Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 9:15pm

Ken Davenport is producing "Daddy Long Legs" this fall  Off-Broadway. I'd assume New World Stages or something in Midtown.

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 9:37pm

gag.

[BroadwayMouth]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:05pm

That's awesome! I doubt I'll be in the city to see it, but sign me up for another Paul Gordon cast recording.

[philly03]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:13pm

I love the score to Paul Gordon's Jane Eyre, but can't seem to get into this score or Emma. Maybe I'll give it another try...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:21pm

I love Jane Eyre and Emma but this one is an oddball. I also haven't been able to find my way into this score.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:43pm

Are there recordings? I love me some Jan Eyre. Off-Broadway seems an odd place for this.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:44pm

"Are there recordings? I love me some Jan Eyre. Off-Broadway seems an odd place for this."

 Well it definitely doesn't belong ON Broadway...

[cardamon]

Posted: 5/12/15 at 11:37pm

RippedMan, the recording is available on Amazon.

It's a small two-person musical. Definitely better suited to Off-Broadway.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 12:41am

Cardamon, good to know! I just assumed it was a Broadway style musical Hm. Seems a tough sell, ha.

[Fan123]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 5:13am

Many of the cast recording tracks can be heard in full on the show's website.

 

Edit: Now it seems the website is being redone and you can't hear the tracks any more. Oh well.

Updated On: 5/20/15 at 05:13 AM

[newintown]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 9:14am

Maybe it's just me, but I find that Paul Gordon is to theatre scores as paint-by-numbers is to art.

[araminta18]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 10:08am

Ah!  I love this show--definitely gonna have to make a trip up to see it.  Was there a press release or anything announcing this?

[tgrabon2]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 12:07pm

I saw Daddy Long Legs years ago at Northlight and really enjoyed. The problem for me with the CD is that the guy that played the benefactor on stage at Northlight had a better, deeper voice that than guy on the CD. Also, the orchestrations seem more pop sounding on the CD than in the theater. Megan McGinnis was perfect in the role. I just saw her in the disappointing Sense & Sensibility at Chicago Shakespeare a few weeks ago. Jane Eyre on Broadway was one my favorites and I listen to the CD all the time.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 12:27pm

liked several of the songs...curious to see the production at some point...

[DaveyG]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 12:53pm

I saw a presentation of this show a few years ago and thought it was lovely. Look forward to seeing it again.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 11:57pm

Not sure about a press release but there was an audition posting. 

 

1st Rehearsal: Aug. 17, 2015
1st Preview: Sept. 14, 2015
Opening: Sept 27, 2014
Open run

Director: John Caird 

[philly03]

Posted: 5/14/15 at 12:30am

"Maybe it's just me, but I find that Paul Gordon is to theatre scores as paint-by-numbers is to art."

 

newintown, you use this same "comparison" (aka insult) for multiple composers.. Gordon, Wildhorn, Lippa... PM me your address I'll send you a thesaurus!

[newintown]

Posted: 5/14/15 at 8:30am

Have I used that exact same comparison before? That's distressing. I thought I had some fresh material, but I guess not...

I thought my old standby was "So-and-so is to theatre scores as Velveeta is to cuisine."

Updated On: 5/14/15 at 08:30 AM

[Fan123]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 6:11am

Megan McGinnis has been confirmed to star again. Yay, she sounded lovely on the website tracks (...while they were available... #bitter).

 

Random bonus: here's an ad for a 2013-ish Japanese production.

Updated On: 5/20/15 at 06:11 AM

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 7:00am

 

JANE EYRE is the only Gordon work I know, and I find about 80% of it to be ravishing, the other 20% from adequate to good.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 7:26am

Long Legs is a much smaller show and much more intimate score.

It's lovely though.

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 9:20am

I just am curious how much Davenport is even putting into this production if it's running in his own theater. Am I the only one thinking that?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 10:49am

Suddenly Leslie Caron movies are ripe for adapting to stage musicals.

What's next?

QBVII?
Damaged?
The L-Shaped Room?

[tazber]

Posted: 5/20/15 at 10:54am

"Suddenly Leslie Caron movies are ripe for adapting to stage musicals.

What's next?

QBVII?
Damaged?
The L-Shaped Room?"

They should do Lili as a musical.

[Fan123]

Posted: 7/12/15 at 3:20am

(Off-topic: I may be taking the above post a tad literally, but for benefit of those who don't know: http://www.therightmusical.com/carnival/. BTW, any thoughts on this guy's idea that Lili could be deliberately manipulating everybody throughout that show? I have my doubts, but would watch a version like that just to see whether/how it worked.)

Anyway: I've just found that there are a few full-length tracks from Daddy Long Legs currently listenable on Paul Gordon's website: http://paulgordonmusic.com/paulgordonmusic.com/Daddy_Long_Legs.html (link looks weird, but it works). There are also sample tracks from some of his other shows on that site.

And as we've all probably heard, Paul Alexander Nolan has been cast as Jervis for Off-Broadway.