Revivals- Page 2

[tpdc]

Posted: 6/29/03 at 7:23pm

If THE GOOBYE GIRL didn't work with Bernadette Peters and Martin Short, then nobody can make it work. They are doing a TV remake with Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels.

The Kennedy Center did concert versions of CARMEN JONES and PURLIE. CARMEN was wonderful and it would be great to see a full production. PURLIE works best as a concert now. Maybe Encores will do it.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 6/29/03 at 7:55pm

The revivals I want to see are...
Lil Abner- its such a great show and hardly anybody knows about it!
Hello Dolly!
Camelot
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
West Side Story
Calamity Jane
I hope they all revive while I'm still alive!

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:25pm

Wish I could have seen that CALAMITY JANE in London (revised and revamped score) with Debbie Shapiro.

CAT was not-that-long-ago revived on B'way with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. I look forward to Judd but wish she was paired with Brendan Fraser, who played it in London. I think Patric is a good actor, but that Brendan is more suited. But Patric could surprise me, who knows? I didn't know he did stage work at all.

I agree about DROOD (one of my favorite shows) and I love Sarah Uriate Berry.

The real Mabel Normand was not only more Chenowith's size ("midget") than Krakowski's or even Bernadette's, but I particularly think that faultin a person for the state of their birth is a pretty far reach. Normand was born on Staten Island, but in her biography published in LOOK Magazine in 1930, claimed to have spent most of her childhood in Atlanta. Do we then need an actress who can do a combination of New York and Southern dialect? Chenowith can belt beautifully (CHARLIE BROWN) and has a very good legit top for the rest of the score (MUSIC MAN). And again, as I have posted elsewhere in threads on this forum, there is no need to insult someone else's choice for a role ("twangy" "mouth too big for her face") just because it doesn't match yours. If your choice is truly suited (and I think Krakowski definitely is), running down other possibilities doesn't really make your case for her any stronger. It just looks desparate and immature. And it doesn't suggest you really "tried to see her" in the role at all.

So may theatre people I respect love FANNY that I need to further investigate that show!

Finally, I think ABNER is also a great score with a hopelessly dated book (not the setting or time period, but the nature of the characters themselves, as their comic strip has passed from popular consciousness). On the other hand, ANNIE still works without the companion strip. Perhaps it depends on the treatment of the libretto....

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:33pm

Actually, I tried very hard to picture Chenoweth in the role. I think she is a wonderful singer and actress. I don't think she is right for that part is all. Excuse me for thinking that! People around here knock my choices for castings some times; I don't have a fit if they disagree with me. I know that they just can't picture my choice; and that's fine with me.

"Normand was born on Staten Island."
Really? That's where I was born (and still live...but I don't really like admitting that).

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:43pm

What you think is definitely your right and your business. How you expressed it in an open forum is all I took exception to. I gave specific examples of your choices which did not support your side of the discussion, is all. And when I noted that I had posted in other threads on the issue of alleged "rival" choices for roles, it was not meant to imply all those posts were directed solely at you. It is simply an unfortunate trend I see on this board.I was careful to try and not insult you, and if I did so anyway, I apologize.

P.S. Staten Island should be proud to claim you. It's not where you start, it's where you finish, Tommy Tune. *grin*

Updated On: 6/30/03 at 03:43 PM

[Amneris]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:48pm

ANNIE so all the unemployed LES MIZ kids could work again...JK..

*THEATER JOKES*

anyway i'd love to see "BIG" back on bway again...that had an unfair life in 1996 and it was a great fun show...

Pippin... EVITA ...Chess

[Albin]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:48pm

La Cage Aux Folles

starring Nathan Lane as Albin and Gary Beach as Georges.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 3:50pm

I have heard that Beach actually has learned Georges (or was that Lee Roy Reams?) to go into the show prior to it closing. I think either would be very interesting.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/30/03 at 9:54pm

It was Lee Roy Reams who was set to go into LA CAGE before it closed. I saw him play Albin at the Westbury Music Fair. He was quite good in the role, actually.

My dream cast for a STREETCAR revival:

Stanley-TSMrW
Stella-Mary Louise Parker
Blanche- Cherry Jones
Mitch- John Ellison Conlee
The Mexican Flower Seller-Dollypop (gotta be there to see TSMrW shirtless every night!)

Updated On: 6/30/03 at 09:54 PM

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 12:39pm

"A Streetcar Named Desire" is an awesome play.

Some others that I love:
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
"Anna Karinina"
"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

[sideshowfan]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 1:32pm

Wow Dollypop you want a revival of TWHM. I'm suprised you'd except anyone in that role besides Carol Channing.

Posted: 7/1/03 at 2:09pm

Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago did a revival of STREETCAR a few years back with Gary Senise as Stanley. I thought he was miscast and over the top, however, if there is a B’way revival, they could not find a better Mitch than John C. Reilly. He was brilliant.

[W3B]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 2:18pm

where to start...

I'd love to see a revival of Mack and Mabel too. And I can see Kristin Chenoweth as Mabel, but I'm also sure there are plenty of other actreses who could play her well too.

I'd like to see Barnum revived because I saw it when I was very young and can't remember much, so I'd love to see it again. A few of my friends were in a local production 2 months ago actually, but I never got to see them in it.

and also, Pippin, and anyting Fosse really.
But that's just me.

[tpdc]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 4:24pm

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF was last revived with Kathleen Turner, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Polly Holliday and Charles Durning. STREETCAR was revived with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. Lange did appear in a TV version of CAT with Tommy Lee Jones and Kim Stanley. She also did a TV version of STREETCAR with Baldwin.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 5:30pm

If TGC isn't available, they can always "Call on Dollypop" to play the title role in TWHM!!!!!!!!!!!

[BIG BALONEY]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 5:37pm

Do you think we can get Lauren Bacall to reprise her role in "Applause" I'd go to the TDF booth for that.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 7:06pm

To The Big Baloney:

You can bet that Lauren Bacall, in anything , would not be at the TDF booth

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 7:12pm

I absolutely loved Evita. What is wrong with a revival of that? I heard they are doing a revival of My Fair Lady. I would like to see Sweeney Todd but never Cats.......ughhhhhhhh I am also happy to announce they are doing a revival of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof......

Updated On: 7/1/03 at 07:12 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 10:22pm

Has BroadwayLady gone into the public relations field?

I knew she was looking for a new job, but now she's announcing upcoming shows.

Most impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch out Lizzie Grubman!!!!!!!

Updated On: 7/1/03 at 10:22 PM

[King Stevos]

Posted: 7/1/03 at 10:29pm

Tx Two,

When I ad'd for the show recently our "gay couple" (if you really think Brian is Gay) used a cancer that actually comes from the reception of AIDS. It is the cancer that Tom Hanks got in Philadelphia.

STEVOS

[alterego]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 1:37am

Shows I'd like to see revived?

The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd
Woman of the Year
Drood
They're Playing Our Song
Dear World

In Neil Simon's autobiography he says that the problem with The Goodbye Girl was that it essentially is about three people and by opening the story up (to include others) it throws the whole thing off balance, also when the show was trying out in Chicago, Bernadette Peters realised that she had no laughs ( she plays straight man to the Martin Short charcater) and wasn't happy and wanted her own gags and at this point things started to fall apart.

[Oscar Jaffee]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 10:49am

I've said it before and I'll say it again — "On the Twentieth Century" is LONG overdue for a Broadway revival! Any suggestions for the cast?

[scooter38432]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 10:56am

I, too, would love to see MACK & MABEL come back, but Jane Krakowski as Mabel???!! Jane's a good actress and has wonderful stage presence, but Mabel has to be a big ol' belter -- and Jane's weakpoint is her vocal ability.

Possible Macks:
Douglas Sills (wasn't he slated for a revival at some point?)
Howard McGillin (did it in London, didn't he?)
Marc Kudisch
Chris Seiber
Shuler Hensley
Michael Cumptsy

Possible Mabels:
Kristin Chenoweth
Vicki Lewis
Paige O'Hara
Jennifer Gambatese
Kate Reinders

[scooter38432]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 11:09am

I guess I'm just a theatre snob.

I've assumed that the majority of people posting on these message boards are all theater-saavy, tasteful folk.

THEN...
I see people wanting to revive CATS???!!!
We FINALLY got rid of it and now you want to bring it back again? The litterbox isn't even cold at the Winter Garden yet.
One of ALW's worst EVER! Followed closely by PHANTOM (which can't exit soon enough).
EVITA is his best, no question. Not sure how a revival would go over, though.

I like the suggestions of LI'L ABNER and BARNUM.

How about:
THE PAJAMA GAME
REDHEAD
THE RINK (which would need some reworking, but the score is great)
DREAMGIRLS
HELLO, DOLLY! (without the beloved CC)
MAME (already in the works, I think)

[tpdc]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 12:19pm

A revival of ON THE 20TH CENTURY would be great! Signature Theatre in VA. is doing an "adaptation" of the play 20TH CENTURY by Ken Ludwig as the first show of their new season.