Encore Suggestions- Page 2

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/26/13 at 6:56pm

DEAR WORLD
HIGH BUTTON SHOES
SKYSCRAPER
BAJOUR

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/26/13 at 7:23pm

A big professional production of the fixed and revised SMILE would do a LOT to rehabilitate its image. I suspect that the "versions of BOMBSHELL" subplot on "Smash" was strongly inspired by the way the original take on SMILE was replaced on Broadway with a much more frivolous and unsatisfying version, which was finally supplanted in licensing by the "preferred" original take.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/26/13 at 7:29pm

My ideal would be a season consisting of:

1. A once popular musical no longer performed with any regularity
-TAKE ME ALONG
-LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE
-MILK AND HONEY
-WISH YOU WERE HERE
-BLOSSOM TIME

2. A fabulous flop - one with a great score but not revivable
- HIGH SPIRITS
- OH! CAPTAIN
- SEVENTH HEAVEN
- MISTER PRESIDENT
- GOLDILOCKS

3. A forgotten show from Broadway's early years (pre-1943)
- CABIN IN THE SKY
- LEAVE IT TO JANE
- IRENE
- MLLE.MODISTE
- JUMBO

[Finch]

Posted: 6/26/13 at 9:34pm

Don't forget: of all those above, IRENE was revived full scale I. The '70s with Debbie Reynold's Broadway debut.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 6/26/13 at 10:02pm

RAGS has been my number one for quite some time. I know a small theater company in NYC did it this year but I would really love for a full-scale, professional production to happen with the original orchestrations. The cast recording is one of my favorites.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 10:36am

I would honor Barbara Cook with three of her fascinating failures:

Nowhere To Go But Up
The Gay Life
Flahooley

[morosco]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 10:52am

I've never been to an Encores production but I've often wondered something. With a theatre presumably full of musical theatre devotees, is everyone quiet during the overture of those shows that have one?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:09am

I haven't been to an Encores! show in years, but I do recall wanting to scream at the pair of ladies sitting next to me during GYPSY who were acting like the Overture was a karaoke tract instead, singing the lyrics every time a new tune would play.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:17am

The elderly patrons at Encores shows are particularly ornery, I've noticed. But I think most are at least quiet during the overture.

[matineeidol2591]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:25am

As much as I love all of the suggestions of older, presumably un-revivable (is this even a word?) shows, at this point my top choice would also be one already mentioned; 'The Secret Garden'.

[newintown]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 1:16pm

It sounds like many people would prefer Encores to be less about presenting undeservedly neglected scores, in favor of putting on almost-fully staged revivals of shows that are relatively well-known (and well-recorded).

[lovebwy]

Posted: 6/27/13 at 1:20pm

Subways Are For Sleeping
Wildcat
110 in the Shade

[justoldbill]

Posted: 6/28/13 at 1:40am

An "Off-Broadway" season might be fun, with little-heard shows like RIVERWIND, MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF, NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN, BALLAD FOR BIMSHIRE and such.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 6/28/13 at 9:02am

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Sugar
Dear World
Raisin

[BobBenson]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 2:37am

Smile!
Raisin
High Spirits
Something's Afoot
Mack & Mabel
Milk & Honey
Over Here

[RJ COMMUNICATIONS]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 3:51am

"Smile" is being done by "Musicals Tonight" in Oct/November.

I know that's probably not the big orchestra production you'd get at Encores...

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 12:23pm

I would love to see productions of Purlie, Irene, Dear World and No,No, Nannette(I know they did it in 2008 but I didn't get to see it).

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 12:25pm

The Grass Harp
Kismet
By Jupiter

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 1:33pm

Theaerfan, Encores! also did PURLIE in 2005 with Blair Underwood and Anika Noni Rose in the Melba Moore role. Anika singing "I Got Love" makes me happy.

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 1:50pm

KEAN

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:47pm

Wilmington, Encores did Kismet a few years ago, and it was quite disappointing. The woman playing the ingenue (forget her name) had vocal problems, Brian Stokes Mitchell didn't really connect in the Alfred Drake role, and Paul Gemignani's conducting was surprisingly stodgy.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:51pm

Will the Musicals Tonight be staging the Broadway "Smile," the pre-Broadway version that is the licensed version (fixed most of the Broadway problems), or the recent revision Hamlisch approved just before he died?

I hope it's not the Broadway version, although I wouldn't mind hearing "The Horny Dermatologist" just for laughs.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/10/13 at 2:44pm

The Baker's Wife
Sweet Smell of Success
The Happy Time

[dreaming]

Posted: 12/10/13 at 2:54pm

As I said in the other thread, my 3 picks would be:
Mack and Mabel
Rags
either They're Playing Our Song or Irma La Douce

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 12/10/13 at 3:02pm

Dreaming, you are in luck. They are doing Irma La Douce this season!