No YANK this year
No YANK this year
Trish2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
#2No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 6:32pmThis better not be an LND situation. This needs to be on Broadway!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 6:38pmThis saddens me. I never got to catch it last season and was looking forward to it!
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#3No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 6:48pmThat's a real shame.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 6:51pmGood things come to those who wait.
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#5No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:15pmAgree with Dolly. No sense in rushing to Broadway until they are sure that every element is in place. How many shows have failed b (or not been as good as they could have been) because they were fast-tracked to Broadway.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#6No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:15pmAgree with Dolly. No sense in rushing to Broadway until they are sure that every element is in place. How many shows have failed b (or not been as good as they could have been) because they were fast-tracked to Broadway.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:25pmThis is the same reasoning that the creative team behind VERITAS is using.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:25pmThis is the same reasoning that the creative team behind VERITAS is using.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#9No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:27pmWhy is everyone double posting in this thread?
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#10No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 7:28pm
Why is everyone double posting in this thread?
....but the world goes 'round
#11No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 8:25pmIt must be a glitch because I KNOW I only sent mine once.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#12No YANK this year
Posted: 9/2/10 at 8:28pm
It must be a glitch because I KNOW I only sent mine once.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.) =P
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#13No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 9:39am
I know Yank has its devoted fans, but perhaps it would be best to remember it as the intimate, sweet, small show it was at the York and earlier. I fear it would become lost and flat in a too-large house. The score doesn't have the musical expertise of Light in the Piazza or the deft lyrics of Grey Gardens, but is charming in its small way. The book is sweet and slightly unusual, but works because of the closeness/intimacy of the scenes, not largeness.
Like Little Shop, Charlie Brown, [title of show] and others, perhaps this is another small show that won't be served by being inflated.
#14No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 10:01amAt least there are still lots of other places you can go in New York for a yank.
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#15No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 10:50am
There have been some significant changes in the book since the York production (with more to come). From what I saw, it's much more compelling, with a greater emphasis on the war and an atmosphere of danger.
I think the score will have some changes as well.
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#16No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 10:53am[tos] suffered the same fate. Too small and a sweet slip of a show to play in a huge Broadway house. What's the obsession with getting in a Broadway house? Why not have a healthy sell out run for a year off Broadway?
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#17No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 3:33pm
"I know Yank has its devoted fans, but perhaps it would be best to remember it as the intimate, sweet, small show it was at the York and earlier. I fear it would become lost and flat in a too-large house. The score doesn't have the musical expertise of Light in the Piazza or the deft lyrics of Grey Gardens, but is charming in its small way. The book is sweet and slightly unusual, but works because of the closeness/intimacy of the scenes, not largeness."
I swear i hear this same argument for every show that was in a smaller theater, with transfer aspirations. If this is the standard we live by then all we'll ever have on Broadway is big shows that make us feel nothing. There are ways to make smaller shows fit into larger spaces. Its called directing and ingenuity. 
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#18No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:10pmI think it's a good sign Cromer is rolling up his sleeves to really make it strong, which with give it its best shot on B'way.
#19No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 6:26pm
Was there or is there a cast cd recorded for this or do we have to wait for that too?
Wait and wait and wait...waiting around for the girls upstairs...after the curtain came down....money in my pocket to spend, honey could you get another friend for my friend.....Sorry the song just came to mind....
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#20No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 7:21pmThe way it was staged at the York was definitely unsuitable for a Broadway house. But if they're continuing work on the show, who knows how it stands now? Although the York is an intimate space, I don't think this is a show that feels small the way [tos] does. This isn't four chairs and a keyboard.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#21No YANK this year
Posted: 9/3/10 at 7:23pm
Disappointing 
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"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
keatyjoe
Swing Joined: 5/20/07
#22No YANK this year
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:07am
Very disappointing, but I do agree that if they are not completely ready, I don't see the rush in getting it in this season...it'll come eventually.
There is a demo recording of the show, but not an actual "cast recording". They are also revising the score as well as adding a few songs. I think the wait will be entirely worth it.
#23No YANK this year
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:49am
"There are ways to make smaller shows fit into larger spaces. Its called directing and ingenuity."
But it's pretty rare that it happens. Successful small-ish Off-Bway-to-Bway transfers in the last 20 years are Avenue Q, Rent (but NYTW is much larger than the York or the Vineyard), Spring Awakening (no where near as successful as expected - did it pay off?), In The Heights (original theatre also wasn't small), Urinetown? (did it pay off?).
Five in 20 years? Not a good record, I think.
And the flop transfers? Falsettos, Little Shop of Horrors (I know, not really a transfer, but it does fit the small-to-large category), Grey Gardens, Passing Strange, Glory Days, Caroline or Change, [title of show], Spring Awakening, and lots of non-musical plays.
#24No YANK this year
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:59am
I believe Urinetown did pay off its original investment. And you could also count Next to Normal among the hits, though they had their run out of town before they came to Broadway.
I agree that sometimes more intimate shows don't work in bigger Broadway houses, but I think if Yank! was expanded a bit it could absolutely work in the larger space.
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