The Scarlet Pimpernel

Been listening to the score all day.. what great songs. I forget how many good ones there are.

Could a revival ever happen? It's not that well known.

Laura Osnes was impeccable in the concert a few years ago. 

Wick3 said: "I, too, am glad I got to see the 2019 concert starring Laura Osnes, Tony Yazbeck, and Norm Lewis!

Does anyone know if there is a video out there? I found highlights from the concert in the BWW link below and some rehearsal vids on youtube:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay/BWW-TV-Watch-Highlights-of-Tony-Yazbeck-Laura-Osnes-Norm-Lewis-More-in-THE-SCARLET-PIMPERNEL-20190219

Updated On: 5/5/21 at 11:24 PM

I wish I could share the other posters’ love of this show. I’ll grant you much of the score is swell. But my husband and I saw the OBC and have never felt so unwelcome in a theater. The constant homophobia and f*g-baiting in the script that had the audience guffawing uproariously made us want to crawl under our pricey seats. Someone would have to rip whole chunks out of the script to make this show palatable to today’s audiences (well, I pray that’s true anyway).

Updated On: 5/5/21 at 10:57 AM

Yes; even the Lincoln Center concert included a new(ish?) song that had been written for a Japanese production.

A wonderful score (if one can overlook the abysmal opening number). 
It is material that could so easily have been made into a great musical, especially with so many beautiful songs, but it wasn't... it's been decades since I've seen the show but what struck me then was the irony that the classic Leslie Howard-Merle Oberon-Raymond Massey movie had more a feel of musical comedy than the musical does.  A delicious buoyancy to the romance, inimical to the story, was absurdly missing,  The show seemed hellbent on being "weighty" when it would have been far more moving with a lighter touch.

Updated On: 5/5/21 at 12:22 PM

I love the show and would have liked to have seen the concert production (Laura Osnes is amazing as always and Norm Lewis's "Falcon in the Dive" is the best I've ever heard vocally). That being said, as a fan of the book series, I don't like how the musical treats Percy's foppishness as a ruse. In the books, he does play into being a fop to fool people, but it's also very much a part of who he is.

Someone in a Tree2 said: "I wish I could share the other posters’ love of this show. I’ll grant you much of the score is swell. But my husband and I saw the OBC and have never felt so unwelcome in a theater. The constant homophobia and f*g-baiting in the script that had the audience guffawing uproariously made us want to crawl under our pricey seats. Someone would have to rip wholechunks out of the script to make this show palatable to today’s audiences (well, I pray that’s true anyway)."

I had a friend in the production and sat through all 37 versions of this. It just kept getting worse and worse, the anecdote in itself is not that exciting as to sustain a 2 act.