'OLIVER!' 2008
'OLIVER!' 2008
#1'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/8/08 at 11:21am
So, to all you guys who open up new threads to mention the slightest thing about the dire TV program that will give us a new Nancy for the forthcoming West End production, is there any chance you could all place all your posts on this one dedicated thread.
There are now so many threads on the one subject, BBCs 'I'd Do Anything', that most members on here are actually getting bored with having to open up so many threads. lets make it just one then it becomes o much easier and clearer to read. Keeping it to one will let the comments flow. Cheers!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
nshreeve
Featured Actor Joined: 3/24/06
#2re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:01am
Top tickets between £60 and £95
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Updated On: 4/9/08 at 09:01 AM
NS
Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/04
#3re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:18am
The £95 hasnt been officially confirmed (well publicaly anyway) , however the huge problems with getting decent tickets and so many performances being sold out right through to JUly 2009 in certain areas certainly suggests that they will be put in place.
I got tickets for end of May 2009, and even then im side stalls.
#4re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:23am
I just spoke to my friend in their office thats why i posted the above post and it will £95 -they will not be announced until September. An allocation has already been put aside at each performance before the public bookings opened and these will be released as demand builds at each performance. So, not only do the public pay the BBC TV licence to see the TV program but then they are then expected to pay up to £95 to see the show. A family of four- £400.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Updated On: 4/9/08 at 09:23 AM
NS
Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/04
#5re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:31am
They have been denying it since the press got wind of it the other week,but I knew when the ridiculous booking situation happened that that had to be the reason. No way would they sell out THAT quickly!
I have a huge respect and admiration for Cameron Mackintosh, but I have to say im a little disappointed in this decision. I know its a business, and his shows have been doing 'premium' tickets for ages, and the other two reality BBC shows to, but this is a huge difference in price, especially for a family musical, and one that is being marketed at a prime time market.
#6re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:37am
Yea, they just told me that there was a press leak thing on it last week or something and so far they have been able to play it off. The £95 ticket will give each ticket holder a glass of champagne and a souvenir brochure.
Ticket £60
Champagne $7
Brochure £10 =£77 tops.
Where's the other £18 or so going? Sorry!-no prizes for guessing.
It would be interesting to know (and i will try to find out) how much less the publicity budget is now going to be thanks to the TV series compared to what a show without the luck such blazing free PR would have to fork out.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Updated On: 4/9/08 at 09:37 AM
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#7re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:53amThey should do a deal - show your TV license and get a discount!
NS
Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/04
#8re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:54am
These reality shows are good from the point of view of filling big theatres that might otherwise be harder to do, and I am glad Cameron seems to be going all out in terms of cast members, orchestra etc, he does seem to be putting effort in there.
Well at least there will be a brochure! so im happy in that respect! lol (however will it be there from the start!)
fingers crossed there is a public backlash like Young Frank on broadway and they change it.
#9re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:56amAlterego, that is so funny! well done haha. I may try that one!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#10re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/9/08 at 4:23pm
Very funny Alterego!!!
£95 is not very funny. Whilst I can afford to pay that I am simply not prepared to do so for a revival of a revival whose set has apparently been in storage for donkeys years, after being hauled around the world.
And wouldn't Rowan Atkinson be better cast in a farce about a socially dysfunctional composer who has enormous commercial success writing work of questionable quality whilst upsetting loads of ex-wives and ex-leading ladies?
Wkd
Chorus Member Joined: 9/5/07
#11re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 10:34am
This thread should read
I am wickedboy2 and I'm telling you that you can only post comments about oliver on this page.
#12re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:03pm
So with so many tickets sold in advance and re-using old sets from orevious productions and free publicity via BBC, I can only assume Oliver is a commercial success already?
#13re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:08pmIm sure he's looking at a run of at least 2 years!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#14re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:28pm
Wkd, keeping to the topic is a virtue much appreciated but seldom witnessed on BWW.
Sir Cameron looks terrible in that photo on top, doesn't he?
I was lucky early last summer to get returns for Joseph on a Saturday afternoon for the following Monday night, as I basically stuck around waiting for an hour in the hope that someone might return tickets for any night the following week. Not sure if thaty will work for Oliver, at this rate.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#15re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:30pmBoth men, I have respect for (Andrew and Cameron), I understand ALW is not producing this show, apart from owning the theatre what is in it for him? Why is ALW not one of the producers.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#16re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:31pmHe is earning from the TV production, and as the theatre owner he will get a share of Producers' profits, even though Cameron is officially the man with the wallet on the line (possibly the lowest risk production he's ever staged, though!). One has the venue, the other has the show. It's a happy medium. Plus, they haven't worked together in so long, it's nice to see it.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#17re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:00pm
SPOILER
Tara gone this week. Reactions?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
cages/wings?
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/08
FrEp
Swing Joined: 3/24/08
#19re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:33pm
To be honest, I'm suprised she stayed out of the sing-off up as far as this week, wasn't in the same league as the others.
Think Jessie's going to go all the way, but i've known that for years now, she's a class act. 
#20re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:33pmI think she can leave with her self-respect intact. She gave it a good shot but the right decision was made.
#21re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:35pmIve got to start watching TV!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
ashley-h
Stand-by Joined: 10/18/06
#22re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:35pmI wasn't too keen on her, but I think she should've stayed over Keisha (spelling?).
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#23re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:36pmFrEp, I know Jessie from a workshop we were in. She's lovely, but we can't vote here in Ireland. Help us out if you can!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
FrEp
Swing Joined: 3/24/08
#24re: 'OLIVER!' 2008
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:40pm
linnie, i'm afraid i'm guilty of that self same workshop! 
