Jersey Boys to West End
Jersey Boys to West End
mpw607
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/05
#1Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 12:33pm
At last! Here's a news item that Jersey Boys is finally coming to London. Here's a link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_page_id=1794&in_article_id=444121
I think the delay has been availability of the right theatre.
Hope the original cast will come over for at least a few months to launch the show here.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#2Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 12:55pmWhat did Mary Poppins have to do with anything?
#2Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:02pm
Oh, wow. The accents should be interesting. 
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#3Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:07pmI can't see this going well.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#4Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:12pmThis will be interesting. I wouldn't of thought that they would do Jersey Boys in London, but hey it'll be interesting to hear a British guy doing a Jersey accent
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
mpw607
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/05
#6Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:21pm
Allentown2 - Mary Poppins is currently occupying the Prince Edward Theatre.
Cameron Mackintosh has been interested in Jersey Boys since it opened. I learnt that at the stage door from JLY himself. I don't know why some people are dubious. Providing the show is promoted as well as it was in NYC, there's no reason why it shouldn't be a hit in the UK too. Cameron Mackintosh knows what he's doing.
#7Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:32pmAll those wretched Rat Pack musicals and the like seem to have done pretty well, so why not? Plus, I think a Jersey accent is probably more easy to imitate and could turn out less mangled than other "American" accents I have... experienced.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:34pmWhat does the Prince Edward have to do with anything?
mpw607
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/05
#9Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:38pmAllentown2 The article says JB will be going into the Prince Edward Theatre!
#10Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:42pmI maybe in London very soon. Would love to see it there.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
mpw607
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/05
#12Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:49pmYes the Adelphi was being considered. But read the article I attached at the start - there are "architectural problems" there
#13Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 2:20pmSo they're going to close Mary Poppins for this? Guess Mary ain't doing so well...
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#14Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 3:33pmWow, Jersey Boys is expanding awfully fast. Reminds me of Les Miz back in its heydey, with sit-downs popping up all over the U.S. and international productions within a year of its U.S. opening.
#15Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 3:35pmWith new companies popping up everywhere, Jersey Boys is officailly the new Wicked.
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#16Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 3:39pmActully, Jersey Boys is expanding even faster than Wicked. I'm pretty sure it was a good year or two before Wicked set out on tour. And the West End production just opened last September
mll85
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/06
#17Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:01pmThis is great news for the show. The show is fantastic so I'm not suprised that Jersey Boys is popping up all over the place.
#18Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:08pmBad idea. WAY. TOO. AMERICAN.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#19Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:13pmHere we go again!
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
mpw607
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/05
#20Jersey Boys to West End
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:13pm"way too American" It may have escaped your notice, but we Brits have been immersed in American culture (Movies, TV, Music) for decades. Why should Jersey Boys be so difficult for us to understand and enjoy?
