What Broadway show would you have loved to see Judy Garland in?- Page 2

[SweeneyLovett]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 11:57am

Gypsy all the way. After all, from what I understand, her mother basically was Rose and she'd have blown the roof off the place when she sang those songs.

Picturing her as Sally in Follies is also lovely. I can't even imagine how heartbreaking she'd have been in that role.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 1:02pm

GavestonPS, so this is not 100% related to the topic, but how on earth did Judy Garland get so much debt in her life? She didn't have some gambling addiction and she worked through her whole life, so why did she have no money? I recently watched Me and My Shadows, which I hear is pretty much the only Judy Garland story that is remotely good or accurate, and they pretty much just glossed over why she was in debt.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 2:49pm

Sid Luft was responsible for the gambling debt, but he was still alive when Lorna's book and the subsequent miniseries were made and Sid threatened lawsuits if his gambling addiction was mentioned.

Then there were Fields and Begelman. You can read the late Coyne Steven Sanders informative and entertaining book "Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show" for eye-popping details on the financial fraud perpetrated on Judy as well as other stars by her managers Freddie Fields and David Begelman.

Among other swindles, Begelman told Judy, while she was negotiating for her TV show with the very staid and conservatives at CBS, that a nude photo existed of her getting her stomach pumped in a London hospital after a drug overdose. He said that blackmailers were demanding $50,000 to turn over the picture and all negatives and that she should pay.

After his suicide years later, it was discovered that there had been no blackmailers. The $50,000 had gone to one of his accounts.

The miniseries was unable to pin any blame on Begelman and Fields either, because Freddie Fields was still alive and exercised enormous power until the day he died.

Devout practitioners of Judy-ism believe that there is a special corner of hell reserved for Sid Luft, David Begelman and Freddie Fields in which the bongos-only track of Judy's arrangement of "Come Rain or Come Shine" is played, incessantly, at great volume.

Updated On: 12/14/14 at 02:49 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:00pm

Wow. That's insane. Thanks so much for the info, and I'll have to check out Rainbow's End.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:06pm

"End of the Rainbow? Sorry, can't resist!"

That just made me laugh REALLY hard.

[RooMcGoo]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:25pm

WHAT IF Judy Garland could play the witch in Into the Woods? (mind blown). That would be something else for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wboOf06tt5A

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:26pm

Updated On: 12/14/14 at 03:26 PM

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:39pm

Imagine Judy singing The Diva's Lament in Spamalot. hehe.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 3:42pm

Or better yet, Judy Garland as the Diva in Starmites. Now THAT would be truly spectacular.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 4:11pm

Judy in a musical version of Valley of the Dolls. This is video of Susan Hayward spliced with Judy's prerecording before she was fired:

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 4:17pm

Gypsy and Sunset Blvd.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 8:18pm

Judy's Mimi's "Without You" would've resurrected Angel way before the curtain call.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 8:21pm

@PalJoey, What? I thought Judy purposely got fired because Liza told her about the script and how awful it was.

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[GavestonPS]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 8:34pm

Fantod, thanks for the question re Garland. PJ answered it better than I could have. (And thanks to you, PJ, for picking up my slack.)

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 9:39pm

That Susan Hayward/Judy Garland-I'll Plant My Own Tree" is Hysterical

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 9:48pm

I would've liked something exotic: "Anyone Can Whistle." Imagine "Me and My Town"?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/14/14 at 10:10pm

@Auggie, UGH! She would've made a brilliant, superlative, and a definitive Cora in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 12:16am

Not necessarily that I think she would be right for the show itself, but I would have loved to hear her sing "No Man Left for Me" from The Will Rogers Follies.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 12:16am

I thought Judy purposely got fired because Liza told her about the script and how awful it was.


Call it whatever you want, but when they give you half the agreed-upon fee of $37,500 (plus a couple of pants suits that you "forget" to return) and they ask you not to return to the set, you've pretty much been fired, even if the scripts stinks.

And LIZA told her she was too good for the film? Hmmm... Wonder who generated THAT version of the story...

Updated On: 12/15/14 at 12:16 AM

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 12:57am

@PalJoey, So what's the real version of it?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 2:29am

It's funny. I've always thought of I'll Plant My Own Tree as one of the worst songs ever written. Hearing Judy sing it, though,somehow lends it some credibility. She could sell anything.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 8:02am

isn't obvious?...ANYTHING GOES!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 8:03am

"I'll Plant My Own Tree" always sounds like a parody. Depending on my mood, either a parody of a bad Broadway act one closer, or a just a parody of a Great Lady declaration paean to her own ego. The lyrics are so giggle-inducing ("...my yard so I will try hard to welcome friends I have yet to..." etc.) it's hard to imagine that Ms. Previn and company didn't know the song was a send-up of a show tune. What show would contain such sentiments? Well, there's a whiff of GOLDEN RAINBOW. The only other lady who might sell it: Ms. Gorme.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 8:17am

@PalJoey, So what's the real version of it?

They're all real.

[theeatah]

Posted: 12/15/14 at 12:37pm

Hedwig, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.