What if?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 11:24am

A favorite show had been done by a different composer

Start off with:

Funny Girl by Kander & Ebb

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 4:24pm

Company done by Jason Robert Brown



He does need to work with Raul Esparza sometime though!

[binau]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 4:27pm

Do you actually want people to speculate what would have happened, if these shows were done by different composers?

(It seems a little more interesting than just listing random shows :P).

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 5:32pm

Yes

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 5:34pm

Sweeney Todd by Stephen Schwartz :-p

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 5:54pm

Jekyll & Hyde by Sondheim

[bk]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 6:16pm

Gee, I think back in 2004 I did an entire musical review in LA entitled - What If? with just this very premise. If you'd like to see a few of the bits, here's the link to What if Bock and Harnick, instead of writing Fiddler On The Roof, had written A Chorus Line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_xGiHqGVYY

Other links are on that page.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 6:23pm

Wildhorn doing Follies

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 7:44pm

Jekyll & Hyde by Sondheim isn't too hard to imagine. One of the early demos for the show has an opening number entitled "The Ballad of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which comes complete with several reprises just like Sweeney Todd. Updated On: 12/24/09 at 07:44 PM

[James885]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:03pm

Actually (musically) Jekyll and Hyde has always reminded me a little of Sweeney Todd. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine Sondheim doing the show. I'm actually surprised he didn't get to it first, as it sounds like it's right up his alley.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:29pm

Cabaret by Andrew Lippa

[binau]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:47pm

"Jekyll & Hyde by Sondheim isn't too hard to imagine. One of the early demos for the show has an opening number entitled "The Ballad of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which comes complete with several reprises just like Sweeney Todd."

I didn't think the 'Sweeney inspiration' could become any more shameless than the endless reprises of "Facade" in the Broadway production. That's interesting.

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I wonder what a Sondheim GYPSY would have been like (which would have happened I guess if Merman wasn't sceptical of his talents).

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:55pm

Gypsy by Jerry Herman

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 9:41pm

What if Sondheim had taken on the job of writng the Batman musical, instead of Jim Steinman?

[romgitsean]

Posted: 12/24/09 at 9:58pm

Lestat by Sondheim.

Or what about Little Shop by JRB? :P

[degrassifan]

Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:39am

Musical version of Pygmalion by Rodgers and Hammerstein. I know they attempted it.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:46am

Didn't "The Musical of Musicals" cover this concept--at least for OKLAHOMA?

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:50am

Kiss of a Spider Woman by Irving Berlin