Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
tuckandroll
Swing Joined: 2/9/16
#2Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 3:20pm
Really excited about this announcement! Happy the rumors from last year are finally coming to fruition...terrific score and great story! Can't wait to hear the casting and creative team...
#3Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 3:42pm
^creative team is listed in the BWW article
#4Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 3:44pm
My bad...didn't read far down enough. :)
Broadway kid 2
Stand-by Joined: 6/7/14
#5Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 3:45pm
Jshan05 said: "Really excited about this announcement! Happy the rumors from last year are finally coming to fruition...terrific score and great story! Can't wait to hear the casting and creative team...
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#6Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:14pm
Spencer Liff is choreographing and I think that's a perfect mix. Now to get the right cast and cast dynamic, which I think will be difficult.
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#7Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:21pm
I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again. He's had his say on the show. I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view.
#8Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:29pm
anyone else thinking this should just be a limited run?? I doubt this will sell well even with some big Broadway names.
#9Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:33pm
This may be a dumb question, but how can it be at the Walter Kerr if it is a Lincoln Center Theatre production?
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#10Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:41pm
"Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016"
Ugh.
#11Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:48pm
RaiseYouUp said: "This may be a dumb question, but how can it be at the Walter Kerr if it is a Lincoln Center Theatre production?
"Not dumb at all. He just means that Lincoln Center is producing the venture, just like it did Disgraced on Broadway. That play went up at the Lyceum. I have a good feeling that this will, in fact, be a limited engagement.
#12Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:49pm
I honestly forgot this was still planning to come in, but good for them for getting a theatre locked down.
Was I mistaken, or wasn't the rumor that Natasha Pierre was playing the Kerr?
#13Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:52pm
BroadwayBen said: "I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again. He's had his say on the show. I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view.
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I agree with you on that.
But I'm still really excited. One of my favorite musicals.
#14Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 4:56pm
Wizard Jordan Roth-Jujamcyn are producing with LCT and Falsettos was planned for the Walter Kerr.
I believe Natasha Pierre is going into to the Cort
#15Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:00pm
BroadwayBen said: "I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again. He's had his say on the show. I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view.
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Yeah, 'cause all those directors re-interpreting FOLLIES has worked out so well.
I don't always like Lapine's work, but his direction of MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS remains one of the most amazing stagings I've ever seen. The man knows the FALSETTOS world. It will be enough of a challenge to compile a cast that compares to the original; no need to make the task even more difficult by reinventing the wheel.
#16Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:03pm
After Eight said: ""Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016"
Ugh.
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You really are quite the boor. You know perfectly well how much that show means to a lot of us here. You could have just skipped over this thread, but, no, you are too ill-mannered to do so.
#17Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:05pm
Yay!!! I'm so excited! Whizzer and Marvin will be back on Broadway where they belong.
I was hoping to have Sam Gold direct, but I'll take any production I can get. I have trust that LCT will cast this well.
#18Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:10pm
Whizzer, since I probably won't get to see the production, I look forward to your review of it!
#19Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:19pm
Thanks! You can bet this is one first preview I wouldn't miss for the world. What Would I Do? is one of my favorite songs written for the stage. Putting on March of the Falsettos right now- this score never gets old, no matter how many times I listen to it.
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#20Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:35pm
I remember there was a highly acclaimed production at Hartford Stage in the 1990s directed by Graciela Daniele that Frank Rich went nuts for. My memory is that production was announced to come to Broadway, but it later turned out to be the Lapine production. I'd love to see a different director.
#21Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:36pm
I doubt she will come back to broadway only a few months after She Loves Me, but I think Laura Benanti would be a fantastic Trina. Also I think Christian Borle would be a good Mendel.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#22Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:38pm
I am beyond excited! This is one of those shows I can always listen to. And I've never seen a production of it! And with LCT, I know it will be a quality production! And at such a gorgeous theater! Whoot!
#23Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 5:45pm
WhizzerMarvin said: "Thanks! You can bet this is one first preview I wouldn't miss for the world. What Would I Do? is one of my favorite songs written for the stage. Putting on March of the Falsettos right now- this score never gets old, no matter how many times I listen to it.
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I agree. We played "What Would I Do?" at our wedding.
I thought MARCH suffered a little when paired with FALSETTOLAND. My memory of MARCH off-Broadway is dominated by the ferocity with which it was performed. I happened to see Michael Rupert after the show and he could barely talk to the fans who were waiting for him. (He did his best: very nice guy.)
When the two acts were paired, I thought MARCH suffered a little because the actors had to save something for the second (FALSETTOLAND) act. Not that I didn't enjoy it thoroughly, mind you, and it was great to finally see Stephen Bogardus. I had seen Brent Barrett every time I went to MARCH.
What I'd really like to see is some sort of presentation of all three Marvin plays in rep. Since each is only an hour long, I'm not sure how that would work commercially (and God knows the actor playing Marvin would need lungs of steel). But I find each act quite brilliant in its own, unique way.
#24Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 7:48pm
Damn, I forgot about this. Yet another show to add to my difficulties in choosing which shows to see on my next NY trip.
#25Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016
Posted: 2/25/16 at 8:00pm
Wasn't SJB rumored to be in this? When I saw her at Showbiz After Hours on Monday she said that she was coming to Broadway in the fall, but couldn't say what show.
Some of the cast also seems to already be set in stone. Paul Wontorek said that he knows some names during Live At 5 today, and if the SJB thing is correct, Frank DiLella know too, as he said he knows what show she was talking about...
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