#1
Posted: 6/23/12 at 12:27pm
Me and my friend were talking about this a couple days ago and I was wondering if anyone else had any thought on this:
Show of the past 5 or so years that will get revivals, not soon but eventually:
Shows we decided would be likely were:
Next to Normal (a roundabout revival in 10 years becoming the new Gypsy in which the the top female star plays Diana at the pinnacle of her career)
Scottsborough Boys Kander and Ebb shows the revivals somehow do better than their original productions
Bonnie and Clyde: I didn't personally love the show but other insiders apparently did and I think it just needs to be reworked a little
American Idiot: becoming the new Jesus Christ Superstar
Nice Work: Because its Gershwin
Xanadu: as soon as the show closed there were people saying that they wanted a revival though I don't think 80's nostalgia will comeback
Spring Awakening: Because it was so "ground breaking" i can see a nonprofit reviving it
Popular/Tony Winning Shows we don't think will be revived:
Once the show only works because how the current production is staged
Newsies only works because of Gatelli's choreography
Mormon: It won't close (the original is too successful that even when it closes it will be too hard to get away from the original production)
Memphis: its not a strong show
Billy Elliot: too expensive to mount
Show of the past 5 or so years that will get revivals, not soon but eventually:
Shows we decided would be likely were:
Next to Normal (a roundabout revival in 10 years becoming the new Gypsy in which the the top female star plays Diana at the pinnacle of her career)
Scottsborough Boys Kander and Ebb shows the revivals somehow do better than their original productions
Bonnie and Clyde: I didn't personally love the show but other insiders apparently did and I think it just needs to be reworked a little
American Idiot: becoming the new Jesus Christ Superstar
Nice Work: Because its Gershwin
Xanadu: as soon as the show closed there were people saying that they wanted a revival though I don't think 80's nostalgia will comeback
Spring Awakening: Because it was so "ground breaking" i can see a nonprofit reviving it
Popular/Tony Winning Shows we don't think will be revived:
Once the show only works because how the current production is staged
Newsies only works because of Gatelli's choreography
Mormon: It won't close (the original is too successful that even when it closes it will be too hard to get away from the original production)
Memphis: its not a strong show
Billy Elliot: too expensive to mount