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What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#25re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:37amFrontrowcentre2, thank you for putting The Rink on your list. I loved that show.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#26re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:46am
She Loves Me
#27re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:23pm
Carnival !
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#28re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:28pm
I like that someone else agreed with Ballroom.
I'd add The Act as well.
notabb
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#29re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:28pmFLOYD COLLINS
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#30re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:34pm
They need to revive Shenandoah
Also-Dear World is a good choice and I'd like to see Edwin Drood as a revival
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#31re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 3:31pm
I agree with many of the ones already poted.
How about these?
Carnival! (Less so since he Kennedy Center revival last eyar, whcih should hve moved to Broadway -- it needs reviving.)
The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
you want obscure? How about Henry, Sweet Henry?
#32re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 3:41pmOh ljay, you must be lovin' some Gwen! I think REDHEAD and NEW GIRL IN TOWN should be rediscovered...
#33re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 4:01pm
Good News
The Boyfriend
Fanny
I Had A Ball
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#34re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 4:09pmIf it's by Jason Robert Brown, it's pretty underappreciated to me. Same if it's by David Yasbek or Jeanine Tesori (and I'm not talkin' about Millie)
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#35re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 4:32pmJason Robert Brown under appreciated? Hardly. More like the most over-used audition material du jour.
#36re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 4:50pm
Promises, Promises
No Strings ( I would love to see this show done again!)
Zorba
One Touch of Venus (This needs to be done again!)
#37re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:07pm
Lionel Bart's under-appreciated masterpiece "BLITZ!"
Jerry Herman's Dear World and Milk and Honey
Grass Harp
Golden Boy
and On the 20th Century- which should only be revived with Cheno as Lily Garland. Many actresses can do the role justice but this is the role that Cheno was born to play!
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#38re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:55pm
Here here on Promises Promises.
Also 1/2 here here to Dear World and Milk and Honey--great scores, not so great books.
#39re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 6:17pmYes, to those people mentioning CARNIVAL, FANNY, GOLDEN BOY, and THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD.
#40re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 7:08pm
Bajour
The Boys From Syracuse
Jamaica
#41re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:32pm
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING
CAN-CAN
SOMETHING'S AFOOT
#42re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:34amI cannot recommend too highly a British musical called "The Crooked Mile" Book and lyrics by Peter Wildeblood and Music by Peter Greenwell. It's a masterpiece, utterly unlike any other British show and miles ahead of most American shows of its time (1959).
#43re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:49amHaving the OBCR of I HAD A BALL is one of my "guilty pleasures". It is mindless fun, from the brassy overture(with orchestrations by the wonderful Philip J. Lang) to Richard Kiley singing the very fine "The Fickle Finger of Fate". As for a revival, I don't think so. It ran for 199 performances at the Martin Beck(now the Al Hirschfeld) back in 1964. Star Buddy Hackett has very little to do on the OBCR.
#44re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 6:56am
I also like "Bravo Giovanni" for the music and some witty lyrics and the knockout performance by teenage Michelle Lee.
The Three Musketeers by Laurie Johnston, the MAN who wrote the theme music for "The Avengers" with Harry Secombe is a guilty pleasure as is "Cantebury Tales". I have the opening night program for "Cantebury Tales" the musical from the early 60s. Amazingly enough, if you didn't know it was a musical you'd never know from the program. There is no mention of the music and no list of songs. Strange, those British.....
#45re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 7:28am
I would suggest Thomas and the King, which has a great score by John Williams two years before he went to Hollywood to write the scores for Spielberg's films. However I am told the book was hilariously bad.
I'm going to disagree on Canterbury Tales. There's one good song in the score (whose title would get this thread deleted) and a couple of so-so ones. I tend to understand it as a University professor's first attempt at a musical. As for no song list in the programme, we still do that - see Gone With the Wind!
Picking up BroadwayBaby6's Lionel Bart theme, how about his take on La Strada?
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#46re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 10:44am
VIOLET and FLOYD COLLINS. Both are incredibly strong and quintessentially American; both should have entered the standard musical repertory in this country. COLLINS' thunder was stolen by RENT, but the indifference to VIOLET has never made sense to me.
I think THE BOYFRIEND is unjustly neglected, too; it's a much more dead-on takeoff of the 1920s than the overacclaimed DROWSY CHAPERONE or the horrifying THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.
Most underappreciated musical of all TIME, though, HAS to be...CITY OF ANGELS! Is there a less frequently produced Best Musical Award winner? Producers are scared of it because it costs too much to produce and isn't a "name" (outside us "inside" theatre devotees.) What a witty book and score! The only thing wrong with it is that it tries to be a little too clever; it outsmarts itself. That is not a flaw I find unforgivable.
#47re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 11:48am
Taboo
City Of Angels
#48re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 11:48am
Scripps2, I LIKE the show. I think the music is a blast. However, that being said, what I meant about not mentioning the song list was inaccurate. They don't mention that it is a musical AT ALL. There is nothing in the entire 48 page program that indicates music will be performed, no mention of musicians, composers, lyricists and nobody in the extensively-detailed cast list mentions having sung professionally before (BTW, I am talking about the British original production, not the much more Broadwayized American remounting). And I am certain what I have is the original program, the dates match and the cast is identical as the one listed in Theatre World. It's just plain weird.
#49re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:08pmCity of Angels
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