If you could bring one show back to Broadway...- Page 3

[greencup]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:23pm

Pippin
Into The Woods
TL5Y

[stanton]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:28pm

Sunset Blvd with Patti Lupone!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:22pm

Well... It was Off-Broadway, but: BRING BACK BARE :P (My lovely capital letters... Sorry)

The end. Or Aida. I loved Aida.
Updated On: 4/2/06 at 09:22 PM

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:34pm

Sweeney...oh, wait...

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:42pm

Little Shop!

[jv92]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:44pm

The original production of Chicago with the sets and costumes and the actual concept.
Follies.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:44pm

What's with all of the AIDA love? I despised every second of that show.

Definitely TABOO.

[LorelaiGilmore]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:18pm

I really wish I could have seen TL5Y!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:24pm

Follies
Taboo
No Strings
Sunday In The Park...
Caroline, or Change
Amour
A Man Of No..

ok, so it;s more that one...

i'm with you Munk- Aida is my least favorite show i've ever seen

Updated On: 4/2/06 at 10:24 PM

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:00pm

Footloose
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown
Seussical

Any one of those would make my day. :)

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:02pm

Take a guess...anyone?!?!

:)

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES!

[children&art]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:04pm

Carousel 1994 revival (physical stage beauty accented by beautiful music and words)

[alwy15]

Posted: 4/2/06 at 11:33pm

oooh--- i like that, bringing back 1994's carousel.
but my first thought was bringing back Rags. i cant think of another show that deserved more broadway life.
or bring back birdie! (that was a joke)

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:34am

So many people mentioning Ragtime as if that was from the distant past. I feel so old. I saw Dreamgirls and it was, truly, fabulous. As was Chorus Line. The Shubert is such an intimate house, the show had such immediacy.

But let's go back further, much further. I have to keep reminding myself of how lucky our grandparents were. They could walk down any of the streets off of Broadway, plunk down as little as twenty-five cents and see Fred Astaire ONSTAGE. Live. Singing "Night and Day" and gloriously tap dancing, just like he does in the movies. Or Ginger Rodgers singing "Embraceable You." (while the guy standing in the back of the theater pacing might be George Gershwin). Or watch the visual and verbal antics of Victor Moore. Or Gene Freakin' Kelly (again at the Shubert) dancing and singing live. Or literally feel the roar of Ethel Merman; or the joy of the chorus belting out Oklahoma. And back then, it was still possible to take the family to the theater without getting a bank loan.

Personally, as my avatar would suggest, I would give ANYTHING to see "On Your Toes" and enjoy Ray Bolger tapping live. To see "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" as danced by Bolger and Tamara Geva (or in the British production by my beloved Vera Zorina) is a dream I know will never come true.

In many ways, Broadway is a vast repository of unfulfillable dreams.

I guess countless generations in the future will mutter "If only I could have seen Ragtime..."

[lesmisforever]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:35am

Miss Saigon (never got to see it, not even on tour ):

Evita (never seen it= I know it's going to London, is it coming here ever?)

Jesus Christ Superstar as ORIGINALLY WRITTEN (not like the stupid 2000 revival represented in that terrible movie)

Hair (never saw it and would like to, and I think it would be appropriate for these war times)

Cabaret (I would love to see it!)

[thez914]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:45am

Yeah, everyone has pretty much covered my picks (Urinetown, Ragtime, Miss Saigon, A New Brain...) I'd also like to get a chance to see the broadway production of The Secret Garden - I heard it was pretty spectacular.

But my top choice would have to be...

Tommy!!!

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 1:47am

GRAND HOTEL - The Musical

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:38am

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

and...

A Little Night Music

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:39am

I LOVE GRAND HOTEL!

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 3:12am

Dreamgirls

Chess

[Kass983]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 3:20am

Aida
Ragtime
Dreamgirls



Happy..sort of, b-day to me!

[jasobres]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:22am

Even though I've never seen it (but I read the novel it was based on), Ragtime.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:39am

all you people naming shows from like the last 7 years need to think further back. Any show that closed in the last 10 years doesn not need ot be broguht back yet.


Seriously, two shows that need a revival more than any two otehr shows are Dreamgirls and Chess (especially with the criminal act that is not having a recording of the concert)

[EganFan2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:11am

First choice: The Scarlet Pimpernel (the version that worked). Runner up: Jane Eyre.

Both of these shows I am currently obsessed with. :)

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:27am

Sunset Boulevard, no doubt. With all of the opulent sets intact before they trimmed it down for the tour. I love Sunset Boulevard