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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 04:23 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:15 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - Zelgo 03:27 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| "We Need a Little Christmas" is a holiday perennial. "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment" were used quite prominently in the film "Wall-E" "Hello, Dolly!" is currently selling out. Lots of great songs in the shows you haven't seen; I don't know if you've listened to them or not. "Mame" is hard to cast when the sophisticated actors and actresses who used to be asked to star in Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, and Billy Wilder films and the like are nowadays spending a lot of time doing Marvel, X-Men and "Star Wars" films. Back then, Angela Lansbury, Janis Paige, Ann Miller and the like could pull it off. Nowadays there are some who could, but there aren't many who are big at the box-office. The problem with many of those composers imitating Sondheim--not all do--is that there really is only one Sondheim. Jerry Herman was carrying on a tradition from among others, Irving Berlin and Frank Loesser, writing enjoyable songs with singable melodies that many great songwriting teams had also promulgated. Sondheim with his concept musicals, at times lacking plot, haven't been too successful for other writers; the most successful concept musical by others since Sondheim started writing is probably "A Chorus Line" (and maybe "Cats", though that's something between a concept musical and a revue). People thought "No, No, Nanette" and "Irene" were passe when they were very successfully revived in the '70s. One never knows when something will become popular again and what will fall out of the standard repertoire. Btw, I'd love to see some of Jerry Herman's less known shows at Encores -- he's one of the major composers whose works they haven't done yet. |
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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 06:08 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - PlayWiz 04:15 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| Some of the Herman shows are star vehicles and as such, depend upon a star interested in reviving them. For example, "Mame" needs a comic/singer of a certain age and the show will work when there is someone (I can't think of anyone today. But Sutton Foster will age, so maybe?) who can invest the _part_ with interest. Even if the plot has little. Actually, it's interesting mentioning Sutton Foster. "Anything Goes" is not a great musical although it has some great songs. SF revived it rather well. "Annie Get Your Gun," which didn't work well for Bernadette Peters but turned out to be a great success for the totally unknown on Broadway Reba McIntyre. I mean, these star vehicles can come back...with a star! Star vehicles: almost anything that originally starred Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, and maybe Mary Martin, plus others. |
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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: Jax 07:37 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - tmdonahue 06:08 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| Sutton Foster would be good in HERE'S LOVE. Good career move for her | |
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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: gcarl44 03:52 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - Jax 07:37 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| How about Sutton Foster in Mack & Mabel? | |
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| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 08:05 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - Jax 07:37 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| NO ONE would be good in "Here's Love." Been there; done that. | |
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