Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:25pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108587.html
Grandage's London production.
#2re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:27pmWhat's that Forbidden Broadway song...?
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AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#2re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:27pm
Cool! I love this show! And it was wonderful in London!
They're not going to try to bring back Ewan McGregor are they? He's doing Othello? Plus as much as I love him he wasn't as good as I thought he would be.
But he's still gorgeous. And Scottish.
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
#3re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:37pmThis makes me extremely happy.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:39pm
How many times will they revive this?
It is a classic but enough is enough. Let's revive other shows of the 50's & 60's that deserve it
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#5re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:07pm
Sad that Krakowski will be busy with 30 ROCK, she was the reason I was hoping this production would transfer, oh well.
Wonder who will end up in the cast.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#6re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:10pmyeah im so glad you guys are getting this production of Guys and Dolls , its so bloody good
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#7re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:13pmCan't wait to see this again!
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#8re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:17pm
interesting news.
Now I can't get that fugue out of my head...
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
#9re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:23pm
Ray said "Sad that Krakowski will be busy with 30 ROCK, she was the reason I was hoping this production would transfer"
I'm sorry to say that I don't know which role Ray was hoping she would play. She doesn't seem right for either Sarah Brown or Adelaide. Major Cartwright, perhaps?
#10re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:25pmSomething tells me that Krakowski's "schedule" -- you know, the one that restricted her from participating in XANADU -- might just suddenly open up at the opportunity to reprise her Olivier Award winning performance in GUYS & DOLLS and probably pick up a second Tony along the way.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#11re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:30pmRegardless if she is doing the show or not this calls for another trip to New York.
#12re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:32pmIs there anyone who has seen both this London revival and the 1992 Broadway revival (Nathan Lane and Faith Prince) that could comment on any similarities/differences? I'm not suggesting that the two productions are comparable; I'm just wondering if anyone has observations and would care to comment. I'm not starting a new thread because this seems to be on subject... Thanks.
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This is wishing that a moment would arrive.
This is taking chances, this is almost touching, what the beauty is." --The Light in the Piazza
#13re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:35pm
Tom, she actually played Miss Adelaide on the West End and won an Olivier award. There was a rumor back then that she would reprise the role if the show transferred but I guess with her TV work, she won't be able to do the show on Broadway.
Interestingly enough, Jenna Russell--who originated the role of Sarah Brown in the London revival--will be playing Dot in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE when GUYS & DOLLS opens.
Weren't they looking for a star to play Sky?
EDIT: I haven't seen the show but from interviews with Krakowski I do know that it's supposed to be "darker" and more sexual. In this production, it is very explicit that Miss Adelaide works at a strip club, apparently Krakowski's "Take Back Your Mink" was a sort of striptease (I'm guessing "A Bushel and a Peck" was as well). Also, Rob Ashford choreographed and Ewan McGregor said he didn't realize how much dancing would be in this production until they started rehearsals.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 6/6/07 at 07:35 PM
#14re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:37pm
i saw both but dont remember that much about the 1992 one
what i can remember is the sets etc were very cartoonish for the 92 one , very colorful and camp,
The new london production is a very dark production with not so much use of color (unless its used in a realistic way)
I have to say the new one is much better
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#15re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:38pmGreat news for one of my favorite Golden Age classics.
#16re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:39pm
Excuse me, Tom148... sorry to cut you off in mid-snyde remark, but Jane Krakowski won the Olivier Award for her performance of Adelaide in the London Production of "Guys and Dolls.". If you're gonna piss on someone's career, get the facts right.
BTW, I saw the production, which I really loved. It would be cool if they could get the guy who played Nicely Nicely - is it Martin Ellis? - to come over. His "Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat" was great (and it had GREAT choreography).
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
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#17re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:43pm
I'm almost positive Krakowski will reprise her role of Miss Adelaide for the Broadway production.
She's been going around town ever since she came back from London saying how optimistic she was about her getting to do the show again once it inevitably transfered, and with "30 Rock" shooting mostly days in New York, she'll easily be able to do both (something she also could have done for "Xandau" had she really wanted to take part in that show, which she didn't.)
They'll obviously try and get McGregor too, but while he's a question mark, I'd say Krakowski is almost a certainty.
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#18re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:49pmIm hoping for Krakowski. Any theatre choices?
#19re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:54pm
Is the St.James occupied after THE GRINCH? I haven't seen the production so I'm not sure what theatre would be the most appropriate.
Somethingwicked, your post makes me feel somewhat relieved. Since I found out Krakowski had been cast in the London production I have been wanting to see her as Miss Adelaide. I guess she'll be competing for a Tony against Jenna Russell, who also won an Olivier but for SUNDAY. This news make me quite excited, I'm looking forward to the revivals this season (save for GREASE).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 6/6/07 at 07:54 PM
#20re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:56pmshe was fantastic as Miss Adelaide as was Samantha Janus
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
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#21re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 7:57pmWHy can't Krakowski do both? If Kathy Brier had the lead in Hairspray and a lead on One Life to Live at the same time (and that's a daily, hour long soap) or John Gallagher, etc--why can't a sitcom star that shoots in New York?
#23re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 8:00pmI wasn't expecting this.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#24re: Guys and Dolls Revival Set for Feb. '08 Broadway Bow
Posted: 6/6/07 at 8:03pm
The 1992 production was Jerry Zaks at his finest (as opposed to Losing Louie and Caine Mutiny, which were his worst). It was a great, rejuvinated production of the 40 year old show, which, I believe for the first time, played on the cartoonish nature of "Runyonland." It was bright, it was cheery, and it led Faith Prince to a Tony.
The London production, as I've heard, takes the show much more seriously (a very English touch, of course; no offense, songanddanceman2).
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