What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
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#1What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:50pm
Amanda Palmer as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Merrily We Roll Along to transfer to America from the West End.
A Passing Strange cast reunion concert.
That treatment for a Muppet broadway musical to happen.
The gay rework of Company to come to Broadway.
That’s what I want out of 2014
What about you?
Updated On: 12/22/13 at 08:50 PM
#2What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:54pm
Merrily We Roll Along transfer
King and I at Lincoln Center
My Fair Lady with Laura Benanti at the Palace Theatre
#2What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 9:18pm
I think some of this is wishful thinking, but what the heck...
--Jessie Mueller takes on a role with new original music (I know she's originating her role in Beautiful, but I'd love to see her really create a new role)
--The long rumored LCT King and I
--Nina Arianda tackles a musical and knocks us all out
--A revival of The Rink
#3What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 9:42pm
--Fun Home transfer to Broadway, if only for Tony eligibility
--Rights released for one or two more of the current crop of Broadway long-runners
--Jukebox musical from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band about the Jersey Shore in the 1970s, post-Vietnam
--Danny Elfman finally contributes a theatre score, as he has long said that he would
--Tim Minchin demo recordings for "Matilda" leak to YouTube
--"Princess Bride" musical premieres and is good
--Nobody else writes a musical based on the two public domain properties I am developing shows from
#4What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 10:56pm
- Max Crumm in Avenue Q as Princeton/Rod
- Laura Osnes playing a bad girl (I know she won't but a girl can dream)
- Fun Home Broadway Transfer
- Jessie Mueller winning the Tony
- New musicals, please!! None of the "based on..." crap
#5What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 11:04pmEverything is based on something, so this no based on crap. Is well crap!
#6What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 11:18pmFun Home is based on a graphic novel so...
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/22/13 at 11:32pmA 50th Anniversary production of HELLO, DOLLY! with Georgia Engel as Dolly.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#8What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 2:28am
My Fair Lady at LCT
Fun Home transfer (duh)
Merrily We Roll Along transfer
American Psycho transfer (at least to West End)
For the Cabaret revival to be just as good as the original revival
Stephen Ward to crash and burn
Strictly Ballroom transfer
King Kong transfer
Honeymoon transfer
#9What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 2:46am
-Donna Murphy announces her return to Broadway in something fabulous like MAME or an actually good new show (none of that PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE nonsense)
-BULLETS OVER BROADWAY ends up being a critical and popular hit alike
-Lauren Ambrose is cast in a Broadway musical and blows it out of the park
#10What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 9:49amFor revivals to stop being revisals.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#11What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 9:55am
A revival of "City Of Angels"
Come on guys, this one is a no-brainer. It's a great show and needs to have a production. My only reservation is can they find top notch talent to play the roles. I don't want Hollywood names trying their hand at Broadway. I want musical theater actors who know how to sell the songs and make this show sing.
#12What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 10:56amJust for Cabaret to be the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. I've been waiting so long that I'm scared it won't possibly satisfy me.
#13What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 12:01pmI put-in for the newsdesk internship at Broadway.com. Haven't heard anything back as of yet but will send a follow-up letter the day after Christmas. Really enjoy theatre and would like very much to meet some of the wonderful and talented personalities of the community.
#14What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 12:08pmLaura Osnes already played a bad girl in a BONNIE & Clyde.
#15What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 10:01pm
Kristin Chenoweth in On the Twentieth Century.
Someone asked her on Twitter when she would be back on Broadway and she responded "Announcement coming soon.. Broadway bound!".
But I feel like she does that a lot, and then plans 3485345843 movies and concerts.
Oh, and anything with Laura Benanti. I would love to see Sarah Paulson or Jessica Lange back in a play as well!
#16What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 10:48pm
- Cabaret to become an open-ended run
- Amanda Palmer to take over for the Emcee or Sally Bowles in Cabaret if it extends
- Rebecca to finally open on Broadway
#17What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 10:55pm
-Jessie Mueller having a great leading role that plays to all of her strengths! She deserves something AMAZING
-A revival of The Secret Garden (I can dream)
-A lot of new and original work, with a lot of up and coming composers and lyricists making their Broadway debuts!
-Patti LuPone winning her third Tony
-Heathers: the Musical to transfer to Broadway and become a HIT
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#18What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/23/13 at 11:48pm
The Bodyguard opens at the Marquis Theatre
Michelle Williams slays as Sally Bowles in Cabaret
Patina Miller will extend her stay in Pippin
If/Then becomes a huge success and gets Idina her second Tony nomination
NPH doesn't host the Tony awards
A new Glinda not familiar with Wicked or its various tours or other productions will be cast
Diner opens
Danna Paola joins the cast of Wicked as Elphaba
Updated On: 12/23/13 at 11:48 PM
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Joined: 12/31/69
#19What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/24/13 at 12:12amFull orchestras. Unlikely, I know, but that's what I would like.
#20What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/24/13 at 2:12amA full-scale revival of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE in its original three acts, using the original orchestrations with a full orchestra. Patti LuPone as Cora and Sutton Foster as Fay.
Blactor
Understudy Joined: 8/11/11
#22What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/24/13 at 1:18pm
What I want--and what I know is coming, maybe not this year, but soon--is a surge of theatre created by non-white artists (that actually gets PRODUCED) that breathes some much-needed life into the increasingly antiquated and socioculturally benign thing we call "American Theatre".
I want Asian, Black, Latino, and Indigenous actors to be used for more than just diversifying Broadway ensembles. I want them to be given better material than sh*tty jukebox musicals and frivolous revues, so that they, too, can build careers and legacies that for too long have mostly only existed for white actors. And writers. And directors. And composers and lyricists.
(In that vein, I want to begin to exist in a world where a production featuring an Asian cast and culturally Asian point of view won't be met with ignorant BWW posters wondering if there's an audience for it.)
I want play-going to be less expensive and far more accessible to the average citizen, who is often excluded from our frivolous proceedings, even though they tend to enjoy and engage with theatre on a far more lively level than the average, cynical, "sophisticated" theatregoer. The Foundry Theatre proved this mightily with "Good Person of Szechwan", and the Public is proving that right now with their Mobile Shakespeare Unit.
I want theatre to begin to become culturally relevant again in 2014. I want to see plays in NY about the world around us: NSA scandals, racist policing and mass incarceration, the aftermath of drone bombings, the devastation of income inequality. SOMETHING to connect it to the world we actually live in, right now, and the people in it--which only happens once in a blue moon.
I want more Steppenwolf productions to transfer here, so that that which is condescendingly referred to as "Regional Theatre", and its practitioners, can keep showing NYers the fire that is commonly missing from our stages.
I like the UK/Broadway connection, but I want that pipeline to expand to South America, Africa, and Asia.
This is just a few of the things on my wish list.
#23What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/24/13 at 1:37pm
Blactor, what makes you sure that is coming soon?
#24What do you want out of 2014 in the theatre world?
Posted: 12/24/13 at 2:28pm
I'm a Hispanic lyricist, librettist and composer, but I can't say that my Hispanic/Latino heritage has huge effect on the things that I write. Am I a step in the right direction, or just more clutter?
I'm just wondering because you seem to be calling for more diversity, but only as much as it creates actual socially progressive dialogue.
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