What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
#2What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 5:12pmME AND JULIET, because I’ve just always wanted to see a live production of it.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#3What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 5:51pm
-- The Pajama Game...while it has at least been revived in the last decade or so, the last revival just ran too short and was impossible to get tickets for pretty quickly.
-- Bells Are Ringing...take out a few songs, e.g., The Midas Touch, the Beatnik number, and tweak the book...cast the right person in the lead.
-- Half a Sixpence...actually 1966, but I loved this show so much. From what I have seen on Youtube, the recent British revival eliminated some of the best material and added some crap, so I would not want to see that version, although Charlie Stemp seems like a pretty good lead.
-- Hallelujah, Baby...also 1966. The book would need some work, but the material is there, as it has a terrific score. One of the great showstopper numbers EVER in 'She Sure Didn't Get it From Me'.
-- Can Can...I think it has a terrific score. 40 Years ago, I saw a Summer Stock production with Leslie Caron that was really terrible, and I loved the whole thing. Those songs.
-- Fiorello...because I have never seen it and I assume the Pulitzer means something.
-- A Funny Thing...because its time.
-- Anyone Can Whistle...do a scaled down version and have the Roundabout produce it with a couple of starts...it'll be a hit.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#4What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 6:01pm
None.
Not a one.
If they aren't revived, they can't be ruined by some hotshot director or writer.
Solipsist234
Featured Actor Joined: 5/25/18
#5What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 6:06pmThis may be cutting it close in terms of time period, but I have always been intrigued by Show Boat; that would be my first choice for a Lincoln Center revival!
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#6What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:22pm
A Funny Thing Happened starring Titus Burgess
Anyone Can Whistle. I would love to see a sort of Brechtian approach to the show. I think a scaled back revival directed by John Doyle would be great. I can totally see him doing something really crazy with it. I'd love to see Patti Lupone play Cora again.
Fiorello!
The Most Happy Fella
Street Scene
#7What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:27pmGuys and Dolls
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
EdEval
Featured Actor Joined: 11/30/16
#8What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:47pm
MILK AND HONEY with Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker, and Fran Dresher.
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN with Kristin Chenoweth as Molly.
#9What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:48pm
Call Me Madam is at the top of the list right now. I'd love Donna Murphy as Sally Adams, but I'm sure others have someone in mind as well.
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#10What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:51pm
Mame-has a better score than hello dolly
the Sound of Music-loved the london broadcast
guys & dolls-its time!
#11What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 8:59pm
I know it's British, but...
OLIVER!
#12What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 9:06pm
L'il Abner - I love the OBC recording and the movie is quite fun in Cinemascope and Technicolor. I'd think it could def be updated in today's trumpian world
Drat The Cat - a flop from when the papers went on strike in NYC, but a great score, the song "He Touched Me" and more...Lesley Ann Warren's 1st major award winning role
Pajama Game - while in Baltimore in college I saw a production at Center Stage that could rival any Broadway production. Unbelievable choreography!
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#13What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/25/18 at 10:31pm
I don't know how I could forget Mame. I'd love to see the Hello, Dolly! team do it with either Jane Krakowski, Toni Collette, Tilda Swinton, or Cate Blanchett in the lead role.
I'd also love a Lincoln Center production of Oliver! I feel like Bart Sher could get into the darkness of the show. I think Nancy is a part Lauren Ambrose would be very good for.
Also, what year was Funny Girl? We definitely need a Funny Girl revival with Jessie Mueller. She would sing and act that role ridiculously well.
#14What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 9:10am
Brigadoon!
I saw it at city center last November and was just amazed! WOW!
#15What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 10:05am
MAME...Catherine Zeta-Jones
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE...Patti LuPone, as mentioned here as Cora Hopper
#16What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 10:17amNo Strings. I could see Roundabout tackling this one day
#17What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 10:41amCamelot
green waver
Stand-by Joined: 11/3/16
#18What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 12:35pm
How about a revival of Man Of La Mancha with Nathan Gunn and Idina? Hey Mr. Rudin, are you listening?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#19What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 1:30pm
I want Love Life with Sutton Foster and Patrick Wilson for LCT and Sher
To be followed up by productions of all of Weill's other American shows:
One Touch of Venus with Katrina Lenk
Lady in the Dark with Billie Piper
Lost in the Stars with Joshua Henry
Street Scene with Victoria Clark
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#21What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 1:51pm
ALLEGRO
The Boyfriend
Matthew Rhys in CAMELOT
#22What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 2:00pm
The end of teh Golden Age is something of a moving target, depending on who you ask. A lot of Sondheim fans like to use the flopping of Follies as indicative of the end of the Golden Age, so I'll go with that.
Fiorello!
The Most Happy Fella
Oliver!
Brigadoon
Paint Your Wagon
Damn Yankees!
Pipe Dream
Goldilocks
Redhead
Irma La Douce
Take Me Along
Wildcat
Do Re Mi
I Had a Ball
Flora, the Red Menace
Man of La Mancha
Zorba
The Rothschilds
Two Gentlemen of Verona (shame the Delacorte production didn't transfer)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#23What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 3:35pm
Musical Theatre Frenzy said: "henrikegerman said:
To be followed up by productions of all of Weill's other American shows:
One Touch of Venus with Katrina Lenk
Lady in the Dark with Billie Piper
Lost in the Stars with Joshua Henry
Street Scene with Victoria Clark
What about Love Life, Weill's undertated show with Alan Jay Lerner?
"
You clearly missed the first part of my post which read:
I want Love Life with Sutton Foster and Patrick Wilson for LCT and Sher
(and which is why the quoted part of your post begins with "to be followed by"
#25What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 3:51pm
GeorgeandDot said: "I don't know how I could forget Mame. I'd love to see the Hello, Dolly! team do it with either Jane Krakowski, Toni Collette, Tilda Swinton, or Cate Blanchett in the lead role."
Does Cate Blanchett even sing?
I'd also love a Lincoln Center production of Oliver!. I feel like Bart Sher could get into the darkness of the show.
I've been thinking the same thing! I also think Danny Burstein would make an interesting choice for Fagin.
#26What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 3:52pm
thirtythirtyninety said: "Matthew Rhys in CAMELOT"
The same question I previously had with Cate Blanchett, does Matthew Rhys even sing?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#27What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 3:52pm
^no worries, Musical Theatre Frenzy.
Bartlett Sher is a director, here mentioned for his musical revivals at Lincoln Center, South Pacific, The King and I and the currently running My Fair Lady
#28What Broadway Show From The Golden Age of Musicals (1943-1965) would you most like to see revived?
Posted: 6/26/18 at 3:58pm
Solipsist234 said: "This may be cutting it close in terms of time period, but I have always been intrigued by Show Boat; that would be my first choice for a Lincoln Center revival!"
When André Bishop & Bartlett Sher were on Theater Talk's recent episode covering My Fair Lady, Bishop did mention that he thought about Show Boat, but finds the book to be more than problematic.
