Where did "The Baker's Wife" play?
Where did "The Baker's Wife" play?
leomaxfrank
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/04
#1re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:26amclosed in previews if I'm not mistaken.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:28amNo, dd is right. It closed on the road. Never made it into New York.
#3re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:34am
every weekedn when I am at Borders I look at this cast recording...and every weekend I consider it, and I just can't seem to pay $28 for it.
Is it good, musically? I've listened to snippets, but I just can't make up my mind.....
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#4re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:40amThere are some really lovely numbers in this show. I saw it in London some time ago and thought it was too long as a show it needed some serious trimming - but I do find myself playing the cast recording a lot. 'Chanson' is a beautiful song. Go on, give it a go - there's much to like about this score.
#5re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:46amhmmm, ok, thanks pattifan....now I need to find that damn discount coupon
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#6re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:47amBut get the Paul Sorvino/Patti Lupone version, not the awful 2 disc London cast recording. Stephen Schwartz ruined the Don Walker orchestrations in the studio on that original recording, but still it preserves the best songs, and Lupone is in sublime form.
#7re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 12:42pmit was at the Papermill about a year ago.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 12:44pmTHE BAKER'S WIFE closed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where it set the record for being the lowest grossing show ever to play at the Opera House.
#9re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 1:06pmoh, feels like a year ago for me. going from highschool to college. feels like a year has gone by.
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~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
Mark in Oakland
Chorus Member Joined: 8/8/05
#10re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 1:10pmI saw "The Baker's Wife" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco during its "pre-Broadway" tour back in August 1976. Topol & Patti LuPone starred in it at that time. Most memorable song for me is "Meadowlark", which appears on Patti's as well as Betty Buckley's (among others) CDs.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Where did 'The Baker's Wife' play?
Posted: 10/8/05 at 1:11pmI saw Baker's Wife in London in - I'm guessing - 1990, and I loved it. It played at the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road and starred Alun Armstrong as the Baker, and Sharon Lee Hill (Trevor Nunn's wife at the time) as the Baker's Wife. It was directed by Trevor Nunn. There was a live cat in the show, very well trained. How do I remember this so easily? I have the poster hanging on my living room wall and am looking at it as I type this! I was mesmerized by the show and the score, and I was sorry to hear that it ran only about 6 months. You can probably buy the cast album here as an import - the logo is a blue cat wearing a chef's hat. It can probably be ordered from the Dress Circle too, a London theatre shop. Then there was a staged reading of it at the Mint Theatre several years ago, and Stephen Schwartz made an appearance there. He spoke about the show and the problems he experienced with the book and the audience's dislike of the Baker's wife character. The production at Paper Mill (Max von Essen was in it) this summer was changed slightly to make the Baker's wife character more sympathetic. I hope they try Broadway, I really do.
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