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What shows are due for a revival?
#25What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 6:59pm
Good news! Musicals Tonight is staging CARNIVAL! for two weeks, Oct 21 - Nov 2.
I saw the Papermill production a few years ago, and I just loved it. Sadly, they omitted 'Beautiful Candy', which I think is a lovely, melodic song.
I don't know if it's true, or just apocryphal, but I read that Anna Maria Alberghetti, the original Lili, couldn't project much farther than the first few rows, and thereby became the first actress in Broadway history to wear a body mic.
One has to wonder what fellow CARNIVAL! cast member Kaye Ballard (she of the Ethel Merman school of voice projection) thought of that.
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#26What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 7:11pm
My vote is always City of Angels
Others include
Little Shop
Sugar (not 'some like it hot the musical')
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Megan Hilty
Mame (with updated orchestration and the right lead)
The Me Nobody Knows (would this translate to this generation?)
Seesaw. Set in scummy 70's Times Square
Last five Years
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#27What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 7:19pmMy Fair Lady and Dolly should be revived on Broadway. Would also like to see some other Herman shows like Mame, Dear World, or M&M. Fade Out Fade In, Of Thee I Sing, The Golden Apple, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bravo Giovanni, Fiorello!, a few others.
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#28What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 7:21pmForgot about Applause and The Will Rogers Follies and possibly Barnum.
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#31What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 7:38pmKiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain, Little Shop !!
#32What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 8:13pm
Mame (with updated orchestration
No, don't touch those orchestrations! Or the Don Pippin vocal arrangements for that matter!
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#33What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 8:24pmWait, why would would you change the Mame orchestrations? They're pretty much perfect (as are Don' arrangements)
#35What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 9:15pm
I think they need to bring Emily West in for Little Shop of Horrors.
I think MAME needs to come in with Christine Ebersole
Barnum NEEDS to be redone. Maybe Kennedy Center will take that one against.
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#36What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 9:18pm
Please, put CHILDREN OF EDEN on Bway now.
Barnum would be great, but City of Angels and Damn Yankees are shows that I'd like to see revived.
#37What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 9:40pmMost definitely Damn Yankees. And, God, how a Jessica Lange/ Sarah Paulson 'Night Mother would pack 'em in.
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#38What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 9:54pm
I don't know about Alberghetti, bit I don't think she was the first to wear a body mike. One source I've read credits that dubious honor to Helen Traubel in PIPE DREAM.
I didn't see either show, but Alberghetti sang with a 100-piece orchestra when she was 6 and made her Carnegie Hall debut at 13. Her father was a voice teacher and I suspect she was taught to project.
#39What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 9:57pm
I'm surprised that so many of the suggested revivals here are shows that HAVE been revived within the past 20-30 years.
How about songs with more difficult scores--STREET SCENE, THE GOLDEN APPLE, CRADLE WITH ROCK. Thanks to Sondheim, LaChiusa, Guettel, etc., and changing demographics, audiences should be better able to appreciate such shows now.
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#40What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 10:27pm
BRIGADOON!!!
Sorry but I really do like that show
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#41What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 10:36pmMy Fair Lady for sure, especially since they are reviving Gigi.
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#43What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 10:49pm^^^ You can't revive something that has never been on Broadway before.
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#44What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 11:05pm
You're right. Then I'd second My Fair Lady.
I also agree with Gavestone about Cradle Will Rock needing a revival. I personally think it is a great piece of theatre, granted its book is deeply flawed, but overall a good show with a fantastic score.
#45What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/6/14 at 11:20pmDreamgirls under the direction of Jerry Mitchell. I'd prefer it be at the Winter Garden also, that large front is just asking for a full light marquee.
#46What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/7/14 at 2:18am
Show Boat
It's been twenty years. A difficult show to produce.
Mame
Original production starring Angela Lansbury with Bea Arthur opens in 1966 and runs for 1500 performances. First and only Broadway revival opens 1983, stars Angela Lansbury, and runs for 41 performances. How could this debacle have occurred?
Pipe Dream
I've always been interested in the R&H flops and their failure to produce even one hit song. Pipe Dream was the show written after King and I and was their most expensive failure. It was based on the novel "Sweet Thursday," a John Steinbeck novel that was a sequel to his novel "Cannery Row." He wrote it specifically to have it produced on Broadway, although he wasn't expecting R&H to take it on. When Encores did the show a couple of years ago I had a fascinating desire to know if the show had flopped because it had no hit songs or it had no hit songs because the show had flopped. Leslie Uggams, Will Chase, Tom Wopat and Laura Osnes were featured.
I listened to the score from the Encores production, which was recorded live at a performance, numerous times to see if the if the music would grow on me and I would be thinking "what a wonderful Rodgers and Hammerstein score," or if it would just leave me flat. I expected the latter, but found the former. After only three listenings I was humming the jaunty "Sweet Thursday" (a 'cakewalk') to myself. Osnes' mournful "Everybody's Got a Home But Me" scored and the main love song, "All at Once You Love Her" became slowly appealing, although not matching their best. And a lot of songs were pretty useless or dull. But they could be pulled, and the book modified a bit since many attributed the show's failure to OH III having sanitized the book.
This would be a very risky revival. A limited run perhaps. I wonder if the R&H Organization has ever considered it. The Times review, Isherwood, not Brantley, said, "But as the endearing, wonderfully sung City Center Encores! production firmly proves, even second-tier Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals have their undisputable charms."
#47What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/7/14 at 2:21amThe Last Ship. You know, since the current run is sold out.
#48What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/7/14 at 3:13am
So many people have mentioned so many terrific shows that should be revived. Let's pray to the Theater Gods that these might come to fruition soon.
Gomez3 mentioned a revival of Dreamgirls, which I think is a splendid idea. Patina Miller as Deena Jones would be absolutely divine. Nikki M. James as Lorrell and Amber Riley as Effie White and I would be there in a heartbeat.
And dreaming mentioned Catherine Zeta-Jones as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman. I know she wasn't beloved by most in A Little Night Music, but I think KofSW would be way more up her alley.
I've also recently become obsessed with The Rink. I can't think of who could possibly replace Liza and Chita (although in the book Colored Lights it was mentioned that Patti LuPone was among the original crop of actresses considered for Liza's role and a decade or so ago would have been maybe terrific in Chita's role).
Other revivals I would like to see:
Carousel (a full production...get the cast from Lincoln Center)
Annie Get Your Gun (starring Kristin Chenoweth post-Twentieth Century)
Hello, Dolly! (I want Patti in this so bad)
Candide
Zorba
Falsettos
She Loves Me (starring that girl everyone is dreamcasting lately: Laura Osnes)
The Grass Harp (starring Audra McDonald in Barbara Cook's role: Dollyhart Talbo)
The Most Happy Fella (starring Laura Benanti please)
Once on This Island
DAMN YANKEES!
And also please bring THE VISIT to Broadway with Chita.
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#49What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 10/7/14 at 6:30am
Purlie!
A wonderful score of southern fried gospel and blues all wrapped up in a Broadway bow.
And 2 amazing lead roles that won both actors Tony awards in its original run.
....but the world goes 'round
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