#Laurence Connor

[unlimited-rice-puddin]

Les Misérables: reworked for the modern audience

It took me a while to see @lesmisofficial at the Sondheim, but the new staging successfully updates and reinvigorates a classic.

The iconic musical is just as impactful in its reworked guise as the record-breaking original. (more…)

[phantomonabudget]

Just watched act 1 of the restaged tour and wow, I am not a fan of how it's directed. What are your opinions?

OHHHHH BOY.

We can go ahead and say I didn’t love it.

I paid good money, saw it, and I gave it a shot.  To summarize, I should point you toward my scene-by-scene review of the National Tour from 2016 for ALL THE OPINIONS.  If you want details, that’s where they are.  All of them.

My opinion of the restaged tour is that it’s change for change’s sake, and was completely unnecessary.  Only one or two minor elements of the reimagined tour enhanced the show, and nearly everything else detracted either from it or (at best) was just “there.”  It seemed to dummy-down the design of the original by force-feeding the audience with new, obnoxious sets, which in Notes 1 almost made it impossible to focus on what is being said.

Blocking wise, there were many extremely poor directing choices here, from MOTN all the way through the Final Lair.  Congratulations to Laurence Connor, who successfully made the Phantom a completely unlikable, potentially abusive jerk in the Final Lair scene alone (alongside Storm Lineberger’s completely unlikable Raoul, which left Christine with zero legitimate man choices).  Basically the whole “love triangle” thing didn’t exist, which made Christine’s interaction with either the Phantom or Raoul feel extremely forced and stupid.  Also it took the Phantom’s really cool character arc and made it:

The cast did the best with what was handed to them, but overall it seemed like Connor’s attempt to make a badly executed statement as a director on a show that required no changes to its direction.  If anything, I think the restaged tour made me appreciate the original that much more.

I understand Connor being put in an impossible position by CamMac (either direct the show that doesn’t need to be fixed or be the man that turned CamMac down), but I can’t make sense of the direction approach at all and didn’t appreciate the direction he took the show.

[willstafford]

Jacob's Cracker

Jacob’s Cracker

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Birmingham Hippodrome, Wednesday 6th April 2022 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s first (and best) musical is on the road again in this refurbished production by director Laurence Connor.  There are a few interesting changes, most of which work brilliantly.  Firstly, the use of children.  Liberated from the usual choir corral, the kids come and go,…

[nowayandy]

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Nick and Charlie x Heaven is a hand to hold

[andrewlloydwebber]

omg alw’s new Cinderella musical looks really cheap…. I’m trying to reserve judgement as I’ve only seen curtain call pictures…. But seriously

[evanoblezadafan]

Eva Noblezada in rehearsals for the Miss Saigon Broadway revival

[nofatclips]

Feel Something by Lucinda Chua, live at LN-CC - Director and producer: Chantal Adams

[a-yanafox]

Loving you is a losing game

[operafantomet]

...not loving the throat grabbing, TBH...

Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess, RAH

Gerónimo Rauch and Harriet Jones, West End

Quentin Oliver Lee and Eva Tavares, Restaged US Tour

[unlimited-rice-puddin]

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella: An extraordinary masterpiece on all fronts

Did I just spend the vast majority of my day writing a more than 3000 word review of @ALWCinderella? Of course I did. It’s truly a masterpiece. I cannot recommend it highly enough

Finally making its world premiere, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella has certainly been worth the wait (more…)

[frogs-town]

testing out Chibi styles!

**buy me a Coffee!**

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[feartube2000]

Il cardellino

Theodore Decker sopravvive a un attacco terroristico che colpisce un museo. Durante l’evento muore sua madre e il giovane si ritrova coinvolto in una serie di disavventure che lo portano a Las Vegas e lo spingono sulla via del crimine. Titolo originale The Goldfinch Regia John Crowley Sceneggiatura/Soggetto Peter Straughan, Donna Tartt Cast Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman,…

[andrewlloydwebber]

honestly when was the last time alw collaborated with a competent lyricist/bookwriter/director

[television]

This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing. — RAMIN KARIMLOO as THE PHANTOM

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2011 | dir. Nick Morris, Laurence Connor

[gloriapritchetts]

g2km • [6/?] ⟡ favorite films ↳ THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 2011 | dir. Nick Morris, Laurence Connor

Some of you may recall the strange affair of The Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained.

RELEASED 10 YEARS AGO TODAY — October 2, 2011

[lovehurried]

TAG DROP  •  Mary Connors (2/5)

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