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#1

Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 8:17pm

Here's a trivia challenge for everyone:

What are some often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway? Perhaps some of Shakespeare's works haven't had a 'lights up' on the Great White Way?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#2

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 8:30pm

does The Fantasticks count? obviously not Shakespeare, but well known and never on Broadway.
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#3

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 8:32pm

BAT BOY
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#7

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 8:49pm

The Wizard of Oz and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. They've both played Madison Square Garden, but I don't think that counts as Broadway, though I'm not sure why since the theatre has enough seats. Is it just not a "sanctioned" Broadway house?
#10

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:00pm

Titus Andronicus
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#11

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:09pm

Vanities
Marvin's Room
Landscape of the Body
The Boys Next Door
How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer)
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
The Normal Heart
Stuff Happens
I'm Getting My Act Together...

and, still surprising:

Driving Miss Daisy (Pulitzer, Oscar..)
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#12

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:13pm

The Last 5 Years
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#13

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:44pm

ELISABETH
The musical

A huge success in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, and Japan...

Look it up, it's something fantastic.
How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
#15

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:01pm

To be designated a Broadway theatre, a theatre must be in the "Broadway Box" (loosely 41 to 54 streets and 6-9 ave) and must serve as a legitimate theatre house, housing theatrical productions, for most of its operating hours.

(Lincoln Center is the exception to the box rule- but it does house theatrical productions for the whole year.)

It must also be a member of the Broadway League.

Madison Square Garden is none of these, and is therefore not a Broadway house.
#21

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 11:19am

How about High School Musical? Yep, sure it started as a movie, is adapted to the stage and never played even off-Broadway. Yet it was one of the most produced high school production last year (#5):

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117832.html

And local productions (i.e. North Shore Music Theatre in MA) produced it as was because it meant $$ at the time. Disney has made hand over fist from that franchise.
#25

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 2:22pm

It's a shame Broadway will likely never see the real Tanz der Vampire. Wonderful show. I adored the production at Theater des Westens in Berlin. I would like to see a transfer of Elisabeth as well. I've never seen the show, but it's been a massive hit in Europe and Japan (it is a staple of the Takarazuka company) for over 15 years spawning 20+ cast recordings and 10 DVDs. It's quite staggering the show has never seen a Broadway transfer, though I can only assume Broadway producers believe the subject won't connect with American audiences. And it's not like the popular French spectacle, Notre Dame de Paris, which died almost entirely unnoticed in Vegas (and literally put me to sleep in London).
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