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If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
greencup
Chorus Member Joined: 3/26/06
#50re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:23pm
Pippin
Into The Woods
TL5Y
stanton
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
#51re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:28pmSunset Blvd with Patti Lupone!
I wish I could sing.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#52re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:22pm
Well... It was Off-Broadway, but: BRING BACK BARE :P (My lovely capital letters... Sorry)
The end. Or Aida. I loved Aida.
Updated On: 4/2/06 at 09:22 PM
#53re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:34pmSweeney...oh, wait...
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#55re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:44pm
The original production of Chicago with the sets and costumes and the actual concept.
Follies.
#56re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:44pm
What's with all of the AIDA love? I despised every second of that show.
Definitely TABOO.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
LorelaiGilmore
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/05
#57re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:18pmI really wish I could have seen TL5Y!
oy with the poodles already!
#58re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:24pm
Follies
Taboo
No Strings
Sunday In The Park...
Caroline, or Change
Amour
A Man Of No..
ok, so it;s more that one... 
i'm with you Munk- Aida is my least favorite show i've ever seen
"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
Updated On: 4/2/06 at 10:24 PM
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#59re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:00pm
Footloose
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown
Seussical
Any one of those would make my day. :)
#60re: If you could bring one show back to Broadway...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:02pm
Take a guess...anyone?!?!
:)
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES!
#62City of Angels...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:04pm
Carousel 1994 revival (physical stage beauty accented by beautiful music and words)
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#63City of Angels...
Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:33pm
oooh--- i like that, bringing back 1994's carousel.
but my first thought was bringing back Rags. i cant think of another show that deserved more broadway life.
or bring back birdie! (that was a joke)
#64City of Angels...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:34am
So many people mentioning Ragtime as if that was from the distant past. I feel so old. I saw Dreamgirls and it was, truly, fabulous. As was Chorus Line. The Shubert is such an intimate house, the show had such immediacy.
But let's go back further, much further. I have to keep reminding myself of how lucky our grandparents were. They could walk down any of the streets off of Broadway, plunk down as little as twenty-five cents and see Fred Astaire ONSTAGE. Live. Singing "Night and Day" and gloriously tap dancing, just like he does in the movies. Or Ginger Rodgers singing "Embraceable You." (while the guy standing in the back of the theater pacing might be George Gershwin). Or watch the visual and verbal antics of Victor Moore. Or Gene Freakin' Kelly (again at the Shubert) dancing and singing live. Or literally feel the roar of Ethel Merman; or the joy of the chorus belting out Oklahoma. And back then, it was still possible to take the family to the theater without getting a bank loan.
Personally, as my avatar would suggest, I would give ANYTHING to see "On Your Toes" and enjoy Ray Bolger tapping live. To see "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" as danced by Bolger and Tamara Geva (or in the British production by my beloved Vera Zorina) is a dream I know will never come true.
In many ways, Broadway is a vast repository of unfulfillable dreams.
I guess countless generations in the future will mutter "If only I could have seen Ragtime..."
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#65City of Angels...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:35am
Miss Saigon (never got to see it, not even on tour ):
Evita (never seen it= I know it's going to London, is it coming here ever?)
Jesus Christ Superstar as ORIGINALLY WRITTEN (not like the stupid 2000 revival represented in that terrible movie)
Hair (never saw it and would like to, and I think it would be appropriate for these war times)
Cabaret (I would love to see it!)
"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
#66City of Angels...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:45am
Yeah, everyone has pretty much covered my picks (Urinetown, Ragtime, Miss Saigon, A New Brain...) I'd also like to get a chance to see the broadway production of The Secret Garden - I heard it was pretty spectacular.
But my top choice would have to be...
Tommy!!!
"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window."
-Edward Bond
#67Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 1:47amGRAND HOTEL - The Musical
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#68Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:38am
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
and...
A Little Night Music
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#70Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 3:12am
Dreamgirls
Chess
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Kass983
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#72Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:22amEven though I've never seen it (but I read the novel it was based on), Ragtime.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#73Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:39am
all you people naming shows from like the last 7 years need to think further back. Any show that closed in the last 10 years doesn not need ot be broguht back yet.
Seriously, two shows that need a revival more than any two otehr shows are Dreamgirls and Chess (especially with the criminal act that is not having a recording of the concert)
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#74Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:11am
First choice: The Scarlet Pimpernel (the version that worked). Runner up: Jane Eyre.
Both of these shows I am currently obsessed with. :)
#75Bring Back...
Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:27amSunset Boulevard, no doubt. With all of the opulent sets intact before they trimmed it down for the tour. I love Sunset Boulevard
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
