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
Posted: 4/14/16 at 2:09am
This should never flopped the first time around. Glad to ear that it due to come back.
Posted: 4/14/16 at 1:01pm
Do you mean My Favorite Year, or is this a show I have never heard of?
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.
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.
Posted: 4/14/16 at 4:09pm
After Ragtime, this is their best score imo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted: 4/15/16 at 10:15am
I'm sorry but this show is Lame with a capital L!
Posted: 4/15/16 at 10:17am
Your opinion Lame. You are of course entitled to your opinion as are those who liked it.
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.
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.
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.
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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).
