Create You Own Encores! Season

[gherbert]

Posted: 1/16/04 at 5:40pm

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.

[gherbert]

Posted: 1/16/04 at 8:38pm

No one has thought about what their personal Encores! season would include! I find that hard to believe! Is anyone out there?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/04 at 9:11pm

"Coco" with Dixie Carter

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

"Rags"

[orchajaws]

Posted: 1/16/04 at 10:41pm

Pippen
State Fair
Once Upon a Mattress

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 1/16/04 at 11:47pm

Great topic and great choices!

The Most Happy Fella
Pal Joey
Strike Up The Band

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:01am

THE GOLDEN APPLE
THE APPLE TREE
MY FAIR LADY Updated On: 1/17/04 at 12:01 AM

[pimpernel86]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:10am

1) Call Me Madam

2) The Most Happy Fella

3) Little Mary Sunshine

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:50am

um, she loves me, little me, and call me madam. its all about "me". they did call me madam already, but still.

[bestofbroadway]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:51am

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.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:57am

actually, change call me madam into "merrily we roll along"

[magruder]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 8:28am

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

[ckeaton]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 11:11am

110 In the Shade
She Loves Me
Do I Hear a Waltz?

[onceadancer2]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 11:12am

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

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

Posted: 1/17/04 at 11:42am

Great list Miriam.

You're incomparable!

Bulldog

[dry2olives]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 11:54am

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

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 12:25pm

I agree with dry. I wish they wouldn't alter the books like they do.

It seems, even though Encores denies it, that one choice each year has Broadway potential. This year's choice is "Bye Bye Birdie". We don't need to see that. I want to see some of the shows that are on Miriam's list. This year they are playing it too safe (Can-Can, Pardon My English, and Bye Bye Birdie).

Updated On: 1/17/04 at 12:25 PM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 1/17/04 at 1:44pm

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.