#1
Posted: 7/12/15 at 11:02pm
I'd love to see a revival of "Applause" with Marin Mazzie or Sherie Rene Scott.
Updated On: 7/12/15 at 11:02 PM
Which musical should Roundabout revive next?
#2
Posted: 7/13/15 at 3:29am
She Loves Me with Laura Benanti is the one and only Broadway musical for next season.
#3
Posted: 7/13/15 at 3:52am
No Strings, and I'd like to see a good Promises, Promises revival. The Boy-Friend, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Rink, or maybe even Carnival would be great as well.
#4
Posted: 7/13/15 at 3:55am
They love doing cheap Sondheim. Perhaps bring John Doyle in to try and tweak once more and finally mount ROAD SHOW on Broadway.
...or would The Public Theater still retain rights to elements of that production that they might not be willing to share with their competitor uptown? (How do such things work?)
Updated On: 7/13/15 at 03:55 AM
#5
Posted: 7/13/15 at 7:54am
I wouldn't mind seeing them tackle DAMN YANKEES. They should also talk Jane Krakowski into starring in LaChiusa's WILD PARTY.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#6
Posted: 7/13/15 at 7:59am
Applause is best left in the dustbin of musical theater history. The Christine Ebersole Encores production showed that even with a fine cast, it's a pretty terrible evening.
I would love to see a revival of No Strings. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a company like Roundabout took the all-male Forum production that Jessica Stone directed at Williamstown -- and which is part of the Two Rivers Theater's season this fall -- and brought it into New York.
#7
Posted: 7/13/15 at 8:14am
I need some Kander & Ebb revivals: THE RINK!!!!! FLORA THE RED MENANCE!!!! ZORBA!!!! STEAL PEIR!!!
I would love to see 5 Guys Named Moe with a reworking of the libretto... love that show, but I think it could have a whole new life with a stronger book.
BABES IN TOYLAND directed by Julie Taymor with PUPPETS!!!!
I'd also love to see RAISIN... if only because it won Best Musical and no one I know has ever seen it, but I was born in the 80's so...
I AM DYING TO SEE SOME SONDHEIM revivals!!!! ANYONE CAN WHISTLE? ROAD SHOW? MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG?????? with a big star these could actually finally be hits!
How about CALL ME MADAM with Patti LuPone!!!!
WILD PARTY!!! (come on transfer the Encores production)
and BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!
Updated On: 7/13/15 at 08:14 AM
#8
Posted: 7/13/15 at 8:26am
" And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a company like Roundabout took the all-male Forum production that Jessica Stone directed at Williamstown -- and which is part of the Two Rivers Theater's season this fall -- and brought it into New York."
Roundabout held a workshop of that production a couple of years ago, so it's at the very least on their radar. I imagine the talks of a full Broadway revival last season threw a spanner in the works there, though.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#9
Posted: 7/13/15 at 8:34am
A lot of great suggestions so far!
The mention of Five Guys Named Moe was nice, because my partner and I have said that particular show would be a great vehicle for James Monroe Iglehart.
The biggest titles I have been wanting to see revived (at the top of the list use to be OTTC, She Loves Me and Falsettos and thankfully those have or are about to happen) are:
City of Angels, Grand Hotel, Call Me Madam, Mame, Merrily We Roll Along.
Any smaller shows would be nice....I am up for some hidden gems being revived.
#10
Posted: 7/13/15 at 9:21am
My Choices:
Dreamgirls
Fiorello!
Me & My Girl
Once on This Island
Passion
Rags
The Secret Garden
Singin' in the Rain
Updated On: 7/13/15 at 09:21 AM
#11
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:20am
I'd like to see Anyone Can Whistle or The Rink.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#12
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:20am
Roundabout couldn't handle a show like DREAMGIRLS unless it's a much much smaller-scale production, which I'm not interested in. Same with THE SECRET GARDEN.
PASSION is right up their alley, and I'd love to see them do it, but the last revival is too recent. I'd love to see Benanti tackle Fosca though.
APPLAUSE should probably never be revived. I saw it at City Center with Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie, Kate Burton, Chip Zien, and Michael Parks. Unless Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, or Julia Roberts (big big big movie stars) want to take a crack at it, it's not worth bringing back out. It doesn't work with Broadway actors because it's just a very bad show written for a movie star who couldn't sing.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#13
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:28am
As someone who wasn't a fan of the recent Passion revival, I'd welcome a new production. But I agree that it is not likely to happen -- at least, not any time soon.
As much as I love Fiorello too, it really showed its age the last time they did it at Encores.
#14
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:36am
I wouldn't be surprised if they transferred any of the City Center Encores! shows from this summer...
#15
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:45am
MarkBearSF,
Typically, the rights grant would expire in the absence of a first class production within a year or so unless extended. (Bear in mind the the original NY production was at NYTW, when it was called Wise Guys, which I think was the best title.) A trickle of productions have been done including the Doyle one at Menier, but I don't think the Roundabout would touch it for the same reason they avoided The Visit.
#16
Posted: 7/13/15 at 10:58am
For the love of God someone please revive Grand Hotel and Once On This Island.
I would also love to see revivals of LaChiusa's Wild Party, Floyd Collins, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, and Parade.
#17
Posted: 7/13/15 at 11:17am
GRAND HOTEL needs to be revived ASAP. I'm not sure I want Roundabout to get its hands on it though.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#18
Posted: 7/13/15 at 12:29pm
"Roundabout couldn't handle a show like DREAMGIRLS unless it's a much much smaller-scale production, which I'm not interested in. Same with THE SECRET GARDEN."
The original production of ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was gargantuan...well, pretty big. Rondabout managed nicely. Where there's a will, there's a way...
#19
Posted: 7/13/15 at 12:50pm
Roundabout was indeed interested in producing the all-male Forum, but the big hold up there was a disagreement over casting. They wanted a star, Stone was pretty insistent that it had to be Christopher Fitzgerald. Until one side budges that production won't be coming in under Roundabout's umbrella.
#20
Posted: 7/13/15 at 1:10pm
Re: Grand Hotel... yes, but with the proviso that we are not skimping or reinventing it needlessly. Bring back Tommy Tune. That tribute number on the Tony Awards was an absolute mess compared to the poetry in motion that was the original "We'll Take a Glass Together."
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#21
Posted: 7/13/15 at 2:02pm
^The only problem would be that anyone who saw Tommy Tune on Show People with Paul Wontorek heard Tune expressing that he's not interested in doing revivals, he's much more interested in doing new works.
#22
Posted: 7/13/15 at 2:27pm
So hire someone who worked on the damn thing to replicate it. Shouldn't be that hard. Jeff Calhoun was only a protege at best, and the Weisslers still got to bill it as the Tommy Tune revival of Grease.
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#23
Posted: 7/13/15 at 2:33pm
I'd love to see a Once Upon a Mattress revival! With Sutton Foster, please!
Men don't even belt.
#24
Posted: 7/13/15 at 2:51pm
Applause or Mame. I'm going to go a little further out and recommend Two Gentleman of Verona or Philemon. That would be real fun.
#25
Posted: 7/13/15 at 3:27pm
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND?
RAISIN?
DREAMGIRLS??
You guys know the Roundabout hates those non-white people, right?
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