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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?

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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#1
Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:37pm
http://www.playbill.com/playblog/2010/07/will-love-never-dies-get-a-new-director-for-broadway/

"The Post reports that the London production’s director, Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, and choreographer, Tony winner Jerry Mitchell, may depart the project to focus on their other Broadway-bound show, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; however, no official announcement about such a change has been made."

Hal Prince, no. Rob Marshall, maybe.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#2
Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:43pm
Except that Hal Prince was/is the director responsible for the two best shows Lloyd-Webber ever wrote.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#2
Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:48pm
Never mind, I misread the OP

Here's the link to Riedel's column
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Updated On: 7/7/10 at 12:48 PM
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#3
Posted: 7/7/10 at 12:57pm
Prince isn't a sell-out, so I don't believe he'd ever do this show.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#4
Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:16pm
Never said he would or should. Just pointing out that his work on PHANTOM and EVITA went a long way towards making those shows the best of the Lloyd-Webber lot.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#5
Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:24pm
Prince would never lay a finger on this fast-sinking ship. The show is a tank and a half. Let the love die in London before it occupies a theatre in NY that could go to a more deserving show.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#6
Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:43pm
Something told me that we would never see this show on Broadway...
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#7
Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:45pm
When your cat deletes the entire score from your keyboard, is there really anywhere else for a show to go but downhill?
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#8
Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:57pm
Obviously someone really should have been listening to that cat!
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#9
Posted: 7/7/10 at 2:35pm
Oh, it'll come to Broadway...Mr. Webber's ego simply wouldn't have it otherwise.

Paging Francesca Zambello...
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#10
Posted: 7/7/10 at 2:45pm
I wasn't responding to you in particular, D2, just in general... sorry about that!
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#11
Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:12pm
"Paging Francesca Zambello"

Dear god, the mind reels at the possibilities for awesome awfulness.

Can you imagine a Zambello version of Coney Island? Bril!
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#12
Posted: 7/7/10 at 5:11pm
That's exactly what I fear!

If I were ALW, I'd put this away for 10 years and get it out when the memories were fading and people might be getting more curious about the "lost ALW".
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#13
Posted: 7/7/10 at 6:15pm
As if the direction and choreography were REALLY what's wrong with it.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#14
Posted: 7/7/10 at 6:42pm
Prince needs to sort out his own mess of a show which has opened to pans here in the UK.

I dont think we will see LND get to Broadway, the London one is not making money at all, its playing at a loss each week. The book is awful, the lyrics are awful and the music feels like a step back by 25 years.

I think it will play out the year in London and then we will see it vanish
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#15
Posted: 7/7/10 at 9:49pm
Love may never die.... but this show should.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#16
Posted: 7/7/10 at 10:41pm
Mother's Youngr Brother - it's not than the director and choreographer are the problem, it's that they're over it and don't want to continue with the show.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#17
Posted: 7/8/10 at 1:24pm
It's just such a shame. Isn't the problem here the same one that faced The Pirate Queen? In both shows the composer(s) had all the power and were preventing changes to the things that needed it the most while tinkering with completely minor issues. In this case, it's the storyline (which Lloyd Webber didn't write firsthand, but he did develop the outline). I mean, my soaps have more nuance and character development. I fear Telemundo would reject this plotline as too over the top (and that's saying something). They also completely ignored an issue that Hal Prince was VERY aware of; Less is more with the Phantom. If you see too much of him, the magic goes away quickly.

Oh well. I'll always have my memories of Davis Gaines. sigh.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#18
Posted: 7/8/10 at 4:20pm
Rumour has it too that they are going to change up the logo all together also, no more mask
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#19
Posted: 7/8/10 at 7:30pm
David Gaines... Oh my goodness... What a voice. I recently found the 30-minute featurette that E! Entertianment had broadcast during the LA run in the early 90s. The footage they showed of his performance was in itself thrilling. He seemed electrifying.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#20
Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:18pm
Rumour has it too that they are going to change up the logo all together also, no more mask

Like that'll make a difference
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#21
Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:52pm
Love Never Dies...sometimes it just smells that way.
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#22
Posted: 7/8/10 at 9:55pm
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LOVE NEVER DIES to Get a New Director/Choreographer for NY?#23
Posted: 7/9/10 at 7:16am
Hal Prince has always been as good as the material he is given. Evita and Phantom were both solid works where almost nothing was changed from day 1 till opening night.

He is not known for knowing what to do when a show is in trouble. That is not his talent and he should stay away from Love Never Dies. That show needs a miracle-worker and not Hal Prince


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