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Melissa25 said: "I can’t wait to see Kelli O’Hara play Margaret Johnson in the revival of The Light on the Piazza.

Directed by Victoria Clark!

 

Although Encores gave us just a brief snippet of Milk and Honey recently,  I think a fully staged revival of the Jerry Herman classic is due.  I'd have Mandy Patinkin play the Robert Weede role of the Israeli widower and Rebecca Lucre as the American widow tourist.  The comedic antics of Fran Dresher would fill in for the original Molly Picon.  The timeliness of the show would be very relevant with today's headlines although it takes place during the war of 1947.

This would be probably an Encores production, but I would like to see one of the Princess Theater musicals that were staged at the 299 seat Princess Theater between about 1915-1919, with scores by Jerome Kern and P. G. Wodehouse. I'm always reading about how historic and important they were. Kern scholar John McGlinn, who devoted a lot of his life to Kern, including issuing a three CD set of every song every written for any Show Boat stage production or film, also put out a CD of Jerome Kern overtures, which included the Princess Theater Overtures. I found them light and airy and entertaining.

In 1982 hundreds of manuscripts that were believed to have been lost were found in a warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey, and they included the complete scores to at least three of the Princess Theater musicals, So a Princess Theater revival would be doable.

Not many of the songs survived to become standards. "Till the Clouds Roll By" was the title given to the MGM biopic of Kern after his 1945 death, and is actually popular with jazz musicians. Julie's well known song from Show Boat, "Bill", was written by Kern and Wodehouse for a Princess Theater production, but not used.

 

Every Broadway musical ever made, revived and performed all at the same time, performed entirely by Nathan Lane. Once this happens Broadway will have achieved its true purpose and can finally ascend. Until this happens, we are merely struggling in futility as we create imperfect works.

I kind of feel Sutton is a little too young for Mame - since she is supposed to be well into her life - but love her dearly.

I would love to see Damn Yankees with: Nathan Lane, Aaron Tveit, Annaleigh Ashford, 

 

There's a lot of great ideas here that I'd love to see, but my "white whale" is consistently Movin' Out. I saw it at Pantages in college and LOVED the choreography. I didn't know anything about the show before going (comp tickets were a great perk of my school) but had been dancing for many years at that point and that show stuck with me. I know it's just another jukebox musical, but there's not a whole lot on Broadway currently where dance is the focus, so I think it could fill a good role, there. I'm just always bummed that I never got to see it again as it completely closed up shop by the time I was able to start buying tickets for things I wanted to see.

My previous joke answer aside, I agree with the previous poster on City of Angels. I never saw it as I was too young at the time, but everything I've heard about the production sounded amazing, and I love the cast recording. I really hope it gets revived, though I honestly don't know enough of it to be able to suggest proper casting. Other than my go-to that Nathan Lane is a necessity somewhere of course.

Was thinking about this and how i said Funny Girl. I think Sutton Foster would do great in this role. Here are videos of her singing Don’t Rain On My Parade and I’m The Greatest Star 

https://youtu.be/0oNHLY0pfuU

https://youtu.be/2VklRpsAdtg