The Revival I am Yearning For! — Page 2

#26

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 1:59pm

I totally agree with chess, especially after a little reworking...

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#27

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:09pm

PORGY AND BESS. At least we get a production next season with the LA Opera - which means it will have a full orchestra!

#28

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:17pm

L5Y
Chess (with reworking of course)
Parade

#29

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:29pm

Ragtime
Parade
Tommy

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What the puck?!

#30

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:30pm

I think the only way to see a truly first rate revival of Porgy and Bess -- which is certainly long overdue -- is at an opera house. On Broadway, you can only have 28 musicians and MAYBE a cast of 50 (though few shows these days have more than 35-40). Whenever the Met, for instance brings it back, there's an 80 piece orchestra and a cast of 100+. THAT's how I want to see PORGY, rather than some tiny anemic Broadway revival.

I saw the last Broadway revival of the show back in 1983. Though it played at Radio City, it was deemed eligible for Broadway and the Tonys and it was genuinely epic with an enormous cast, orchestra, sets etc.... That's how the show should ideally be produced.

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#31

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:33pm

That sounds awesome!

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#32

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:40pm

Margo - that's why I'm going to jump on tickets here as soon as they're available - for probably more than one performance!

#33

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 2:53pm

Westside Story
Annie
Grease!!!
Oliver
Arsenic and Old Lace
Noises Off

#34

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 3:16pm

"Hello, Dolly!' starring Harvey Fierstein as Dolly Levi.

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#35

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 3:19pm

Above all else, West Side Story.

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#36

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 3:32pm

I thought of another one

Once Upon A Mattress

oy there's so much I wanna see.

#37

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 3:44pm

West Side Story.

I think a Sweet Charity revival in the future with the original book would be awful. The original book was bad, especially the ridiculous ending. I much prefer Neil Simon's revised book. But I'm all for recreating Bob Fosse's staging and choreography.

#38

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 4:04pm

Minus the good fairy ending, the original book was pretty good. I have the script/book Random House released in the 60's, and it really isn't that bad.

There are some jokes that no one will get today. But I think Simon tried to modernize a little too much. The new ending was pretty good, because it gives the audience comfort that Charity will be okay.

But Simon took out the big rescue scene, and plenty of other things from the original book. I do love that they changed the parachute jump to the feris wheel.

Updated On: 4/23/06 at 04:04 PM

#39

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 4:15pm

WWS
Urinetown
Annie (Yes, I want Annie back on bway!)

#40

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 4:21pm

I would really love to see the London production of Sunday in the Park with George transfer to NYC.

A Parade revival needs to happen within the next five years or so.

#41

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 6:39pm

Spiderwoman starring Catherine Zeta-Jones
Sunday in the Park (prays for transfer)
Ragtime (evenutually)
The Wiz - starring Anika Noni Rose and Michael Richard Ford

and in many many years when Anika Noni Rose is older lets make her Caroline in Caroline or Change

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#42

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:30pm

The Seacret Garden - a show that I always thought was underrated but is beautifil. The show either need to be huge and epic, or very small and intimate. Nothing inbetween works, thats the problem with community theater productions of the show, they don't have the budget to produce it on an epic scale and I have yet to see a production that has the imagination to make a simple vision work.

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#43

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:40pm

West Side Story
Dreamgirls
Funny Girl
Sunday In The Park...
A Little Night Music
Merrily We Roll Along
Kiss of the Spiderwoman

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#44

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:40pm

The Wiz! Could the Broadway climate right now be any more perfect for a revival of The Wiz?!

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#45

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:52pm

"Hello, Dolly!" is LONG overdue, as is "Bye, Bye, Birdie"

I'd love to see "Sunday in the Park With George" revived too, it's one of my favorites. "No, No, Nanette" is due for a revival too, or at least something at Encores!.

Others:
Evita
Baby
Godspell
Me and My Girl
Annie
West Side Story
Funny Girl
City of Angels
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Barnum (this can probably wait)
Once Upon a Mattress (with a proper star)
Brigadoon (though the climate isn't really ripe for it, it's another long overdue)

#46

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:31pm

Hello Dolly!
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Oliver!
and I know it's being revived, but I want it on Broadway...Guys and Dolls

#47

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:31pm

Sorry, Double post

Updated On: 4/23/06 at 08:31 PM

#48

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:34pm

The same answer I give every time this question is asked:
Pippin

I know there has been talks recently about a revival, I just hope things come to fruition.

And I still haven't accepted that Ragtime closed. I know it's too soon for a revival, but a girl can dream.

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#49

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Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:36pm

Seussical
and
CARRIE

#50

re: The Revival I am Yearning For!

Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:36pm

If the Dreamgirls movie is a hit, I would not doubt a future revival. It is about time for one anyway.

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...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...