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They Should Revive.....
#25re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 5:16pm
Once on this Island
Funny Girl
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
smokeline
Swing Joined: 11/18/06
#26re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 5:43pm
Rags.
That score deserves a far better production than the original one.
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#27re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 5:46pm
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music
burntplains
Featured Actor Joined: 1/24/07
#29re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 6:28pm"They're Playing Our Song" with Rosie O'Donnell and Nathan Lane.
#30re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 6:54pm
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Updated On: 6/23/07 at 06:54 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#32re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 6:56pm
"Bye, Bye Birdie starring Raul Esparza"
Really? And as who?
My Choises:
Merrily We Roll Along
No Strings
A Conneticut Yankee
Coolness_
Understudy Joined: 6/11/07
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#34re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:24pm
Applause
A Little Night Music
Irma La Douce-like the music, want to see a production of it
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#35re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:28pmA "Purlie" revival with Anika Noni Rose as Lutibelle would be heaven.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#36re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:31pm
Purlie was DOA at Encores! ... with Anika Noni Rose as Lutiebelle. Not her fault though. That show needs to be played to the hilt, and the Encores! production was very muted and tame.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 6/23/07 at 07:31 PM
#37re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:35pm
I was unaware that Anika had played the role before Smaxie.
How was her "I Got Love"?
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#38re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 7:39pm
She sang it effortlessly, and sounded great. It didn't have the crazy abandon and ebullience of Melba Moore's version, but she did well with it. I seem to recall that "He Can Do It" was the number that really brought down the house at Encores.
EDIT: Found this review of the Encores Purlie from Ken Mandelbaum, archived on the Broadway.com site, which really outlines the problems of that particular production.
Broadway.com - Encores! Purlie
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 6/23/07 at 07:39 PM
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#39re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 9:27pm
"Bye, Bye Birdie starring Raul Esparza"
"Really? And as who?"
Albert of course. 
""They're Playing Our Song" with Rosie O'Donnell and Nathan Lane."
HA! I would like to see a revival of the show.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
IMissNYC
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/06
#40re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 10:16pm
City Of Angels
Bye, Bye Birdie
A Little Night Music
West Side Story
Dreamgirls
Once On This Island
#41re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 10:21pm
Isn't the rumor that Anika Noni Rose is going to star in the PORGY & BESS revival or is it just a rumor?
I would love to see her as Deena in a DREAMGIRLS revival or just about anyone in any role to be honest.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
evadiva
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#42re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 11:15pm
Pippin
West Side
Hair
Chess
Debut - Floyd Collins
#44re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/23/07 at 11:23pmSo that people may continue their hopes that "Carrie" will somehow play Broadway....with LBB as Carrie.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#45re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/24/07 at 12:34am
Carnival!
Minnie's Boys
The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Henry, Sweet Henry
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#46re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/24/07 at 12:40amWhy must we have this thread once a week?
Because it's arevival thread! It keeps reviving!
#47re: They Should Revive.....
Posted: 6/24/07 at 3:21am
West side story
Bye Bye Birdie
Camelot
Dreamgirls
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
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