What Sondheim show WOULD you like to see revived?

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What Sondheim show WOULD you like to see revived?

Posted: 3/26/08 at 10:58pm

srs topics deserve srs threads.

I personally would love to see A Little Night Music and Passion revived. though I'm not sure of casts for either one.

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re: What Sondheim show WOULD you like to see revived?

Posted: 3/26/08 at 10:59pm

wikud!

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:01pm

Definitely FOLLIES.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:02pm

rent!

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:03pm

I'd like SATURDAY NIGHT to play Broadway

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:05pm

In order of urgency:

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
FOLLIES
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
PASSION

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:06pm

Merrily We Roll Along

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:08pm

oo, yes, I agree with Anyone Can Whistle and Merrily. I've listened to both, and can follow ACW MUCH better than I can Merrily.

I know next to nothing about Saturday Night, but I guess that should be reason enough for me to want it on Broadway.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:12pm

Truth be told, I don't like SATURDAY.

And the only thing I like about MERRILY is the score.

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE has always been 50/50, as well. I don't think ANYONE CAN WHISTLE can ever be a successful musical.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:15pm

I don't want to see any Sondheim show revived. I want to see a NEW Sondheim show!

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:16pm

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, the fact that it hasn't been revived is ridiculous.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:22pm

A Little Night Music

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:24pm

Night Music

and WHISTLE at Encores.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:26pm

Evening Primrose.

A Little Night Music.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:39pm

Follies (with Donna Murphy and Victoria Clark, please)

Sweeney (original staging or some variant, with Bernadette Peters)

A Little Night Music (with Angela Lansbury)

Assassins - I didn't see the 2004 "revival," would really like to see a professional production

Into the Woods - anything would be better than the last revival!

Passion

#16

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:39pm

Follies, Merrily We Roll Along, and A Little Night Music.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:42pm

I forgot MERRILY. That's in the works. At least I hope it still is.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:50pm

If Doyle's version is good, I'd love to see it make a transfer to Broadway.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:51pm

No thanks. Good things were not said for the Doyle version.

I am more interested in the rumored Roundabout version.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:55pm

Oh so am I. I'd much rather see the Roundabout's version. I basically meant that I'd like to see any version of it come to Broadway. And since Doyle's is the only one that has happened so far, I thought if it were good, it could transfer.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:57pm

A Little Night Music. With Sara Ramirez as Petra.

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Posted: 3/26/08 at 11:59pm

A Little Night Music, for damn sure.

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Posted: 3/27/08 at 12:01am

A Little Night Music. With Sara Ramirez as Petra.

- She did that already.

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Posted: 3/27/08 at 12:01am

How about A Little Night Music with Angela Lansbury (as Madame) and Christine Ebersole as Desiree?

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Posted: 3/27/08 at 12:02am

I want a great FOLLIES production that keeps Kathleen Marshall 50 miles away from the theatre, starring Victoria Clark and Donna Murphy.
I also want Encores! to do ANYONE CAN WHISTLE with Meryl Streep as Cora, Jane Krakowski as Nurse Apple, and Neil Patrick Harris as Hoover.
After all that, PASSION with Laura Benanti as Clara (though apparently her dream role is Fosca).

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