'Baby' still delivers after 2 decades

BABY is amazing! The Paper Mill Playhouse cast was amazing! Michael Rupert has been putting some tracks from it on his MySpace page...Now you can hear him along with Chad Kimball and Norm Lewis sing "Fatherhood Blues"...I hope is comes back to Broadway again soon too!

EDIT: Now with "The Plaza Song" with Carolee Carmello
Link to "The Plaza Song"

Updated On: 2/17/06 at 11:18 PM

Unfortuntely, the folks at Theatrre at the Center in Munster were unable to get their hands on the rewritten version and the new song.

I'm a good friend of the director and a couple of the cast members. They did the best they could with a very flawed piece of material. Jessie Meuller, while quite charming as the youngest mother-to-be, had absolutely no "power belt" on "The Story Goes On".

I think this show has a good score, but an awful book that they never seem to be able to fix. The problem for me is, Lizzie and Danny are two of the most self-absorbed characters in musical theatre history, and it is hard to like them or accept the fact that they are the ones who get a baby in the end. The Papermill cast was superb though, except for the Danny and Lizzie, who had no chemistry and were vocally all over the place.

He was alright, though he had no chemistry with the awful Lizzie.

For me, Chad is a little too, er, flamboyant to be a believable heterosexual.

Raised by a gay father? I'll pretend to act surprised.

If I think someone is flaming, that's saying a lot!

I'd like to see it revived, also. I saw the original about 15 times.

Ooh! I am dying to see this show. I love the CD! I have never come across a production.

Glad to see some Maltby love on the boards... all the Ring of Fire hating was making me sad for him

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I'm surprised that Liz Callaway didn't become a bigger Broadway star.

Big Baby fan in the wings!! I saw it at Paper Mill, and I loved it. My parents remember seeing it originally in 1984, and seeing it at Paper Mill brought back everything for them. My mom remembers how scared she was that she wasn't going to have a baby. Then 3 years later, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED, BABY!! They thought their favorite actor was Norm Lewis. Mine were Norm and Michael Rupert!! Hope to play for it in the future.

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