Your Favorite "Lost" Musicals?- Page 2

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/3/24 at 9:44pm

Not a lost “show” so much as a lost variant, but during that same file-sharing era I was given a audio bootleg of a Pippin revival that was labeled as East West but wasn’t. It featured an upbeat EDM and dance based orchestration. Maybe an Alex Lacamoire?

Anyway, it was very cool and I wish it had a proper cast recording.

[steve.sometime]

Posted: 10/3/24 at 10:15pm

Soft Power just played Signature Theatre in Arlington VA last month. And The Bedwetter will be done at Arena Stage in DC early next year.

A friend of mine asked Andrew R. Butler about Rags Parkland during Stereophonic's Off-Broadway run, and iirc he said it may go to DC next. But with Stereophonic on Broadway, not sure where it stands now.

Updated On: 10/3/24 at 10:15 PM

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 12:08am

Lennon was pretty terrible, but I've always wished there was a cast album because I remember a lot of the arrangements being quite beautiful. And so many incredible voices in that cast - Mandy Gonzalez, Julia Murney, Chuck Cooper, Will Chase, Marcy Harriell...

[Melissa25]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 1:52am

I regret missing Orotorio for Living Things.

[bway1430]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 3:13am

Mine would be two shows that were not perfect but that had great scores and a lot of promise:

- RADIANT BABY

- WITCHES OF EASTWICK

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 3:25am

A Room With A View

[TheatreMonkey]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 3:48am

There are two Michael John LaChiusa musicals that have always fascinated me -- both of which I would love to see done again. Even though it certainly has its issues, I find much of the score of Marie Christine to be ravishing -- especially the first act. I've often thought there's so much promise to the piece that a revisal could bring it to a higher level -- if even a concert production in conjunction with a forward-thinking opera company. 

Also, one of the highlights of my annual NYC trips with my parents was Bernada Alba -- which my dad actually enjoyed more than Light in the Piazza, which we saw the night before! A hard score but surprised it's not done more often, as it has some amazing music for women across multiple generations. 

Updated On: 10/4/24 at 03:48 AM

[Elibal]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 4:22am

For me it is "Philemon" by Schmidt & Jones. I live in a pretend reality where it is universally hailed as a boundary-pushing landmark of the genre with a similar status to Gypsy, Cabaret, Fiddler or Pacific Overtures and I refuse to leave it.

Updated On: 10/4/24 at 04:22 AM

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 11:12am

Sondheim's ROADSHOW

[raddersons]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 11:20am

Haven’t actually seen it, but I’ve always been fascinated by Goblin Market. Mostly because discourse around it online is that either people adored it or they were insanely bored and I want to have an opinion on it. A cast recording exists but the publisher refuses to put it on streaming services so I’d need to like… buy the mp3s or rip a CD or something. 

[ChiDoc]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 11:31am

broadwaybabywannabe2 said: "Sondheim's ROADSHOW"

My kingdom for an anthology recording of the various evolutions of the show, including the two workshop versions of when it was Wise Guys.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 12:04pm

Pokemon- Gotta Catch 'Em Live: the score is incredibly catchy but the book is BAAAAAAD. If this one had a spruced up book (what I wouldn't give for that job), it would do SpongeBob numbers in licensing.

The touring cast of that show is kind of insane in hindsight - pre-Wicked Dee Roscioli as Delia, pre-Book of Mormon Andrew Rannells as James, Dennis Kennedy as Brock, and Darren Dunstan as Giovanni... I'd love to see that show find a new life of some variety. I am a 90s kid after all.

[IronMan]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 4:56pm

William Finn's Romance in Hard Times still haunts me after seeing it at The Public back in the 90s.  

[Fan123]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 6:21pm

raddersons said: "Haven’t actually seen it, but I’ve always been fascinated by Goblin Market. Mostly because discourse around it online is that either people adoredit or they were insanely bored and I want to have an opinion on it. A cast recording exists but the publisher refuses to put it on streaming services so I’d need to like… buy the mp3s or rip a CD or something."

Jay Records have changed their position on streaming in recent years, so the Goblin Market cast recording can be streamed: https://open.spotify.com/album/7DDzDyegYODCpykTh0Gy1M?si=xA1-h-SbSP63IIl19Xe8IA . You can also read the libretto legally on the Broadway Licensing website: https://broadwaylicensing.com/shows/off-broadway/goblin-market/. Personally I really like the score, haven't read the libretto as yet.

'Cheri' by Teri Hansen - actually I have no idea if this show would be any good, but it sounded nice in theory: a Colette novella adaptation using the music of Chabrier, Chopin, Debussy, de Falla, Duparc, Ravel, and Satie. Haven't heard anything about its development in years though.

'Picnic at Hanging Rock' by Daniel Zaitchik - I really liked the demo songs I've heard. Wish it would have had a further life, or at least a full cast recording.

[CityofStrangers]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 11:02pm

I'm really interested in the iteration of Road Show that was Gold! There's little information about it from what I've found. 

Updated On: 10/4/24 at 11:02 PM

[Melissa25]

Posted: 10/4/24 at 11:44pm

I saw My Paris the musical about Toulouse-Lautrec at the Terris theater (Goodspeed) and enjoyed it very much. I always thought that it would make it to Broadway. It moved to the Long Wharf and seemed to die there.i thought that it was quite promising. Music and lyrics by Charles Aznavour; book by Alfred Uhry; English lyric adaptation and musical adaptation by Jason Robert Brown; directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. I’d still go see it again.