Isn't it time for a Song & Dance/Tell Me On A Sunday revival?- Page 2

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 2:21pm

So no one thought of weaving the choreography from the second act into the actual show? It's all variations on a theme by Paganini, so you take that "reprise motif" bull**** Webber was so fond of in his early work and weave it through, maybe as fantasies of the perfect partner or something like that. Pity that we don't have a Bob Fosse or a Michael Bennett today to stage moments like that.

And of course stick a gay man in the lead and revise the script for him a little. I vote for keeping the Maltby changes and additions for the Bernadette Peters version, and then finding a way to incorporate some of the changes for van Outen's production without them sucking so much. The show overall is not one of Webber's best, but there are ways of doing it without ****ing it up royally.

Oh yeah, and call the damn thing "Tell Me On a Sunday." "Song & Dance" makes little sense.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 2:58pm

I think every gay man at one time or another has wanted (to be in) a gender reversed Tell Me On a Sunday.

ME! And I can totally see Phyllis hugging those cowboy boots.

Oh yeah, and call the damn thing "Tell Me On a Sunday." "Song & Dance" makes little sense.

Actually, "Song and Dance" makes MUCH more sense to me. Tell Me on a Sunday is a great song, but the title hardly expresses the theme of the first act. Emma's "Song and Dance" is the whole mating ritual, of which she's obsessed and allows to control her life. "Tell Me on a Sunday" means nothing more than "Find a tactful way to dump me".

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 3:02pm

"I think every gay man at one time or another has wanted (to be in) a gender reversed Tell Me On a Sunday"

I would edit that and say

"I think every SINGLE gay man at one time or another has wanted (to be in) a gender reversed Tell Me On a Sunday"

Married gay men, can't relate either, unless they were single for a long time!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 3:16pm

Married gay men, can't relate either, unless they were single for a long time!

ME! And I can totally see Phyllis hugging those cowboy boots.

[BroadwayBenny]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 3:52pm

I admit to being in the camp of those who would LOVE to perform the show as gender reversed one day.

What's so exciting about it, is that it's not an unlikely and off the wall concept and COULD happen without being silly. I would love to play a few other female roles, but there is no way in Hell to do so without turning it into a gimmick. But you could easily produce an honest to God take on Song & Dance that could be just as dramatic and compelling as the female version.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/12/10 at 6:41pm

So no one thought of weaving the choreography from the second act into the actual show?

I've thought about having other actual people onstage during the first act who just move through dance, so instead of it being a one-woman act, Emma is just the only one who sings.