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Your Ideal Broadway Season

Posted: 3/31/04 at 10:26am

If you could customize a Broadway season, which shows would you choose?

If only 15 different shows were to be on Broadway, all lasting 25 years, which 15 would you choose? Would you give a good variety, put in all spectacles, all classics, all contemporary?

Here's me list:

FAMILY:
-Peter Pan
-Lion King
-Wicked
-Into the Woods
-Hairspray

CLASSICS:
-Hello, Dolly
-Evita
-Phantom of the Opera
-Funny Girl

SPECTACLES:
-42nd Street
-Mamma Mia!

HISTORICAL (Hey, gotta give schools a reason to field trip to Broadway, plus the shows aren't bad neither

):
-Ragtime
-Les Miserables

COMEDY:
-Urinetown
-The Producers

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

re: Your Ideal Broadway Season

Posted: 3/31/04 at 10:53am

I love how you have a historical category when every show you've picked is old and nostalgic.

My 'ideal' season would feature new works and more new works. I'd leave every show you've mentioned for the community theaters to handle.

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 11:18am

What, no plays?

Rest in peace, Iflitifloat.

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 11:42am

Well as long as Nathan Lane is in something and let's have at least one Arthur Miller production running as he always rewards with his emotional insight.

Oh and in my IDEAL season I'd be starring in something!

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 12:07pm

I can't believe you're suggesting that in 25 years time Urinetown, Wicked, Hairspray and Mamma Mia should be running? Ten years ago these shows didn't exist. They are not classics, they are modern Broadway musicals aiming to please the target audience of the day and make money, not live forever as shining examples of wonderful theatre. Sheeesh.

(.. sorry, having a very boring day..)

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 1:28pm

1. West Side Story
2. The Producers
3. Crazy For You
4. HAIR
5. Fosse
6. A Chorus Line
7. Wicked
8. Tommy
9. Avenue Q or TMM
10. Jesus Christ Superstar
11. City Of Angels
12. Chicago
13. How To Succeed In Business (Without Really Trying)
14. Movin Out
15. The Last 5 Years

You've gotta have heart AND music

Updated On: 3/31/04 at 01:28 PM

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 1:41pm

Les Miz
Phantom
TABOO
TOMMY
CABARET

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Real Thing
The Goat
Hamlet (Fiennes as Hamlet)
Loot

Chicago
Kiss Me Kate (Stokes Revival)
The Producers
An Inspector Calls
Rocky Horror (2000 Revival)

Updated On: 3/31/04 at 01:41 PM

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 2:20pm

It would be great to see ALL NEW WORKS in a season. New plays and new musicals supporting all of the talented people writers who's work should be seen.

"sipping on a glass of cold chablis..."

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 2:23pm

Jake,

It's no suggestion. Just some fun to use up time in my boring life. Personally I would hate not having new shows or the same ones for 25 years.

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 2:48pm

I thought it was a fun topic

It would suck not having new shows, but this topic was fun to goof with

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 3:24pm

I'm frickin' pissed that Urinetown frickin' closed instead of frickin' moving to a different frickin' theatre. That was the funniest show on Broadway.

You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 3:37pm

lol....down boy...whole lotta "frickin" going on there

"Even if I could let you see me cry you would never understand what I was feeling inside, you see it and use it but dont believe in it..."

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 3:41pm

1. Wicked
2. Big, the Musical
3. Seussical the Musical
4. Hairspray
5. Phantom of the Opera
6. The Producers
7. Crazy for You
8. Tommy
9. Cabaret
10. Rocky Horror Show
11. Jekyll & Hyde
12. Beauty & the Beast
13. Movin' Out
14. Rent
15. Avenue Q

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 4:35pm

Wicked
Rent
Ave Q
Into the Woods
les miz
Lion King
Hairspray
Movin Out
West Side Story
The Producers
Rocky Horror
Chicago
Grease
Fiddler (Probably the only one)
Peter Pan

:) cco

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 6:52pm

Hmm, lets see...something for everyone, I hope.

1. Gypsy
2. West Side Story
3. The Lion King
4. Les Miserables
5. My Fair Lady
6. Passion
7. Sweeney Todd
8. Into the Woods
9. Anything Goes
10. A Chorus Line
11. The Sound of Music
12. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
13. Ragtime
14. Movin' Out
15. Avenue Q

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 7:25pm

a few that I'd pick:

Cabaret
Rent
Aida
Millie
Oklahoma!
Sound of Music
The Music Man
Angels in America
Kiss Me, Kate
Tick, Tick... BOOM!
Les Miserables

A work of art is an invitation to love.

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 7:29pm

The Boy From Oz
Les Miserables
The Producers
Little Shop of Horrors
Dance of the Vampires

Sieze the night!

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 7:51pm

Hairspray
RENT
Wicked
Into The Woods
Seussical
Urinetown
Taboo
Millie
Aida
Songs for a New World
Avenue Q
Ragtime
The Producers
Cabaret
Gypsy

Updated On: 3/31/04 at 07:51 PM

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 8:05pm

In No paticular order

1. Phantom
2. Rent
3. Miss Siagon
4. Godspell
5. Cabaret
6. Jeckyll & Hyde
7. Les Mis
8. Hair
9. Lion King
10. Dance of the Vampires
11. 42nd St
12. H2$
13. Jospeh..
14. Movin' Out
15. Aida

Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance... I AM NOW "TGIF!"

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:00pm

What I Want to See In an Upcoming Season

-Mack & Mable (with a completely revised book)
-Merrily We Roll Along (so it can be recognized for it's sheer brilliance)
-Hello Dolly! without Carol Channing
-A Show that is Worthy of Hugh Jackman's Talent
-West Side Story (with direction and Choreography by Rob Marshall)
-The Last Five Years (in a small house, directed by Joe Calarco)
-LaChuisa's Wild Party (with direction that matched the brilliance of the book)
-A Little Night Music
-A Stage Production of Newsies- well if Disney is gonna keep putting shows on Broadway it might as well be something worthwhile.
-The Newly Revised script of 110 in the Shade
-Something with choreography by Rob Ashford

and tons of NEW WORKS by young composers and playwrights (LaChuisa, Brown, Lippa, Guettel, Tesori, etc)

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Posted: 3/31/04 at 9:31pm

1. Jekyll and Hyde
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Les Miserables
4. Death of a Salesman
5. Sweeney Todd
6. RENT
7. Hamlet
8. Wicked
9. Movin' Out
10. Into the Woods
11. A Chorus Line
12. Lost in Yonkers
13. Noises Off
14. Avenue Q
15. God's Favorite

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

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