What shows truly deserve another chance?
What shows truly deserve another chance?
#0What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:21pmIn your opinion what show TRULY deserves another chance and why?
#1re: What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:22pmI think that Anyone Can Whistle, with a lot of work, should have another chance .And Taboo.
#2re: What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:23pm
taboo- get someone to rework the book and get rid of Rosie, you have a great show.
and Amour
and Caroline orChange
#3re: What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:24pm
Anyone Can Whistle
Brilliant Score. Misunderstood Book.
Merrily We Roll Along
It was too ahead of its time, I think.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#4re: What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:24pmTaboo!
#5re: What shows truly deserve another chance?
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:25pm
Bat Boy
The Last 5 Years
Caroline or Change
#6my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:26pm
Carrie-What else!??!! If Debbi Allen would have really choreographed her numbers and not done the same ol' routines that she's always done the dancing would have been wonderful. If the rest of the show was as powerful as the mother daughter scenes it would have been amazing.
Annie Warbucks-the little show that could. After all the bad press that Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge caused Annie Warbucks came in with preconcieved notions about what it was. It was a wonderfuly cute show.
Dance of the Vampires-they should have killed Michale Crawford off from that production from DAY ONE!!! the original version is already magnificent. I think that if no one had ever heard Total Eclipse of the Heart before that song would have worked.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:27pmThe Kentucky Cycle
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#8my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:28pmLITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! Without Jerry Zaks! Bring in a director who isn't afraid to go for as much of a realistic approach as possible, as opposed to playing the entire show for laughs. And bring back Alice Ripley! It's truly a good show; it has good bones, but the Broadway revival production just wasn't up to par, and it is unfortunate that it had to close.
La Vie Boheme
Leading Actor Joined: 1/7/05
#9my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 9:29pm
I honestly don't think Last 5 Years would do any better because people just simply like bigger casts better...
The music is great but i get sick of it half way through cuz its always the same people
#10my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:07pm
THE GOLDEN APPLE
MACK AND MABEL
BABY
#11my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:15pmi dunno if l5y would do anybetter, but id like to see it again with nlb and srs!
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#12my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:24pm
Caroline, or Change
Amour
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#13my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:25pm
AIDA AIDA AIDAAAAAA
cause i never got to see it! *sobs*
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
leefowler
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/04
#15my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:35pmHow come everyone always talks about doing The Golden Apple, but nobody ever actually does it?
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#16my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:37pmFor the same reason it's in a thread of shows that shouldn't have closed....
#17my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:40pm"bombay dreams" was the best show i have ever seen.....it was a hit in london...but didnt do as well in NYC and "dracula" was attacked by the press..it had terrific performers
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#19my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 10:43pm
muscle -
don't get me started on Dracula LOL
::points to sig, points to av, points to u/n::
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#20my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:05pmCaroline or Change and the soon to be departed, Gem of the Ocean. Both gone too soon.
#21my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:10pmTaboo. Definitely.
gherbert
Leading Actor Joined: 11/1/03
#22my obvious answers
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:12pm
I gotta say that I'm not in the game of thinking about revising shows until they work on the Broadway stage because you only get one shot and if you screw it up you move onto the next project. No one ever got anywhere by reworking the same project forever.
That said, I think that shows that deserve a second chance at Encores! perhaps are:
Plain and Fancy
Love Life
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Golden Apple
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
High Spirits
Fade Out -- Fade In
and countless others that are slipping my mind . . .
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#23A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:21pmI did a production of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn", in 1969 (the first since its Broadway run), and it was a very elaborate, first-rate production, which generated a lot of buzz, at the time (Broadway showed interest, and PBS wanted to record it, but negotiations fell through). I know Encores is doing it; but I would love to see a full-blown production on a Broadway stage, of the version that we did, which included the song "Tuscaloosa", which was cut from the Broadway production.
#24A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:27pm
Amour
and
YAGMCB <--it was just so great for little kids and for umm..cheno lovers! lol and Roger and Anthony were soo good!
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