City of Angels Once On This Island Two Gentlemen From Verona
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard and Once On This Island. Spider Woman would be fabulous with Catherine Zeta-Jones, maybe Naya Rivera in 5-10 years once Glee is over.
Also, Smash had made me really want a big budget My Fair Lady revival!
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
Beauty and the Beast My Fair Lady The Sound of Music Into the Woods (If the Central Park production is a success and very well-received) Hairspray (Maybe in a couple a years)
But I doubt a Guys and Dolls revival will come anytime soon... the last one was just a couple of years ago, but I'm all for a revival with a great cast this time.
and I would trade Nice Work for Crazy For You anyday... even without having seen it (Nice Work). I just adore Crazy For You!
She Loves Me could also be a good idea for a revival.
Seconding BroadwayTravis' vote for Whistle Down the Wind, though of course you can count on me to vote for anything involving Jim Steinman.
People give Whistle a bad rap, but that's partly because it's only the uneven '96 D.C. and '07 touring versions that America has seen. The version that emerged late in the run at the Aldwych Theater in London following minor revisions is the best version of the show. I'm not going to claim that Whistle is perfect, mind you, but the Aldwych version works, and I agree with Hal Prince (who directed it in its original D.C. run):
"...it had validity. I also never imagined that it could be a critical success, and that doesn't always matter. The original reviews of The Sound of Music, another musical about children, were terrible, and besides, no one really remembers what the original reviews of a hit show are. I knew that Whistle Down the Wind would likely be labeled as 'sentimental,' as The Sound of Music had been, and correctly so, but I also felt it had a potentially irresistible quality. Going in, I felt it had all the ingredients to become a popular success, and I still think it would have been infernally popular."
(Quote from Foster Hirsch's Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre.)
It just needs the right cast, and a better director than Bill Kenwright, whose national tour was criticized for its "rudimentary" staging by several critics.
(Brief casting note: In all honesty, I am quite surprised that Ted Neeley was never approached for The Man [the show's Christ-like figure], considering he's been playing Jesus for the better part of 40 years and seeking darker parts for longer, and this role straddles the line between both. It would have been a great comeback, well within his vocal range given his advancing years, and Webber could have gotten a nice publicity angle, to say nothing of a built-in Tedhead fan base, out of involving Neeley. He's who I would cast were I to produce it.)
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz