Revivals

well, as for Golden Boy...I saw the one they were going to do at the Long Wharf...yikes!

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Do you think Evita or Cats would come back?

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Yeah, I think "Cats" will make a big return in about 8 or 10 years!!!

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I'd love to see a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Speaking of "Cat..," is this play still be revived this fall w/ Ashley Judd as Maggie or has that idea been laid to rest and I just haven't heard about it?

I wanna see parade brought back. And a GOOD productiong of "The Shadow Box"

STEVOS

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Sunday in the Park with George

I would like to see Cats or Evita! Mostly Cats though.

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Out of that list, Mr. Roxy, I think we can only expect to see Barnum again. Mind you, I really like all of the shows you mentioned, but:

Li'l Abner has a lot of 50s topical humor and Cold War paranoia worked into its script, plus entire generations have grown up not knowing the original comic strip and the title means little to them.

Irma la Douce, I've been told, hasn't worked well divorced from the original expressionistic Peter Brook production that surrounded it. I love the score (and that rambunctious overture!) and think that with a charismatic star, it would work, but I don't expect to see it hitting the boards any time soon.

Applause could possibly work, but the score has a few clinkers, ("Fasten Your Seat Belts," "Hurry Back" among them) and that very 70s sound that would need a tune-up. And it failed quite spectacularly in that recent Stephanie Powers tour that closed on the road.

Golden Boy is unearthed every few years, between the Long Wharf production and the recent Encores production, and always seems to fail to rise to the occasion, despite that lovely score.

Barnum has a paper thin book, but it really doesn't matter. It's a terrific entertainment, a marathon central role, a fabulous Cy Coleman score and audiences love it. I think it will receive a mounting in the next few years, if the right star comes along. (Wouldn't Hugh Jackman be something as Barnum?)

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I wholeheartedly agree about The Shadow Box. God I wish I had seen it when it was on Broadway...just reading about the cast gave me such insight to the characters.

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"I can also see Kristen Chenowith as Mabel."

I tried to picture that, but no. She's too country. Mabel is a New Yorker; not a twangy midget with a mouth too big for her face.

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I'd love to see the following shows revived:

HIGH BUTTON SHOES (a great score and wonderful dance numbers. Imagine what this would be like in Stroman's hands?)

EQUUS (a great play. Why hasn't it been revived?)

FANNY (again, the score is marvelous. I can see and hear Jason Daniely singing the title song and making me cry!)

MY FAIR LADY (wouldn't Hugh Grant make a great Higgins? He's grousing about how tedious film-making is. I think he'd rejuvenate his attitude by playing to live audiences!)

DEAR WORLD (It didn't click the first time around, but there's another great score and a wonderful story to be told)

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (My favorite play. I always find something new whenever I read it or see it performed live)

COCO (This show was almost ruined by Katherine Hepburn's acting and "singing". Still, I think there's a good story and some of the music is quite good--despite the terrible quality of its cast recording. Were they singing into tin cans???)

NO STRINGS (yes, the Encores! version left much to be desired, but it showed that the score is still a gem and with the right cast and the right director, this could be a memorable evening in the theater again)


......and of course, the world is always ready for another production of TWHM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Goodbye Girl