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#1

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/14/11 at 9:11pm

This season seems to be pretty light on new musicals but fortunately we have a decent number of revivals but I wanted to know everyone's early opinions of NEW musicals. Yes, many of these opinions will probably be uninformed and may be completely opposite by the time these shows open, but I think it's fun to speculate.

Since Bonnie and Clyde and Lysistrata Jones haven't opened yet, I suppose they can be included as well.

Most excited: Rebecca (Please don't disappoint me!)
Least excited: Nice Work if You can Get It (Not a Broderick fan and I'm getting bad vibes from this show...)
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

Updated On: 11/14/11 at 09:11 PM

#2

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/14/11 at 9:12pm

Agree about Nice Work If You Can Get It--I can't stand catalogue shows and Broderick has the charisma of a wet diaper onstage as of late.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#5

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/14/11 at 9:21pm

Do we have a complete list of confirmed new musicals? At this point, there are so many rumored musicals that I am having trouble figuring out which shows are confirmed.

EDIT: I've got Lysistrata, Bonnie and Clyde, Nice Work, Patty and Mandy (sort of), Ghost, Rebecca, and Prince of Broadway. Am I missing anything? This seems like a really sad bunch.

Updated On: 11/14/11 at 09:21 PM

#8

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/14/11 at 11:17pm

Most excited for Bonnie and Clyde. I am excited for Rebecca as well. I have absolutely no interest in Nice Work If You Can Get It.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#9

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/14/11 at 11:18pm

I have no problem with catalogue shows, but I thought Crazy For You pretty much nailed the expectations of Gershwin. Nice Work may be a surprise, but I'm still not convinced of its relevance.

I'm hoping Rebecca is a hit and I'm really looking forward to Bonnie & Clyde and Lysistrata Jones.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#11

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 10:10am

Most: This season is so bleak. Can I say 'Matilda' 2013? I guess 'Newsies' if it decides to come. At the moment though, probably 'Once' at NYTW.

Least: Rebecca. Everything I've heard and seen from this show has screamed 'Eurotrash disco.' Since the book and movie are two of my favorites of all time, I'll be disappointed if the show isn't radically different from what I think it will be.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

Updated On: 11/15/11 at 10:10 AM

#13

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 12:04pm

yeah, i regret the loss of FUNNY GIRL and that lead to this season....i had some interest in NICE WORK when it was a Harry Connick vehicle but not so much now. i think CLEAR DAY will at least...interesting! And if it makes it in by spring, PETER & THE STARCATCHER (though i guess it's really a play with music)
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#14

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 2:51pm

oh, also, no matter what you thought of WONDERLAND...give that BONNIE/CLYDE score a chance. i have heard some snippets, i trust Jeff Calhoun, and i really liked Wildhorn's score for WAITING FOR THE MOON/ZELDA & SCOTT, which sounded nothing like his popera with power ballads ones...very American, very jazz, very story-driven. Maybe BONNIE will be the same. Also, watch out for GIANT at the Public, led by some great casting. i saw it in DC at the Signature and this La Chiusa has written another "American folk opera" just as Edna Ferber's "other" epic novel inspired...SHOW BOAT. Again, at least it will be...interesting.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#15

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 3:17pm

I don't know why I thought Nice Work was a revival. Anyway.

Most: Patti and Mandy or Ghost
Least: Lysitrata. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to bring it to Broadway. I will be very surprised if it doesn't suffer the same fate of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
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#16

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 3:40pm

"I don't know why I thought Nice Work was a revival. Anyway."

Well, it's a musical using the work of the Gershwin brothers, and there's already been one of those--CRAZY FOR YOU.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#19

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 6:14pm

With NEWSIES in the mix, I'm thinking a lot of people may want to change their answers.

I would change mine but I've already seen it at the Papermill so I'd rather see some other musicals that are "brand new" to me but this one may be worth a revisit.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.
#20

Which confirmed NEW musical are you most and least excited for?

Posted: 11/15/11 at 6:24pm

Most excited about "Rebecca". My friend saw it in Vienna and raved about it. He said he didn't understand a word of it and still loved it. He brought the color program back for me as a gift and it looks stunning.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

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