Revivals we want on Bway!!!- Page 3

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 9:46am

HELLO, DOLLY!

HIGH BUTTON SHOES

CAN CAN

MACK AND MABEL

[michellek45]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 12:31pm

I think it would be interesting to do a re-working of I Do, I Do! set in the present day with a gay/lesbian couple as the leads.

My dream revival will always be Oliver with Lisa Brescia as Nancy.

I agree with all the people who have said Parade. And there should always be a good production of Cabaret running somewhere in New York City.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 1:02pm

I think all of these shows should be reworked for a second chance!! (What, you wouldn't invest?)

Portofino
The Conquering Hero
13 Daughters
Kwamina
New Faces of 1962
Nowhere to Go But Up
Hot Spot
Rugantino
Something More!
Kelly
Anya
The Yearling
A Joyful Noise
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Here's Where I Belong
I'm Solomon
The Fig Leaves Are Falling
Buck White
La Strada
Cry for Us All
Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
Ari
Heathen!
Dude
Via Galactica
Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don't You Ever Forget It
Doctor Jazz
Home Sweet Homer
Rockabye Hamlet
Angel
King of Hearts
Platinum
A Broadway Musical
Got Tu Go Disco
Charlie and Algernon
Onward Victoria
Bring Back Birdie
Oh, Brother!
The First
Is there life after high school?
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Cleavage
A Doll's Life
Dance a Little Closer
Marilyn
Harrigan 'n Hart
Into the Light
Mail
A Change in the Heir
Nick & Nora
Ain't Broadway Grand
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
Lennon
Lestat
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Leap of Faith

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 1:13pm

I actually really like Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? and don't think it needs to be reworked. That being said, I also don't think it should be revived on Broadway, or should have been produced on Broadway in the first place. It's a charming little show that appeals very well to the crowd who lived much the same scenario (the pre-Vatican II Catholics, who have aged into the crowd that will lovingly support their local summer theaters, hence the show always playing well in places like Auburn, NY).

[bobs3]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 5:35pm

Newintown: How dare you leave Ilya Darling, Look the Lillies, Georgy, and Minnie's Boys off that list?

[little_sally]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 7:28pm

Chess!

And if it were up to me, Sunday in the Park With George would always be running somewhere in NYC.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 7:32pm

Minnies Boys
Lil Abner
Mack & Mabel
Superman

[Midnight Radio]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 12:02pm

[SKAcasting1127]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:48pm

Gypsy
Victor Victoria
42nd Street
Cabaret

[goldenboy]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:37am

Goldenboy
Golden Rainbow
Carnival
High Button Shoes.

[alterego]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 8:57am

NO, NO, NANETTE - using the Raoul Pene du Bois sets and costume designs from the 1970 revival.

THE WIZ, though like CATSNYrevival, I'd be happy with a complete Studio Cast recording. Including Prologue and Exit music !

[Zingingtobway]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 3:52am

I Want

The Life
Play On
Caroline or Change
Golden Boy
Crazy For You
The Wiz
In To The Woods
Tap Dance Kid
Carousel
The Grind

[Outoftowner2]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 11:59am

I'd love to see "Mame" on Broadway. When was it last there?

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 10:22pm

THE WIZ
The Woman in White (I know, I KNOW, but that music was really good!!!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Hello, Dolly!
PARADE
Once on This Island
Urinetown
Pippin
DREAMGIRLS (with a combination of Michael Bennet and Fatima Robinson's choreography)

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 12:51am

THE DESERT SONG (Original: 1926, last revival: 1974) - one of the most popular operettas of the 1920s and now rarely seen. A recent CD reissue from Masterworks Broadway makes the case for the score. The story is a bit of fluff bu5 then so is PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - the same crowd that flocks to the fake romance of the latter might also appreciate THE DESERT SONG.


GOOD NEWS (Original: 1927, last revival: 1974) - a great example of 1920s "collegiate" musical comedy. If not a full staging maybe an Encores concert?

OF THEE I SING (original: 1931, last revival: 1952) - I know it has been done by Encores but in an election year this sparkling satire would be great fun.

CAROUSEL (original: 1945, last B'way revival: 1994) - contains one of Richard Rodgers' most beautiful scores, but requires really strong voices.

BRIGADOON (original: 1947, last B'way revival: 1980) - I know a lot of people here don't like fantasies, but this is a charming show that isn't done all that often any more.

CALL ME MADAM (Original: 1950, no revivals) - See comment on OF THEE I SING above. Perfect representations of 1950's musical comedy. Good score but need a real star to play the lead. A star who can sing, act, dance (a little), have a classy demeanor and be able to sell tickets. Why aren't there any of those around today??

THE MOST HAPPY FELLA (Original: 1956, last revival: 1992) - a touching story (when played with great sincerity) and rich, robust adn musically varied score. Deserves to be better knowna dn seen more often.

FIORELLO! (original: 1959, never been given a full revival except for concert stagings at Encores.) I have never seen this show -I suspect few people on here have - but it has a great score and a literate (at times quite funny) book. Get the script from your local library and the original cast album and go through it for yourself. Pulitzer Prize winner.

THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (Original: 1960, no revivals) - with all the hoopla over the 100th anniversary of Titanic, I am surprised this hasn't been dusted off and re-mounted even in concert form. The script gets a bit redundant as it progresses, but a great star role for an singer with a good chesty belt voice.

GOLDEN BOY (Original: 1964, no revivals) - the source play is being remounted this season but the score for the musical has many powerful moments. Is the interracial romance too dated now even if the show is set in the 1960s?

GRAND HOTEL (original: 1989, no revivals) - The original staging is still talked about but a creative director could do a fresh take on this.

CITY OF ANGELS (original: 1989, no revivals) - another show with an elaborate/intricate staging but a fantastic score by Cy Coleman and a very clever and funny script.


A few flops that could possible be looked at again:

ALLEGRO - People know the name and they know R&H but the show is rarely revived. Maybe Sondheim could revise it and make it work?

PAINT YOUR WAGON - a terrific and popular score by Lerner & Loewe but the book needs considerable revision.

DO I HEAR A WALTZ? - I know the creators have disowned this "dead baby" but the original play should make a good script and the score by Rodgers and Sondheim has many delights.

MACK AND MABEL - Shaw Festival;s revival a few years ago made a strong case for this show. It still doesn't break your heart the way it wants to but they are getting closer.

BABY - The songs by David Shire/Richard Maltby Jr are to notch and if the script could be be rebuilt to be about real characters the idea is solid enough. Get rid of the sitcom level jokes.

STEEL PIER - another fantasy but a show with a very fine Kander and Ebb score. Script wastes too much time building up minor characters but with recent TV shows built on the idea of viewers voting for favourite performers maybe this could be reworked into a workable show.(I saw the original..it was far from terrible..In fact it had a number of good moments and creative staging ideas. People seem to forget that it got more favourable reviews than the season's Tony winner TITANIC.)

[random person 112]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 8:14am

I think there a quite a few 'classy' stars that could do madame. Bernadette, Reba, Megan Mullally, (in a few years she may seem too young.)Megan Hilty, heck if CZJ can drop her accent...

Updated On: 9/23/12 at 08:14 AM

[alterego]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 10:44am

frontrowcentre2 - That is one GREAT list. There is not one there I wouldn't pay to see.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 9:21pm

Thanks, Alterego - I just thought it would be more interesting to list shows that had NOT been on B'way in the past 15 years, as most everyone else seems to be doing.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 10:19pm

Frontrow, are you aware of the fact that the Roundabout has workshopped a revised version of MOLLY BROWN with Sutton Foster?

[egghumor]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 10:33pm

frontrowcentre2, LOTS of great suggestions on your list, but if I had to choose one, I'd vote for a new production of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA.

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 9/24/12 at 6:47pm

Miss Saigon. All I can picture is Alan Cumming as the Engineer.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 9/24/12 at 10:39pm

Dolly - I had heard/read about the Sutton Foster MOLLY BROWN but I thought it had been dropped. Is it still going to happen?

Egghumor - I have seen HAPPY FELLA a few times. The 1992 revival with Spiro Malas and Sophie Hayden was particularly well acted and sung (even if they did lower the keys for him.) A recent community theatre production was an outright disaster because the director had no sense of pacing and let it get slow and draggy. That is a problem inherent in the show because most of Act Two is a stage wait for the leading characters to realize their love. Loesser tries to pump it up with lively numbers ("Big D") and focusing a little more of the comic secondary plot (Herman and Cleo) - but much of Act Two plays like filler. (Act Three is tight, and powerful.) Even so, I agree with you and it is very high on my list of shows needing to be staged anew.

[egghumor]

Posted: 9/24/12 at 11:36pm

frontrow, thanks for your additional thoughts on MOST HAPPY FELLA. I saw the revival that briefly played the Majestic in early 80s and thought it was dreadful! It was my dogged belief that Frank Loesser could not have possibly written a musical I didn't love that prompted me to study it via recordings that began to turn around my opinion of the work. The 1992 revival sealed that love for me, but as much as I admired that production, I'd still very much like to see the show mounted in a grander style -- but certainly not as turgid, paint-by-numbers as the one I witnessed in the 80s.

By the way, do any of you guys remember the "I Love Lucy" episode that involved THE MOST HAPPY FELLA? Very clever how it was showcased without actually being shown.