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re: Next Season at Encores

Posted by: mermaniac 10:00 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: Next Season at Encores - jmill 01:03 pm EDT 05/10/15

Where's Destry ? Milk & Honey ? By Jupiter ? Subways ?


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re: Next Season at Encores

Posted by: owk 11:41 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: Next Season at Encores - mermaniac 10:00 pm EDT 05/10/15

Not counting the Rodgers and Hart, the shows you suggest are really cult shows. I can see Encores gradually getting to them, perhaps, along with other cult shows. And they've done a few -- 70, Girls, 70, Juno, etc. But for the most part that's what Mufti does, not what Encores does. Encores does shows that are not much seen in their original versions with their original orchestrations, but they rarely do forgotten (by most civilians) flops like Subways or Destry. They're in a different business.


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re: Next Season at Encores

Posted by: Renfield1950 11:33 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: Next Season at Encores - mermaniac 10:00 pm EDT 05/10/15

I have a feeling that, for all intents and purposes, SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING doesn't exist any more.

I think Comden and Green might have "disowned" it. The plot was substantilly changed during the tryout. What opened on Broadway in 1961 was written quickly and wasn't what they originally intended. But their original version might have been even worse, considering the out-of-town critical reaction.

When "The New York Musicals of Comden and Green" was published in 2000, SUBWAYS was, as the saying goes, conspicuous by its absence.

For decades I've been trying to track down the scripts of every musical I can. From the 1950s and 1960s, I have almost every one of them, but, again, SUBWAYS is c. by its a.


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re: Next Season at Encores

Posted by: AlanScott 10:51 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: Next Season at Encores - mermaniac 10:00 pm EDT 05/10/15

I wonder if Subway is considered altogether too problematic a show, despite the many good musical numbers and terrific orchestrations. And I wonder if the orchestrations for By Jupiter are lost. In any case, the R and H Org does not list the original orchestrations as being available, only what seem to be the Off-Broadway orchestrations. Also, so many people think the score is very lower-tier Rodgers and Hammerstein. I like it a lot, but I suspect Encores!


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re: Next Season at Encores

Posted by: Renfield1950 11:27 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: Next Season at Encores - AlanScott 10:51 pm EDT 05/10/15

Don't leave us hanging ... you suspect Encores! what?

As for BY JUPITER's score -- lower-tier Rodgers and Hart (which is what you meant to say, of course) is still on a pretty high tier, as far as I'm concerned. And BY JUPITER had the longest run of all their shows, originally.


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