Some of the organisation and publicity left a lot to be desired.

It certainly did. Read about a show on WOS sorry already forgotten which show, which ran for a few months closed and then opened again the following year and then ran for a year.l

I wish...........

this has happened before, perhaps better than running on with such bad noticed, I have read aobut shows being closed, changed and coming back - or moving else where using the WE run as a pr thing, regardless of how it went LOL

But all the cast seem to have dispersed now. The next step would ostensibly be the USA where the book is held in much higher esteem than in the UK.

Does 'Clint Eastwood' (as in his prime) ever leave the sofa?

According toShenton of the Stage, quote - The New London Theatre on Drury Lane was always one of the West End’s biggest white elephants, one of those awful civic-like lumps of modern theatrical architecture that was unresponsive to most of the shows that attempted to play there.

The outside was nothing ...................the inside was magic....especially once the actors touched the stage.......

'Cats' didn't do so badly......8949 performances!

But was that the only one. What I posted is part of a long report on the New london theatre on the4 Stage site. Seems it is not a popular theatre for shows.

Cats ran for twentyone years.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat ran for two and a half years.

The Blue Man Group ran for one year eight months.

 

The theatre opened in 1973 with Peter Ustinov, and Grease has also played there with Richard Gere.

 

and Gone With the Wind was so much better than Joseph IMO

Unfortunately if the audience are dancing in the aisles etc seems to be how a show is judged today. Its the feel good factor is it not. I havent seen the new film Mamma mia but I will guess that has the same factor. I saw les mis on broadway and loved the music but not the show, too depressing a background but it has done well, but that was then if it was debutting now it might be different.

A bit more from Shenton of the Stage. quote - Back in April I posted a blog here under the headline “Is it curtain for critics?”, noticing the number of film critics that had been laid off at various American papers; and it is the same headline that The Observer used for a four-page Review section cover feature yesterday on the growth of the blogosphere.

 

As someone with a foot in both camps - so to speak - and was name-checked as such in the feature for, it is of course something I am watching closely. In fact, most critics are watching our backs a lot of the time - not just for the fear of a knife being plunged into it by an aggrieved theatre practitioner (or reader, if we have any) that disagree with us, but also because it has reminded us of our accountability.

 

I wish.

Preston, I've been trying to find the site you named....4 Stage, but all I can find is a Swedish site under that name.

Can you please say again the site name.

A few people I know have been to the Mamma Mia film and think it's fabulous....one said the audience clapped at the end another said people were singing along to the songs

 

I like the actors in it but unfortunately cannot stand Abba songs.....so unless it happens to be on TV and someone else is watching it...it's a NO for me

 

 

You cannot compare Joseph to Gone with the Wind....GWTW is way out of it's league

Bramley - its www.thestage.com

Sorry Bramley, my mistake should be www.thestage.co.uk

Thanks, Preston, I shall now read, mark and hopefully learn.

I really don't feel like going to see anything. GWTW spoiled it. I just loved the show -it just feels like anything else will be such an anti-climax.

But no-one can live in the past for ever. Just hold onto the precious memories.