I love Pattie Brook's theme song for that --got the 12" single *blush*
Promises Promises A Little Night Music (stay away Doyle) Aspects of Love (revised)
plays--Orpheus Descending--which is my fave Tenn Williams play and has never been given its due credit on Broadway (tho Broadway hasn't been too kind to Tenn Williams with the qualityu of their revivals as of late...) The Peter Hall production with Van Redgrave is stunning as filmed for video and needs ot be on DVD
Do the shows have to be obscure? Because I'd love to see revivals of West Side Story and My Fair Lady.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Chess for me too though I'd be very suspicious until I knew who was doing it, and the script used etc.
West Side Story really deserved a 50th anniversary SOMETHING this year--tour, revival whatever. For me--as I said in another thread it really ushered in the modern era of musicals most firmly and I'm amazed it's 50 years old--and it deserves something for that
Isn't My Fair Lady finally being revived? (the Nunn production?)
I worked on a production in Atlanta that was a hit with great reviews. A few years later, another script was produced at the Alliance Theatre (the theatre that debuted Aida and The Color Purple) and it was dismal. I love the show, but someone has got to decide on an ending that doesn't leave both the romantic leads devastated (and also feeling like the audience was dragged through the back room of a porn shop).
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Chess at the Alliance in Atlanta was awful. The only other show where I have seen so much man-flesh was during Naked Boys Singing, Hair and Oh, Calcutta!
Really. What possible reason could you have to put your male chess pieces in g-strings?
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My contiuing favourite -- and one that would be timely and politically appropriate -- STRIKE UP THE BAND, a Gershwin show (that gave us "Someone to Watch Over Me", amoung other great songs) about the US invading Switzerland over counterfeit cheese.
It isn't a revival thread until someone brings up Pippin Also, in a decade or so, I'd love to see The Light in the Piazza, Urinetown, and Disney's Aida. I would love for a 6 month mounting of CATS for like the 25th year it has been away.
I know I'll be strongly disagreed with, and I know it's only 10 years ago, and I know it's not obscure, but I never got to see the original Sunset Boulevard. I think it's probably ALlW's most underrated show (not that I'm a huge fan by any means) and would love to see a professional production done here again.
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I wouldn't mind a scaled down version of Sunset Boulevard and Pippin
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