Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Should Shuffle Along go to London?
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#2Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:49pmIt's not up to us.
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BroadwayConcierge
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#4Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:57pm
It should remain locked in the chambers of theatre history.
#5Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 7:02pm
I don't think it ever will, at least not with anyone in the Broadway cast. I think it's now just resigned to the annals of Broadway legend.
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#6Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 8:24pm
I personally think it will be a number of years before we see it again. If we see it again. So glad I saw it.
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#7Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 8:34pmIt’s such a tragedy the show went without a cast recording. Especially considering the message of the show....
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SomethingPeculiar
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#8Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 8:43pm
The real question: Will the 2016 version of SHUFFLE ALONG ever be licensed? If not, we'll probably never see it again and it will remain just a memory. Maybe there is something between the original estate and the new material that's preventing it from being licensed? If it does get released, it's a show that won't get produced often (because of interest and ability to produce it). It was a unique show and closed under such strange circumstances, and I would imagine George Wolfe and Scott Rudin are still licking their wounds from it.
And I say this all as someone who loved the show.
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#9Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 8:54pmAs mentioned by others above it had it's chance and lost. How do you hire a star actress that is leaving the show a few months later to do her other show on the West End. As we all know she fou d out she was pregnant too. Feel sorry for that big cast that worked so hard and the producers.
#10Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 10:05pm
Call_me_jorge said: "It’s such a tragedy the show went without a cast recording. Especially considering the message of the show...."
While there was no official recording, there was an EP floating around with, like, five or six songs given to Tony voters and theatre influencers
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#11Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/12/18 at 10:17pmagreed re the show being unrecorded is a tragedy. Adrienne Warren singing “I’m Craving for that Kind of Love” was superb.
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#12Should Shuffle Along go to London?
Posted: 11/13/18 at 12:21am
Even with the critiques of this show, including those aimed at the events behind its demise on Broadway, I still found it a highlight of the year for me. That was one stellar cast from top to bottom. With choreography that I STILL believe should have brought home the Tony for Savion Glover. Having seen Hamilton, I thought the choreography and movement in that show was exceptional as well. But the dance in Shuffle Along was beyond compare that season, IMHO.
And I agree with Audra, it was a story that needed to be told, and I also believe her when she says she thinks it would have found an audience. I do too. If for no other the reason, the Master Class of performers headlining the show.
Would it have run forever? No. But I think it would have had a more than respectable run. I just remember how abuzz the audience was leaving the show that night. It was a good one, and I'm glad I saw it.
