| re: Dream Broadway revivals? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 02:29 pm EDT 04/22/24 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:25 pm EDT 04/22/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Dream Broadway revivals? - bway1430 01:24 pm EDT 04/22/24 | |
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| I feel like this kind of thread isn't allowed, but while it's going... I think my top two votes would also be Kiss of the Spider Woman (as my #1) and Dreamgirls. The trick with "dream revivals" is that I dream they will be brilliant top notch productions of a show I love... but it's at best a 50/50 chance that the revival we get will either disappoint or f*ck the show you love up (and then make it that much harder/longer before another production of it would ever be considered for a broadway mounting). Most of the shows I want to see revived on broadway are because I think they are/were so brilliant and a new generation needs to see that... shows like that seem almost more likely to get disappointing or misdirected/ill-conceived or miscast revival productions. Or one comes up for a show that's been begging for a revival and it's like, wait... why did this production transfer? This is nothing that special. Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for a recreation of the original (though a few musicals might be a lot better served with just doing that), just revivals I think serve the actual show best, rather than the director or star. The others on my list... hmmm... -FLOYD COLLINS. I think everyone who knows the show agrees that Floyd has to be done on Broadway asap, and it seems it might be happening soon. But i haven't heard anything about the planned revival since they shut down that off-broadway production from happening 2 years ago. -MACK AND MABEL and DEAR WORLD. I don't care how much some say they both don't "work"... I want first class productions of both on Broadway. There is more than enough in both that work, and there is so much A+ material in both, i think it's absurd to pretend these flawed shows aren't work putting to audiences with all the broken and flawed new shows that come in with scores that don't offer half as much as these. -TABOO, it deserves another chance and a revised book. Especially with the insane popularity of Drag Race, I think this is a perfect time to bring this show back and rebirth it. I would be shocked if it's not at Encores soon. -WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. It's been 14 years and counting since the original was on broadway for its limited let down of a run. I didn't see that production. But I love the score, and I know there's been a fair amount of reworking the show for the London production. Now that Yazbek has a Tony for Band's Visit and can be billed as a Tony winner... I think with the right cast and director, this would be a thrilling addition to a Broadway season and deserves another chance. I also would be shocked if it weren't being programed at Encores for one of the next 2 seasons. -CITY OF ANGELS. I know I'm in very good company on this. It seems very likely that Encores is just waiting to line up the right leads and director for a surely pre-broadway production that will move to Broadway. I bet this will happen next season or the season after at the latest. -Maury Yeston & Arthur Kopit's PHANTOM. It's about time this show get a shot on broadway now that ALW's Phantom will be absent for a little while at least. And it seems silly not to take advantage of the free press it'll get by doing that. -I do not want bad revivals of LaChiusa's work done, which I fear is likely with these two, but I would really love new productions of The Wild Party and Marie Christine done to bring a light back on how incredible they are. Hell, give Wolfe another go with Wild Party, if Lapine got to do ITW and Falsettos revivals, I'd love to see Wolfe do Wild Party again. -The Most Happy Fella. -The Wiz... is it too late to just quickly mount a new revival and forget this one happened? -My god would I love a real revival of A Little Night Music on broadway... one where the physical production matches the score, and where the score is played with the proper number of instruments. -Children of Eden has never made it to Broadway, but from the writer of Wicked, Pippin and Godspell, a musical about the Bible might have a great life with tourists, and would be a chance to get a Stephen Schwartz musical on broadway that has never been. |
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