What if?
What if?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: What if?
Posted: 12/24/09 at 4:24pm
Company done by Jason Robert Brown
He does need to work with Raul Esparza sometime though!
#2re: What if?
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).
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
bk
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/03
#6re: What if?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: What if?
Posted: 12/24/09 at 7:44pmJekyll & 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
#9re: What if?
Posted: 12/24/09 at 8:03pmActually (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.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: What if?
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).
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: What if?
Posted: 12/24/09 at 9:41pmWhat if Sondheim had taken on the job of writng the Batman musical, instead of Jim Steinman?
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#14re: What if?
Posted: 12/24/09 at 9:58pm
Lestat by Sondheim.
Or what about Little Shop by JRB? :P
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degrassifan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
#15re: What if?
Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:39amMusical version of Pygmalion by Rodgers and Hammerstein. I know they attempted it.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#16re: What if?
Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:46amDidn't "The Musical of Musicals" cover this concept--at least for OKLAHOMA?
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#17re: What if?
Posted: 12/25/09 at 12:50amKiss of a Spider Woman by Irving Berlin
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