DL Fave Megan Mullally Staring In London Revival of Anything Goes....
Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Felicity Kendal (The Good Life, Much Ado About Nothing) will make her West End musical debut as Evangeline Harcourt opposite Gary Wilmot (Chicago, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) as Elisha Whitney in the upcoming London revival of Anything Goes.
The duo join the previously announced Emmy winner Megan Mullally and Tony and Olivier winner Robert Lindsay as, respectively, Reno Sweeney and Moonface Martin. The production, originally scheduled to begin performances in May, will now kick off its 11-week engagement at the Barbican June 5. Additional casting will be announced soon.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 6, 2021 5:52 PM
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Plays are opening up during a pandemic????🤨
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 6, 2021 10:26 AM
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Ugh, Robert Lindsey is a creepy Corbyn supporter who dismissed the EHRC's finding of Labour having harassed and unlawfully discriminated against Jews.
He's the British left wing version of Q Anon. JewAnon if you will.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 6, 2021 10:39 AM
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It is hoped that West End and other live performing venues in London or UK for that matter will slowly begin reopening by April or May 2021. Everything is going on hopes that the vaccination scheme takes and infection numbers drop obviously.
Right or wrong there does seem to be some push (if however quiet or small) to get things open again and bring some semblance back of normal life.
In contrast here in NY between Cuomo in Albany and BdeB in city hall things may be shut down until God only knows when.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 6, 2021 10:39 AM
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Abe Vigoda for Billy Flynn?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 6, 2021 10:54 AM
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I can't wait to see theatre again.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 6, 2021 12:56 PM
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Felicity Kendall admitted last night on Graham Norton that she can't sing.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 6, 2021 12:58 PM
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Aren't these people a little too old for the show? Megan is 62 and Felicity is 74.
Who's going to play Reno Sweeney? Angela Lansbury?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 6, 2021 1:18 PM
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Megan is plating Reno. Do keep up.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 6, 2021 1:19 PM
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Felicity is playing an older woman.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 6, 2021 1:19 PM
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R8. If you bothered to read, you’d see Millay is playing Reno.
They don’t sound as enfeebled as you.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 6, 2021 1:23 PM
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They're deliberately casting people over 60 as they're the ones who'll be vaccinated, and they appeal to pensioners who'll go and see it and will also be vaccinated.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 6, 2021 1:24 PM
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Chita, Ginger and Miss Ann Miller all played Reno at advanced ages. It's weird how a site as old skewing as DL gets a bee in its bonnet about such casting.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 6, 2021 1:28 PM
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Not going to happen. Hospital admission rates remain stubbornly high. The over 50s won't be vaccinated before May. The vaccines are only shown to be 70% effective. I certainly will not be taking my 92 year old dad to watch any West End shows anytime soon. Who the fuck wants to share an enclosed space with God knows how many other vaccinated and unvaccinated people for a couple of hours. Jesus fucking Christ! This is fucking Tory Lloyd Webber wanting to kill Grannies off in vast numbers.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 6, 2021 1:28 PM
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[quote] “[R8]. If you bothered to read, you’d see Millay is playing Reno. They don’t sound as enfeebled as you.”
Well, someone does, R12.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 6, 2021 2:25 PM
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Reno was French in the original London production.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 6, 2021 2:27 PM
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[quote]Megan is plating Reno.
Is this a story about cannibalism or metallurgy?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 6, 2021 5:52 PM
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