Just back from the invited dress rehearsal of LOVEMUSIK — Page 2

Margo:

I don't really believe Prince was incorrect. He wasn't saying that LOVEMUSIK was the first musical at the Biltmore, but (and this is just my opinion) I believe that by saying "staged in the house", he meant really done from scratch in that exact theatre. And by that definition, he's not really wrong...LOVEMUSIK is really (I think) the first original to be "born" there.

HAIR (correct me if I'm wrong) was at the Public originally.
STARDUST was originally done at Theatre Off Park
THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM was originally done at The Acting Company.
DOONESBURY was of course based on the comic strip, but I don't know anything more about it's original production.

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Two other misbegotten musicals played the Biltmore in the '80s...Reggae, and Honky Tonk Nights.

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Here is the front of the Playbill.

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Updated On: 4/13/07 at 01:04 AM

I don't think that playbill needs (or should have) color. It's pretty cool black and white.

Ooooh I can answer some questions about Doonesbury, munkustrap178. I saw it twice. The cast included Mark Linn-Baker (before Perfect Strangers), Gary Beach (before... almost everything!), Lauren Tom (just before she did Hurlyburly... and got nekkid!), and an awesome performance by Kate Burton. The book was funny enough but appealed most to Doonesbury fans (obviously). Gary Trudeau used to write new material every week to keep it topical, but the most exciting thing for this budding set designer (at the time) was watching Gary Beach drive a bulldozer through the set at the end of the show :) The only song I really remember were 'Another Memorable Meal' and 'I Can have it All'. Oh, and I liked Peter Larkin's sets. Any other questions, ask me by PM or we can start another thread, but I dunno who else saw the show :) It might be a short thread!