Will "bare: a pop opera" ever come to Broadway?

[RW3]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:56pm

Do you think "bare: a pop opera" it will come to the Great White Way or will it stay a musical for regional theaters to perform?

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:00pm

It was Off Broadway recently and didn't do that well...

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[JoseLee_]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:30pm

If Hedwig then YES. One of my favorite shows ever. It means so much to me.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:46pm

No it bombed off-broadway.
It was directed by the "why do you hire this awful director-Stafford Arima". His second failure in NYC. Please stay away and stick to community theater. The production was a total disaster.

Updated On: 12/2/14 at 11:46 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:59pm

The show needs someone who knows what they are doing and needs a QUALITY revision focusing on what the authors originally intended to tell.

[meyerd584]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 12:59am

They tried several times and failed.

I not only disliked, but hated the production at New World Stages.
I'm sick of people trying to make this show work.
Even if it improves after another 20 rewrites, there is no audience outside of small limited-run productions.

[RW3]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 1:03am

I just want to clarify that I'm not talking about the incarnation called "bare the musical". I'm talking about the original from the early 2000s.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 1:27am

That recent off-Broadway production was a poorly rewritten travesty. Bare will not likely see the lights of the great white way, but I wouldn't use the most recent production as a litmus test for that possibility.

[TheBoyFromNC]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 1:48am

I love Bare, but neither the pop opera or the musical are ready. I love both, but they're so flawed. I'm hoping that the writers don't give up, and keep working on it. It took Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein 30 years to get The Baker's Wife just right, so I'm still holding out hope for Bare.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 1:51am

I went to see the recent Off Broadway production with 3 friends and the 4 of us had a lovely time.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 8:10am

No, highly unlikely. They can't get it right. The version at NWS pretty much cemented that.

I loved the heart and soul of the original (but far from perfect) productions. The revisal? Ugh. Awful on so many levels.

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 9:25am

Unfortunately, with the most recent revisal, they took a giant step backwards in trying to work out its flaws, which I argue were not substantial to begin with.

The 2004/2007 versions work pretty well (better than many musicals that have graced Broadway in that time period).

In a few years, Bare will be a period piece-- looking back on a time where LGBT youth were 6 times more likely to suffer from depression and 4 times more likely to commit suicide. Then, I feel like it might find it's way to Broadway as a "look how far we've come" tale.

[Owen22]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:45am

No, it won't. It will continue to get regional productions however. But like "Last Five Years" it has a big musical theatre fan base, despite it actually not being very good, with no real appeaal for anyone other than die hard fans (luckily for JRB, one "Last's" deluded fans was an award winning movie director...)

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:47am

Short answer-

No.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 12:13pm

"In a few years, Bare will be a period piece"

It's already very dated. People don't write these angsty doomed gay dramas anymore.

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 12:33pm

Nope. The show is a mess.

[directress]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 12:53pm

let's hope not...it's spring awakening gone horribly wrong

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 4:08pm

Why does this need to come Broadway?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 4:39pm

Phantom, the answer to that question would be "why does ANY show 'need' to be on Broadway?"