Revivals you would pay $100 to see- Page 2
Revivals you would pay $100 to see
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#25re: Revials you would pay $100 to see
Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:47am
PROMISES, PROMISES
...if somone would get wise and finally get around to doing it.
#26re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 12:04pm
Very few revivals make money.
What Broadway needs is a non-commercial rep theatre staging 2-3 limited run revivals each season of classic musicals. I know we sort of have that with Roudabout, but a theatre company devoted expressly to classic musicals would be wonderful.
So many younger people have not had a chance to see the classics and know these shows only through the cast albums.
In the 1960s Richard Rodgers did something like this at the New York State theatre doing profitable revivals each summer.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#27re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 12:30pmSweet Charity (I'm sorry, I LOVE the current revival), Into the Woods, Godspell, Funny Girl
#28re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:03pm
Promises, Promises-definately
The Apple Tree
Carnival!
and Carrie
#29re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:05pmZero.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#31re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:39pm
Sweeney Todd
Les Miserables
The Last 5 Years
Ragtime
hyper, a revival of Nine was just done about two years ago...
#32re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:43pmRagtime and Little Night Music...
#33re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:46pm
City of Angels!
...I'd pay the $100 to see this revived (properly, with full color/B&W effects).
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
CaTheatreGirl
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#37re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:15pmI guess I have to say The Odd Couple since I paid $100 for my ticket.
#38re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:15pmDude, some of these shows haven't been gone long enough to give a proper revival to and some have recently been revived.
#39re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:18pm
A Chorus Line...
...oh, wait! :)
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#40re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:27pmnot City of Angels....1989! in 4 years it'll be 20 years since that opened.
#41re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:42pmBut it closed in 1992 darling.
#42re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:51pm
and that was too soon for me...as I was never able to see it. I only saw a San Jose AMT production of it a couple of years back and I want to see a FULL production of the show.
1992-2005 - 13 years isn't long enough? What's the cutoff, anyway? Should it be 20, 25, or should we go even further and make it one whole generation of the audience? What's the standard amount of time?
#43re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:01pm
I don't think anything should be revived under 20 years old unless it is being completely reworked. For instance, if they were to completely rework THE CAPEMAN for instance.
Technically are the second and third runs of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL considered revivals?
#44re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:05pm
Good question about SP...and of course I have no idea what the answer to that one is!
20 years!!! I have to wait another 7 years for City of Angels then?
When you say completely re-worked, do you mean when they take the book of the musical and present an entirely different vision of the piece instead of what was originally done? If so...NOT for City of Angels...I want the original concept...so I'll wait!
Thanks again for all the info! :)
#45re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:09pm
Oh, I think when CITY OF ANGELS is revived the original will pretty much remain intact script, score and visually. It needs no reworking.
Buscee
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/05
Buscee
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/05
#48re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:17pmI saw CARRIE, and it was interesting. I doubt that it will ever be revived. I cant see a Producer shelling out12 million dollars on one of the biggest flops In Broadway History. "Into the Woods", and a few others mentioned were just revived. Sweeney Todd is making its 2nd revival. Les Miz and Miss Saigon closed within the last 3 years. I think we should at least let 20 years pass between productions.
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#49re: Revials
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:37pm
Gavrochegirl- Not really an excuse, I wasn't into theater at the time. ;_;
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