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This seems like the perfect choice for the Encores summer series.
LOTS of names I can see them pulling for it.
Then we'd maybe get a cast recording out of it and there wouldn't be financial pressure on it.
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Posted: 11/4/18 at 12:50am
If anyone is interested, at the housing works (?) thrift store on 9th Avenue around 50th street, they have the OBC recording of The Life for $1. It was in great shape. Also had Merman in Gyspy, Spamalot and a couple of others. For a $1. Also some dance cds.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 8:58am
Not sure why this would be a perfect show for the Encores summer series. It did not originate off-Broadway. Although the show had some wonderful performers -- e.g., Chuck Cooper, Lillias White, Pamela Isaacs, Bellamy Young -- the material was terrible. . A musical about pimps, sex workers, AIDS, and not a single Disney princess.
Posted: 11/4/18 at 9:40am
Such a great show. Saw it several times during it's run. It played for a year and won a few Tony Awards. I'm pretty sure it recouped, so in that regards it was a success. Great score.
Posted: 11/5/18 at 11:26am
Cesare2 said: "Not sure why this would be a perfect show for the Encores summer series. It did not originate off-Broadway.."
While I agree the material is quite problematic, it did indeed originate off - Broadway
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Posted: 11/5/18 at 11:31am
Awful show with a handful of decent songs. Encore should be about as far as it ever goes again.
I'm pretty sure it recouped, so in that regards it was a success.
It did not recoup. It flopped.
Posted: 11/5/18 at 12:19pm
Thanks, Mister Matt. I had thought it did. So many shows don't, unfortunately.
Posted: 11/6/18 at 5:53am
We had a production here in London last year, very enjoyable. Sharon D Clarke (soon to reprise Caroline, or Change in the West End) was in the cast. No reason this can't work in a small production off-broadway, as it worked very well at the Southwark Playhouse.
Posted: 11/6/18 at 6:52am
Give me Heather Headley as Queen.
Didn't Liza perform in the show for one night?
Posted: 11/6/18 at 9:21am
Posted: 11/6/18 at 9:59am
I saw the original Broadway production. The show itself was kind of a mess. Half the score sounded good, the other half was laughable, and the book and lyrics were chock-full of cliches and hoary tropes. Suffice it to say, a show about predominately black people written by two older white men wasn't exactly a model of racial sensitivity or understanding. The original production was lifted by a handful of particularly good performances, some of which I doubt will ever be equaled (Lillias White, especially). I am in no hurry to see it again.
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