Ideal Revivals

[witchoftheeast2]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 3:56pm

Subject. What would you want to see back on Broadway/off-Broadway?

[binau]

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) 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:04pm

I LOVE MY WIFE

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:08pm

Passion with Lady Gaga

[SteveSanders]

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

[sppunk]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:43pm

A CHROSU LINE!!!!

I’ve never seen a professional version. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:47pm

Les Mis.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 4:48pm

Dreamgirls (Directed by George C. Wolfe)

[AKarp2013]

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.

Updated On: 6/16/25 at 04:53 PM

[The8re phan]

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

 

[witchoftheeast2]

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?

[kdogg36]

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.

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 5:24pm

STEEL PIER with Sutton Foster.

[pmensky]

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.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 6:07pm

I’ve been craving The Pillowman for years now. 

[halfhourcheckwithmerman]

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. 

[emilyfaye48]

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!!

[KarenValentine'sheadband]

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. 

Updated On: 6/16/25 at 07:44 PM

[BWAY Baby2]

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.

 

Updated On: 6/16/25 at 07:48 PM

[BroadwayGirl107]

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

[Jarethan]

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,

[tomorrowBIGLITES]

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

[Rentaholic2]

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)

[binau]

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. 

[TommyWho99]

Posted: 6/17/25 at 9:12am

Bug, The Pillowman, Good, Frost/Nixon, American Idiot, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Frogs.