Lesser-known Musicals You Wish Others Knew About — Page 2

tazber said: "Romance in Hard Times

Goblin Market

Death Takes a Holiday

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (which is on HD Broadway and so worth checking out!)

Dessa Rose"

I adore Goblin Market. It's never going to get a large revival, and it shouldn't since it's such an intimate show, but I would love to see one of the smaller companies take it on like the Keen Company or Transport Group.

Speaking of Dave Malloy, I love the recording of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage and would love to see that onstage.

jkstheatrescene said: "GRIND

SMILE

TRIUMPH OF LOVE"



Did you actually see them? The great thing about the human experience is how differently we can react to the same performances; that said, Grind and Smile would definitely fall in the list of the 10 worst musicalsI have ever seen in 50 plus years of attending the theater, along with gems like Dr. Jazz, Copperfield, Jimmy, Come Summer, Bring Back Birdie, Cats, Spiderman, and maybe Rocky and Triumph of Love, which I liked a little more than your first two, but still really didn't like.



My personal list would include:

-- Darling of the Day

-- Drat! The Cat!

-- Cyrano (Christopher Plummer version)

-- Over Here (ran for over 300 performances, but seems pretty forgotten

-- King of Hearts

-- The Grand Tour (even though it is Jerry Herman, it still doesn't get mentioned like Mack and Mabel and it was much more entertaining than that.

-- Baby

-- I Love My Wife (probably very dated, but the score was terrific fun and it would work today if set clearly in its time)

AND IS IT TOO EARLY MENTION

-- Bandstand

Updated On: 11/9/17 at 05:40 PM

Jarethan said: "jkstheatrescene said: "GRIND

SMILE

TRIUMPH OF LOVE"



Did you actually see them? The great thing about the human experience is how differently we can react to the same performances; that said, Grind and Smile would definitely fall in the list of the 10 worst musicalsI have ever seen in 50 plusyears of attending the theater, along with gems like Dr. Jazz, Copperfield, Jimmy, Come Summer, BringBack Birdie, Cats, Spiderman, and maybe Rocky and Triumph of Love, which I liked a little more than yourfirst two, but still really didn't like.



My personal list would include:

-- Darling of the Day

-- Drat! The Cat!

-- Cyrano (Christopher Plummer version)

-- Over Here (ran for over 300 performances, but seems pretty forgotten

-- King of Hearts

-- The Grand Tour (even though it is Jerry Herman, it still doesn't get mentioned like Mack and Mabel and it was much more entertaining than that.

-- Baby

-- I Love My Wife (probably very dated, but the score was terrific fun and it would work today if set clearly in its time)

ANDIS IT TOO EARLY MENTION

-- Bandstand

"

Yes, I actually saw all three. And enjoyed them all for very different reasons. (For the record, Smile, in its pre-Broadway try-out in Baltimore, was MUCH MUCH MUCH better than what ended up on Broadway. It was sharp and dark. Not so much at the Lunt-Fontanne.)

I love the score to Metro.. It has some beautiful ballads and some incredible orchestrations. I loved the sub plot of art vs.commercial theater and there was a great love story there too- but it was a mess of a show with amazing lighting by Ken Billington..

I remember not a whit of GRIND's score, but I'll always look back fondly on its original staging on that fantastic multi-level revolving set-- it was one of the truly great spectacles of the 80's, that decade of ridiculous spectacle.

To a lesser extent, both CYRANO and THE GRAND TOUR had lovely physical productions that overshadowed sluggish earthbound plays. Both could be ripe for revivals with the right star.