Posted: 8/3/16 at 1:43pm
What shows would have benefitted from a different creative team?
Posted: 8/3/16 at 1:49pm
I'd like to see Ahrens and Flaherty take on LITTLE WOMEN.
Posted: 8/3/16 at 2:57pm
In my opinion, Finding Neverland and Tuck Everlasting.
Posted: 8/3/16 at 3:13pm
I just saw Cats for the first time, and I really wished that it had a jazzier score as opposed to a synth pop score. I actually kind of wish that someone like George Gershwin or Cole Porter did it.
Posted: 8/3/16 at 3:16pm
I will forever be wondering what a Sondheim Sunset Boulevard would have been like.
Posted: 8/3/16 at 3:19pm
I would love to hear Lawrence O'Keefe's take on First Wives Club. Also, maybe a Jason Robert Brown Big Fish (even though I am fond of the Lippa score).
Posted: 8/3/16 at 6:02pm
I thought Kander and Ebb were the perfect team to adapt one of my favorite novels, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.
I was wrong.
I'm not sure who would have done better at the time. I wish the project could have waited for Adam Guettel.
Updated On: 8/3/16 at 06:02 PM
Posted: 8/3/16 at 6:19pm
Not necessarily a wrong composer but I'd love to see a Lucy Simon take on Hunchback (I love menkens score though)
Posted: 8/3/16 at 10:23pm
What if Sondheim had written Bye Bye Birdie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eyHgZYmIM
Or Bock and Harnick on A Chorus Line?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_xGiHqGVYY
Updated On: 8/3/16 at 10:23 PM
Posted: 8/3/16 at 11:04pm
I would love to see a more apt team take on Women on the Verge (or any Almodóvar).
Posted: 8/3/16 at 11:18pm
I often muse on how greatly Big Fish could have been improved had Alex Timbers directed it.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 1:50am
I love the original, but I'm curious to hear what Andrew Lippa would have done with Ragtime since he almost wrote it.
I also wish we had a different director and design team for The Little Mermaid. So much potential.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 2:34am
There are things I like about Tuck Everlasting and Ever After but at least from the results, those composers didn't feel like the perfect fits for the material.
I'm also open to a new Secret Garden or a new Jane Eyre. Not that I hate the musicals we got, but if we can have many movie adaptations, why can't we have more than one musical adaptation of a book? It doesn't have to be on Broadway. A different take on Rashomon (See What I Wanna See) and Arthurian legend (Camelot) could also be interesting.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 8:28am
Brave Sir, I was thinking a different Little Mermaid design team the entire time reading this (somewhat short) thread. You beat me to it.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 9:03am
I would have loved a different team/direction for Wicked...I like it how it is but would have loved it to be less pop-y and Disney-ish. There are a few gems in the score but overall its very hit-and-miss for me.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 9:19am
FANtomFollies said: "I would have loved a different team/direction for Wicked...I like it how it is but would have loved it to be less pop-y and Disney-ish. There are a few gems in the score but overall its very hit-and-miss for me.
" I agree. I kind of wish that Sondheim or Kander and Ebb had written it.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 10:47am
I kinda wish Wicked was all together skewed to a darker tone. Not as dark as the novel, but deffintley darker than what it ended up being.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 12:44pm
I would've loved a different director, design team, and book writer for The Little Mermaid. The new songs and score were so beautiful, but it was a wasted opportunity.
While Lerner and Loewe did a great job, I've often wondered what Rodgers and Hammerstein could have done with Pygmalion. I know they tackled turning it into a musical but they had trouble.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 12:54pm
Dance of the Vampires would have benefited from a different director and choreographer, use of the original German production design, and a more consistent tone overall.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 3:06pm
GavestonPS said: "I thought Kander and Ebb were the perfect team to adapt one of my favorite novels, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.
I was wrong.
I'm not sure who would have done better at the time. I wish the project could have waited for Adam Guettel."
I love their score, but the show itself, relegating the love between the two men to sub-plot status (if that) while over-emphasizing Aurora disappointed me terribly.
I wonder if it would have been a different show if it had been produced ten or twenty years later.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 4:18pm
^^^ Well put. I admit I don't necessarily have a complaint about this song or that song. I don't love the score, but I can see that it fits McNally's book.
But, as you say better than I, that is the problem. Aurora is no more the center of the play than Valentin's girlfriend.
Updated On: 8/4/16 at 04:18 PM
Posted: 8/4/16 at 4:31pm
I still wish that The Addams Family had been an adaptation of the first film with Marc Shaiman expanding the work he did on the film score. His haunting waltz that he composed for Gomez and Morticia leading into "The Mamushka" would have made a wonderful opening to Act 2.
Posted: 8/4/16 at 6:14pm
An adaptation of the ADDAMS FAMILY film with a Marc Shaiman score would have been sublime! That is among my 5 worst experiences at a Broadway show.
I disagree about SECRET GARDEN...I think it is PERFECT! Among my top 5 Best Broadway experiences. And the idea of a Lippa RAGTIME gives me a shudder up the spine. So glad that Flaherty & Ahrons created that piece.
For me, the score to WOMEN ON THE VERGE is among the best of the past decade, but I think that the team that put it on stage is mostly to blame for it not working. I love Sher, Zuber, Yeargan, and Gatteli were not the wacky production team that the piece needed.
