| re: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Last Night | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:13 pm EST 02/07/24 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:04 pm EST 02/07/24 | |
| In reply to: re: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Last Night - BroadwayTonyJ 04:18 pm EST 02/07/24 | |
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| I think there are comedians who can sing who would do well in the role, the bigger problem is that they are wasted in the show because their audience of today just won't ever care especially about this show, and I doubt anyone with the right talents and already famous enough to headline it now would want to commit to a Broadway schedule to do it. It can't be a breakout role for two people really, and to justify it you'd need someone already proven as a comedian-singer AND a known name/star to sell tickets, which means it's not a breakout anymore anyway. At least they would no longer be doing it in Carol's shadow, not enough to stop anyone, but would the show their performance is in be worth the money and time to try to find an enthusiastic audience for at broadway budgets? The show is just not the kind of material today's audiences respond to enough to be worth a big broadway budget production. The humor is very soft and mild for today. It's still amusing and delightful to some extent, as I recall (I haven't seen the Encores production)... but it's really a musical comedy built to *hit* for the audiences of the 1950s and 1960s. |
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