5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
buddharich
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#15 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:59pm
1. "The Golden Apple" - that gorgeous score, witty roles, a great chance for director and choreographer to reimagine it...
2. "Follies" with Patti Lu as Phyllis, Bernadette Peters as Sally, and Brian Stokes Mitchell as Ben...
3. "Your Own Thing" - I'd love to see this 1967 off-broadway musical on broadway - but not with an updated book! It has a remarkable score and is unfairly forgotten...
4. "Colette" - the Diana Rigg Colette that closed out of town - the score, the great diva role (Bernadette Peters or Patti Lu), it deserves another life!!
5. "Song Of Singapore" - a wonderful witty off-broadway musical that deserves a new life on broadway!! and of course, another diva role for a great musical female!! (:
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#2re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:05pm
1. Lady in the Dark -- I won't die happy until I've seen a production of it.
2. Ditto Golden Apple.
3. The Cat and the Fiddle (it has a great kern score)
4. Merrily We Roll Along -- I know, book's a mess, but I've never seen it.
5. On the Town -- a GOOD production with top-flight dancers. (How about Curtis Holbrook for Gaby?)
#2re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:09pmuse the search feature.
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#3re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:12pmAspects of Love.
BwayFan4
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/05
#4re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:14pm
A Little Night Music
Applause
Bye Bye Birdie
Promises,Promises
No Strings
#5re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:15pmA LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
#6re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:16pm
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Bye Bye Birdie
No Strings
Hair (reimagined)
#7re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:17pm
I just revisited Camelot last week (via the script and OBCR) and found it quite remarkable and quite undeserving of all the "second rate" or "not as good as Fair Lady" comments. It is certainly not second rate and it is just as good as My Fair Lady, if not better (I find Loewe's music for Camelot a little better than his for Fair Lady, though both are classics and deserve to be). Yes, it's being done in concert in a few weeks, but I'd really love to see it remounted on Broadway with the original script, the original score and the original concept of Arthur being a rather young king, not the stodgy old baritone of Camelounge (Robert Goulet, you are dearly missed, but that's not how Camelot's supposed to be, neither is the Richard Harris production). If someone can find an actor who meets those qualificaitons and if Laura Benanti can play Guenivere, it would work. Oh, and the designs can't be rehashes of those awful, garish, UGLY designs from the film. The original had COLOR. It's meant to be colorful.
A Little Night Music sorely needs to be done again.
And if anything is done to Follies, it should not be a revival, it should be a film starring Catherine O'Hara as Sally. LuPone, Peters and Stokes are all wrong anyway. Well, maybe not LuPone.
#8re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:22pm
Also...
My Fair Lady (from UK)
Evita (NOT from UK)
Funny Girl (Sutton?)
Hello, Dolly (Caroline O'Connor)
Mame (Bernadette)
#9re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:28pm
A Little Night Music
Funny Girl
Evita
Into the Woods (again)
Hello Dolly
#10re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:37pm
Applause
Sunset Blvd
Mame
Ragtime
Follies
#11re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:41pm
Ooh ragtime!
and the secret garden
#12re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:46pm
RAGTIME
CHESS
Merrily We Roll Along
There are a few more, but some of the ones I've always wanted to see have been revived the last few years (Company, Sunday in the Park), so I feel pretty lucky overall.
#13re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:47pm
The Full Monty(it got screwed since it opened the same year as The Producers)
Ragtime
Mame
Anything Goes
Hair(updated, of course)
#14re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:49pm
Hair
Carrie
Little Night Music
#15re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:49pm
Hello Dolly
Secret Garden
Bye, Bye, Birdie
My fair lady
West Side Story
Miss Saigon
Updated On: 4/7/08 at 08:49 PM
#16re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:00pm
Side Show
Ragtime
West Side Story
As long as those happen, I'm good.
#17re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:28pm
Evita
Anything Goes
Ragtime
Miss Saigon
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#18re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:28pm
1. Carrie - With Celia Keenan Bolger as Carrie and Linzi Hateley as Margaret
2. Mame - with Lauren Graham as Mame, Joan Cusack as Vera and Sally Struthers as Gooch
3. A Little Night Music - Emma Thompson as Desirée
4. The Wiz - Anika Noni Rose as Dorothy
5. Hello, Dolly! - With JoAnne Worley as Dolly Levi
#19re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:38pm
1. Side Show
2. Mame- always! 
3. Anything Goes
4. Kiss of the Spider Woman
5. On Your Toes
J*
#20re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:39pm
Guys and Dolls
The Music Man
Tick Tick BOOM
Aida
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
#21re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:43pm
tick, tick... boom!
bright lights, big city
hair
aida
rocky horror
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
#22re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:13pm
Mame, with Megan Mullally as Mame and Harriet Harris as Vera
Evita, with Orfah as Evita
Mame, with Megan Mullally as Mame and Harriet Harris as Vera
Follies, with Vanessa Williams as Phyllis and Brian Stokes Mitchell as Ben
Mame, with Megan Mullally as Mame and Harriet Harris as Vera
#23re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:17pm
Evita
On the Twentieth Century
Fifty Million Frenchmen
My Fair Lady
Chess
(edit: sub Fifty Million Frenchmen with Side Show)
#24re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:22pm
On The 20th Century
Golden Boy
City of Angels
Do I Hear A Waltz?
Follies
Videos