Shows that shouldn't/won't be revived- Page 2

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 3:40pm

Even though they did the ANYONE CAN WHISTLE concert in the 90's.

Encores! never did the show..did they? I would love if they did.

My perfect Encores! season would be..

Anyone Can Whistle
Redhead
New Girl In Town

I don't think those 2 Gwen Verdon shows would have a chance of being revived. Encores! needs to do them.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 3:43pm

I'd love to see all of those at Encores, especially Redhead!

I love the song, "I'll Try".

Who do you think could star?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 3:53pm

I think ANYONE CAN WHISTLE will only be revived in concerts. It is definitely the kind of show that should go into Encores! with an all-star cast.

[James885]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:50pm

The Wedding Singer - I don't see why anyone would want to revive it
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - not that I didn't like the show, I just don't see it ever being revived on Broadway
Legally Blonde
Phantom of The Opera - If it ever closes, I think that'll be it for this show

[dramarama2]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 7:08pm

No! After Phantom closes, it'll be revived, with very similar sets, and CRAPTASTIC orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke. Mark my words...

[istillbelieve24601]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 8:43pm

I hope Miss Siagon isn't revived. After the Les Mis revival, which continues to sell out despite bad reviews and the fact it's totally unnessecary, CamMack is probably getting ideas...

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:07pm

I strongly disagree with istillbelieve and basically this thread

I just saw Les Miz for the first time, I never had the chance to see it before and I absolutely loved it. Just want to say that Megan McGinnis (or however it is spelled)was simply heartbreaking.

Anyway my point is I love revivals because they give me, and countless others, the chance to see shows that we didn't have the opportunity to catch. I would love for them to revive Miss Saigon eventually, and I would love for all shows to be revived for short runs at least so I could see ones that I never got to witness onstage.

And I am all for completely reworking shows that didn't succeed the first time around or returning exact copies of originals that were great successes, just as long as they don't run forever.

[daspazoo]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:32pm

Shouldn't ever, but will: Grease. Annie.

Won't ever, but should: Carrie. Dessa Rose.

Hard to say: The Full Monty.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:35pm

Never: State Fair (can anyone say dull?)

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:13pm

I don't see most of these movie-musicals being revived.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:30pm

Lestat
Dance of the Vampires
Rent (already dated)
Hair
Baby
Coco
The Wedding Singer
Cats (if there is a god, it will never return)
Got Tu Go Disco

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:34pm

Most of the ones I listed (I forget who asked), have had revivals in the works for years and have yet to turn up, most of them are pretty expensive shows, and there isn't really a strong performer(s) for them.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:43pm

IN MY LIFE. It was bad enough the first time around.

[istillbelieve24601]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:48pm

I strongly disagree with istillbelieve and basically this thread

I just saw Les Miz for the first time, I never had the chance to see it before and I absolutely loved it. Just want to say that Megan McGinnis (or however it is spelled)was simply heartbreaking.

Anyway my point is I love revivals because they give me, and countless others, the chance to see shows that we didn't have the opportunity to catch. I would love for them to revive Miss Saigon eventually, and I would love for all shows to be revived for short runs at least so I could see ones that I never got to witness onstage.

And I am all for completely reworking shows that didn't succeed the first time around or returning exact copies of originals that were great successes, just as long as they don't run forever.

I bet you didn't know (actually, I don't think anyone on here knows this fact) that the revival was the first and only time I've seen Les Mis. I love the score of Miss Saigon, but I was too young to see it the original time around. Yet, I still maintain my view that the revival was unnessecary and embarassing to us Les Mis fans, and will go down in history as one of the shallowest, money-making theatrical decisions of all time.

Yes, I enjoyed seeing the revival and yes, for my own selfish purposes I'm glad there was one. But do I think a revival of a long-running show that had only closed three years previously was a good idea? Hell, no. Would I WANT to see Miss Saigon on Broadway again? Yes, of course, if you couldn't tell from my screenname. Do I think it SHOULD be revived? No, I don't. And that's what this thread is about. What shouldn't be revived, not what we want to be revived.

[vfd88]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:50pm

CATS It's become such a joke

HAIR It is so set in its era, but there will probably be many more concerts/Encores because it has a great score

MAMMA MIA

[JRybka]

Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:32pm

They could revive Jerome Robbin's Broadway and Fosse and Dancin' and call it...


JEROME ROBBIN'S FOSSE DANCIN' ON BROADWAY!

that'll show 'em

[misschung]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:10am

I'm not sure Aida will. I wish Taboo would, but I'd say it's a tad unlikely. As in it doesnt have a snowball's chance in hell.

I REALLY want them to do Little Night Music. Thinking about the first two minutes of that show gives me goosebumps.

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:23am

I bet after the movie for Aida comes out, they will try again with a new re-written book..and maybe some new songs and some old ones cut..I just don't want the show to never return..
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 01:23 AM

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:26am

re: Big Band is cute and nostalgic.

i dunno... nostalgic, maybe, but cute? Is "Sing, Sing, Sing" cute? All in the staging, I think.

Here's a musical that probably won't be revived, Rogers & Hart's HIGHER AND HIGHER (it came to mind listening to Julie Andrews singing "It Never Entered My Mind").

Looked it up, and there's a great anecdote attributed to Hart:

"HIGHER AND HIGHER opened at the Shubert in New York on Thursday, April 4, 1940. Backstage Josh Logan sensed the audience's reaction was less than enthusiastic, although everyone seemed to love the performing seal. After the show, as the audience crowded the center aisle to leave, there was a small but perfect silence. Then into that silence, Logan said, an enthusiastic voice rang out. "Darleeng, zat was zee muss vonderful f_ck in zee world!" Many people turned to see who was talking. It was the young French wife of an American lawyer. She was using the French word for "seal" which is "phoque". Her husband tried to keep her quiet, but she protested, "I deed not say zee show was good-I shuzz say zee f_ck was good-zee f_ck, only zee f_ck, and oh, how I loved zat f_ck" By this time the whole aisle was laughing. I stood in my box saying to myself, "At last, a funny scene but it's not onstage" Next morning the notices were as gruesome as I knew they would be. The show ran as long as the advance sale lasted, a few months."

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 05:26 AM

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 6:49am

>> If Doyle did NIGHT MUSIC with the instrument concept... I would shoot myself.

Then you missed the note in the early days of the COMPANY mania that Doyle did indeed plan on doing such a thing? 2008 or 2009, IIRC.

[Tom148502]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 7:54am

Rumple

However, The Vamp SHOULD be revived. Right?

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 8:47am

Grease is? So what's the question?

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 8:48am

posted twice!

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 08:48 AM

[MrsVampyre]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:52am

Cats - That was bad enough the first go round.

Merlin - They would need to revamp the entire show.

Beauty and the Beast - But it probably will be.

Hair - Too set in it's era. No longer topical.

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 7/14/07 at 10:01am

if the draft were reinstated, HAIR would sell out through the duration of the 'war on terror.'