Top 5 Shows your would love to direct

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 2:56pm

I was thinking last night while listening to Ragtime how much I would love to direct it and realized there are quite a few shows I would love to try my hand at directing. I have interesting concepts for many musicals and think I could stage them quite interestingly. My top 5 are:

1. Ragtime
2. Lippa's Wild Party
3. RENT
4. West Side Story
5. Aida

Others on my extended list include Fiddler, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret, Beauty and the Beast and Millie. I think the reason for the ones that made my top 5 are because of their epic nature and how they capture the eras they are set in so well and create their own little (or big) world onstage.

So what about you guys...What shows would you love to direct.

Akiva

[rKrispyt]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:05pm

oh boy...I'm gonna intermingle my top choices for directing and choreography...in no particular order...

1. Violet (direct)
2. West Side Story (choreograph)
3. Last 5 Years (direct)
4. Lippa Wild Party (choreograph)
5. Bat Boy (both)

...those certainly aren't my top ever choices, just off the top of my head choices, lol.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:08pm

Producers
Annie Get Your Gun
The Graduate
Wicked
Guys and Dolls

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:16pm

musicals:

The Wild Party (Lachiusa)
Parade
JCS (or WSS)
Falsettos
Violet

plays:

Awake and Sing
The Shape of Things
Othello
Angels in America
Copenhagen -or- The Invention of Love

Updated On: 11/24/04 at 03:16 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:20pm

hmmm... five? The one show I would LOVE to direct is Cabaret, because so much is left open to interpretation. There's a lot you can do with it. Not sure what else.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:21pm

AGNES OF GOD
COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN

[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 3:57pm

Wild Party(Lippa)
Aida
Rent
Les Mis
Into the Woods

Posted: 11/23/04 at 4:00pm

Rent
The Wild Party
Oklahoma
42nd Street
Equus

(no specific order)

[Theatreboy33]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 4:41pm

I think I could direct Wicked better than what Joe mantello lazily pulled off. So i'll say that if only to fix the numerous things I see wrong in the direction.

Then..
Cabaret
Urinetown
PLay it Again Sam
Chess
Little Me Updated On: 11/23/04 at 04:41 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:02pm

hmm... there are so many, i wanna be a director when i grow up, so:
Assassins,
The Wiz,
Into the Woods,
Taboo,
City of Angels

the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on...

[Phantom05]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:10pm

I would love to direct the following:

- Chess
- Romeo et Juliet
- Into the woods
- Rear Window
- Titanic

I would love to re-work the book and lyrics for the following shows:

- Dracula the Musical
- Dance of the Vampires
- Romeo and Juliet

See Ya!

Phantom05

Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:14pm

A New Brain
Radio Gals
:)

[Cadriel]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 7:38pm

1. Chess
2. Hamlet (modern dress)
3. Jesus Christ Superstar
4. tick, tick...BOOM!
5. I Am a Camera

or just musicals:

1. Chess
2. Jesus Christ Superstar
3. tick, tick...BOOM!
4. Merrily We Roll Along
5. Cradle Will Rock

-Wayne

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 9:19pm

1. Godspell
2. Hair
3. JC Superstar
4. Pippin
5. Show Boat

Can you tell I'm a control freak with all those "open-for-interpretation" shows?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 11:16pm

The Goat
tick, tick...BOOM!
Into the Woods
Snakebit
This is Out Youth

[wickedkiwi]

Posted: 11/23/04 at 11:22pm

in no particular order:

Othello
Assassins
Putting it Together
Little Shop of Horrors
Into the Woods (or maybe Sunday in the Park with George, i dunno)

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 6:04am

Sweeney Todd
Sunday in the Park with George
Into the Woods
Anyone Can Whistle
Cabaret

Posted: 11/24/04 at 8:23am

I like to direct shows where I think I can attempt to "fix" what's broken (the writer in me, I like challenges). So:

1. Merrily: Because I have this grand scheme where I'm deluded enough to believe that I can "fix" it on the whole.
2. Rent: Because I'd like to take a stab at seeing how the choppy Act 2 can be a bit smoother, and less confusing. I think it's entirely possible with a fresh look at it.
3. Urinetown: Because I think that during the scenes that drag (read: not as funny), I think more humor can be put into them. You don't even *need* to change the book.
4. TickTickBoom: Just looks like it would be fun to work with 3 good actors in a show like this.
5. JCS: Because I want to set it ON THE MOON! Pharisees as space monkeys! Judas in a space suit!

OK, maybe #5 won't work.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 8:30pm

Good choices guys...I agree with most of them. I would love to try my hand at most of the shows listed, including some of the flawed ones, to see if I can smooth them out a little.

Akiva

[kangaroo]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 8:37pm

Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
West Side Story
Oklahoma!
Aida

And as director... I would get to choose my own singers right?
A dream come true...

[mizzie]

Posted: 11/29/04 at 9:15pm

Les Misérables(Just because!)
Damn Yankees(Great Dancing!)
Phantom(For the emotion!)
Wicked(It would be swankified!)
West Side Story(Since I saw it last week!)