A CHORUS LINE at London Palladium 2 Feb - 29 June 2013

[MusicalBoy]

A Chorus Line opens 19th February, the Olivier awards period ends Feburary 15th, so doesn't that mean it will only be eligible for the 2014 olivier awards?

[Phantom of London]

Surprised the cut off point is so early nest year, I thought the committee would hold out a bit, so that Book of Mormon would be eligible, considering best new musical looks to be very lame with:

Bodyguard
Viva Forever
Loserville

Even if 'A Chorus Line' eligible which is a shame as it makes a better contest for best revival, it is still a very formidable year for best revival? I wonder if Spamalot could sneak in there too? Not sure of the rules for how long a show has to be away from the West End to be considered again? The Tonys it is 3 years.

[alterego]

I wouldn't be surprised if Anita Louise Combe is Cassie.

This production comes to you via Australia. It opened as a short Christmas Summer run in Adelaide (using sets and costumes from the U.S. tour), from there it went to Melbourne where it sold out and suddenly it became a full national tour (with a season in Singapore too). The Producer of this Australian production is Tim Lawson. Two of the names listed as co-producers for the London season Mike Walsh and Daniel Sparrow are Australians too. Judging by the dates listed I suspect you will get the sets and costumes from this production.

Anita Louise Combe (Cassie) is an Australian actress with extensive West End credits - CHICAGO, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, SUNSET BOULEVARD... If the creatives like her work and she has a Equity card I suspect she would transfer with the show. The rest of the cast would be British I suspect.

http://www.achorusline.com.au

[My Oh My]

I thought the revival was near perfection and my only gripe was with the way they 'sensationalized' and made over-bombastic a tiny but important snippet of the show's orchestration in the opening number.

It's the exact moment featured at the opening of this video clip of the current Australian production, and I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it and noticed they restored the original piano/timpani crescendo orchs for that moment and dumped the over-the-top ones heard in both the Broadway revival and the national tour it spun off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyA7sd1XLCo&feature=player_embedded

Them Aussies sure have taste.

The revival had also seen orch revisions to other parts but they were all very good, even if I sorta miss the original "What I Did For Love" orchs which made the song soar. The revised ones are more low-key but still very, very nice. It was only that tidbit at the very start of the show where its orch revision stuck out like nobody's business and in a bad way. Here's the bombastic revision heard in the revival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuv8zHaMDFs&feature=relmfu

I don't know if you noticed but, yes, the only difference between the version I prefer and the one I dislike is the piano of the original orch had been replaced and that part given to the trumpets. The timpani and trombones still do that thrilling crescendo but the reassigning of the piano part to the trumpets creates an explosive, over-dramatic manipulation that begs for audience applause and cheers well before it is even earned. The more subdued piano lends focus on the actual choreography and it builds along with the emotional build we experience as the dancers' choreography becomes increasingly frantic and technically intricate. In the original orchs of that moment, only then do we hear that rolling timpani and burst of brass that punctuates very nicely the jazz routine's climax.

Yes, I notice everything!!!! LOL.

The whole production looks awesome and I need my ACL fix!!!!

[alterego]

My Oh My that is a much better clip than the one presented on the Australian show website.