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Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#50re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:07pmBut I'm a Cheerleader played the NYMF in 2005.
#51re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:13pm
uhhhh... Last 5 Years
Children of Eden
Lippa's Wild Party
BATBOY
the Notre Dame musical
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
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#52re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:15pmI would have loved to see what would have happened to Prettybelle. Would Angela Lansbury have five Tonys?
lightmycandleNYC
Swing Joined: 1/25/08
#53re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/4/08 at 11:52pm
I second (or third, whatever) Reefer Madness!!!! It would be great on Broadway.
Also:
The Last 5 Years
A New Brain
I Love You Because
I Sing!
There's only now, There's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, No Day But Today. ~ RENT
#54re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 12:42amI second the Last Five Years!
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#55re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 8:31am
For everyone who said Bare, I agree wholeheartedly.
But what about Floyd Collins?
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Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#56re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 10:59am
I think "Honk" never went to Broadway because the creators wanted it that way. They were afraid that they'd have to change it too much and make it more of a spectacular than they intended, in order to get noticed by the Broadway audience.
Updated On: 2/5/08 at 10:59 AM
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#58re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 11:19am
Dangerous Music
1491
Miss Moffatt
The Prince of Grand Street
The Rhythm Club
The Gorey Details (I don't think this ever had any Broadway aspirations, though)
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#59re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:04pmLizzie Borden
"Not a day goes by..."
#60re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:05pm"Romance in Hard Times" is a case of a show that didn't work twice. It was workshopped several years earlier as "America Kicks Up It's Heels". That time around, the characters in the show were white and I believe that Patti LuPone was involved with it. Though, in both versions Alix Korey stopped the show with "All Fall Down".
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#61re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:12pm
Dave Clark's Time
Metropolis
Moby Dick
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Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#62re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 3:51pmThe Good Old Bad Old Days
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#63re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:02pmThe Last Session
#64re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:41pm
there was a musical in Philly a couple of years ago that a good friend's cousin was working on that was slated to come to Broadway and never did. i don't remember the name of it but i distinctly remember it being a girl's name of some sort. i wanna say something like "Saving Emily" or "Regarding Rebecca" or somesuch?
anyone know what i'm talking about?
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#65re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 6:08pm
folkyboy-
Do you mean "Saving Aimee" with Carolee?
What about the Debbie Gibson/Robert Westenberg (I think that's who it was) verison of "Funny Girl"?
And I agree, even though it would be booed out, "Prettybelle" is really entertaining.
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NDR
Leading Actor Joined: 11/16/06
#66re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/13/08 at 6:40pm
Martin Guerre - the London 1996 reworked version not the scaled and toned down depressing and boring version that toured the US in 1999 (birthed from the Leeds version - also too small and boring). When I saw this show in London in January 1997 it was fantastic - fun, funny, moving, entertaining, emotional, epic, etc.
I know B&S weren't happy and kept working at it thus resulting in the Leeds and US versions but they took the fun out of it. The original step dancing was so much fun to watch and exhilarating, the old bitties were hilarious, Benoit was comic relief and human interest, Bertrande was youthful and naive, Martin Guerre was bitter and rebellious, etc.
I only wish that the US has been able to see what was a fabulous and fun show.
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#67re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:04pm
Oh yeah, someone mentioned Bricusse&Newley's "The good old bad old Days", I love that score a lot.
Strouse's shows that never made it to Broadway (yet): Marty, You never know, An American Tragedy, The Night they raided Minsky's, Bojangles, North and South, A New Road to Freedom, Real Men
Coleman shows that never made it to Broadway (yet): Grace (a beautiful score), The Great Ostrovsky, Pamela's first Musical, Josephine, Like Jazz, Eleanore, 13 Days to Broadway, Nothing but the Truth,
Chaplin (with a Anthony Newley score, early eighties), Say Hello to Harvey (sometimes charming score by Leslie Bricusse, early eighties as well, it must have had a book that dreaded the audience out of the theatre)
#68re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:14pm
Definitely "Romance In Hard Times".
....but the world goes 'round
#69re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:43pm
yes! "Saving Aimee" was it! thanks! whatever happened to that?
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#70re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 7:41pm
I agree with Der Glocker Von Notre Dame (Hunchback of Notre Dame). I hope it will have a Broadway bow in the near future including the ones below:
Zelda
The Wiz
Most Wanted
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
Updated On: 2/14/08 at 07:41 PM
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#71re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 8:15pm
Folky,
Saving Aimee played last spring (with Carolee, Florence Lacey, and Ed Dixon) at the Signature Theatre :) What's next, I have no idea.
#72re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 9:28pmBARE!!!
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#73re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 9:54pmFaust
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#74re: Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway
Posted: 2/14/08 at 11:47pmStrouse & Adams' ALBERT & I, about Queen Victoria. It has a lovely score, it's just not quite a potboiler of a show.
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