Next ALW show on Broadway

I’m really hoping that we may see a Joseph revival.

But I would love as well a revival of Song and Dance or Woman in White. Or Love Never Dies as a limited engagement

I think that rumoured revival of Evita with Lady Gaga and Enrique Iglesias would have been phenomenal with the right director

As with Phantom being my favourite musical. I have no interest in any cheap revivals. I want a full return of the classic if we get anything.


I am also curious if ALW has a musical or two left in him.

I'd welcome a new ALW show because he still has good melodies in him, but I think he has lost the ability to collaborate. He sucks the air out of a room. He needs to work with coauthors who challenge him, and he needs to work with strong directors. But I don't think he's willing to do that. Don't be composer + producer + arranger + orchestrator + don't put your name above the title.

As I've said before, it's almost identical to the problems that Richard Rodgers faced in his later career.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I'd welcome a new ALW show because he still has good melodies in him, but I think he has lost the ability to collaborate. He sucks the air out of a room. He needs to work with coauthors who challenge him, and he needs to work with strong directors. But I don't think he's willing to do that. Don't be composer + producer + arranger + orchestrator + don't put your name above the title.

As I've said before, it's almost identical to the problems that Richard Rodgers faced in his later career."

I totally agree but I wonder if this has been happening for decades. If Hal Prince had directed Sunset I wonder if it would be ALW's best show...it has such good material but so much crap I just don't believe a very strong director would have let it go to rehearsal in that form. The whole marketing around "ALW's Cinderella" is super cringe. Ultimately this man doesn't even write words, just music - and I always feel he is so inconsistent in this. Can someone please whip ALW into shape because I genuinely believe he still has it in him. "Only You, Lonely You" is as great as anything in Phantom, Evita or Sunset.

One problem I see is I just don't know if there is a Director alive today that has enough stature for ALW to consider himself below the hierarchy of that person. I can't think of anyone he'd listen to.

He doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of slowing down or stopping, so I have to imagine we’ll get another new musical at some point. The problem, as stated above, Is he needs someone (or multiple people) to be honest with him about his shows.
And maybe after Bad Cinderella, he’ll want to write a new musical to “show everyone he still has it”.

binau said: "
One problem I see is I just don't know if there is a Director alive today that has enough stature for ALW to consider himself below the hierarchy of that person. I can't think of anyone he'd listen to.

Julie Taymor

Baz Luhrmann

It's Aspects of Love all the way for me. However, a well-cast Encores production with a full orchestra (not huge for this show anyhow) might be preferable to a budget Broadway revival.

I love Woman in White and I think a smaller scale version done at Circle could be quit haunting.

I'd love to see SONG AND DANCE at Encores, too. There are a number of titles that would be great for Encores, but I suppose he is holding on to them in the hopes that they could become something more.

It's wild he decided to bring the terrible Bad Cinderella here but won't bring Love Never Dies to New York. I guess the tour, in which tickets were just being given away, was too much of an indication that nobody cared. Odd he didn't listen to anybody about BC, though.

I think Evita will be back shortly.

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "We've got anAspects of Loverevival looking to cross the Atlantic depending on how it does in London,Evitacoming in from the ART, there's word on the street that ALW is shopping for a Broadway house for an Equity run of the current 50th-anniversaryJCStour, Phantompoised to move after the TV series has run in the intervening time to prime the pump for its downsized return, and rumors about trying to shift a Joseph production as well. I think he'll be back to four shows on Broadway -- or whatever his last crowning achievement was -- before very long."


Superstar back on Broadway?!?!?!

While I LOVE the idea (and would no doubt go to a show), would that really work? Hasn't the current tour hit most of the major markets in America already? (Safe to say it would be a very limited run?)

Updated On: 5/23/23 at 04:55 PM

binau said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "He needs to work with coauthors who challenge him, and he needs to work with strong directors. But I don't think he's willing to do that."

Can someone please whip ALW into shape because I genuinely believe he still has it in him. "Only You, Lonely You" is as great as anything in Phantom, Evita or Sunset."

I totally agree with both of you here. It's part of what has me excited for the West End Sunset Boulevard. I will take Jaime Lloyd's minimalism with a vision over Laurence Connor's cheap and boring with no vision ANY day.

I finally saw Bad Cindy this past weekend and the thing that pissed me off was that I kept feeling like there was a good show in there. As you mentioned Binau, there are some really solid tunes in there and so much fun stuff too. I loved all the stuff with the queen, stepmother, and hunks! But it was so bogged down by boring direction, boring content, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the voice of the main character. I was reminded of Sondheim's frustrations with songs like "I Feel Pretty" in West Side Story. WHY WHY WHY does Cinderella sing 5 ballads?!?!?! She's not Bad Cinderella, she's Sad Cinderella. Bad Cinderella should be singing upbeat angry punk rock songs. Then she can finally open up at the end with "I Know I Have a Heart." I think ALW would be fully capable of writing those songs, but he needed people to tell him that's how the character needed to sing.

That new production of Joseph is a joyless slog.

That’s exciting! Signed up for pre-sale for that concert. While the show itself isn’t perfect, I still think “Beneath a Moonless Sky” is one of the most gorgeous songs in any ALW show