#1
Posted: 6/16/25 at 3:56pm
Subject. What would you want to see back on Broadway/off-Broadway?
#2
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:01pm
A little night music
follies
funny thing happened on the way to the forum
kiss of the spider woman
heathers (joking I really don’t understand if people are serious or not when they keep talking about a return)
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#5
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:10pm
Clybourne Park
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (but only if Metcalf is cast)
Venus in Fur
All Martin McDonagh plays in a repertory season somewhere, but if not that, just The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Other Desert Cities
#6
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:43pm
A CHROSU LINE!!!!
I’ve never seen a professional version.
#8
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:48pm
Dreamgirls (Directed by George C. Wolfe)
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#9
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:53pm
Carrie. I'm happy with the revised version but gimme a big cast, beefed up orchestrations, and a production on the scale of Stranger Things and life would be beautiful.
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#10
Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:58pm
Sunday in the Park with George (a remount of the recent Gyllenhaal/Ashford production would be nice...)
Grand Hotel
Les Miserables
Anyone Can Whistle
Follies
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
#11
Posted: 6/16/25 at 5:00pm
uncageg said: "Dreamgirls(Directed by George C. Wolfe)"
How has this not happened yet. Has anyone heard anything about the show coming back to the Main Stem?
#12
Posted: 6/16/25 at 5:05pm
I support many of the picks here, including Passion and Anyone Can Whistle, but I'd add my wish to see a first-rate revival of The Most Happy Fella. (I would assume that LCT is the only viable path for this to happen.) The Encores production was nearly perfect, and I've been lucky enough to see a couple of other very good but smaller-scale stagings, but I think it's time for a true Broadway revival.
#14
Posted: 6/16/25 at 5:42pm
Kiss of the Spider Woman with Nicole Scherzinger is as ideal of a revival as you can get.
#16
Posted: 6/16/25 at 6:13pm
I think LaChiusa's GIANT has a really, really stunningly beautiful score, and although I never saw its premiere, it seems like a really admirable show that deserves a second chance. I don't know how that would come about.
In that same category of I-love-the-score-but-don't-know-if-the-show-works is WOMEN ON THE VERGE. Many Yazbek titles seem revivable to me... FULL MONTY?
I'm still waiting for that Encores! CITY OF ANGELS that's been puttering here and there... and a really top-notch NIGHT MUSIC or FOLLIES, as previously mentioned.
And what about THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS? I think that could be a sensational, timely hit if given the right cast and director.
"I feel safe with you, and complete with you / I'm always finding money in the street with you."
-Sheldon Harnick
#17
Posted: 6/16/25 at 6:55pm
I would really love to see Passing Strange get a revival. One of the most impactful theatre experienced I ever had. I'd love to see Daniel Breaker play Narrator. It would be such a full circle moment!!
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#18
Posted: 6/16/25 at 7:44pm
Young Frankenstein WITH Sally Struthers. She was hilarious in it!
Ballroom
Dance a littler closer
The Rink
Sunday Afternoon.
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#19
Posted: 6/16/25 at 7:48pm
Flora The Red Menace---Kander and Ebb--- loved it when I saw it in 1965- and still listen to th soundtrack. Liza was amazing in it- but a new and talented younger performer could take that score- and story- and make it shine. Eve Hewson could do it.
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#20
Posted: 6/16/25 at 10:02pm
I know it really hasn’t been that long, I’m honestly ready for an August: Osage County revival. Every time I see a show like Appropriate and The Hills of California they felt like faint echos of this play & made me wish I had a chance to see August again. I’m tired of the family drama, but if there’s going to be one kicking around, why not make it the most thrilling one there is?
I don’t know where to begin with my dream casting but I do think Jean Smart would have had a more exciting Broadway return as Violet than she is right now in Call Me Izzy.
Updated On: 6/16/25 at 10:02 PM
#21
Posted: 6/16/25 at 10:36pm
Dealing with some sense of reality, I propose
Mame. I don't buy the argument that one song's lyrics will be an issue. It just needs the right leading lady and maybe some lyric 'tweaking'. of the title song (although I don't actually think that is necessary...the scene took place in the 1930s or thereabouts.
The Pajama Game. Great score. Lots of fun.
A Funny Thing. With the right leading man.
Dreamgirls. And please not with the Shucked person. Brain fart. Can't remember their name. Want to have a good chance of seeing the person hired to lead Effie.
Agree re The Pillowman and Beauty Queen of Leenane. Also think it is time for another Streetcar.
Would love Nicholas Nickelby but I fear the prices would be prohibitive.
Would love to see Jessica Chastain in Strange Interlude.
Follies at Lincoln Center.
A Little Night Music. I love the idea of Audra being Desiree,
#22
Posted: 6/16/25 at 10:53pm
When will LaChiusa get his moment again?
He has so many interesting odd shows that with the right director could be fantastic
#23
Posted: 6/17/25 at 6:46am
Now that Funny Girl and the Wiz finally happened, Dreamgirls seems like the most overdue for a revival.
I would also like to see:
Spiderwoman with Scherzinger
Millie with Rachel Zegler
The Producers with Andrew Rannels and Josh Gad
Best Little Whorehouse with Kelly Clarkson
the Full Monty with Jeremy Jordan
Forum with Josh Lamon
Mack and Mabel with a new book
A Chorus Line with a slightly updated book and lyrics to be set in current times (which is the only way the show will feel as electric as the original in my opinion)
#24
Posted: 6/17/25 at 7:50am
tomorrowBIGLITES said: "When will LaChiusa get his moment again?
He has so many interesting odd shows that with the right director could be fantastic"
At this risk of sounding unsophisticated all I hear is noise when I hear his music, except for the Wild Party. I just don’t think it’s palatable enough for a Broadway stage. It makes Sondheim’s work sound like ALW or Richard Rodgers in comparison.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#25
Posted: 6/17/25 at 9:12am
Bug, The Pillowman, Good, Frost/Nixon, American Idiot, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Frogs.
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