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What Musicals should be revived?
#25What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 11:46amTaboo
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#26What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 12:12pm
City of Angels
Once On This Island
Two Gentlemen From Verona
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#27What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 2:17pm
The Music Man with Kelli O'Hara or Sierra Boggess
#28What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 2:48pm
TAKE ME ALONG
starring Nathan Lane & Daniel Radcliffe
LITTLE ME
starring Jim Carrey
THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG
starring Jim Parsons and Sutton Foster
DO-RE-MI
starring Nathan Lane & Andrea Martin
INTO THE WOODS
The Baker - Brent Spiner
Baker's Wife - Sutton Foster
The Witch - Donna Murphy
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Starring Leslie Kritzer and Carol Burnett
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Frank - Colin Donnell
Charlie - John Tartaglia
Mary - Leslie Kritzer
#29What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 2:57pm
I was thinking about Take Me Along, but it would need serious revisions. The first of which would be to open the show with Sid's arrival.
I like the idea of Do Re Mi (not with Nathan Lane), but can they at least change the title?
And I'm reluctant to list City of Angels because I have difficulty imagining the show with anything other than the original staging.
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#30What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 4:07pm
My Fair Lady
And I'd love for the London production of Crazy For You to transfer to Broadway!
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#32What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 9:54pm
I know Crazy for You isn't going to be on Broadway anytime soon (Stupid Nice Work!) but I want a revival so bad.
Call me crazy, but would anyone else like a revival of Guys and Dolls with Sutton as Sarah and Cheno as Adelaide?
#33What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:01pm
I'd love to see Sunset Boulevard and Once On This Island. Spider Woman would be fabulous with Catherine Zeta-Jones, maybe Naya Rivera in 5-10 years once Glee is over.
Also, Smash had made me really want a big budget My Fair Lady revival!
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#34What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:23pm
I agree about Guys and Dolls.
Marc Kudisch? as Nathan Detroit
Kristin Chenoweth as Miss Adelaide
Harry Connick, Jr. as Sky Masterson
Sutton Foster as Sarah Brown
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#35What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 10:47pm
Once upon This Mattress
A New Brain
Chess (w/ revised book)
City of Angels
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#36What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/23/12 at 11:08pm
Beauty and the Beast
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
Into the Woods (If the Central Park production is a success and very well-received)
Hairspray (Maybe in a couple a years)
#37What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/24/12 at 7:22pm
Kristin Chenoweth as Adelaide? GENIUS!
But I doubt a Guys and Dolls revival will come anytime soon... the last one was just a couple of years ago, but I'm all for a revival with a great cast this time.
and I would trade Nice Work for Crazy For You anyday... even without having seen it (Nice Work). I just adore Crazy For You!
She Loves Me could also be a good idea for a revival.
#38What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/24/12 at 9:53pm
Miss Saigon
Sunset Boulevard
Les Mis (even though I know it may be too soon...but still!)
Sweeney Todd with Michael Ball should come to Broadway. That would be great :)
#39What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/24/12 at 10:00pmFOLLIES. There never has been a really good revival.....
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#40What Musicals should be revived?
Posted: 2/24/12 at 11:46pm
Seconding BroadwayTravis' vote for Whistle Down the Wind, though of course you can count on me to vote for anything involving Jim Steinman. 
People give Whistle a bad rap, but that's partly because it's only the uneven '96 D.C. and '07 touring versions that America has seen. The version that emerged late in the run at the Aldwych Theater in London following minor revisions is the best version of the show. I'm not going to claim that Whistle is perfect, mind you, but the Aldwych version works, and I agree with Hal Prince (who directed it in its original D.C. run):
"...it had validity. I also never imagined that it could be a critical success, and that doesn't always matter. The original reviews of The Sound of Music, another musical about children, were terrible, and besides, no one really remembers what the original reviews of a hit show are. I knew that Whistle Down the Wind would likely be labeled as 'sentimental,' as The Sound of Music had been, and correctly so, but I also felt it had a potentially irresistible quality. Going in, I felt it had all the ingredients to become a popular success, and I still think it would have been infernally popular."
(Quote from Foster Hirsch's Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre.)
It just needs the right cast, and a better director than Bill Kenwright, whose national tour was criticized for its "rudimentary" staging by several critics.
(Brief casting note: In all honesty, I am quite surprised that Ted Neeley was never approached for The Man [the show's Christ-like figure], considering he's been playing Jesus for the better part of 40 years and seeking darker parts for longer, and this role straddles the line between both. It would have been a great comeback, well within his vocal range given his advancing years, and Webber could have gotten a nice publicity angle, to say nothing of a built-in Tedhead fan base, out of involving Neeley. He's who I would cast were I to produce it.)
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