Reprise! season announced!

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Reprise! season announced!

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:16am

I'm looking forward to this Reprise! season

Once on This Isalnd
I Love My Wife
Chess
Man Of La Mancha

Updated On: 4/23/08 at 11:16 AM

#2

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 12:46pm

Sorry, I was called away before as soon as I started typing...

Here's the link

#3

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:05pm

Ooh...who will Ledisi play in ISLAND? I liked her song in LEATHERHEADS, but I think this could be an odd career move for a Grammy-nominated artist....

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#4

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:06pm

This sounds like a great reprise season, why can't Encores be this good!

#5

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:43pm

> Chess

(and from the website)

> We're pleased to present the world premiere of a new book by
> Tony winner Richard Maltby, Jr.

Interesting...can't wait to see this.

#6

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:44pm

Thank god, that's what that show needs, a new book. Great music, but sucky book.

#7

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 5:27pm

And 'Nita Whitaker rocks!

#8

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 8:53pm

Patina Miller is incredible talented.

I surely hope she is playing Ti Moune in ONCE ON THIS ISLAND.

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#9

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:44pm

I wish I could see this but I doubt I'll be able to get over to the west coast

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#10

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:47pm

I swear to god, at first, I thought it said "Jason Alexander in I Am My Own Wife."

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#11

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 4:02am

I'm sorry but I think the Encores! season is better, if not with all the material, at least with the kind of talent they attract. Reprise! has done some great shows but I wonder with so many great NY actors living in LA, and some great LA stage actors, why their choices are so lackluster sometimes. (And I don't mean this season in particular). These are the people who cast Judith Light as Joanne and Jane Krakowski as Mabel Normand, why not give us more of those inspired choices?

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#12

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 2:18pm

I swear to god, at first, I thought it said "Jason Alexander in I Am My Own Wife."

LOL. Close... I thought that too for a sec.

Updated On: 4/24/08 at 02:18 PM

#13

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 2:40pm

Would love to see Once on This Island! Im dying for it to come back to broadway eventually. But I plan on going in September! Great season

#14

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 2:43pm

Wow I hope the new book for CHESS turns out well. Maybe a production with the new book (if good) will find its way to broadway! That wold be amazing!

#15

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 2:51pm

Well Tim Rice does want to bring the show back to Broadway. The MACK & MABEL Reprise! concert was supposed to transfer (they revised the book for that production as well), so I wonder if this means they expect CHESS to have a life outside of Reprise!

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#16

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:18pm

This is a good season, LA MANCHA the only potential yawn. It's harder to find a new way into that material, beloved though the score may be.

CHESS has always had a score that takes the roof off (even the material cut from the Broadway production is still wonderful -- i.e., "The Arbiter's Song," sliced out in previews, "Merino," etc..) But its subject -- cold war metaphors -- is difficult to make immediate and entirely engaging.

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#17

re: Once on This Island at Reprise! this September.

Posted: 4/24/08 at 5:48pm

Wasn't there a big all-star CHESS concert out in L.A. less than year ago?

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