.

"They're making a movie of Cats?"

Agreed!

Just sounds like an excuse

I hope he has taken the time to give it a second draft.  It was under-developed.

Demonstrating the wit of the "Golden Age"

Bravo Joey.

We all need our little den of iniquity and this was a good one.

Definitely Goldie Hawn somewhere in this cast.

And Bebe.

To invoke a theatrical metaphor, it used to be divine decadence  a la Cabaret; now it's more often a Be More Chill riff.

Threads felt like your typical bitchy after-show party- maybe sometimes you weren't part of the in-crowd but there were some really knowledgeable folk about.  Nowadays, well it's usually the school common room and occasionally someone has a bit too much Red Bull. 

That's why the whole thing so strange.  If there was a big argument it could well have been "you didn't play that line"- "yes I did" at the root of it but surely this far into a run it's hard to not hear when to come in?

If there were problems with the monitors, how is that the conductor's fault?  Surely the sound op or general technical fault was at the root of it?

Seems an odd reason to get into a fight with the conductor?

Someone leak the show report!

Triumph of Love, hands down top of the list for me.

bwayobsessed said: "The fact that people are claiming he’s ruined it when they haven’t seen it is absurd"
 

The reaction is based on his, shall we say, patchy track record, and the details that have already been announced for WSS.

Simple really.

Thank goodness we have a director who is specializing in shows for the attention deficit.

Next he's staging Evita on an all-white set, naturally, cutting the balcony scene and focusing on Magaldi.  Eva gets a passing mention in Magaldi's Act 2 closer Do Cry For Me Music Theatre.

Of course, no interval

But West Side Story is a known commodity.  If you say you are doing it, do it.

If you want to create a new different show, do so, and give it a new different name.

 Go on, I'll say it. Loretta...

So there's no way to make it feel like a juggernaut without cutting a text that has been remarkably successful all this time?

Thank goodness this director knows better than all those fools who went before.

bk, I think it's hard to judge the lighting out of context- more naturalistic "working lights" might be used for the book scenes.

Some of the archaic effects were quite cringe-worthy in the Palladium production.