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Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#25
Posted: 6/7/17 at 11:49am
This was the first musical I ever did in High School, and I've been in love with it ever since! It's a very solid show IMO. I'll be greatly looking forward to this!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#26
Posted: 1/30/18 at 7:49pm
Bottom of Riedel's piece today sounds like this is coming in next season.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/30/the-go-gos-reunite-to-herald-broadway-blockbuster/
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#27
Posted: 1/30/18 at 8:36pm
Laura Osnes frequently puts videos and pictures of crazy for you rehearsals on her instagram story. Tony Yezbeck is in a lot of them. I think this is a ding ding ding.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#28
Posted: 7/6/21 at 5:09am
There's going to be an event featuring excerpts from 'Crazy For You' on Sunday 29 August in East Hampton NY, touted as "a sneak peek at the upcoming revival". Laura Osnes, Tony Yazbeck, Greg Jarrett, Melissa Errico, and Susan Stroman are involved. (It costs $50 to attend.) This might be promising regarding the prospect of this revival happening.
https://www.guildhall.org/events/stroman-presents-a-weekend-celebration-with-broadways-celebrated-director-susan-stroman-im-crazy-for-you-a-sneak-peek-at-the-upcoming-revival-of-the-hit-show-crazy-for-you-starrin/
There are also another couple of 'Stroman Presents' events relating to other shows, for the record:
https://www.guildhall.org/events/marie/ (this one costs $500 to attend...)
https://www.guildhall.org/events/stroman-presents-a-weekend-celebration-with-broadways-celebrated-director-susan-stroman-a-conversation-on-broadways-the-producers/
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#29
Posted: 7/6/21 at 6:46amI would LOVE to see a revival of this.
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#30
Posted: 7/6/21 at 8:58amYazbeck really needs to be in this, but he's attached to Flying Over Sunset. Maybe for the 2022-23 season?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#31
Posted: 7/6/21 at 9:16amI'd love to see Yazbeck in the show but Charlie Stemp would be equally fine in the role.
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#32
Posted: 7/6/21 at 11:11am
In this Playbill Q&A from May, 2020 with Stroman, the first question asked is Crazy for You revival (4:00)
What Does Susan Stroman Look For in an Assistant or Dance Captain? | Playbill
Yes, she still wants to do it. You know the whole show was workshopped in January, 2018 with Tony and Laura and was expected to go in 2018. Stroman's early 2019 answer to "What Happened?" was theater availability.
I think that she will keep Tony and Laura together if at all possible. They have great chemistry together and did their "Fred and Ginger" show at 54 Below eight times. (There are a score of videos on YouTube. The finale which begins with "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is probably their best dancing together on a very small stage.)
For anyone who has not seen it, here is the finale and extended curtain call from the February, 2017 10th Anniversary production. (Yeah, I post too many links.)
Crazy for You 10th Anniversary - February, 2017
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Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#33
Posted: 7/6/21 at 11:37am
Wish someone would ask Stro or Joey Parnes if 100% -- or even 85% -- of the money is raised. That's a bigger problem than theatre availability, and I think we all know the answer.
I don't really see a world in which a commercially-produced revival of CFY recoups, but if the team wants to take a $12 million bath that is fine as long as it doesn't scare investors away from the theatre biz.
Much more intrigued by MARIE, which I know is also trying to raise money and has done seemingly endless workshops and two out-of-town productions with its various titles and lead actors. But it's an arty show and feels like the type of musical that either needs to win Best Musical or it will be another $12 million bath. Feels like perfect Lincoln Center Theater matierial since they've worked with both Stroman and Ahrens/Flaherty, but that doesn't really help the commercial producers who have sunk so much money into it already...and LCT could have prioritized this 7 years ago when it first premiered at the Kennedy Center.
Updated On: 7/6/21 at 11:37 AM
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#34
Posted: 7/6/21 at 11:39am
This still remains one of my favorite musicals of all time.
And Yazbeck, as I've said on here numerous times, is a god. In both looks and performance.
He's absolute perfection for this role, especially being the throwback musical guy he has proven himself to be, not to mention claims to love.
Sort of a reincarnation of the Gene Kelly/Fred Astaire days of classical musicals and dance that he loves to pay homage to.
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#35
Posted: 7/6/21 at 11:37pm
Yaz can easily sing and dance this, but after absolutely loving how Jim Walton played Bobby at Papermill, I wonder if Yaz can find the humor in the script.
An overly earnest Bobby is a boring Bobby.
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Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#36
Posted: 7/7/21 at 12:00am
If we can't get Crazy for You, I'd love to see a revival of My One and Only.
Is a CRAZY FOR YOU Broadway Revival on the Horizon?#37
Posted: 7/7/21 at 5:30am
BenjaminNicholas2 said: "Yaz can easily sing and dance this, but after absolutely loving how Jim Walton played Bobby at Papermill, I wonder if Yaz can find the humor in the script.
An overly earnest Bobby is a boring Bobby."
You're absolutely right, Ben. A basically silly show like Crazy for You can't have a lead who appears to be taking it seriously, but Tony was not at all serious. He was downright goofy at times, as you might have noticed when he leapt into his curtain call bow. I thought that he was most responsible for the audience love affair, as he was very funny.
Nothing better to do. I'll post another link of the closing dance routine of Tony and Laura at 54 Below. Tony I'm sure is familiar with the Astaire Rogers films and this number has a feel of that. Polly first just tries to brush Bobby off as not worthy of her attention, but eventually she is melted by Bobby's dancing and gives in.
Yazbeck and Osnes - closing number of their act at 54 Below
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