Create You Own Encores! Season

This is always really fun to do!

1. Lady, Be Good!
This was mentioned as a possibility to star Sutton Foster and Hunter Foster and I think it is a fantastic idea! Fun Gershwin music with a lot of potential.

2. High Spirits
I think that this would be a hoot with Elaine Stritch as Madame Arcarti and Christine Ebersole as Elvira! What a great comic team. I think it would be a wonderful concert.

3. On the Twentieth Century
With Kristin Chenoweth as Lily Garland! Perfection! Sheer bliss! And then with Brian Stokes Mitchell as Oscar Jaffee! How about Harriet Harris for Letitia Primrose? This would be a sublime vehicle for Miss Chenoweth.

"Coco" with Dixie Carter

"Its A Bird, Its A Plane, Its Superman"

"Rags"

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Great topic and great choices!

The Most Happy Fella
Pal Joey
Strike Up The Band

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1) Call Me Madam

2) The Most Happy Fella

3) Little Mary Sunshine

1) Mack & Mabel- GREAT score
2) Anyone Can Whistle
3) It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman- know very little about it, except a few songs and would love to see it done.

Didn't they already do Pal Joey and Strike Up the Band?

I'd vote for any of the following:

I'd Rather Be Right
Hooray for What?
Very Warm for May
Love Life
High Button Shoes
Flahooley
The Golden Apple
Greenwillow
Foxy
Darling of the Day

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I'd choose the follwing sets (with the original orchestrations and revised books)

1. Mlle. Modiste, Very Warm For May, Follow The Girls
2. Eileen, Music In The Air, Love Life
3. Oh Lady! Lady!, Student Prince, Too Many Girls
4. Sally, Funny Face, Knickerbocker Holiday
5. No! No! Nanette, Cat and the Fiddle, Kismet
6. Babes In Toyland, Follies of 1921, Milk and Honey
7. Whoopee, By Jupiter, As Thousands Cheer
8. Let's Face It, Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Girl Crazy
9. Spring Is Here, Annie Get Your Gun, Pipe Dream
10. Garrick Gaieties, Fanny, Sunny
11. Sweethearts, The Bandwagon, Early To Bed
12. Firefly, At Home Abroad, Cabin In The Sky
13. Red Mill, Inside USA, Redhead
14. Fortune Teller, Gay Divorce, Day Before Spring
15. Three Musketeers, Three Sisters (Never Produced in NY, but a really wonderful Jerome Kern score), Do I Hear A Waltz
16. Bitter Sweet, Shuffle Along, A Time For Singing

Miriam

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Updated On: 1/17/04 at 11:12 AM

Rather than revise the books I'd prefer they just do a concert or provide narration between songs. It does a disservice to the authors and spoils the historical significance of seeing a rarely done show from the past to have a new author do re-writes. That's why I much prefer Musicals Tonight over Encores. They actually make an effort to hunt down and restore the material that played on Broadway.
dry2olives

MILK AND HONEY is a great choice, Miriam. A completely forgotten show.

I'd have to second (third?) THE GOLDEN APPLE and FLAHOOLEY.

I'd love to see mountings of the great revue shows AT HOME ABROAD and THE BANDWAGON.

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