What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
#1What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 12:59amJust for funzies. Let your imaginations run wild!
#2What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:28am
I'd put up Dumbo: THE MUSICAL!
Full orchestra, real elephant, and the original black crows.
And I won't take none of this "we can't make an elephant fly" BS. We've had multiple flying people on Broadway, I think it's time for an actual elephant. 
To be honest, I'd really like to see something original. fully orchestrated, all-star cast, tear-jerker, funny, thrilling, action packed...
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:45amI loved the suggestion in the other thread about the $65 million Follies. I would try to bend the rules, though, and use that money to make a movie version.
#3What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:52amI think I'd mount a production of Cats... in space.
#4What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:53amI'd do TITANIC On Ice.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#5What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:07amI'd do Starlight Express with actual trains.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#6What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:22amI'd put up 100 half-million dollar shows and 15 million dollar shows Off Broadway, including the full canon of Euripedes, the rest mostly new shows including musicals.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#7What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:39amPompei: the musical. I honestly think there could be a really great story in there and some great visuals, and with $65Million, I bet I could have some great stage craft!
#8What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:42amI'd put up a production of Our Town and pocket the rest through creative accounting.
#9What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 10:15am
Love this! ^
I would really like to see a production of COMPANY that is NOT done minimally. My production would actually take place in the 1970's (since my opinion is that the material dates itself even though Sondheim wanted it to be timeless). I would have six or seven giant apartments that would rotate on hydraulics and a New York City skyline in the background that would blow everyone's mind and do tricks and stuff lol. I'd also do it with a huge cast and chorus of singers/dancers to be the new yorkers that are getting on and off the trains and planes A real subway? A fantastic disco? AND I'd pay off Stephen Sondheim to rewrite the ending so that something actually happens.... that way the show wouldn't close in 3 months as COMPANY usually does. Oh yeah and some of that money would be used to pay A-list hollywood actors to come do it... Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman, etc.... and I'd put John Barrowman or Matthew Morrison in the lead.
OR
I'd use that 65 million to redo Little Mermaid... the original was so horrid with it's community theatre stage effects and set and costumes that looked like an elementary school teacher threw them together. My version would be crazy like Spiderman and have just as much bad buzz, but when it opened with the entire cast flying around the stage as if under water and a giant TV screen in the back (like in the rockettes show) with under water images I think we'd have a show that would run for 20 years.... and actually make back the 65 million.
OR
I'd revive my favorite show of all time: Miss Saigon
shoot with 65 million maybe I'd redo the Liberty Theatre or something like that and start my own theatre company that ONLY produced completely original musicals
#10What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 10:25amNot fair, I was going to say OUR TOWN.
vlegra
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/07
#11What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 10:29am[title of show]!
#12What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 10:34am
I'd do Grey Gardens with huge, full replica of the house, ala Sunset Boulevard, animatronic cats and racoons and the iconic hole in the wall that would get bigger as the evening progressed.
You could also have more wind and snow effects for the finale.
#13What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 10:49am
hahaha I love the idea of doing TITLE OF SHOW with $65 million dollars.... 4 chairs and a keyboard
It would have to be 4 vintage chairs that belonged to the Pope or Queen Elizabeth 1 that are worth like 17 million each lol.
Rotel1026
Broadway Star Joined: 8/12/06
#14What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 11:02am2012: The Musical.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#15What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 11:10amI'd just bring back A Chorus Line, force Ms Lee to actually let the actor's not be carbon copies of the original cast, and have enough left over that it could run longer than the stupid Chicago revival, and Phantom. Cause really, it takes all of what? $100,000 to produce it?
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#16What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:00pmI'd redo the acoustics of a theater so that no amplification is needed and have visually stunning, fully-orchestrated, non-mic'd productions of Kiss Me, Kate, Carousel, and Hello, Dolly! running in rep.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#17What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 1:49pmSunday in the Park with George. With a real park onstage.
juliethejarhead
Chorus Member Joined: 6/18/10
#18What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:00pm
"Night of the Living Dead -- the Musical"
I'd change the hero to a heroine.
I'd have the zombies go into the audience and bite them, thus doubling my cast.
I'd get the Brothers Sherman (MARY POPPINS) to write the music.
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#19What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:29pm
Brigadoon. That way, you have the budget to leave the actors in rehearsal period long enough to get them all dancing and singing well enough with accurate accents to properly do the music. Throw in a full orchestra and true period costuming and you might finally get a production of the show that works on stage. Everyone must dance and all but two must sing and speak in a proper highland accent.
Amour. The technology exists to make this show look awesome now. And by technology, I mean steal the louvered projection screen from Brief Encounter, cover a ton of wooden frames with it, and let Dusoleil/Passepartout pass through any part of the set he needs to with no issues.
#20What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 2:32pm
Assassins with real assassinations.
Or The Vagina Monologues with real vaginas.
#21What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 3:20pm
The Vagina Monologues with real vaginas.
Don't scare me like that! I've always assumed that they had teeth, but if they can actually talk as well, that's just horrifying.
#22What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 3:55pm
Spider-Man
too soon?
#24What show would YOU put up with a $65 million budget?
Posted: 10/30/10 at 6:31pmi'd give it to james cameron. let him create whatever he wants with it. probably avatar the musical, which although would be terrible, would drive in money.
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