'Designing Women' on Broadway?- Page 2
'Designing Women' on Broadway?
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#25re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 11/18/05 at 3:39pmI honestly could see it work.....It's kinda like....Designing Women meets the Golden Girls...I mean...most of them LOOK good, but they are getting up in years...Maybe they could have two versions of the show...and do them in rotation? I dunno. My mind is too scatter-brained to work on it right now, but I do like the idea a lot. They all worked so wonderfully together on the show...I'd love to see it LIVE but not in some trashy bar show..
Shirley Hemphill
Understudy Joined: 3/18/05
#27re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:40pm
Oh, that wily Helen Van Patterson-Patton is back up to her old tricks again.
Or is it Linda Bloodworth-Thomason?
Shirley Hemphill
Understudy Joined: 3/18/05
#29re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:42pmHow about "What's Happening?" on broadway...
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Shirley Hemphill
Understudy Joined: 3/18/05
#30re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:46pm
OMG how HOT would that be?
Lillias White as MOMMA
Frenchie Davis as SHIRLEY
#31re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:50pmAnnie Potts had a guest spot on Law and Order last night.
#32re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:51pm
Hey! How about giving a part to poor Jennifer Holliday? Everyone is yapping about how she deserves a job.
And Stephanie Mills could still pull off Dee.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
ThePinballWizard
Leading Actor Joined: 1/25/06
#33re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/06 at 4:51pmWhat is wrong with this world? What happened to bringing original things to Broadway, a la the 1950's. No it's now all gone commercial and pretty soon we'll be seeing TV shows recreated for the stage...it's leaning towards that direction already. *sigh* Let's build Sondheim-land.
#34re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 11/1/06 at 2:18pmLOLZ: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2388110
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#36re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/12/07 at 5:01pm
It opened to mixed reviews. The word-of-mouth was incredible, which brought in the crowds. It opened at the Cort Theatre and though it was a limited engagement it kept extending and extending.
What made DESIGNING WOMAN: ON BROADWAY! special (and what made the show) was that the actresses ad-libbed quite a bit so even though they followed a solid script, each performance was never the same. Also, as they did for Hugh Jackman during his run in THE BOY FROM OZ -- in order to not exhaust the actresses, every few weeks they trimmed performances, which enabled the show to have it's entire run without any of the actresses ever missing a performance.
MungoGypsy8232
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/07
#37re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/12/07 at 5:06pmDo you think they'll play the corny music in the background when a lesson is learned every night?
#38re: 'Designing Women' on Broadway?
Posted: 4/12/07 at 5:15pm
If they had any guts, the play would be about trying to create a play out of an old sitcom created by a once powerful writer and her brood of tabloided to death original cast.
There's an idea that has some meat. Raw meat, but hey.
Take off Designing, and you have a new The Women.
Updated On: 4/12/07 at 05:15 PM
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