What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
#1What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:40pm
I choose Anyone Can Whistle & Sunday in the park.
basically any piece Mr Sondheim graced the world with.
Updated On: 5/22/08 at 07:40 PM
#2re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:43pm
There are some popular Sondheim pieces. Sunday doesn't really count anymore since the revival.
I'd say
Redhead
New Girl In Town
Good look finding a production of those musicals.
Updated On: 5/22/08 at 07:43 PM
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#2re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:55pmGolden Apple.
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#3re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:58pmShe Loves Me (although it still gets produced here and there)
#4re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 7:59pm
I think Finian's Rainbow is fairly under-appreciated. hopefully that will change a bit after next year's Encores! production.
some other shows that come to mind are Pacific Overtures, Big River, and...Prettybelle.
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#5re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:01pm
Carrie
Dear World
Mack and Mabel
The Baker's Wife
Prettybelle
Late Nite Comic (I like the music, although the guy who wrote complains all the time in interviews)
and many more...
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Updated On: 5/22/08 at 08:01 PM
#6re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:17pmAmour
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#7re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:46pm
Olympus on my Mind
Hollywood Pinafore
Zombie Prom
A Day in Hollywood...
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#8re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:52pm
Side Show
And it's really not that under-appreciated, but it does deserve to be a lot more well known: Ragtime.
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#9re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:31pmZorba-one of Kander & Ebb's best scores, and when done right, it can be a really soaring and uplifting show.
#10re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:47pm
The majority of Michael John LaChiusa musicals, mainly....
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#11re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/22/08 at 11:49pmI saw She Loves Me just this past Monday at the Huntington in Boston and I absolutely adored it. anyone who's anywhere near Boston REALLY needs to go see it.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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#13re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:18am
Lestat
Dracula
Dance of the...
Oh, who am I kidding, there's no way I can make those choices sound sincere.
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#14re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:24amMe and My Girl comes to mind. I hadn't even heard of it until I saw it at the Pittsburgh CLO with Sutton Foster a couple of years ago.
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#15re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:33am
Carrie is not "rarely seen."
I'll respond with Side Show
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#16re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 12:47am
The majority of Michael John LaChiusa musicals, mainly....
Exactly.
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#17re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 3:56am
KISMET
PAINT YOUR WAGON (problematic book)
SILK STOCKINGS
FIORELLO
NO STRINGS
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
GOLDEN BOY
I LOVE MY WIFE
THE RINK
MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
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#18re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 5:31am"I Love My Wife" jumps out of that previous list. The OBCR is so great, I'd love to see it. Reprise in LA is doing it next season, with Jason Alexander.
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#19re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:38amL'll ABNER is under-appreciated. It may be done in high schools, but I think it could stand a Broadway revival. Its satiric book and score are great, IMO, and its sly take on the corruption in Washington is very up to date. It would need a great choreographer, as dancing is an important factor in this show, originally choreographed by the famous Michael Kidd. The movie version has retained some of the original Broadway dances and is worth getting for this alone, and the title role is played by Peter Palmer, also from Broadway. And the film also has the unique Julie Newmar who has to be seen to be believed. It is available very cheap on Amazon.com
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#20re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:48am
Applause
By Jeeves
Honk
Lizzie Borden
Mutiny
Sarafina!
#21re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 8:55am
Dear World
Sideshow
Working
Ballroom
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#22re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:02am
The Baker's Wife
Ragtime
Shenandoah
Then there is the never seen (but, having never seen it, the score may be the best part):
Mack & Mabel
#23re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:32am
I think the most underseen show is "On the Twentieth Century"
It has a fabulous score, hysterical book and great characters so it's surprising there has never been a Broadway revival. And there is already the perfect cast for it. The actors fund did an amazing concert version of it a couple years ago - they should revive the show with Marin Mazzie and Douglass Sills.
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#24re: What are the most rarely seen/under-appreciated musicals?
Posted: 5/23/08 at 9:34amI think The Mystery of Edwin Drood is vastly under appreciated
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