Wrong creative team

[Call_me_jorge]

Wrong creative team#1

Posted: 8/3/16 at 1:43pm

What shows would have benefitted from a different creative team?  

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[IdinaBellFoster]

Wrong creative team#2

Posted: 8/3/16 at 1:49pm

I'd like to see Ahrens and Flaherty take on LITTLE WOMEN.

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[NOWaWarning]

Wrong creative team#3

Posted: 8/3/16 at 2:57pm

In my opinion, Finding Neverland and Tuck Everlasting.

[icecreambenjamin]

Wrong creative team#4

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.

[bwayboy22]

Wrong creative team#5

Posted: 8/3/16 at 3:16pm

I will forever be wondering what a Sondheim Sunset Boulevard would have been like. 

[gleek4114]

Wrong creative team#6

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). 

[GavestonPS]

Wrong creative team#7

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

[broadwayboy223]

Wrong creative team#8

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)

[icecreambenjamin]

Wrong creative team#9

Posted: 8/3/16 at 6:21pm

I wish that Adam Guettel did the Secret Garden.

[ggersten]

Wrong creative team#10

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

[HBP]

Wrong creative team#11

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).

[bct14972]

Wrong creative team#12

Posted: 8/3/16 at 11:18pm

I often muse on how greatly Big Fish could have been improved had Alex Timbers directed it. 

[icecreambenjamin]

Wrong creative team#13

Posted: 8/3/16 at 11:24pm

A Jason Robert Brown Big Fish would be glorious.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Wrong creative team#14

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.

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[VintageSnarker]

Wrong creative team#15

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.

[bandit964]

Wrong creative team#16

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.

[FANtomFollies]

Wrong creative team#17

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.

[icecreambenjamin]

Wrong creative team#18

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.

 

[gleek4114]

Wrong creative team#19

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.

[degrassifan]

Wrong creative team#20

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. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Wrong creative team#21

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.

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[The Other One]

Wrong creative team#22

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.

 

[GavestonPS]

Wrong creative team#23

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

[AEA AGMA SM]

Wrong creative team#24

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.

[undercoveractor]

Wrong creative team#25

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.