Will he pick it up? He has produced Miss Saigon and Les Mis. Now the same writers wrote a new show. So the question is will he produce it once it gets to Broadway.
I was also quite surprised that the show does not seem to be attached to Cameron Mackintosh as he discovered Boublil and Schonberg for the West End. He produced the revised LES MISERABLES ( compared to the original staging in Paris), MISS SAIGON and MARTIN GUERRE, all composed by the same team.
Is it more of a dancing show rather than a traditional show with the likes of those three previous shows? I thought it would be more like the team's first three shows at the West End, given the subject of the musical, which is the life of the most legendary woman privateer ( aka pirate) in Ireland.
i am not sure that thats right..is it? a dance show? hmm...it seems to have a story and songs...maybe there is some dancing in there but from what i have read it doesn't seem like a Riverdance kind of thing. do you have more information..an article or something that substantiates the claim that it is a dance show?
I think that the reason most people think it is a dance show is that it is being produced by the same people that produced Riverdance. Seeing as Colm W. (I can't remember his last name, forgive me) is rumored to be in it along with Stephanie J. Block, I don't really see it being a MOSTLY dancing show. I have heard it is just as much an extravagent show as Les Mis or Miss Saigon.
There will be dancing. There will be singing (including a song called Because I Am A Wife that, in Steph's own words, has her "belting like I've never belted before!"). Beyond that, it's anyone's guess for now.
I have a friend who is working with the technical aspect of the show. They told me Colm was doing it. But then again that doesn't make it true. But I believe my friends.
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL