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#28

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The Wild Party (both of 'em)
The Golden Apple
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#32

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The Last Five Years
Zanna Don't
Both shows should have run for years.
They did not fail but they did not run long enough.
Both were wonderful and overlooked.
I loved the music in both.
The writer of Zanna is one of the sweetest men I have ever met.
And the cutest.
#36

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Thanks Margo, I didn't realize Urinetown was a success, financially.
I guess since it didn't win the Tony...well, I assumed. My bad.
Was ShowBoat considered successful (the one at the Gershwin a few years ago)?
I did see Steel Pier. I liked it.

#43

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Side Show and Bare, I know Bare never quite made it but it definitly deserved a chance!
It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!
#44

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Spooky,

Yes, that production of SHOW BOAT was both a critical and financial success.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#46

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definitely little shop...i think once the main original cast left...it started to fall down hill...they just couldnt bring it back...but it was such a good show...i saw it 3 times...and alway got a kick out of it...that cast was one of the sweetest ever!
"I looooove being on the road!!! I got to drive up here in a van with all the guyyys...i wake up at 1 in the afternoon...i played poker with them last niiight its so much fun! its when my dark side comes out...then i go home and im like "LETS HAVE BABIES!!!!"-idina menzel <3 Samantha
#48

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From IMDB.

Gorey Stories

An Entertainment with Music
Booth Theatre, (10/30/1978 - 10/30/197re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A  Second Chance?
Preview: Oct 17, 1978 Total Previews: 16
Opening: Oct 30, 1978
Closing: Oct 30, 1978 Total Performances: 1




Category: Play, Play with music, Original, Broadway
Setting: Lady Celia's drawing room. The summer house.

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Opening Night Production Credits


Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)


Produced by Terry Allen Kramer, Harry Rigby, Hale Matthews and John Wulp


Written by Edward Gorey; Book adapted by Stephen Currens; Music by David Aldrich; Lyrics by David Aldrich; Music orchestrated by David Aldrich; Musical Director: Martin Silvestri


Directed by Tony Tanner


Production Design by Edward Gorey; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan


General Manager: Jack Schlissel and Jay Kingwill; Company Manager: Alan Wasser


Production Stage Manager: Franklin Keysar; Assistant Stage Mgr: Beth Prevor


Assistant Conductor: Jeffrey Waxman


Scenery Supervised by Lynn Pecktal; Costumes Supervised by David Murin; General Press Representative: Henry Luhrman Associates; Press Representative: Anne Obert Weinberg; Photographer: Martha Swope; Advertising: Regis Albrecht and J. Walter Thompson; Furs by Ben Kahn Furs


Originally presented by the WPA Theatre (Howard Ashman, Artistic Director; Kyle Renick, Managing Director)


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Opening Night Cast


Gemze de Lappe Mona
a maid
Tobias Haller Little Henry
a child
Julie Kurnitz Lady Celia
the hostess
Susan Marchand Ortenzia Caviglia
a singer
Dennis McGovern Jasper Ankle
an opera freak
John Michalski Hamish
a beautiful young man
Leon Shaw C. F. Earbrass
an author
June Squibb Mary Rosemarsh
a spinster
Sel Vitella Harold
a butler



Understudies: Meg Bussert (Mona, Ortenzia Caviglia), C.A. Hutton (C. F. Earbrass, Hamish, Harold), Rose Roffman (Lady Celia, Mary Rosemarsh), Bill Stratton (Jasper Ankle, Little Henry).



© 2001-2004, The League of American Theatres and Producers, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


I saw the one performance.


" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

Updated On: 10/8/04 at 10:21 PM

#49

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Taboo Taboo Taboo!

LindsayAnne, that's my name too! Only I spell Ann with no e. That's cool!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

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