ooh LOVE the Ragtime idea. Just read the book, loved it and it just SCREAMS to be a musical. I would've loved to seen Mitchell and McDonald. Oh well...
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I would throw out Mamma Mia, Beauty and The Beast, and The Lion King
I would throw in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (early because I canNOT wait to see Sherie Rene Scott), any new show by Jason Robert Brown, and Zanna, Don't! (which I heard is returning, but I want to see it now).
Ah, it's nice to dream. Nick
A ripple on the edge can be a tidal wave; no matter what the size.
Anything can be, depending how you see when you're looking at the world with brand new eyes.
---Prodigal
With Aida and Millie leaving, I would like to see a really good revival of Promises Promises and The Witches of Eastwick (with Kevin Kline) to come in. When I saw Witches in London, they flying apparatus didn't work, so the end of the first act was a major letdown and quite bizarre. With a few tweaks and a new set design, I think the show could be a hit on Broadway.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Oooh! I LOVE PIPPIN! I saw half of a production and couldnt see the second half-because I was prepping for a show I was in then. so then I saw the filmed stage version. I love the show, it's so unique, but it might be hard to swallow.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
OUT 42nd St. Bombay Dreams Little Shop Movin Out The Phantom of the Opera Thoroughly Modern Millie Wonderful Town
IN A New Brain (The music is amazing) Brooklyn (just because I can't wait) Godspell Ragtime Scarlet Pimpernel Sweeny Todd The Wild Party (Lippa)
Why I didn't axe Rent and Lion King...
Rent and The Lion King help the diversity of the Broadway audience...I think it's good that these two shows imparticular get people to b'way that otherwise maybe wouldn't consider going...
(if that makes ANY sense)
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH!
8/21/05
OUT- POTO and Lion King (Please enough is enough) IN- Godspell, Urinetown or Anything Goes. But both of these lists could go on. Happy Friday!! B
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
I would kick in BOMBAY DREAMS only because a lot of people are kicking out, and it was one of the more entertaining nights I've had at a production I haven't seen before.
I would kick out WICKED and 42nd Street because they were the two most miserable experiences I've had a theatre in the last year.