Sunset 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
So many people mentioning Ragtime as if that was from the distant past. I feel so old....
It hit me 2 weeks ago when I saw a very good community theatre group do this show that it will be 10 years ago this coming December that RAGTIME premiered here in Toronto.
I think it was show whose Broadway run was curtailed before its time. That it lost the Tony for Best Musical (after winning Best Book AND Best Score) to a show nowhere near its equal (in terms of writing) just adds insult to injury.
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
Yeah, for me, PARADE and RAGTIME aren't old. I'm not like, "Hey, does anyone remember Parade? I'm sorry, it might be a bit before your time." But these are two shows that closed much earlier than they should have. Why did PARADE flop? It's one of the most powerful shows to come out of the last decade and it didn't do nearly as well as it should have. Neither did RAGTIME, and it was robbed of the Best Musical award. And they're still in people's recent memories, enough to make the fact that they're not around now rather painful.
Sure, I love Dreamgirls and I like Chess and I'd love for these shows to be brought back, but PARADE is old enough that it seems like it could come back again, yet recent enough that the wounds are still fresh. God, I miss that show.
I would vote for SIDE SHOW even though it is a fairly recent show because it definitely closed before its time.
I would also include several classic Lerner & Loewe musicals, like CAMELOT and GIGI, which I've never seen on stage (unless you count high school productions). I know they aren't as popular as MY FAIR LADY, but they are still masterpieces.
I'd bring back Aida, but on the non-Broadway I'd definitely bring back Mister. That was such a great show, I wish it had run longer.
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
PARADE was sabotaged when the failing Livent pulled out its share of the funding. If that money had been in place the show might have lasted until Tony Time and might indeed have woon (it did take best book and best score) but with the reviews being mixed to unfavourable, it wasn't bringing in enough to stay open. Even so, it was a dubious project to pay off but on my Tony Awards listing I would rather list PARADE than FOSSE. (I would also rather list "No Award" rather than the dreadful SUNSET BLVD.)
RAGTIME will be back..it has been in regional stagings already and judging from the reaction of the capacity crowd I saw it with in Mississauga last weekend, it still has the power to involve and move people...and that makes it a success. It was a financial flop, but it is a sucess.
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
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I saw "It's A Bird, It's A Plane..." and believe me, it was not funny. It was supposed to be, but it was a real traain wreck. I was a kid then and although my folks made a point of travelling to NY all the time to see shows, I had not yet fallen in love with musicals (perhaps BECAUSE my folks worked in theater.) But SUPERMAN, wow. The show had been advertised in the back of DC Comics and it was the one show I wanted to see. It just wasn't very good because it was camped up. Like the Batman series, but without the self-knowing humor. Adam West knew he was in a farce ala Charlie's Aunt. Bob Holiday thought he was Superman. The real star of the show was Jack Cassidy, who was wonderful and the sets, which were amazing. At one point, a drop went up and they had an entire page from a comic book onstage, with action happening in about eigth pannels, each with a unique setting inside them. I seem to remember one of the panels had a hanging sign that said "meanwhile..." That was cool, but the obverall effect wasn't anywhere near as funny as they thought it was. I guess it was like when I heard they were making a movie about Doc Savage. I thought "cool" until I saw a picture of Ron Ely, dressed in character and he was wearing a beltwhat had "Doc Davage" logo carved in the buckle. I suddenly realized "they didn't get it." SAme feeling...
PS it's amazing when a forgotten sho can have one huge hit song. Superman's was "You've got possibilities" which I still love because it seems fresh and original fourty years later.
Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party", "Urinetown", "Fiddler Revival" (Yeah I wanted to see this one!!! and I would also have to say Over Here! from way back when. Good show.
1. Carrie, with some needed changes 2. Caroline, or Change 3. Dreamgirls 4. La Cage Aux Folles 5. Side Show I got it down to 5 but if it had to be one it would be Carrie
1) The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2) Barnum 3) Shenandoah 4) Promises, Promises 5) Kiss of the Spiderwoman
I would like to see all 5 of these revived. Of course I also am in agreement with everyone who mentioned Chess, Ragtime, Parade, and The Secret Garden.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man