Artistic Director - YOU
fossemoves
Stand-by Joined: 4/19/05
#50re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:38am
Ragtime The Musical
Master Class starring Bebe Neuwirth- Terrence McNally
Myths and Hymns by Adam Guettel
Bad Dates by Teresa Rehbeck (sp?)
Follies
#51re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:53am
OH!! SUCH a great question!!
If it's STRICTLY musicals:
1) EVITA (timely, no?)
2) CAROUSEL
3) SATURDAY NIGHT (Sondheim - NOT ...FEVER lol)
4) ANNIE, GET YOUR GUN
5) WE WILL ROCK YOU (fun and a good money maker)
If it's musicals and straight plays:
1) EVITA
2) THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES
3) ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, SMELL OF THE CROWD
4) WAS (musical by Barry Kleinbort and Joseph Thalken)
5) ANNIE, GET YOUR GUN
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#52re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 4:54pm
Rebecca
Elisabeth
the GOOD Dance of the Vampires
Dessa Rose
Parade (with the London revisions and Don Sebesky's original orchestrations)
#53re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:05pm
Hello Again
The American Plan
Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical)
The Murder Room
Bye Bye Birdie
#54re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:28pm
Well, if I was trying to appeal only to a typical theater-going audience, and didn't have a "theme" or anything as a company and just wanted to do an eclectic variety of works each season:
Sweeney Todd (of course)
The Importance of Being Earnest OR Noises Off
Death of a Salesman
Some sort of family-friendly musical like Ragtime or something
The Goat OR The Pillowman (to give 'em something challenging)
#55re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:29pm
3hree
They're Playing Our Song
Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting
James Joyce's The Dead
Baby 2009
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#56re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 5:54pm
Loaded question, lol. It would have to be either a regional theatre somewhere or off-off broadway. Too many business considerations on Broadway. I'd rather produce a successful small production somewhere than a big flop.
"Don't set out for a Broadway production, let fate or fortune take you there."
Vengo.. adapted from the film. I'd have to write that one.
My Fair Lady
Fiddler on the Roof
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes into the Heavens (I'd probably have to write one, too)
West Side Story
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#57re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:07pm
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
EQUUS
PETER PAN
THE TEMPEST
HELLO, DOLLY! (starring me!)
#58re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 6:41pm
Just Musicals:
Once on This Island
Assasins
Anything Goes
See What I Wanna See
Beauty and the Beast
Both
Once on This Island
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
See What I Wanna See
The Importance of Being Earnest
Beauty and the Beast
Just Plays:
Who's Afraid...
MASTER HAROLD...and the boys
The Importance of Being Earnest
All My Sons
Alice in Wonderland
#59re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 7:12pm
Broadway non-for-profit:
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC- Sondheim/Wheeler: with Emma Thompson as Desiree and Victor Garber as Frederick.
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA- Frederico Garcia Lorca.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN- Kander/Ebb/McNally: starring Donna Murphy as Aurora and Robin DeJesus as Molina.
ANGELS IN AMERICA, both parts in repertoire- Tony Kushner: with Bill Nighy or Frank Langella as Roy Cohn, Kate Burton as Hannah Pitt, Dule Hill as Belize, and Rachel Griffiths as Harper Pitt.
#60re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:05pm
1. Beyond Therapy
2. ...Forum
3. The Pillowman
4. A View From the Bridge
5. Little Shop of Horrors
#61re: Artistic Director - YOU
Posted: 4/22/08 at 11:53pm
I would open with a big, flashy musical- a crowd pleaser that would bring people to my next few shows.
It would be:
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Next, I would go with something relatively inexpensive, but artistically challenging:
I AM MY OWN WIFE
I follow that with another musical, perhaps not as flashy, but still a crowd-pleaser:
URINETOWN
Next, I go with one of my favorite plays ever:
FUDDY MEERS
I finish with my favorite musical ever:
ASSASSINS
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