They're Playing Our Song

I enjoy listening to the TPOS recording, and like the Klein/Arnaz Tonys performance on YouTube. I've never seen it live, but seems like a sweet simple show inexpensive to produce with the relatable theme of Boy Meets Girl...

Would a revival work today? Have you seen a production, either Broadway or elsewhere? It ran for a respectable 2.5 years originally.

I'd like to see Jane Krakowski or Stephanie J. block as Sonia. Or Carolee, but I'm biased because I adore her and would buy a ticket to hear her read a phone book. What actor for Vernon? Zachary Levi? Cheyenne Jackson?

Love this musical. I was in my early teens and it's this musical that I immediately fell in love with the theater. It was back in college. Early 1980s.

nsguy45 said: "I saw Stephanie J. Block and Jason Alexander in a Los Angeles production several years ago. Stephanie was excellent, Jason was good, though miscast."

I saw that, too. I enjoyed it, mainly for the performances. It seemed a bit long for a two-hander.

It is a wonderful little show. I remember being captivated by the set design. The set design used to be posted online. I wish I could find it again.

Saw the show several times during its original run. Was set to play the lead in a local production of it until the director's boyfriend decided he wanted the role.



Guess how that one turned out!

I'd be curious to see it live. I haven't listened to it all the way through in years. I really love the song "Falling" - so much so that I still listen to it frequently, and even sang it at a school cabaret performance. And yet I could never really get into the rest of the score, but maybe I need to give it another listen

Falling has one of my favorite lyrics from musical theatre:

"You'd think by now I'd learn, play with fire, you get burned. But fire can be oh so warm, and that's why I returned." It's such a simple yet effective metaphor, and a very well-constructed lyric.

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Saw the OBP twice, including Lucie Arnaz's final performance. Robert Klein, who had already left the show, came to see Lucie and sat directly behind me.

i saw it the week AFTER I saw Sweeney Todd. Probably not the best timing, but that may have influenced my opinion that everything about it was totally mediocre. I never had any interest in seeing it again, and imagine it would be ridiculously dated at this time. I did buy the CD (or album...can't remember, and listened to it about twice.

I got to see the tour, with Victor Garber and Ellen Greene. Loved it and I listen to the original cast recording all the time. Over the years, I have read with interest the comments, in this and other forums, from those who say it's too slight and of its time to be revived but I remember it as an evening of sheer pleasure: sweet, very funny and with a bunch of terrific songs.