Modern musical choices for Encores!

YES to Women on the Verge and Bridges!

ljay889 said: "Now that Encores! has begun producing more recent musicals like Piazza and Titantic next season, what other musicals from the last 25 years would you like to see at Encores?

My ultimate choices would be:

LaChiusa’s The Wild Party (I know they already did Lippa’s)

The Full Monty

Grey Gardens

Women on the Verge (still too soon, but I can see it in about 5 years, but we need the ORIGINAL version, not the inferior London revision)

The Bridges of Madison County (again, too soon, but it’s an inevitable choice for Encores! eventually)"

YES PLEASE to all 5 of these!

Steel Pier! Ideally with a revised book.

OuttaTowner said: "Yes, to Full Monty.
If I can’t have a full-fledged revival, I’ll take an Encores production.


And while I’m asking, can someone ring up Jake Gyllenhaal to star?

Thanks.
Here’s all my money now."

Oh, wow. Jake in TFM is a brilliant idea.

This is a great list. I’m still surprised Barnum has never received a full-scale Broadway revival - Neil Patrick Harris 10 years ago or so would have been a completely different but equal sort of triumph as Hedwig was for him

Of this list the ones that would be great choices for Encores, in their original versions and orchestrations, are:

Rags, The Rink, My Favorite Year and The Grand Tour.
(Baby could also be worthwhile but they’ve just issued a new cast album of the revised version.)

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I believe the authors of WOMEN ON THE VERGE prefer what they did in London.

Yes to GREY GARDENS (Jennifer Simard?) and MJL's WILD PARTY

CITY OF ANGELS has already been discussed as a goal for Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

post-1980 suggestions:

Steel Pier
Big
My Favorite Year
Will Rogers Follies
Song & Dance
Baby
A Doll's Life
Nick & Nora
Woman of the Year
Blood Brothers
Barnum
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown (this really just needs a proper revival)
Passion
State Fair
Rags (that Goodspeed/London revisal seems dead)
The Goodbye Girl
The Rink
Curtains
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
Sugar Babies
Drowsy Chaperone (or what would be even better: an Actors Fund anniversary concert with the original cast)

Some pre-1980 suggestions:

Darling of the Day
Mame
The Grand Tour
Milk & Honey
Sherry
Golden Rainbow
Sweet Charity
Hallelujah, Baby!
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Ballroom
They're Playing Our Song
Whorehouse (if that planned revival is dead)
Carmelina
Eubie!
Raisin
Over Here
Seesaw
I Do! I Do!
Half a Sixpence
Golden Boy (again)
is The Act worth producing?
Stop the World... and Roar of the Greasepaint..."

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "FULL MONTY would be a real waste of Gyllenhaal."

How? Jerry is a Tony nominated role and maybe Jake would be interested in doing something lighter on stage.

Grand Hotel

Nine

Marie Christine

110 in the Shade

Yes, to Women on the Verge...

110 in the Shade would be great to hear with the full original orchestration (which we didn't get in the Audra revival), and there are many fine ladies who could play that role well.

Jordan Catalano said: "Maybe the best way to get a damn “Dreamgirls” revival to actually happen would be for City Center to stage a great production of it."

I absolutely second this!

Mr. Wormwood said: "jagman1062 said: "Grand Hotel

Nine

Marie Christine

110 in the Shade

Yes, to Women on the Verge..."

Wasn't Grand Hotel done a few years ago?"

Yes 2018 with John Dossett, it was ok but nothing special imo