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Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
#25Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:25pmI don't want to fight with you Phyl. I don't have to.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#27Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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.
#29Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:31pmI 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
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#30Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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 
#31Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pmCorky was not a newborn.
....but the world goes 'round
#32Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pmThat 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.
#33Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:33pm
ANYWAYS....Jerry Herman has said NO to her doing the show.
#34Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:34pmShe had another baby while the show was on.
#35Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:35pmWell Jerry Herman is a bitter old man. I'm not too impressed with anything he has to say.
#36Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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?
....but the world goes 'round
#37Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:40pmJerry Herman is too busy at Numbers on Santa Monica Blvd to write a new show.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#38Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#39Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:45pmI 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.
#40Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:46pmHere here Broadway Guy!!!
#41Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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).
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
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#42Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:47pmACL2006 I almost fainted LOL! that would be unbelievable!
#43Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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.
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 7/2/13 at 02:51 PM
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#44Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:55pm
I think the likelihood of Lansbury doing DOLLY! is greater than Midler OR LuPone at this point.
#45Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:56pmAt age 81 I'd be surprised if he wrote another great musical score.
#46Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 2:59pm
Hi Darling Lovebwy!
Margo!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#47Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#48Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 3:04pmI love Angela Lansbury but can't see her paying Dolly- and especially at her age.
#49Midler doesn't think she has 8 shows a week in her...
Posted: 7/2/13 at 3:06pm
She may break a hip!
Margo!
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