Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...- Page 2

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:25pm

I don't want to fight with you Phyl. I don't have to.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:26pm

Case closed!

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:30pm

Dolly needs to be lovable behind her blustering exterior. LuPone does not have that lovable core.

I could see her playing Horace Vandergelder, tho.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:31pm

Yeah, that great recession that caused Broadway to earn almost $1 Billion, down only .2% from the year before. That was a sad sad year for the Great White Way...

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:31pm

I guess you've never seen Patti singing "Never Never Land" to her newborn baby on Life Goes On. It was very moving. She's capable of anything.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:32pm

ANYWAYS.... Lupone has expressed interest in doing DOLLY but has she ever sung something from it in concerts? I looked on youtube to find some stuff but I came up empty. Imagine how chilling " So long dearie" would sound with her magnificent Vibrato. I think I am gonna go watch Hello Dolly exuse me

[tazber]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pm

Corky was not a newborn.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pm

That is a misleading article. The bottom fell out in November of 2008. Stats for the 2007-08 season are not relevant. Fact is, Gypsy hung on until December but the economy did it in, as well as the fact that it was simply too soon for a revival, and the last revival hadn't been very good at all.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pm

ANYWAYS....Jerry Herman has said NO to her doing the show.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:34pm

She had another baby while the show was on.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:35pm

Well Jerry Herman is a bitter old man. I'm not too impressed with anything he has to say.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:37pm

Personally, I would LOVE for Jerry Herman to actually write a new score/show.

All arguing aside, does anyone think he will? Does he even have the inclination?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:40pm

Jerry Herman is too busy at Numbers on Santa Monica Blvd to write a new show.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:44pm

"And you also obviously don't know that the only real way for a show that size to make money nowadays is to put a bankable A+ list movie star in the lead role."

And *you* obviously don't know that none of the current top-grossing hits on Broadway feature an A+ list movie star (Wicked, Kinky Boots, Motown, Matilda, Cinderella, Newsies...)

[broadway guy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:45pm

I HIGHLY doubt Herman would write a new show. I think it would be great for Patti cause Dolly is such a Hammy and larger than life character that and I am sure Lupone would sink into it easily.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:46pm

Here here Broadway Guy!!!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:46pm

could you imagine on Tony night with five divas in the leading actress in a musical catergory.

Lupone in Hello, Dolly!
Midler in Mame
Idina Menzel in If/Then
Jan Maxwell in Minsky's
Lea Michelle in Funny Girl

(again, go by the nominees, not the shows itself).

[broadway guy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:47pm

ACL2006 I almost fainted LOL! that would be unbelievable!

[tazber]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:51pm

Jerry Herman is too busy at Numbers on Santa Monica Blvd to write a new show.

I really don't care what bar he goes to or what his personal life is like.

What I do care about is whether he will produce another great Broadway musical.

Updated On: 7/2/13 at 02:51 PM

[egghumor]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:55pm

I think the likelihood of Lansbury doing DOLLY! is greater than Midler OR LuPone at this point.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:56pm

At age 81 I'd be surprised if he wrote another great musical score.

[Margo Flax]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:59pm

Hi Darling Lovebwy!
Margo!

[broadway guy]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 3:01pm

"I think the likelihood of Lansbury doing DOLLY! is greater than Midler OR LuPone at this point."

Why do you say that?

Posted: 7/2/13 at 3:04pm

I love Angela Lansbury but can't see her paying Dolly- and especially at her age.

[Margo Flax]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 3:06pm

She may break a hip!
Margo!