Stand-by Joined: 5/11/08
http://www.broadway.com/Funny-Girl-Bway-Revival-Planned-for-Next-Season/broadway_news/21212
Did I miss this announcement somehow??
1) News to me!
2) I doubt it will happen for next season.
3) I wonder who would direct it?
4) There have been casting threads out the yazoo for this show. Expect 20 more, now.
Would this hold the recond for the longest period of time between an original production and a revival?
Stand-by Joined: 5/11/08
I think it would... and I guess it'll prove to be an interesting few seasons with overdue revivals between this and Birdie.
110 IN THE SHADE closed on Broadway in 1964 before its 2007 revival. That's 43 years.
FUNNY GIRL closed on Broadway in 1967. If done in 2010, it'd be a gap of 43 years.
So those two would tie. Can't think of any other shows that have had longer gaps in their revivals...
Nope, not the longest regardless. ANYTHING GOES' 1987 revival brought the musical to the Great White Way after a 52 year absence, after closing its original run in 1935.
Can't think of any other shows that have had longer gaps in their revivals...
- Also BYE BYE BIRDIE which closed in 1961, and being revived in 2009. So that's 48 years.
And SOUTH PACIFIC closed in 1954, and received its revival in 2008. So thats 54 years. So that would beat ANYTHING GOES.
Updated On: 3/24/09 at 02:48 AM
Umm isn't the article dated 10/20/2002?
Yes, but deceptively, since the CURRENT date is at the top and the article date is all the way at the bottom...I saw the current date before I saw anything else.
So did they recycle a story from 2002 and just update parts of it?
I don't think ANYTHING was updated. Someone just unearthed an old article and didn't notice the date.
Was the Leslie Kritzer Paper Mill production really so long ago? Seems like yesterday...
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
I thought the reason the Gibson production didn't transfer was due to her injuring a foot badly.
Wasn't Robert Westenberg her Nicky?
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