The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#1
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:29am
Paper Mill has a bunch of new shows including:
The Honeymooners
Annie (Not new but a classic)
The Outsider
The Sting
and Half Time
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/02/paper_mill_2017-18_season_the_honeymooners_half_ti.html#incart_river_home
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#2
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:37am
I wouldn't call Annie ambitious.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#3
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:38am
I think the fact that three out of four shows in their season are new is what the OP was alluding to with their word choice.
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#4
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:40am
Technically, only The Honeymooners and The Sting are new (as in, world premiere). Half-Time has had a major regional production already.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#5
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:43am
Half Time was formerly named, Gotta Dance. Since it's run in Chicago, it has had many updates to the show.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#6
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:45am
Interesting that HALF-TIME is slated for Spring/Summer 2018? I thought they might try to get it to Broadway next season.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#7
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:54am
Oh, wow. If all of these shows come on Broadway, Paper Mill is about to be rewarded handsomely (I am assuming).
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#8
Posted: 2/27/17 at 11:58am
What a thrilling season!!
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#9
Posted: 2/28/17 at 9:53am
The Honeymooners musical is finally gaining some traction. Word. But they'd better get Michael McGrath back for Ralph...there is really no one else who can do it justice.
Between this, The Sting, and Half Time, Papermill seems determined to move every new musical it produces onto Broadway. They are definitely riding the Bronx Tale/Bandstand high at the moment.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#10
Posted: 2/28/17 at 10:27am
I hadn't heard about this musical version of The Sting before now. I know there is a straight play, but I'm excited to see how the musical develops. I LOVED that movie.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#11
Posted: 2/28/17 at 10:27am
I hadn't heard about this musical version of The Sting before now. I know there is a straight play, but I'm excited to see how the musical develops. I LOVED that movie.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#12
Posted: 2/28/17 at 10:31am
Hollman and Kotis for The Sting has me very interested. The rest...not so much. Saw Gotta Dance in Chicago and I can only say, I hope it gets a LOT better for Papermill.
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#13
Posted: 2/28/17 at 10:56am
I agree with bvgrimaldi. It IS Paper Mill's most ambitious season (acknowledging that ''Annie'' is the one Broadway classic that's perfect for their family audiences). They're doing TWO world premieres, and two East Coast premieres, and one of them is even a play (!). Compare that to Paper Mill's past, which was largely remounting many Rodgers & Hammerstein shows, plus warhorses, like ''Gypsy,'' ''Mame,'' ''Hello, Dolly!'' and other proven tried-and-true crowdpleasers. Now they're got a track record of new musicals going to Broadway: ''Newsies,'' ''Honeymoon in Vegas,'' ''A Bronx Tale,'' ''Bandstand.'' Maybe this attention helped Paper Mill finally get a Tony for Regional Theater after all these decades. More than putting it on the map, I'll assume that Paper Mill stands to benefit financially long-term by these associations.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#14
Posted: 2/28/17 at 12:13pm
I don't understand why people are trying to make Half-Time happen. Gotta Dance was a bit too messy and cheap when I saw it in Chicago.
Hopefully, there are a lot of changes.
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#15
Posted: 2/28/17 at 4:53pm
Jerry Mitchell told me that the show was going directly to Bway, so I'm guessing that they realized that the show needed a lot of work in Chicago. Chris Jones is usually pretty good at identifying weaknesses.
I remember reading about The Sting a long time ago. Any word on its creative team?
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#16
Posted: 2/28/17 at 4:56pm
The article states:
John Rando will again return to the theater starting in March 2018 for "The Sting, a new musical" -- another world premiere, based on the classic Paul Newman-Robert Redford film. The composers are Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, who wrote "Urinetown."
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#17
Posted: 2/28/17 at 6:12pm
But will the musical of ''The Sting'' use any of Scott Joplin's rags? The Oscar-winning movie is so identified with ''The Entertainer.''
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#18
Posted: 2/28/17 at 6:57pm
Wayman_Wong said: "But will the musical of ''The Sting'' use any of Scott Joplin's rags? The Oscar-winning movie is so identified with ''The Entertainer.'"
"The Entertainer" will reportedly be part of the score. It will be opening the show, similar to how the Addams Family theme opened ADDAMS FAMILY before the overture.
The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#19
Posted: 2/28/17 at 8:29pm
Re: The Sting, I read elsewhere (related to this season announcement) that Bob Martin is writing the book. Composer/lyricists I love (working with their director from Urinetown), a book writer (Drowsy Chaperone) I love, adapting a film I... vaguely remember loving. This one has me genuinely excited.
And several people I know who were involved with workshops of Honeymooners said the material was great. And I know no casts have been announced, but I would pay money to watch Michael McGrath and Hank Azaria just riff for two hours as those two characters.
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The Paper Mill just announced its most ambitious line-up in history#20
Posted: 2/28/17 at 11:38pm
Thanks for the info, CFried. Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis won Tony Awards for ''Urinetown'' in 2002. Who could've guessed that 15 years would go by before their next Broadway project?
(Did other efforts close out of town? What have they been doing?)
And does ''The Honeymooners'' use its iconic TV theme, too?
Thanks in advance to anyone with the answers!
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