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#1

5 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!! (:
#2

re: 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?)
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#3

re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!

Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:09pm

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#6

re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!

Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:15pm

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#7

re: 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)
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#8

re: 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.
#9

re: 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)
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#10

re: 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
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
#13

re: 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.
#14

re: 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)
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#15

re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!!

Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:49pm

Hair
Carrie
Little Night Music

"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art." -Sunday In The Park With George
#19

re: 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
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#22

re: 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
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
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!)
#23

re: 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


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#24

re: 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)
"If there's any answer maybe love can end the madness, Maybe not, oh but we can only try..."

Updated On: 4/7/08 at 10:17 PM

#25

re: 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
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"

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