My Favorite Year Revival Spring '17?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 1:04am

So a friend is going in for an initial audition for a spring revival of My Favorite Time of Year. No clue about it. Any word?

Updated On: 4/14/16 at 01:04 AM

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 2:09am

This should never flopped the first time around. Glad to ear that it due to come back.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 1:01pm

Do you mean My Favorite Year, or is this a show I have never heard of?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 3:16pm

Yup, no. That's what I meant lol. 

[thommg]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 3:55pm

Don't know anything about a Spring revival but York is doing it in Mufti in December, I believe.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 4:01pm

Saw the original at Lincoln Center with Tim Curry. Believe this first Ahrens/Flaherty show. I remember enjoying it a lot and loving the song "Larger Than Life" . Brought back memories of my time in the 70's& 80's touring old theaters all over the country . I always had a small beef with them re the lyric "porcelain angels" They were always plaster like the rest of the theater but it was a small error.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 4:09pm

After Ragtime, this is their best score imo.

 

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/14/16 at 4:11pm

Cannot see a regular revival as the show flopped. Perhaps Encores is an option.

 

Agree re this being right behind Ragtime.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 1:15am

I remember looking forward to this show and thinking that Tim Curry was perfectly cast, but I thought it was totally mediocre in every respect.  Even Andra Martin, who I love, was only okay.  She did not deserve a Tony...that category was very bad that year.

 

i realized from Mr. Roxy's comments that I never purchased the CD, because the score made no impression when I saw it.  Made me think...the only Ahrens / Flaherty score that I have liked is Ragtime, which I think is one of the 2 or 3 best in the past 20 years.  I admit that I have never listened to Once on This Island, but I thought Rocky's score, MFY's, Seussical's were all mediocre.  Am forgetting what else they did right this minute.

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 1:41am

I've got to dig up the cast CD this weekend. I remember not being too impressed with it upon release...but absence makes the heart grow fonder. Sometimes.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 2:05am

Roxy, The Emperor's New Clothes, Lucky Stiff and Once On This Island all preceded My Favorite Year.  

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 9:20am

Never heard of Emperor,Lucky was off , and I forgot about Island. Sorry about that chief as Maxwell Smart used to say.

[James2]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 9:41am

thommg said: "Don't know anything about a Spring revival but York is doing it in Mufti in December, I believe.

 

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The York did it in fall of 2014.

[Stew123]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 10:15am

I'm sorry but this show is Lame with a capital L!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 10:17am

Your opinion Lame. You are of course entitled to your opinion as are those who liked it.

[thommg]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 11:40am

James2 said: "thommg said: "Don't know anything about a Spring revival but York is doing it in Mufti in December, I believe.

 The York did it in fall of 2014.

So they did! I didn't look at the dates just saw the notice. There hasn't been a casting notice released on My Favorite Year at this point, then.

 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 1:02pm

I bought the cast album because I love the film and I really enjoy most of A&F's scores, but I have to admit that I found it both extremely obvious and pretty dull.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 1:08pm

To each his own

[broadwaytbay]

Posted: 4/15/16 at 1:34pm

my stars... what a terrible musical.   I saw a local production of it and frankly, it was unmemorable and unfunny.  Maybe elevated by superb actors it is something special, but the material is bland.

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 3/26/18 at 7:27pm

Just found this thread while searching Ahrens and Flaherty.
Wasn’t there a workshop of a revised version a few years ago?

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 3/26/18 at 8:22pm

Wow, it's the attack of the zombie threads today!

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 3/26/18 at 9:14pm

There was a concert version of this a few months back at 54 Below (October 2017 I think...?), I'm assuming it was a revised version; it was a lot of fun! The cast was excellent (it included Adam Chanler-Berat and Douglas Sills). 

[greensgreens]

Posted: 3/27/18 at 9:49am

ACCORDION LESSONS!  :P