Sequels to Broadway musicals???

[TimesSquareRegular]

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?

[gypsy4]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 4:36pm

well not on broadway but very popular.
ANNIE WARBUCKS.

[dramamama611]

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!

Updated On: 12/30/08 at 05:18 PM

[rwlevin]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 6:14pm

There'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.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 6:18pm

Carrie 2: Debbie Allen's Revenge

[je veux te voir2]

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]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 8:23pm

Though not on stage (as far as I know), Grease 2.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:28pm

Hopefully, 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.)

[skb2010]

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"

[gypsy4]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 1:05am

doesn't Hair have a sequel?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 3:46am

No.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 7:58am

Bottom line: Broadway musical sequals equal disaster.

[Josh Freilich]

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.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 10:43am

Does "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.

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 10:45am

That was off broadway, but still technically a sequel.

BWW The Musical 2 - Jaystarr's revenge!

[gypsy4]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 12:56pm

I did my research.



Hair sequel. Updated On: 12/31/08 at 12:56 PM

[allofmylife]

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.

[LotteTBS138]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 8:39pm

does Forbidden Broadway count?

[xbri0432x]

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

[Smaxie]

Posted: 12/31/08 at 9:10pm

Let 'Em Eat Cake was the less successful sequel to Of Thee I Sing.

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 1/1/09 at 10:40am

I'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]

Posted: 1/1/09 at 10:57am

what about The Boy Friend and Divorce me Darling?

[Jon]

Posted: 1/1/09 at 12:05pm

The 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.

[BroadwayBenny]

Posted: 1/1/09 at 2:08pm

though 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.

[cello_dude]

Posted: 1/1/09 at 2:39pm

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