#26
Posted: 9/27/04 at 7:18pm
I think Ravinia is doing ACW next year. But, you can never have to much Whistle. 
What would you like to see at Encores! — Page 2
#27
Posted: 9/27/04 at 8:32pm
HIGH BUTTON SHOES
DEAR WORLD
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
THE DESERT SONG
CARMELINA
GOLDEN RAINBOW
MILK AND HONEY
GOOD NEWS
DEAR WORLD
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
THE DESERT SONG
CARMELINA
GOLDEN RAINBOW
MILK AND HONEY
GOOD NEWS
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#28
Posted: 9/27/04 at 9:19pm
any one can whistle (donna murphy, audra macdonald, Norbert Leo)
on the 20th century (brian stokes mitchell, kristen chenoweth)
sugar (sherie rene)
on the 20th century (brian stokes mitchell, kristen chenoweth)
sugar (sherie rene)
So my dear you think you can get to Broadway. Well, let me tell you something. Broadway has no room for people like you. Not the Broadway I know. My Broadway takes people like you and eats them up and spits them out. My Broadway is the Broadway of Merman, and Martin, and Fontaine, and if you think you can build yourself up by knocking other people down... ...GOOD LUCK... Seinfeld
#29
Posted: 9/27/04 at 10:16pm
Dollypop, love Milk and Honey! It would be great at Encores!, especially since they have never honored Jerry Herman before.
While I love Do I Hear a Waltz? I'd prefer them to do Anyone Can Whisle as their first Sondheim show. Why? Because despite others opinions Do I Hear a Waltz? is Sondheim's least favorite show because of his terrible experience with it. It would be a sort of insult to "honor" someone when really you just brirng up bad memories, no matter how good the show may be. Coincidentally, one very good thing to come out of the show happened years later when Sondheim saw Dorothy Collins in a summer stock production of the show and cast her as Sally in Follies!!!
While I love Do I Hear a Waltz? I'd prefer them to do Anyone Can Whisle as their first Sondheim show. Why? Because despite others opinions Do I Hear a Waltz? is Sondheim's least favorite show because of his terrible experience with it. It would be a sort of insult to "honor" someone when really you just brirng up bad memories, no matter how good the show may be. Coincidentally, one very good thing to come out of the show happened years later when Sondheim saw Dorothy Collins in a summer stock production of the show and cast her as Sally in Follies!!!
#30
Posted: 9/28/04 at 12:58am
I'd like to see a new musical director at Encores.
#31
Posted: 9/28/04 at 6:20am
Really? Why do you say that? I think Rob Fisher and his orchestra have always been pretty flawless.
#32
Posted: 9/28/04 at 7:46am
HALLELUJAH, BABY!
SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS
FLAHOOLEY
THE GAY LIFE
GOLDILOCKS
PANAMA HATTIE
JAMAICA
BABES IN TOYLAND
THE RED MILL
SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS
FLAHOOLEY
THE GAY LIFE
GOLDILOCKS
PANAMA HATTIE
JAMAICA
BABES IN TOYLAND
THE RED MILL
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
#33
Posted: 9/28/04 at 8:22am
Rob Fisher is a good historian and archivist, but I've stopped going to any of the Encores! he conducts. He marks time, rather than getting that orchestra to swing when they need to and he's turned some very jazzy shows into museum pieces. Also, I've yet to go to an Encores! where the trumpet section hasn't had a mishap of some sort.
#34
Posted: 9/28/04 at 10:40am
HALLELUJAH BABY! opens next week at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey with a newly revised book by Arthur Laurents (who's also directing) starring Tony winner Ann Duquesnay. The production then moves to Arena Stage which is co-producing. Depending how well these two productions are received, the show hopes to move to New York sometimes thereafter (possibly as early as Spring).
I hope the revisions work -- book problems have always been what have kept the show from being better known and more often produced, which is unfortunate because the score by Styne/Comden & Green is first-rate (this edition will feature a "new" song by Styne and additional lyrics by Amanda Green, Adolph's daughter). The new book will bring the show up to the present day. The original, that won Leslie Uggams a Tony and the show the Best Musical, featured characters who never aged while their story spanned from the turn of the century up to 1967, when the show premiered -- telling the story of the African American experience in the 20th Century from these characters' perspectives (a very promising concept that never quite worked, so one hopes that after 37 years, Laurents has figured out how to fix it).
I hope the revisions work -- book problems have always been what have kept the show from being better known and more often produced, which is unfortunate because the score by Styne/Comden & Green is first-rate (this edition will feature a "new" song by Styne and additional lyrics by Amanda Green, Adolph's daughter). The new book will bring the show up to the present day. The original, that won Leslie Uggams a Tony and the show the Best Musical, featured characters who never aged while their story spanned from the turn of the century up to 1967, when the show premiered -- telling the story of the African American experience in the 20th Century from these characters' perspectives (a very promising concept that never quite worked, so one hopes that after 37 years, Laurents has figured out how to fix it).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#35
Posted: 9/28/04 at 9:40pm
Next season I do hope we see Anyone Can Whistle. I am mildy disappointed it was dropped this season (mildly because I find what it was replaced with more exciting). Perhaps next season. There is always next season.
Other composers not yet honored by Encores! who deserve to be:
Stephen Sonheim: the aforemention Anyone Can Whistle
Harold Rome: Fanny, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Call Me Mister
Cy Coleman: Seesaw, On the Twenieth Century
Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon (rumored for last season)
Meredith Willson: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
P.S. I am listing the composers work I deem worthy of an Encores! staging, not just their body of work or their obscure work either (Here's Love by Meredith Willson is pretty obscure, bit I doubt it will ever be considered by Encores!)
Other composers not yet honored by Encores! who deserve to be:
Stephen Sonheim: the aforemention Anyone Can Whistle
Harold Rome: Fanny, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Call Me Mister
Cy Coleman: Seesaw, On the Twenieth Century
Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon (rumored for last season)
Meredith Willson: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
P.S. I am listing the composers work I deem worthy of an Encores! staging, not just their body of work or their obscure work either (Here's Love by Meredith Willson is pretty obscure, bit I doubt it will ever be considered by Encores!)
#36
Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:41pm
Just wanted to update this thread, now that some of the "Hallelujah, Baby!" reviews have come out and are positive overall. Sounds like there are still some adjustments to make, but hopefully Laurents will get it right by the time it opens at Arena Stage
Hallelujah Baby
Hallelujah Baby
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#37
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:35pm
gherbert,
Hmmm... Kristin Chenoworth as Lily Garland in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY?
Well... I don't think she has quite the "semi-operatic" range the part calls for. I just can't see her hiting those high notes in "Our Private World" or "Lily, Oscar."
I do think she could handle the comic aspects of the role quite well. :)
Hmmm... Kristin Chenoworth as Lily Garland in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY?
Well... I don't think she has quite the "semi-operatic" range the part calls for. I just can't see her hiting those high notes in "Our Private World" or "Lily, Oscar."
I do think she could handle the comic aspects of the role quite well. :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#38
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:37pm
Have you heard Chenoweth's "Glitter and Be Gay"? VERY impressive. She has MORE than enough range for the role.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#39
Posted: 10/14/04 at 2:06pm
I'll have to check it out, Margo. What CD is it on?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#40
Posted: 10/14/04 at 3:13pm
I'm not sure she's recorded it yet. She's done it at several big concerts -- there's a sound file of it somewhere in the archives of BWW from a month or so ago.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#41
Posted: 10/14/04 at 3:29pm
Forget about "Glitter and Be Gay," she sings notes in Steel Pier and Wicked that are enough to see she has beautiful coloratura soprano.
But I was lucky to have seen her perform "Glitter and Be Gay" in concert and it is stunning! Truly masterful vocal work.
But I was lucky to have seen her perform "Glitter and Be Gay" in concert and it is stunning! Truly masterful vocal work.
#42
Posted: 10/14/04 at 11:58pm
i can't believe they haven't done "on the twentieth century" yet. it has a really fabulous score by cy coleman and comden and green, and its original run was weakend by madeline kahn dropping out very early. would be great to see/hear it again. and i think kristen chenoweth is an inspired and perfect choice for lily -- and brian stokes mitchell would make a great oscar. but who for leticia primrose? (imogen coca in the original...)
Updated On: 10/15/04 at 11:58 PM
#43
Posted: 10/15/04 at 12:18am
KC's "Glitter and be Gay" is insane. I just saw her perform it at Carnegie and she hit those notes with incredible finesse, so I'm sure she'd be able to handle On The Twentieth Century.
I want to see Dreamgirls, but just because I'd see that anywhere.
I want to see Dreamgirls, but just because I'd see that anywhere.
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
#44
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:36am
Gotham,
I can just see Dixie saying 's--t!' at the beginning of Act II! :)
I can just see Dixie saying 's--t!' at the beginning of Act II! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#45
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:40am
Marquise,
I think DRAT! THE CAT!!! is so interesting because Barbra Striesand took hubby's Elliott Gould song from show "She Touched Me," and turned it into "HE touched me," one of her mid-1960s hits!!!
Boy, I bet Gould was THRILLED! Must've put a lot of strain on the marriage that was already coming apart at the seams... :)
I think DRAT! THE CAT!!! is so interesting because Barbra Striesand took hubby's Elliott Gould song from show "She Touched Me," and turned it into "HE touched me," one of her mid-1960s hits!!!
Boy, I bet Gould was THRILLED! Must've put a lot of strain on the marriage that was already coming apart at the seams... :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#46
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:41am
Margo,
I love NEW GIRL IN TOWN as well.. who do you see playing Anna Christie?
I love NEW GIRL IN TOWN as well.. who do you see playing Anna Christie?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#47
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:46am
Joeyjoe,
Another DO I HEAR A WALTZ fan? LOVELY!
Have you ever heard the recording w/Alyson Reed as Leona that came out a few years ago? It's as well-sung as OBC, and includes a VERY IMPORTANT song ("Everybody Loves Leona"--sung just before she breaks down at climatic moment in Act II) that was cut prior to original Broadway run.
PLEASE, CHECK IT OUT! :)
Another DO I HEAR A WALTZ fan? LOVELY!
Have you ever heard the recording w/Alyson Reed as Leona that came out a few years ago? It's as well-sung as OBC, and includes a VERY IMPORTANT song ("Everybody Loves Leona"--sung just before she breaks down at climatic moment in Act II) that was cut prior to original Broadway run.
PLEASE, CHECK IT OUT! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#48
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:48am
Dollypop,
HIGH BUTTON SHOES is a wonderful, FUN musical. (And Jule Styne's Broadway debut!)
Do you think Encores! would recreate the "Mack Sennett Ballet"? :)
HIGH BUTTON SHOES is a wonderful, FUN musical. (And Jule Styne's Broadway debut!)
Do you think Encores! would recreate the "Mack Sennett Ballet"? :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#49
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:51am
re: DO I HEAR A WALTZ?--
Richard Rodgers read one of Stephen Sondheim's new lyrics and turned to him and said "This is S--t!" in front of ENTIRE COMPANY!
Sondheim vowed he would never write "lyrics only" for a show EVER AGAIN! :)
Richard Rodgers read one of Stephen Sondheim's new lyrics and turned to him and said "This is S--t!" in front of ENTIRE COMPANY!
Sondheim vowed he would never write "lyrics only" for a show EVER AGAIN! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#50
Posted: 10/15/04 at 10:55am
Master,
I also like THE GAY LIFE--think its superior score is VASTLY UNDERRATED.
By the way, did you know that since "Gay" has a very different meaning today then it did in 1961, when show is presented today, it must be titled THE HIGH LIFE? :)
I also like THE GAY LIFE--think its superior score is VASTLY UNDERRATED.
By the way, did you know that since "Gay" has a very different meaning today then it did in 1961, when show is presented today, it must be titled THE HIGH LIFE? :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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