Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#1
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.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#2
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#3
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...
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#4
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#5
Posted: 5/12/15 at 10:43pm
Are there recordings? I love me some Jan Eyre. Off-Broadway seems an odd place for this.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#6
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... 
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/04
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#7
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#8
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#9
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.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#10
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.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#11
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?
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#12
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.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#13
Posted: 5/13/15 at 12:27pm
liked several of the songs...curious to see the production at some point...
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#14
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#15
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#16
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!
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#17
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#18
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
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#19
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.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#20
Posted: 5/20/15 at 7:26am
Long Legs is a much smaller show and much more intimate score.
It's lovely though.
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#21
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#22
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?
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#23
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
Daddy Long Legs Opening Off-Broadway This Fall#24
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.
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