Dear Roundabout Theatre Company

[FOAnatic]

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.

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

[Yankeefan007]

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...)

[Gothampc]

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.

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

[Calvin]

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.

[Borstalboy]

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!

[WOSQ]

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.

[Calvin]

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:19pm

TIMES SQUARE needs an Outback, so badly.

[Reginald Tresilian]

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.

[Borstalboy]

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??????

[Gothampc]

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.

[SirNotAppearing]

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

I thought this was going to be about bringing back SUNDAY for an open run.

Pretty please?

[SirNotAppearing]

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

I thought this was going to be about bringing back SUNDAY for an open run.

Pretty please?

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:28pm

Hmm, Borstal. So many choices!

Leah Remini?
Katherine Heigl?
Martha Stewart?

[Gothampc]

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

For Hedda Gabler - Halle Berry as Hedda and Laurence Fishburne as the husband.

[SirNotAppearing]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:35pm

How about Anika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard?

[FOAnatic]

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.

[Ed_Mottershead]

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.

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

[Reginald Tresilian]

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.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:53pm

I believe Kristy McNichol has made her share of Studio 54 appearances, though....

[Ed_Mottershead]

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:12pm

Bring in THE VISIT instead.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:13pm

This article states that the Roundabout's intention was to bring it to Studio 54:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107770.html