Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #1
Posted: 1/5/12 at 5:52pm
Shame. I was interested in going down to see this.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kennedy-Center-Cancels-New-PAL-JOEY-Production-Scheduled-for-2012-20120105
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #2
Posted: 1/5/12 at 6:40pmDamn. I wanted to see this too. This is one of those really "smart" shows that needs more airing.
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #2
Posted: 1/5/12 at 6:47pm
Ahhh damn! I was really looking forward to this.
What are everyones thoughts on reasons for the cancellation?
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #3
Posted: 1/5/12 at 7:36pmWell that sucks. I was planning on going out for it.
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #4
Posted: 1/5/12 at 7:54pmI was looking forward to "Pal Joey" more than last summer's "Follies." Would like to know the reason(s).
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #5
Posted: 1/5/12 at 8:10pmOh, well. There goes another chance to get it right.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #6
Posted: 1/5/12 at 8:55pm
Perhaps it's just too much to put on a brand new production of a show while "Follies" is casting, rehearsing, opening, and running out on the West Coast. I imagine the Kennedy Center will be supervising that production.
Or...maybe...they had a star lined up and then that star fell through?
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #7
Posted: 1/5/12 at 8:58pmIs Pal Joey turning into one of those great, classic shows that people never seem to be able to make work in their revivals? (OK I admit, at the top of my head I can't think of other examples though I feel like their are many--On the Town might be one).
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Posted: 1/5/12 at 9:04pmLorenz Hart's work is very much "of a certain period", and I imagine it's tough, if not impossible now, to recapture the sheer crystalline wit of his lyrics. We're all a little too jaded, I think.
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #9
Posted: 1/5/12 at 9:08pmI imagine star is most likely i know they really wanted either Audra or Christine Baranski for Vera and without a star in a show that would probably be very expensive for them to mount...
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #10
Posted: 1/5/12 at 10:05pm
The book has never been "good" persay...Which is why Terrence McNally was doing a new book for the production.
Would have been great to see a great big KC production of this show, and a great orchestra playing the score. It really is a great score.
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #11
Posted: 1/5/12 at 10:29pm
The other problem is that the best song in the show, "Zip!" is a song built entirely around cultural references that were entirely "of the moment," like the countless songs in Gilbert and Sullivan that most productions update.
However, Pal Joey is so distinctly of its time that you can't simply update the lyric and have it fly, so the song depends on the performance much more than the recognizable wit of the lyrics now.
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #12
Posted: 1/5/12 at 10:39pm
>> The book has never been "good" persay
I will profoundly disagree with that. It's a very good script: but it requires actors of a different style.
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
Kennedy Center's PAL JOEY Cancelled #13
Posted: 1/5/12 at 10:59pm
bummer!
side note I like the photo BWW decided to use for this "article"
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