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| re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:36 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
| In reply to: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose - Chazwaza 07:03 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
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| I saw the original production of The Rothschilds (with some replacements in the cast) and it was terrific. But if The Life at 466 performances is hardly a flop, is The Rothschilds at 507 even less of a flop (although it closed at a substantial loss)? The Rothschilds got a national tour, a stock tour, and an Off-Broadway revival that ran 13 months (counting the initial run and the commercial transfer together). The downsized revision is truly a diminution of a piece that demands to be epic. |
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| re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:16 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:10 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose - AlanScott 07:36 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
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| Very fair. Neither were flops at all. Though I do think of Rothschilds as a bit of a flop recording since its time, because it is not celebrated, discussed or performed the way many others are (including by the same writers). Neither show had much major life since their initial Broadway run. But The Rothschilds did, much much more than The Life, but it's more than it is not done anymore and has been done much since I've been seeing musicals. But I also forgot about the off-broadway production in 1990 and the well received 2015 revision at the York retitled "Rothschild and Sons". | |
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| re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 04:58 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose - Chazwaza 08:10 pm EST 11/19/22 | |
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| I’ve always thought of The Life as a flop. I didn’t know it ran a whole year. | |
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| re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:39 am EST 11/21/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life, The Rothschilds, Rags, Women on the Verge, Dessa Rose - KingSpeed 04:58 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
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| It also won the Drama Desk for Best Musical, and Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League. It may not mean much, but hey, in the 80s and 90s Drama Desk gave it to Sunday over La Cage, Into the Woods over Phantom, Secret Garden over Will Rogers Follies, Ragtime over Lion King, Parade won it even without Fosse nominated (it beat A New Brain and The Civil War). Interestingly, in 1997 Titanic wasn't nominated by DD... The Life won against Steel Pier and Violet. Titanic wasn't in a different year, it seems to just not have been nominated. |
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