New Pal Joey Revival

''No offense, but I cant imagine this being successful and turning a profit I still have plenty of not so great memories of the last Pal Joey revival at Roundabout featuring Daniel Reichard and Stockyard Channing. The script did not age well to begin with, and the only semi-memorable song was Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered in fact the show wasnt even nominated for any Tonys that year, not was a cast album made to preserve the vocals.''

Not sure which ''Pal Joey'' revival you saw, but the one in 2008-09 starred Stockard Channing and Matthew Risch, and received FOUR Tony nominations, including Best Musical Revival, Best Actress in a Musical (for Channng) and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (for Martha Plimpton).

Wayman, you know very well that was an incredibly weak year and the production was reviled by any critic with a worthwhile readership.

It really is going to come down to the casting. There is no reason for the producers to take a bath on this production without real STAR names attached (so no, not Derek Hough and Patti LuPone). A buzzy cast + good reviews + Tony attention + a good ad campaign that says "this show is a classy good time" might make it a hit. But PAL JOEY is also a white whale that nobody can seem to conquer.

brdwybound04 said: "No offense, but I cant imagine this being successful and turning a profit I still have plenty of not so great memories of the last Pal Joey revival at Roundabout featuring Daniel Reichard and Stockyard Channing. The script did not age well to begin with, and the only semi-memorable song was Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered in fact the show wasnt even nominated for any Tonys that year, not was a cast album made to preserve the vocals

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tony-Goldwyn-and-Savion-Glover-Will-Helm-Revised-PAL-JOEY-on-Broadway-20211004
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You saw a production you didn't like. Fair enough. But only one memorable song? You won't even give a nod to "I Could Write a Book?" But as CATSNYRevival says, the whole score is a classic. The Colombia studio recording from the early 50's has literally never gone out of print. I think that suggests its ongoing popularity.

Pal Joey is the best of the Rodgers and Hart shows and it was ground-breaking in that it was the first Broadway musical to depict an anti-hero at the center of the story. Though it received a mixed receptionin in its initial production, when it was revived in 1952 it actually won the NY Drama Critics Circle Awad for Best Musical...I don't think a revival ever won again. And it's interesting that Jule Styne ("Gypsy," "Funny Girl" produced the 1952 production which was also a "hit". I am really looiking forward to this revival or revisal, I think that placing this show in a club will in the South Side of Chicago will justify inclusion of additional songs. They should find room for "Ten Cents a Dance" as well as "Where or When". Perhaps this will do for "Pal Joey's" score what "Crazy For You" did for "Girl Crazy".

Who do we think might be in this? And what theater this might go to in the 2022-2023 season?

Likely all depends on casting and availability. Given the vagueness of the announcement, I'll believe it when I see it.

Remember, this same producer has also announced revivals of Damn Yankees, Whorehouse, The Wiz, Killer Joe, and plenty of other shows that have never and will never happen.