This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions

[CapnHook]

This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#1

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:00pm

How about one of these?:

BYE BYE BIRDIE
MAME
PARADE
THE SECRET GARDEN

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[AC126748]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#2

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:02pm

Encores did BYE BYE BIRDIE three years ago and THE SECRET GARDEN was the World AIDS Day concert two years ago, so neither of those will happen.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, please!

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[kyle.]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#2

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:04pm

And Mame was just produced with Christine Baranski.

[SDav 10495]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#3

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:04pm

Encores did BYE BYE BIRDIE three years ago and THE SECRET GARDEN was the World AIDS Day concert two years ago, so neither of those will happen.

Encores! did Hair three years before the Actors' Fund did, so ya never know.

Bye Bye Birdie could be a fun all-star concert, though I'm normally not a huge fan of the show.

"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#4

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:05pm

PARADE
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
ANYTHING GOES

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[gumbo2]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#5

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:06pm

Ooh, I'll second Anything Goes.

[munkustrap178]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#6

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:09pm

I wouldn't like to see any of those shows.


I wouldn't mind seeing:

BLOOD BROTHERS
ANYTHING GOES
BRIGADOON
CITY OF ANGELS
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
ON THE TOWN

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[skybomb]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#7

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:10pm

how boring...Parade?

it needs some pizazz...

[CapnHook]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#8

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:11pm

Love the ANYTHING GOES and CITY OF ANGELS suggestions.

Was GARDEN really two years ago? Seems like forever ago...

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[BobbyBubby]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#9

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:13pm

I like the Drood idea.

[gumbo2]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#10

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:13pm

City of Angels would be cool, too.

What about She Loves Me? I don't know the show, I just have the recording.

[theaterdude87]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#11

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:14pm

The Rocky Horror Show

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[luvtheEmcee]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#12

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:15pm

They can do so much better than Bye Bye Birdie. What a ridiculous show.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[BobbyBubby]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#13

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:16pm

How about Taboo?

[Rathnait62]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#14

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:16pm

LES MIZ.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[husk_charmer]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#15

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:18pm

I have a weird feeling it's gonna be "Carrie"....

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[goofy108]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#16

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:25pm

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
THE FULL MONTY
INTO THE WOODS
JC SUPERSTAR
SEUSSICAL
TOMMY
THE WILD PARTY (either)

i dunno.
whatever it is, I hope they end up recording it.

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#17

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:27pm

INTO THE WOODS or HELLO DOLLY would be fun.

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[D2]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#18

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:28pm

ANKLES AWEIGH

Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

[munkustrap178]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#19

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:28pm

The point of the concert is to do well liked shows that haven't been seen in a while - or something so special that people will pay $1000+ for a seat.

A big no to BRIGHT LIGHTS, MONTY, WOODS, JC, SEUSSICAL, and TWP.

And a big yes to TOMMY.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[munkustrap178]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#20

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:28pm

INTO THE WOODS is a great show, but it's a bit tired right now. I just feel like it's overdone.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[kyle.]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#21

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:34pm

Marie Christine!

hahaha

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#22

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:36pm

Well...Vanessa Williams did ruin it...I almost feel like people need someone to get that awful memory out of their mind with an amazing performance...

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[goofy108]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#23

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:40pm

i agree with you munkustrap about INTO THE WOODS. And maybe a few others but i would pay big bucks to see a star-studded JCS or MONTY. maybe thats just me.
i was just disappointed last year when they chose WHOREHOUSE. i enjoyed DREAMGIRLS, CHESS, and HAIR so much.
i want them to choose an ensemble show like the few i just listed so that more stars are able/willing to join.

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: This Year's ACTOR'S FUND All-Star Concert Suggestions#24

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:42pm

7 Brides for 7 Brothers?
Guys and Dolls would be a hoot.

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)