they will do a revival of anything these days

so anything goes gets its broadway revival but will it be as good as the 2003/4 london production at the dury lane and before that at the national?

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The National Production of AG was pretty special but I think this new Broadway outing is likely to be pretty special too. It's gonna be directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, who has a great CV of choreographic and directorial work. I saw her production of Pajama Game in New York which was tremendous and she was co-choregrapher (with Rob Ashford) of the fantastic Kiss Me Kate on Broadway and at the Victoria Palace. Also, the 2011 show is gonna star Sutton Foster (who has blown me away every time I've seen her - even sometimes in really mediocre shows when her performance was the only thing that kept my interest).

All that said, however, I am still a little flabbergasted that producers should choose to pull this show out of the trunk yet again. Surely there are better classic shows to revive (or even God forbid, there are some NEW shows to stage).

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Have to disagree about Foster

She has to rank right up there as one of the blandest one note perfomers ive ever seen. From Shrek to YF etc she just bored me. The only role i thought she played well was Millie

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Foster is like some nervous amateur when on stage in my eyes.

We'll just have to agree to disagree about Sutton - she's one of the handful of performers I'd go to see a show just because she was in it. I never saw her in Millie but each time I have seen her I thought she had immense stage presence, awesome vocals and immaculate comic timing. She came close to stealing the show in Young Frankenstein (just marginally edged out by the brilliant Megan Mullally), she was outstanding in Shrek and Drowsy Chaperone (both shows I detested and it was literally only her performance that kept me from leaving my seat on both occasions) and she was simply "astonishing" in Little Women.

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Ive just noticed this is a Rounabout production and directed by Kathleen Marshall who has done some amazing stuff by really needs to redeem herself after the dreadful Grease Revival

But Roundabout = yikes

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Would be a miracle for anyone not to sound boring while singing the Shrek score lol (or any score written by Tesori for that matter).

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I know you liked Shrek, Matt. I was just teasing, having some wicked fun lol (though I honestly did dislike the show).

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I never saw the film. I have a huge aversion to animated movies of any kind. I know millions love them but I like real people in movies - cartoons just do my head in (just a personal pecadillo of mine, I guess). I love the scores of lots of the animated musicals though (especially the Menken scores and Flaherty & Ahrens' wonderful Anastasia) - but just cannot stomach watching the animated films. As you already know, I adore the Hunchback score - just so wish an English language version of that could actually make it to the stage.

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I was just thinking - we seem to have taken this thread quite a few miles away from the original topic. But, hell - on the BWW board, anything goes!

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Well, it's not as bad as La Cage's case. It got revived on Broadway just after 6 years, and won Best Musical AGAIN! :P

Godspell!?

Sutton is such a good actress like to see you dance and act like her!