I'm pretty sure there has been a topic on this before, but I couldn't find it tonight, and from what I remember it was very long, so I decided to create another one. So, what is the question that you really want to ask, but were too afraid to ask? Mine is this: What on earth is a revival? *looks around cautiously*
Ok. A revival is basically when a show is brought back from having closed previously. So, for example, the last run of GYPSY closed in the early '90's, but a new production opened in 2003. That is a revival.
Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.
But now there is a trend to call revivals "revisals" because so much of the book and staging is redone. For example the Sam Mendes "Cabaret" which is substantially different from the original production on Broadway.
Now my question __ how is the "transformation"effect acomplished in Band the B? is the Beast already out fo makeup when he lies down in the castle before the effect takes place??
The meat is always leaner on somebody else's dinner plate!
My question is: How the hell did Producers buy into the whole Dracula idea, and how did it get on Broadway? And why are people still trusting in Frank Wildhorn's awful music?
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
The Dodgers CLEARLY need to take another look at where their money is going. I am a fan of Wildhorn's THE CIVIL WAR, JEKYLL, and PIMPERNEL, but DRACULA is just ghastly. Terrible. The Dodgers shouldn't have even touched that piece of garbage, and put their money back into BARE - something amazing.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
About the B and B question- The beast that is on stage during the fight is a body double. While the fight is going on The actual actor playing the beast is having his prostetics ripped off his face so that he can get back on stage at time.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Hey! Does anyone know if BKLYN still has any tickets available? It's a really, really, really awesome show at like, 90% capacity, and I heard they're PAYING people to sit in their audience but I wasn't sure! (BKLYN IN DA BLOOD, Y'ALL!)
PLEASE someone answer this for me. I couldn't find this information ANYWHERE!!!
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A "revival" is traditionally any new production of a previously produced script. However, in recent years these have fallen into a variety of categories, especially when referring to musicals.
There have been Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady Hello Dolly, A Chorus Line, The King and I, Gypsy and others that have essentially recreated the original Broadway production (sets, costumes, choreography and, in some cases, casting).
Occassionally, as noted in the thread, an older vehicle will be revised due to dated or other-wise out of fashion material - sometimes substantially. Flower Drum Song comes to mind - the book was reworked or perhaps Crazy for You - which became a "new" musical, but was really a major revision of Girl Crazy.
There are also completely new, often highly illuminating productions of classic texts: Guys and Dolls, Most Happy Fella, Carousel and Oklahoma.
There is also the hybrid revue such as Fosse or Jerome Robbins' Broadway. These productions revive individual sequences from previously produced material. In the case of Fosse, these were simply recreations of Fosse's choreography and with the Robbins' piece, entire sequences were recreated including sets and costuming. Note that each of these were considered "new" musicals" during their runs.
As far as straight plays go, any production after the original staging is considered a revival, though it may be a regional or local premiere.
When my dog is sleeping and she then begins to make little barking noises and fidgets and stuff... is she having a nightmare or is she having a good dream? Should I gently wake her up or just let her be? thanks.