if you could stage your own broadway show
if you could stage your own broadway show
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#0if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:17am
if you had unlimited funds (in a craaaazy fantasy world) what would be your ULTIMATE show to stage, whether a revival of an old classic or your own creation and who would you choose to star???
mine...
Once on this Island with taye diggs (and oprah...lol)
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#1re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:55amThe Wizard of Oz in the Broadway Theatre with never before heard of people starring in the 4 lead roles (Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion)...hold an open audition...and cast Victor Garber as the wizard, Harriet Harris as The Wicked Witch and Lorna Luft as Glinda to generate attention (and they're great performers). I would do the RSC version and keep all the songs (including the Jitterbug) and hope for the best lol
#2re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:57amLa Cage, Wicked, and Oklahoma would be fun, but all 3have been recent, if they aren't still playing!
awkward.
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ChicagoBwayFan
Featured Actor Joined: 12/24/04
#3re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:00amI would do a musical with the story based on a young couple from different sides of the track finding love in gritty Detroit in the 1970's ... and the music would be from Bob Seger and Journey.
#4re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:02am
I would bring "Bare" to Broadway!!!
and maybe "Our House" too!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:04amThe Wizard of Oz
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#6re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:13am
Ooh, and I would bring amazing re- vamped productions of Merrily We Roll Along and Baby to Broadway...
and put Elegies: A Song Cycle back off- broadway!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
yarn769fink034
Stand-by Joined: 11/28/04
#7re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:25amOnce on this Island would be fun,I would do with a lot of puppets but better than Julie Taymor puppets
ChicagoBwayFan
Featured Actor Joined: 12/24/04
#8re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:27am
I'm going to add to my storyline above.
I'd have it start out with a young guy on the wrong side of Detroit finding falling in love with a girl from the right side of Detroit.
The guy wants to be a big star and conquer the world, so I'd show him going through various phases of finding success as a singer / actor (Journey's Circus Life and Bob Seger's Hollywood Nights, etc. etc.), including losing the love of his life early on as the result of all his dreams that he wants to fulfill.
After many years of hardship in conquering his dreams and finding stardom, I'd have the end of the show include him looking back into the past, realizing the girl was all he ever wanted. He would get in contact with her once again, to find that she's still available because she never forgot him.
They would agree to meet up in Detroit, where it all began. As they were both taking separate trains to meet each other (even though there aren't any trains in Detroit!), I'd be playing Rod Stewart's Downtown Train.
Sounds complicated .. may have to be a movie instead!
#9re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:30am
HAir most definately
starring Adam Pascal and Raul Esparza
and just them.
CAGES OR WINGS? WHICH DO YOU PREFER? ASK THE BIRDS. FEAR OR LOVE, BABY? DON'T SAY THE ANSWER, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
#10re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 12:04pma large scale revival of sweeney todd, or if there was no way i could lost money i'd stage the musical i'm writing at its present state.
La Vie Boheme
Leading Actor Joined: 1/7/05
#11re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 12:18pm
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD!
Its not a well known show but i played Bazzard in it and it was so fun! It involves the audiance and they get to choose who murdered Edwin Drood, who the secret detective is, and which two lovers will be paired up...
One night i was the detective and the next i was a lover...the great thing is its a diff show every night!
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#12re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 1:59pm
YAY FOR DROOD!
i just played edwin drood in our school production. soooo amazingly fun.
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#13re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:01pmassassins or pacific overtures or company
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#14re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:05pm
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ACTlete676
Stand-by Joined: 1/8/05
#16re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:48pm
The Wiz would be so fun to do with a big budget. you can do so much with it. Its very style-istic and you can it as modern or as 80s as you want.
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#17re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:49pmi'd make all the women nude
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#18re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:01pmI'd like to stage Carre and Romeo & Juliet. In fact, I've thought of trying to get our area community theater to do them if they would be avialable to get the royalties to.
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#19re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:01pmI'd like to do a show called "Drive All Night" that was apparently workshopped a few years ago...have no idea what the plotline is, all I know is that it's based off of the songs of Bruce Springsteen.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#20re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:03pmI'd bring back "Side Show" or "Parade".
#21re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:03pmi would bring back vanessa williams to star in "kiss of the spider woman" again
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#22re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:03pm
I'd like to do an all-natural show about a black woman and a white guy - who really should be darker - who fall in love against their familiy's wishes.....
#23re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:05pmLike Aida or Once on this Island?
CAGES OR WINGS? WHICH DO YOU PREFER? ASK THE BIRDS. FEAR OR LOVE, BABY? DON'T SAY THE ANSWER, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#24re: if you could stage your own broadway show
Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:07pmI don't know WHAT you are talking about......
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