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#1

Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:57pm

Instead of doing the 135th production of HEDDA GABLER, how about we work on bringing the CABARET revival back to Studio 54 for a limited run?

I know there were plans at one point. Why they were scrapped, I couldn't begin to understand.

Anywho...just my two cents.

Thanks a bunch.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

Updated On: 6/24/08 at 01:57 PM

#2

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:59pm

I'll take this season over last (with the exclusion of Pygmalion, which was fantastic, and Sunday in the Park...)
#3

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:03pm

How about turning Studio 54 into a 1970s museum or a disco museum? Then with all the money you made, you could actually hire some talented artists and produce shows that don't suck.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Updated On: 6/24/08 at 02:03 PM

#4

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:07pm

A disco museum would make money?

If that's they route they would want, they should just turn it into an Outback Steakhouse.
#5

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:13pm

Oooh! A Studio 54 museum! You could have wax figures of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall and tourists would have a blast snorting non-narcotic cocaine out of the cleavage of the Grace Jones figure!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#6

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:14pm

Actually, scuttlebutt that I have heard is when Roundabout gets the new Henry Miller's Theatre (unless they call it the Southwest Airways or some such) that Cabaret will be remounted as the opening show.

Who knows? Things change. We shall see.

The problem with yet another Hedda is Cate Blanchett at BAM a few seasons back and Elizabeth Marvel at NYTW a couple years before that. Both were quite memorable.

A disco museum could make a pile of money provided pharmceuticals were included.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher
#7

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:16pm

And Kate Burton's was what -- three, four years ago?

eta: Yikes, seven! Time flies!

Updated On: 6/24/08 at 02:16 PM

#9

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:20pm

The Roundabout has actually done it only once before, though, right?

The Kate Burton was in 2002. I don't think seven years is such a short amount of time to see someone take on arguably the greatest (nonsinging) role in Western theater.

Of course, the BAM production was just a couple of years ago.
#10

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:23pm

Honestly this is the Roundabout, so lets get to the REAL issue here: What movie stars and/or TV actors are they going to get to be in this??????
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#11

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:24pm

"A disco museum would make money?"

There's already a sex museum in NYC and a marijuana museum in Amsterdam.

There's a lot of nostalgia for that era and for Studio 54.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#15

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:34pm

For Hedda Gabler - Halle Berry as Hedda and Laurence Fishburne as the husband.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#17

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:45pm

Actually, scuttlebutt that I have heard is when Roundabout gets the new Henry Miller's Theatre (unless they call it the Southwest Airways or some such) that Cabaret will be remounted as the opening show.

Actually, that is incorrect.

The Roundabout always intended on bringing CABARET back to Studio 54. That's why they built the orchestra of Studio 54 with removable rows of seats, so that they could re-instate the tables and chairs setup that was there when CABARET played in the theatre.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#18

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:45pm

Is the Roundabout going to retain Studio 54 once they start doing shows at the Henry Miller? If so, it seems like a little bit of overkill. Plus, I would much rather see them improve the shows that they do rather than spend money on a greater number of not-so-great productions. And didn't Kristie MacNicoll (sp?) do Hedda at the Roundabout when it was still at the Criterion? An African-American played Judge Brack, but I can't remember his name off the top of my head. In any event, it was not well received.
BroadwayEd

Updated On: 6/24/08 at 02:45 PM

#19

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:51pm

It was Kelly McGillis at the Criterion in 1994. That's the only Roundabout Hedda that I'm aware of.
#21

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:00pm

Thanks Reginald, I knew I got it wrong. I didn't see that production, so it didn't make any impression on me one way or the other.
BroadwayEd
#22

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:03pm

I also remember reading that it would go into the Henry Miller, but this was before the official announcement that the plans had been scrapped all together.
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#23

re: Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:06pm

I hope they're able to get Cate Blanchett.
I would have loved seeing CABARET return to Broadway, but oh well.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

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