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Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed

Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed

jagfkb
#1Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:00am

Seriously, which productions over the last few years do you feel should have been or should be filmed for preservation?

My first pick would have to be the recent revival of Ragtime. Anyone who saw this show and experienced the emotional roller coaster that's perfectly created by the blending of the material with the flawless direction of Marica Milgrom Dodge would certainly agree: this production was one for the ages. A perfect pick for Great Performances, sad they missed the chance...

Other choices:
Sunday in the Park with George (200Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Next to Normal (OBC)
Gypsy (200Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
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Sweeney Todd (2006)
A Little Night Music (2010, with Bernadette and Elaine)
Beauty and the Beast (OBC)
Once on This Island
The Secret Garden
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
American Idiot (IMHO a perfect choice for an MTV airing)
Hair (2009)
Urinetown (OBC)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (OBC)

Your picks?

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Flight0017
#2Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:03am

Which shows? EVERY SINGLE ONE EVER STAGED :)


"Curse you, Lady Glyde!"

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Jordan Catalano
#2Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:09am

Well luckily people do film a lot of them, including every one of those you mentioned.

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uncageg
#3Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:17am

Are shows still filmed and preserved at the library in NYC?


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Jordan Catalano
#4Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:29am

Yep they are. In all of their restrictive glory.

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BroadwayGirl107
#5Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 11:48am

Speaking of shows that were not filmed in the manner Jordan is speaking of...Twelfth Night in the park last summer should have been filmed. It's gotta be my favorite Shakespeare in the Park production to date, and poof, it's gone. (Wish they could have worked out a Broadway transfer for it as well...)

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Borstalboy
#6Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:27pm

Alas, the Lincoln Center Archive does not film everything. They give off-broadway and smaller Broadway shows short shrift.

They didn't even film CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.


"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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Katurian2
#7Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:32pm

Agh- I found this out this past summer. I was dying to see ENRON and didn't get around to it before it shuttered, and so called up the Lincoln Center library to see it... they didn't record it in time!! AGH. AGH. AGH. Especially frustrating since I'd written 4 papers on Enron in the past year and was looking forward to seeing the play. It's lost to time now I suppose...


"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

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Jordan Catalano
#8Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:41pm

Borstal, ironically they did film CAROLINE but they did it off Broadway.

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perfectlymarvelous
#9Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:42pm

Well, aside from the Lincoln Center recordings that exist of both, I wish LuPone Gypsy and Grey Gardens would have been filmed for commercial release.

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nexttotheheights
#10Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:36pm

Next to Normal OBC was recorded for Lincoln Center, I was at the performance they recorded.


For those who thought NEXT TO NORMAL wouldn't have a life outside Broadway, well it's now playing in 4 cities, 9 different countries and has been translated into 6 languages.

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thesixtyfirstpupil
#11Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/29/10 at 11:42pm

Speaking of the Licoln Center archival videos, does anyone know if they have a list of what they've recorded online? Or do you have to call them and ask for a certain show? Also, what's the process in obtaining a recording? Sorry for all the questions btw. :P

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Broadway Bob*
#12Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 9:55am

You don't "obtain" them. You make a reservation and go and view them there on little video screens with headphones. AND you have to have a reason to view them, not just for your whim and pleasure. (Although when I went there they didn't check my "reason.")


<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018

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ClapYo'Hands
#13Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 12:49pm

1974 revival of Gypsy

and

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Also, American Idiot :P

Eloise
#14Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 3:40pm

Anything directed by Bob Fosse...apparently none of his shows were recorded for Lincoln Center.

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mormonophobic
#15Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 7:28pm

thesixtyfirstpupil, the process is pretty easy and all you really need to do is have a picture ID and go down there. A lot more information on the Lincoln Center Archives can be found in this thread:
TOFT

Fosse76
#16Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 11:20pm

"Speaking of the Licoln Center archival videos, does anyone know if they have a list of what they've recorded online?"

Yes. Go to the NY Public Library's website and search for a show in the online catalog.

"They didn't even film CAROLINE, OR CHANGE."

Yes, they did. Off-Broadway.

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Fosse76
#17Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 11:33pm

"Next to Normal OBC was recorded for Lincoln Center, I was at the performance they recorded."

Yup. It's on DVD and available to "Qualified Researchers." TOFT also has many of the Live from Lincoln Center recordings. Those aren't restricted, as far as I can tell.

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TalkinLoud
#18Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 8/30/10 at 11:44pm

I will always lament the fact that the LuPone Gypsy never got filmed.

preserveitiwatchit
#19Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 5:03pm

That's just it. These shows were supposed to be made for our whim and pleasure. These restrictions are so old and tired. I don't see the point in preserving shows if only a select few can watch them.

husk_charmer
#20Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 5:22pm

You can thank a theatre company in Florida for the restrictions. Apparently they were staging "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and their director viewed the video an insane amount of times, and then recreated Mantello's staging (was it Mantello? That's what I seem to recall) without crediting Mantello.


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shrekster224
#21Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 6:10pm

I completely agree about N2N, ALNM, and American Idiot. I wish In the Heights was recorded, too.

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Jordan Catalano
#22Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 6:14pm

Yeah, IN THE HEIGHTS not being professionally recorded will go down as one of the biggest theatrical travesties ever. Right up there with the original NIGHT MUSIC.

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Mr Roxy
#23Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 8:38pm

I suggest

Boy From Oz
Papa - One man show about Hemingway with Len Cariou
Say Goodnight Gracie - One man show with Frank Gorshin.
Lupones Gypsy
Latest revival of ALNM


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Jordan Catalano
#24Shows Which SHOULD Have Been Filmed
Posted: 2/21/11 at 8:39pm

SAY GOODNIGHT GRACIE was a fantastic show. I really did adore that. I'm not saying I might listen to it tonight now, but I think I might.


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