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| No Love Life | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: The Encores! 2024 schedule. - kieran 12:24 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| Perhaps if I hadn't seen the original productions of Jelly's Last Jam and Titanic, this would seem less incredibly boring to me. And does Once Upon a Mattress really need a rewrite? | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 09:36 am EDT 06/01/23 | |
| In reply to: No Love Life - AlanScott 03:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| I'm with you, Alan. But LEar was up front when she took over that her agenda would be different. My 3 top musicals that Encores! has ignored are: LOVE LIFE (I saw a Lost Musicals concert of his in London aeons ago); REDHEAD (a apersonl afavoriet of mine), and KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY (I saw the L.A. production starring Burt Lancaster!) | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: den 08:40 pm EDT 06/01/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - NewtonUK 09:36 am EDT 06/01/23 | |
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| Wait, what? The great Burt Lancaster onstage and in a musical, no less? When was this? Tell me more! | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:52 pm EDT 06/01/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - den 08:40 pm EDT 06/01/23 | |
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| It was in 1971 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Linking more info. ovrtur has been wonky today so you may have to try several times over a while. | |
| Link | Knickerbocker Holiday 1971 |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: den 03:16 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - AlanScott 09:52 pm EDT 06/01/23 | |
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| Thank you! Lancaster is, I think, the best of his generation’s American film actors and I would love to have seen him on stage. | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:29 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - den 03:16 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| Certainly one of the best, and with a wider range than people perhaps always realized. He also did that play about middle-aged Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, The Boys in Autumn, out in L.A. | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: den 07:11 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - AlanScott 04:29 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I remember reading about it — maybe in the late70s? — hoping it would come to New York though I thought it was a lousy concept. I’m recalling that Kirk Douglas was Lancaster’s co-star, but I may be misremembering. It eventually did come East, I recall, with George C Scott and John Cullum, but I passed on it. | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:33 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - den 07:11 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| You are not misremembering. It was done in San Francisco in 1981 with Lancaster as Huck, and Douglas as Tom. And, yes, eventually it was produced at Circle in the Square with Scott and Cullum to generally unenthusiastic reviews. | |
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| Posted by: EvFoDr 10:14 am EDT 06/01/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - NewtonUK 09:36 am EDT 06/01/23 | |
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| It's not really fair to call a production that was announced, cast, and rehearsed, but scuttled by a global pandeminc "ignored". Although it is a shame they have elected to not re-program Love Life. | |
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| Last I heard they were waiting for Victoria Clark | |
| Posted by: FrenchDip 08:43 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: No Love Life - AlanScott 03:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| It seems safe to assume she'd be available for at least the February/June slots next year, but maybe she wanted more time off after ending her run with Kimberly Akimbo. | |
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| re: Last I heard they were waiting for Victoria Clark | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:48 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: Last I heard they were waiting for Victoria Clark - FrenchDip 08:43 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| I thought of that, but I am assuming, as you say, that she will be available. And for two weeks of rehearsal for Love Life, which she has already essentially done, how much time off would she need? | |
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| re: No Love Life | |
| Posted by: TheatreGuy 04:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: No Love Life - AlanScott 03:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| Over 25 years since both those shows were produced in NY. Jelly's Last Jam is not a show that is produced much, though now they have announced two productions within a week of each other, oddly enough. I am looking forward to that one. The other two? Eh. | |
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| re: No Love Life/....... i'm glad i caught GOLDEN APPLE | |
| Posted by: bmc 08:08 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
| In reply to: re: No Love Life - TheatreGuy 04:37 pm EDT 05/31/23 | |
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| before they abandoned their original mission. i scheduled a special trip to NYC for it( And lucked out seeing DOLLY and GREAT COMET the same week. | |
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