Tracking Billy Elliot: Oslo, Norway - 2014
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:02 am
I’m setting up this tracking thread for the Norway production of BETM not knowing whether we’ll be able to get viable reports to verify the information. I’m hoping there are enough members of the Forum there who will see the shows and post the information here.
Like the St. Louis (MUNY) production of the show, there is just one Billy and one Michael (although there are supposedly understudies for them) and no listing at this point for who’s playing Debbie (one person or several?). If it is indeed just one of each, I guess we can assume that they’ll be on at every show, unless there is illness or injury.
Because of the language (non-English) barrier, I haven’t been able to make an arrangement for a reporting mechanism for this production of the show.
In other places, we’ve had various arrangements in place to get this information. Some examples:
*A large group of “regulars” who report the actors for each performance (London)
*A committee who took turns checking the lobby cast board and reporting who is on just before each show (Broadway)
*A Forum member who had a friend on the theatre staff who reported the info for each performance (Korea)
*A cast or crew member who graciously agreed to message me with the information for each performance, the reporting time varying from just before curtain to after the performance was over (N. Amer. Tour/Chicago/Toronto)
These methods all worked at one time or another. Again, because of the language, I haven’t been able to talk to anyone about whether a suitable arrangement can be made for this production of the show.
If any of the Forum members who live in Norway and have been posting on the various Norway threads have any ideas on this, please let me know how you think this might be handled.
Otherwise, it will be a shame if this is the first production of the show (excepting Australia) where we can’t track the performances as we have for all the other productions of the show.
Like the St. Louis (MUNY) production of the show, there is just one Billy and one Michael (although there are supposedly understudies for them) and no listing at this point for who’s playing Debbie (one person or several?). If it is indeed just one of each, I guess we can assume that they’ll be on at every show, unless there is illness or injury.
Because of the language (non-English) barrier, I haven’t been able to make an arrangement for a reporting mechanism for this production of the show.
In other places, we’ve had various arrangements in place to get this information. Some examples:
*A large group of “regulars” who report the actors for each performance (London)
*A committee who took turns checking the lobby cast board and reporting who is on just before each show (Broadway)
*A Forum member who had a friend on the theatre staff who reported the info for each performance (Korea)
*A cast or crew member who graciously agreed to message me with the information for each performance, the reporting time varying from just before curtain to after the performance was over (N. Amer. Tour/Chicago/Toronto)
These methods all worked at one time or another. Again, because of the language, I haven’t been able to talk to anyone about whether a suitable arrangement can be made for this production of the show.
If any of the Forum members who live in Norway and have been posting on the various Norway threads have any ideas on this, please let me know how you think this might be handled.
Otherwise, it will be a shame if this is the first production of the show (excepting Australia) where we can’t track the performances as we have for all the other productions of the show.