BALLROOM

[lotiloti]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 7:03am

I was wondering if anyone out there,ever saw Michael Bennett's 'Ballroom'.I fell in love with the Billy Goldenberg/Alan & Marilyn Bergman score many years ago.I still live in hope,that one day I may get to see it on a stage.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 12:08pm

I saw it & found it was entertaining & did not deserve the fate it did

Loudon was great & the choreography was very good & showed bennett's versatility

[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 12:19pm

I love the score as well as Loudon's performance on the CD. I never got to see it however. A few years back it resurfaced in a few places, Chicago being one of them, with the title "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" after the TV movie it is based on. I'd love to see either version.

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 4:45pm

Wow nly last week o thought about saying Ballroon on the 'shoaws you want revived ' thread but thought better of it! do that many people know it? I think its a fantastic score. Lets hope

[lotiloti]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 4:53pm

Thank goodness I'm not alone.I'll have to make do with the DVD of the TV movie,until someone has the sense to revive it

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 4:56pm

Oh oh oh my god! did u just say TV movie? where? who? when? aaaaaaaagh
Updated On: 7/1/07 at 04:56 PM

[lotiloti]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 5:05pm

Go to imdb,Tap in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom.Go down to DVD details on left hand side

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 5:09pm

Jez i had no idea! how could i have passed this movie by? just saw it has Maureen Stapleton. sorry i mean the great Maureen Stapleton in the lead- what fantastc casting. Is it freely available do you know. im in the UK. Will be in Frisco, Chicago and NY in the next 7/8 days. I will hunt and hunt and hunt!

[lotiloti]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 5:13pm

I got it thru caimen usa

[Glebb]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 6:50pm

I saw it and loved it.
One of my ballet teachers Dorothy Lister from the Joffrey School was in it.
I would really like to see it again today loving Michael Bennett choreography the way I do.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 7:59pm

I think this is the kind of show that Encores! should really tackle or that Roundabout should take a look at. With a great woman in the lead (Bernadette Peters anyone?) the show could play a limited engagement somehow and resurface some kind of interest in the show. The score fails at times (especially given the fact only a couple of characters get to sing) but songs like "A Terrific Band a Real Nice Crowd," "Fifty Percent," "I Wish You a Waltz," and "More of the Same" deserve a second chance.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 8:39pm

The 3 cut songs I have heard were great

[D2]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 11:01pm

I saw BALLROOM on it's opening night in New York. A flawed work, but touching and beautifully performed. Dorothy Loudon was sensational, as was Vincent Gardenia, and the choreography (and the way it was lighted) was spectacular. If Loudon hadn't been up against Lansbury that year, she might have gotten her second Tony for it. Unfortunately, it never quite came up to the expectations placed upon it just because it was Michael Bennett's follow up to A CHORUS LINE.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 11:39pm

Interesting to read on IBDB that Liz Sheridan, Seinfeld's TV Mom, was Dorothy Loudon's Understudy.

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 12:45am

i could cry, and thousands have. a broadway legend.

[jv92]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 8:37am

Twenty years ago today Michael Bennett passed away. What a wonderful talent that was taken from us too soon. His choreography and direction made even a flawed show like Ballroom enjoyable and memorable.

[lotiloti]

Posted: 7/9/07 at 2:05pm

Julia Mackenzie, would be perfect