Shows you wish would come back

[Mike Barrett]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 9:15pm

What shows do you miss the most and wish would have a revival soon. For me, it's honestly Hairspray. Sorry but I'm obsessed with the music and the movie is just awful. Plus I never got to see this show live . Others for me would be Catch Me If You Can, Anything Goes, and probably Guys and Dolls. What about you guys?

[N2N Nate.]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 9:28pm

Beauty and the Beast
Hairspray
Evita ( but with an Eva who can belt her face off 6 times a week)
Mary Poppins
Rent
Seussical
Urinetown
Into the Woods
In the Heights
Millie

[promisespromises2]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 9:35pm

Into the Woods
RENT
On the Twentieth Century (I was totally banking on Chenoweth bringing this back, but she seems more interested in scheduling EVERYTHING ELSE ON THE PLANET besides this)
Sweeney Todd (I'm determined to see this musical live if it kills me)

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 9:45pm

Rent
Into the Woods
Gypsy (I know it's been revived twice in the past 10 years, but I love it)
Memphis (No hate, please. I really enjoyed this one.)
Next to Normal

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 9:51pm

Next To Normal - Original Off-Broadway Cast
Rent - Original Broadway Cast
Bonnie and Clyde


I have never seen NTN or Bonnie and Clyde anywhere, and I would give anything to go back in time to see the Original Broadway Cast of Rent in 1996. I was only 10, so not exactly appropriate at the time.

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 10:15pm

I'd love to see a revival of Barnum. Such a fantastic score, fun characters and a good story. Would make another good circus show to run alongside Pippin.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 10:30pm

Urinetown, with Jeff McCarthy again as Lockstock and Spencer Kayden as Little Sally. Thank you.

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 12:38am

I really don't want to see anything come back in revivals, because in all likelihood, they're going to mucked up in some way and ruined. Now, if they could be revived just the way they were, that would be another story. I'd love to see Milk and Honey, Tenderloin, The Happiest Girl in the World, The Student Gypsy, The Gay Life, Tovarich, Sophie, Ben Franklin in Paris, so many others... but only the way they were!

[Nein]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 3:56am

Grand Hotel sounds good, Caroline or Change, Passion

[Chowd95]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 5:34am

Two shows I'd love to see come back with their original staging are City of Angels and The Secret Garden. City of Angels was such a unique show with amazing black and white vs. color sets and the whole thing just flowed so well and was entertaining as hell. Incredible score, too.

The Secret Garden had one of the most beautiful sets I think I've ever seen, I'll never forget the ending of Act 1 when the door "draws" itself with light and Mary opens it. And the finale when a never ending series of scrims drop down revealing the garden. Wow. Lily's Eyes and Hold On are two of my favorite bway tunes, too.

Tommy was pretty bad ass too.

[anmiller07]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 5:45am

Caroline, or Change (!!!!)
RENT
Passing Strange
tick, tick...BOOM! (Just because I've never seen it)

[tazber]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 6:03am

City of Angels
On The Twentieth Century
Falsettos
Grey Gardens (with the original cast, or at least the two Edies)
Nine

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 7:32am

The one show I truly miss - Ragtime
A revival of the 1994 production of Carousel

[Kbradstein]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 7:57am

Hair and Drood

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 9:30am

I would kill to see the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 9:56am

I would love to see a first-rate revival of THE KING AND I

[denali.fire]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 10:10am

I would love to see Giant and Dogfight. I missed them and would like to see some revival perhaps at on off-broadway theater world stages or back to the Public or 2St respectively.

Oh yeah! Yank.

looking foward to cd
Yank
The Landing
Fun Home

Updated On: 11/13/13 at 10:10 AM

[steven22]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 10:21am

NEXT TO NORMAL is number 1 for me....

and then next is RENT...the original broadway version (not the off broadway "revivial")

[Emma White]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 10:40pm

The Light in the Piazza needs to come back when I'm in my 20's so that I can play Clara.

...oh, that's not what you meant?
(In all seriousness, I think Titanic should come back for real, not just a one night thing).

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 11:26pm

The 1991 London production of Children of Eden...

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 11:36pm

A Streetcar Named Desire with Nina Arianda -- in about 5 years -- potentially an ideal Blanche.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/13/13 at 11:39pm

The Light In The Piazza
Ragtime
Kiss of the Spider Woman
City of Angels
Evita (the revival with a new Eva)
Grand Hotel

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 11/14/13 at 5:31am

Kiss of the Spider Woman w/ Nicole Scherzinger or Sara Ramirez
City of Angels - Cheyenne Jackson seems like a good fit here. And maybe Beth Leveal
Mack & Mabel
Mame
Hello, Dolly!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Guys & Dolls - maybe for Megan Mullaly's Adelaide alone.
Kiss Me, Kate
Candide
Dreamgirls
Wonderful Town
Once Upon a Matress
Assassins
Funny Girl
Side Show
Damn Yankees- w/ Jinkx Monsoon as Lola
Allegro is beautiful and deserves to work, I think it could. Maybe if someone like Craig Lucas would work on the book.
I'll always take a Gypsy revival.

I'm a big believer in if you aren't bringing something new to a piece, don't revive it. That can all be in the casting but it's very tricky. That's why I'm a little bummed Alan Cumming is playing the Emcee. I love his performance, and the beauty of theater is he can change it every time, but why cast the same actor? Why remount the same staging? Kander and Ebb have such a rich catalogue.
remount the same staging

[suestorm]

Posted: 11/14/13 at 7:28am

Xanadu
They call it Xanadu(It takes your breath and it'll leave you blind

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 11/14/13 at 8:09am

City of Angels-PLEASE