Care to guess?

[LA Guy]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:04pm

This is currently on the Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles) web site, as the teaser announcement for a New "Broadway Bound" musical... what do you think it is? Anyone have a good guess?

A New pre-Broadway Musical

Mystery, suspense and surprise fill many a good musical, and they are perfectly apropos for this particular announcement. Scheduled for a Broadway workshop during the summer, this new pre-Broadway musical promises to be a must-see sensation. Those of you who love a good mystery may ponder the possibilities. Be assured, this wait and see will not disappoint.


Ahmanson Theatre Show ID

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:06pm

Wicked

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:11pm

No, this sounds like something headed for Broadway (Wicked already is)

My guess is a re-do of Mystery of Edwin Drood.

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:13pm

KerrieS, TheatreDiva was just being snide and sarcastic...ignore him...

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:13pm

"this new pre-Broadway musical promises to be a must-see sensation"

OH MY GOD it's WICKED! How exciting! Will it be Ideena & Christian or maybe some one new? You know who would be great? CHER and Lindsay Lohan!

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:15pm

Nuh-uh, Joe! It'll have Britney Spears and Madonna! Duh!

[LA Guy]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:17pm

Anyone have a theatrical index to help us decode?

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:20pm

Unfortunately, I just sent in my three box tops to get my decoder ring...

[Popular]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:22pm

A friend of mine has a boyfriend who is a lighting designer for one of their upcoming show. I may be able to find out, but I doubt I'll be able to leak the info... assuming that they would leak it to me... which they may or may not.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:26pm

umm....The Drowsey Chaperone?

[Glindafan]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:29pm

A very good friend of the guy who mows yards of the stars told my postman's best friend's son that the show is either

Princesses, or
Tarzan, or
neither

He may be wrong.

[actor51678]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:34pm

Curtains, the Kander and Ebb murder mystery musical.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:46pm

ACTOR, that's the one i've heard guessed most. CHAPERONE is on track for the fall there. The title has been announced i'm sure.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 4:46pm

"Nuh-uh, Joe! It'll have Britney Spears and Madonna! Duh!"

Who will play which witch?

[morosco]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:01pm

"Curtains, the Kander and Ebb murder mystery musical."

That's what I was thinking too. Sure fits the description!

[LA Guy]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:10pm

Great leads... which lead me to this YAHOO article, which states:
Actor Edward Hibbert, who is in the workshop cast, previously told Playbill.com columnist Harry Haun that the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles is looking at the show (indeed, the Ahmanson teases on its season brochure that a new musical is expected there in summer 2006).

The Ahmanson website is promising "a new pre-Broadway musical" in 2005-06. The L.A. theatre's website stops short of mentioning the title of the show, but it doesn't take too much detective work to surmise Curtains as the plan. According to the Ahmanson, "Mystery, suspense and surprise fill many a good musical, and they are perfectly apropos for this particular announcement. Scheduled for a Broadway workshop during the summer, this new pre-Broadway musical promises to be a must-see sensation. Those of you who love a good mystery may ponder the possibilities. Be assured, this wait and see will not disappoint."
LINK

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:12pm

Doesn't it say "new pre-Broadway musical?" Doesn't that means it's going to be something, well, new?

[LA Guy]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:17pm

The sad state of affairs in "new" musicals. Sort of like how "Tarzan" is a new musical...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:19pm

Actually, Madonna will be Madame Morrible, Britney will be Glinda, Christina Aguilera will be Elphaba, and Marc Anthony will be Fiyero.




By the way, I apologize for the threadjacking. I'm a jerk.

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:27pm

Oh My God SG that will be great! I can't wait! When do tickets go on sale? I sure hope they aren't $1000 like that poopy Rent thing. Why do you guys keep talking about some Musical? IT's WICKED! Theatre Diva, let's get our tickets together!

I can't wait! Madonna, Britney and Christina! That is AWESOME! I hope they film it!

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:31pm

You know I think it's completely rude to take a thread that had nothing to do with Wicked and use it to bash other users who haven't done anything to you anyway. Do you realize that you, who complain about endless Wicked threads, have just started another one? Grow up...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:42pm

First of all, I haven't complained about the endless threads. Secondly, I already apologized about the threadjacking because I did realize it was rude. Yes, I do feel bad about it. So back off on the endless defense of that musical. We now continue with our regularly scheduled thread.

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 5:58pm

Sorry, I was referring more to people like TheatreDiva and Joe, whose comments were more nasty than funny. Sorry for the mistake.

And, I might add that my defense is not of the musical but of the posters on these message boards. Whether everyone likes it or not, anyone is free to talk about whatever musical they want and recently this right has been attacked by many negative posters. I've seen a lot of ignorant people who think they're being funny answer every question with "WICKED" *cough cough* no names TheatreDiva *cough cough*. Let it go, it's old.

Updated On: 7/25/05 at 05:58 PM

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 6:04pm

i guess maybe there was some implication earlier that might have been referring to CURTAINS not being a "new" musical. Though they've been writing it a while, to my knowledge, it is an original story with an original score not previously done even as a workshop (though perhaps there were semi-staged readings). That counts as "new" in my book...and this incarnation even has a revised book by Rupert Holmes, taking the earlier material by Peter Stone (may he rest in peace) and moving it back to the 1950's in setting.

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 6:08pm

Thanks, TwoStep! That's what I was wondering about.