What Broadway Play Do You Regret Not Seeing? — Page 2

It is such a shame that the 2020 Virginia Woolf was cancelled. Maybe Ryan Murphy should get them to do it for Netflix. Ha! Ha! The casting was so exciting!

LizzieCurry said: "Some of you are answering with musicals."

Last time I checked, "play" refers to "the stage representation of an action or story." I don't see how musicals don't fit in this definition. The distinction between plays and musicals (or musical comedies) is more conventional than technical, with the former being short for straight plays.

To answer the question, I regret not having seen the recent production of Company, which from what's out there really breathed a new life into this timeless material. To second others, not seeing Virginia Woolf with Metcalf is really aching me. I would also love to have seen The Gin Game with Cicely Tyson since I'm not sure if she will act on Broadway again.

The Little Foxes (Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Janet McTeer and Liev Schriber)

Jitney (2017 revival)

Significant Other

The Trip to Bountiful

Disgraced

BrodyFosse123 said: "The 2020 Broadway revival of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? My tickets were for March 13, the day of the shutdown. Sadly, the production closed during the shutdown. "

The shutdown started on March 12th though.

The first one that always comes to mind for me is the 2003 revival of Long Day's Journey with Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard. I regrettably gave in to the other folks I was with who wanted to see something else instead......

Also, if we're including musicals, then the Assassins revival--in part because I was supposed to see it the last night I was visiting the city but the first preview got pushed back, and in part because I ended up suffering through Match instead.

I am interpreting this as play (or musical) that you could have seen, but did not.

High on the list would be:

-- Death of a Salesman with Brian Dennehy

-- The Heiress with Cherry Jones

-- The Little Foxes with Anne Bancroft

-- The Pajama Game with Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr.

-- Gigi revival with Corey Cott, Dee Hoty, et al. I know it was not successful, but the movie remains my favorite movie musical and I love the OCR, especially Cott's singing of title song



If I had to choose one, I would actually choose The Pajama Game, as I loved the revival in the early70s with Hal Linden, Barbara McNair and Cab Calloway. It has a great Broadway score.

The original production of COMPANY. I was in school in the Midwest and couldn't get to it.

I would have liked to see THE NANCE live, but I'm glad it was recorded, and an excellent quality recording by the way.

And despite the play/musical debate in this thread, for a musical definitely SUNSET BOULEVARD if nothing else to see the stagecraft of the massive mansion set piece rising and lowering.

skies said: "As a teenager in NY, whose mom did let him go see Musicals on his own, and that was when the area was really sketchy, the original Pippin with Ben Vereen and Jill Clayburgh, and Mack and Mabel with Bernadette Peters."

You really did not miss anything with Mack and Mabel. As the audience left the theatre, you felt like you had just attended a funeral. It was a huge failure with a (subsequently discovered) great score.

As a teenager, you probably would have LOVED Pippin. To this day, I have friends who have never seen a performance of Pippin since 1975 because they did not want to spoil the memory of the original production. They were both in college at the time, and managed to see it several times, because it ran for five years.

Ankles Aweigh .... and maybe Portofino.