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LoveIsCompany

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#1Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:21am

http://www.broadway.com/Funny-Girl-Bway-Revival-Planned-for-Next-Season/broadway_news/21212

Did I miss this announcement somehow??

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#2re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:32am

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.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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#2re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:32am

Would this hold the recond for the longest period of time between an original production and a revival?

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

LoveIsCompany

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#3re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:35am

I think it would... and I guess it'll prove to be an interesting few seasons with overdue revivals between this and Birdie.

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#4re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:38am

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...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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#5re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:42am

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.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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#6re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 2:48am

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

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#7re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 3:37am

Umm isn't the article dated 10/20/2002?

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#8re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 3:54am

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.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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#9re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 4:15am

So did they recycle a story from 2002 and just update parts of it?

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

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#10re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 4:30am

I don't think ANYTHING was updated. Someone just unearthed an old article and didn't notice the date.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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#11re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 8:11am

Was the Leslie Kritzer Paper Mill production really so long ago? Seems like yesterday...

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#12re: Did I Miss Something Here...?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 9:18am

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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