Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Sequels to Broadway musicals???
#1Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:35pm
I guess SHREK II woould be a possibility, but I was wondering what sequels actually have appeared on Broadway. The only two instances I could think of were THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC and BRING BACK BIRDIE.
Any others anyone can recall?
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gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#2re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:36pm
well not on broadway but very popular.
ANNIE WARBUCKS.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 5:18pm
The Monday After the Miracle....sequel to The Miracle Worker.
Have NO idea how successfully, though
EDIT: Oops! Not a musical...Sorry!
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Updated On: 12/30/08 at 05:18 PM
#3re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 6:14pmThere's a chapter in Not Since Carrie that explores sequels to Broadway musicals and why they flop. Bring Back Birdie and Annie 2 (not Annie Warbucks, different plot) were the examples.
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#5re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 7:07pm
I never even considered the possibility of musical sequels on stage. I mean...even the notion of the Hairspray movie musical sequel seems odd to me.
Don't even get me started on Phantom: Love Never Dies....
SharpCookies
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/08
#6re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 8:23pmThough not on stage (as far as I know), Grease 2.
#7re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:28pmHopefully, the High School Musical sequels will never make it to Broadway! (Though I still hold that the best of the bunch was the third one.)
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#8re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:44pm#1 was Schmerg. There were a couple good songs in 3, but it made me throw up a little bit when Gabriella kept calling Troy "Wildcat"
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#11re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 7:58amBottom line: Broadway musical sequals equal disaster.
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Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#12re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 10:35am
The Gershwin Brothers' LET 'EM EAT CAKE was a sequel to their OF THEE I SING. This one centered on America being a dictatorship after another guy runs for President against John P. Wintergreen. His name is John P. Tweedledee. Far-fetched, I know, but then again, most Broadway sequels are.
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#13re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 10:43amDoes "Falsettos" count? It's made up of two different musicals (March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland), one of which opened like ten years after the first.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
ifuweregay93
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
#14re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 10:45am
That was off broadway, but still technically a sequel.
BWW The Musical 2 - Jaystarr's revenge!
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#15re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 12:56pm
I did my research.
Hair sequel.
Updated On: 12/31/08 at 12:56 PM
#16re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 7:23pm
"ME AND MY GIRL" is the amazing exception of being a hugely successful sequel. Lupino Lane played the role of young tough cockney Bill Snibson in "TWENTY-TO-ONE" a musical about horse racing in 1935. Lane loved playing the character so much, he bought the rights and commissioned a sequel - also with a book by L. Arthur Rose but this time with a score by Noel Gay, a superb popular composer. Twenty to One had been a hit. It ran for a year. Me and My Girl ran seemingly forever, with Lane playing Snibson over 6,000 times (and his son and nephew also played the role.) The whole family was in the biz. His niece was Ida Lupino. The lawyer in Me and My Girl was played by his brother Wallace.
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#17re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 8:39pm
does Forbidden Broadway count?
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
xbri0432x
Understudy Joined: 12/13/08
#18re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 8:48pm^ i was just thinking about that. i don't know. they might count as sequels, i'm not sure
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Smaxie
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#19re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 12/31/08 at 9:10pmLet 'Em Eat Cake was the less successful sequel to Of Thee I Sing.
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KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#20re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 1/1/09 at 10:40amI'm just curious, and I would never wish it away, or anything... but with the new Phantom sequel coming in, is Phantom going to have to close? I mean, It's been around for ages, but it would really make me sad.
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#21re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 1/1/09 at 10:57amwhat about The Boy Friend and Divorce me Darling?
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#22re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 1/1/09 at 12:05pmThe creators of NO, NO, NANETTE did a follow-up called YES, YES, YVETTE - not really a sequel, but an attempt to cash in on a popular title.
#23re: Sequels to Broadway musicals???
Posted: 1/1/09 at 2:08pmthough not titled a "sequel" there was the revamped production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, titled "Lorelei" in which Carol Channing played an older Lorelei remembering her adventures from the first musical. There were new songs mixed in with a lot of the old ones from the original production.
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