Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?

I'll start with the obvious one. RENT. But I wouldn't have her die and then NOT come back. I'd cut the whole dying bit in the first place and keep her alive at the end anyway. It's dumb and trite.

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Doesnt make a difference to the plot, just the way the show plays out, but I would make the final scene of LITTLE WOMEN, the one wih Jo in the attack and she sings Fire Within me, and then the Astonishing reprise.

< I was in a production of Oklahoma a few months ago and we did just that!

Ive heard of productions doing this but change some of the people who make the show in A Chorus Line.

Wicked. Elphaba coming back at the end is beyond ridiculous. The biggest problem with that show in my eyes is that it did not stay more true to Gregory Maguire's masterpiece of a novel. The fact that Elpahba and Fiyero live really bothers me.

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Jordan - there actually was a production of Company where Bobby killed himself at the end!

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Company- I'd love to see a production in which the end is Bobby standing at the altar with some woman, maybe someone with the dress and veil, her back to the audience, so you don't know who she is.

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I just DIED. Too funny, Jordan!

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I actually like WICKED's ending...I think that by having her and Fiyero end up together but at the same time have Glinda and Elphaba forever apart kinda stirs up more emotion then just Elphaba dying if that makes sense. Like the audience is happy for them, and happy she is alive...but then realize that Glinda will always think she is dead and Elphaba will have to live with the fact she lost her only best friend. I think it adds a bit more emotion :P

I would however change the ending to ANNIE....something about them ending with "A New Deal" has always bothered me. Cant quite figure out why though.

Also the ending to "In the Heights"

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"Wow - what do you call that act?"

"THE ARISTOCRATS!"

More than you know. Every show should end with the leading lady standing front and center, ripping a big one, have everyone on stage laugh and the show end.

Sunset Boulevard:

Once everyone arrives back at Norma's house (during the final scene) the phone rings, and it is Cecil B. DeMille, who tells Norma he has just heard back from New York. They have decided to comply with Norma's "proposal" fully.

Max is set to direct the production. Before the first day of filming Sheldrick figures out about Joe's failure on car payments, and threatens to turn him in. Scared to loose Joe, Norma shoots Sheldrick (who falls into the pool). Joe in such a state of shock...makes the scene up to appear like "self-defense," as Sheldrick is discovered to have been a drunk.

If Joe leaves Norma, she will turn him in as a co-consiprator...so he decides to stay with Norma.

The (real) final scene begins with Norma descending the staircase...mentally stable. The press is there to "whisk" her away to her first day on the set. They are so happy she is okay after the "scare" the night before...and applaud her efforts to "stand up for herself." By the pool Joe sits, and Betty and Artie join him for the pool party.

Norma becomes the "greatest star of all," and ends with her oscar acceptance speech for Salome. She thanks everyone, but most importantly, her fans "out there in the dark" everyone laughs with her.