Long needed revivals- Page 2
Long needed revivals
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#25re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:45pmpuuuulease Cats
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#26re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:48pm
I suggested Mame before, but I should have included my cast:
Mame: Andrea McArdle
Vera: Beth Leavel
Gooch: Rachel Dratch
Beau: Boyd Gaines
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#27re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:55pm
My Fair Lady
Into the Woods
Anything Goes
Camelot
City of Angels
Follies
Godspell
Secret Garden
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#28re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:56pm
I would love to see How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying starring Aaron Tveit as Finch (I know he's a bit young for the role, but I really think he'd be great) and Leigh Ann Larkin as Rosemary.
When I was in college there was some discussion of doing the feminist version of H2$ with Ponty as a woman and all of the secretaries would be men. It never got past the discussion phase and I don't think anyone ever even contacted the rights holders to see if these sort of changes would be feasible.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#29re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:59pm
Some of these might have been on Broadway too recently to warrant a revival, but I don't care.
Urinetown
Passion
Parade
Merrily We Roll Along
Carousel
My Fair Lady (With either Audra McDonald, although she may be too old, or Laura Benanti as someone previously mentioned).
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#30re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:12pmEris, the feminist version of How to Succeed could be very, very funny, I like that one!
#31re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:16pmvfd, Laura Benanti mentioned wanting to play Fosca in Passion, and I for one think she'd be fabulous.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#32re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:22pm
Edwin Drood
How to Succeed... (with Hunter Foster as Finch)
Pippin
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#33re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:24pm
I should mention my cast for Virginia Woolf:
Glenn Close and Alec Baldwin, as George and Martha
Christian Slater and Anna Paquin, as Nick and Honey
Updated On: 7/23/09 at 11:24 PM
#34re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:26pm
Eris, the feminist version of How to Succeed could be very, very funny, I like that one!
Thanks...I had the idea when the revival opened when I was in high school. Listening to the cast recording I wondered why a guy couldn't be happy to keep HER dinner warm? I went to a womens college so I broached the idea to them and it was well-received but our department was so small that it never really went anywhere. As I said - I don't think they even looked into it. I don't think it would be overly hard to do. Most of the cast are referred to by their last names so that wouldn't be an issue. The only person who needed a new name would be Rosemary. And anything with three syllables would work. Chris-to-pher. Jon-a-thon.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#35re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:28pmEris0303, I so agree with you on the Crazy For You revival. We need some Gershwin in our lives right now, in this time of turmoil. It was the first show I saw when I was 5 or 6 and it so needs to be revised. I mean, Chorus Line was gone for about the same amount of time before it was brought back.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#37re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:33pm
We need some Gershwin in our lives right now, in this time of turmoil.
That's one of the reasons why I would like it revived. I think we need it. It's such a happy and fun show. A great place to forget your troubles for just a short time.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#38re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:46pmDrood and Once on This Island please.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#39re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:52pmAhh yes, it would be awesome to have a Drood revival. And Jesus Christ Superstar. Gavin Creel actually got cast as Jesus in said revival, but it's still in Broadway abyss, which is sad.
Because I look different you think I'm subversive.
#40re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:03amThat was Godspell. Not Jesus Christ Superstar.
#41re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:24amDrood would be wonderful to have revived again. It's a terrific, underrated show.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#42re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:51am
I would love to see a revival of FIORELLO! with my dream cast:
Fiorello LaGuardia: Raul Esparza
Ben Marino: Barry Bostwick
Morris: Gregg Edelman
Thea: Tammy Blanchard
Marie: Rachel York
"I long-ago realized that this country is a nation of
morons, when it comes to knowledge of anything outside, or beyond, pop culture." Steve Slezak
axelsrose
Swing Joined: 4/15/09
#43re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:28amI'd take either a Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar if Gavin Creel was cast!
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#44re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:19pm
Lady in the Dark -- It's a show that all theatre devotees know about but that relatively few of us have seen.
Brigadoon
On the Town -- Full-staged production, please.
The Golden Apple
Little Me -- with Nathan Lane
Camino Real
Sweet Bird of Youth
Mourning Becomes Electra
BroadwayEd
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#45re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:24pm
I so wish they would get over the rights problems with PIPE DREAM so someone could rewrite the book.
Oh, and--once again--THE GOLDEN APPLE.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#46re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:28pm
On the Twentieth century - Actors Fund Cast: Mazzie, Sills,Worley
Dracula(the play) with the designs by Gorey
The Royal Family with Rosemary Harris this time playing Fannie Cavendish - actually I would like to see anything with Ms. Harris
Amadeus
Hello Dolly (just not the same production)
#47re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:31pm
Mourning Becomes Electra
That just closed.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#48re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:31pmTotally agree, Borstal. I never saw the show, but I really like Pipe Dream's score and feel that it's better than Allegro or Me and Juliet. I mean, there are some shows that admittedly suffered from bad books from the get-go but that people have been tinkering with over and over (Candide, Mack and Mabel, St. Louis Woman, etc.). Let someone try to fix Pipe Dream -- at least theatregoers would be hearing a much-above-average score.
BroadwayEd
#49re: Long needed revivals
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:34pmPIPPIN!
Everything in life...is only for now.
Videos