Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

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Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 9:58am

Audra McDonald
Phillip Boykin
Josh Henry
Patina Miller
Capathia Jenkins

Maybe.

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Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 10:32am

I know our favorite guy over at the NY Post has been reporting off and on for the last year that Maltby has got a revival in the works and is just waiting for the right time, I'll have to find the last article, but I think he was talking about doing it at MTC again.

Great show and I would love to see it on Broadway again, but Audra is a stretch I think, Capathia would be pretty great, and add Lillias to the list.

Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 10:39am

If we're aging up, I'd say replace Audra with Tonya.

Hell, bring back Andre. There still ain't no fiercer cat.

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Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 10:43am

I'll second that- I would love to see his new one man show right now- I heard him on Sirius the other day with Seth and he was so funny- and can still sing like its just effortless!

Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 10:45am

Signing on with the "bring back Andre" crew -- the man is a genius. Like all great geniuses, a little cuckoo, but that just gives him something in common with the rest of this business called show.

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 10:48am

Why does the whole cast have to be black? Huh?

Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:00am

Fats Waller is perhaps one of the most influential composers in my life. I can never hear his music enough, and I could never see Ain't Misbehavin' too many times.

I think that "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" may very well be all time favorite song. It's at the least in my top 5.

Also consider Kecia Lewis-Evans.
Can't you just see her tearing into "That Ain't Right" with Andre?

"Ahhh speak to me Daddy, because I don't pork no-how!"

....but the world goes 'round

Updated On: 5/19/12 at 11:00 AM

Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:08am

Why does the whole cast have to be black? Huh?

Sign me up for "I Am Not Misbehaving!"

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Can we please have an AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' revival...?

Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:11am

Suffer! Suffer excess baggage, suffer!

....but the world goes 'round

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:19am

I read about a regional production a couple of years ago that changed the setting from the generic nightclub/revue look of the original to an apartment in Harlem, where they are having a rent party (for you youngsters, during The Dpression in the 1930's, folks would throw parties and charge admission , to get enough cash to pay the rent).

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:26am

Jon, is that really for the "youngsters"? In 2012, having that information is much more likely a function of having acquired the knowledge rather than having it through first-hand experience. I think most posters on this board are under 80-90 years old. (Not including After Eight, who is 107.)

That production was here in Pittsburgh, at the Public Theatre. It was a silly and unnecessary framing device that added nothing to the show and only even really made sense in brief moments.

EDIT: Sorry. I realized upon re-reading that how negative it sounded. The production, aside from that misguided directorial choice, was very respectable, and I was excited just to hear that music sung live.

Also, Jordan, okay. Replace Phillip Boykin with Stephen Spinella.

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Updated On: 5/19/12 at 11:26 AM

#12

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 4:10pm

I assume we're kidding about casting white people, yes?

Even African Americans who grew up as late as the 70s and 80s tell me they were raised with a strong sense that they were to behave differently when they were around white people.

One of the joys of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' has always been that it seems to be a show by and about black people (even though we all know the original director is white); even when performed for largely white audiences it appeared to offer a glimpse into an exclusively African American society. (Compare it to EUBIE, also a Broadway hit at about the same time; EUBIE had some wonderful numbers, but it very much had a feel of black people performing for white people. In AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' the performers seemed to be singing and dancing for themselves. Quite a contrast.)

Add a white performer to the cast and you'll end up with a very different show, I suspect. (To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with performers of one ethnicity performing for others; it's just a different feeling and I think something important would be lost with AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'.)

#13

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 4:18pm

The original production contained one of the most moving moments I have ever experienced on Broadway. The way "Black and Blue" was staged was chilling. Completely motionless.

The show is the best of the jukebox musicals.

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 4:28pm

The show is the best of the jukebox musicals.

Worth repeating. So far the best, in fact, that with the original cast, at least, it felt more like watching a great book musical.

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 5:24pm

I always considered it more of a revue than a jukebox musical.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought that jukebox musicals try to shoehorn some sort of plot/story into a artist's catalog whereas a revue simply presents an artist's work either loosely organized thematically or as a mini-concert.

Revues:

Sophisticated Ladies
And The World Goes Round
Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer To Heaven
Black and Blue
Five Guys Named Moe
Swinging On A Star
Leader of the Pack
Smokey Joe's
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Marry Me a Little/Side by Side by Sondheim/Putting it Together/Sondheim on Sondheim
Jerry's Girls
The Show Goes On

Jukebox Musicals:

LoveMusik
Mamma Mia
Jersey Boys
Movin' Out
That Bob Dylan piece whose name escapes me
Play On!
Rock of Ages
Good Vibrations
Jelly's Last Jam

....but the world goes 'round

#16

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 5:30pm

For the record, I WAS joking about casting non-African Americans in this show.

I even mentioned "Black and Blue" in another recent thread as a reason it could never work without "traditional" casting.

And cut that song, and you might as well not do the show. In fact, you definitely should not do the show.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#17

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 5:46pm

I always considered it more of a revue than a jukebox musical.

Now that i think about it I 100% agree tazber.

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Posted: 5/19/12 at 5:58pm

I wasn't referring to your post, best12. THAT one I knew to be a joke. And I think the others were as well, but I don't know those posters' views as well as I know yours.

And I agree that cutting "Black and Blue" would be a tragedy,

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