Encore Suggestions- Page 2
Encore Suggestions
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#25Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/26/13 at 6:56pm
DEAR WORLD
HIGH BUTTON SHOES
SKYSCRAPER
BAJOUR
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#26Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/26/13 at 7:23pmA big professional production of the fixed and revised SMILE would do a LOT to rehabilitate its image. I suspect that the "versions of BOMBSHELL" subplot on "Smash" was strongly inspired by the way the original take on SMILE was replaced on Broadway with a much more frivolous and unsatisfying version, which was finally supplanted in licensing by the "preferred" original take.
#27Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/26/13 at 7:29pm
My ideal would be a season consisting of:
1. A once popular musical no longer performed with any regularity
-TAKE ME ALONG
-LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE
-MILK AND HONEY
-WISH YOU WERE HERE
-BLOSSOM TIME
2. A fabulous flop - one with a great score but not revivable
- HIGH SPIRITS
- OH! CAPTAIN
- SEVENTH HEAVEN
- MISTER PRESIDENT
- GOLDILOCKS
3. A forgotten show from Broadway's early years (pre-1943)
- CABIN IN THE SKY
- LEAVE IT TO JANE
- IRENE
- MLLE.MODISTE
- JUMBO
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Finch
Stand-by Joined: 9/14/08
#28Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/26/13 at 9:34pmDon't forget: of all those above, IRENE was revived full scale I. The '70s with Debbie Reynold's Broadway debut.
#29Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/26/13 at 10:02pmRAGS has been my number one for quite some time. I know a small theater company in NYC did it this year but I would really love for a full-scale, professional production to happen with the original orchestrations. The cast recording is one of my favorites.
#30Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 10:36am
I would honor Barbara Cook with three of her fascinating failures:
Nowhere To Go But Up
The Gay Life
Flahooley
With Irma you gotta do something!
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#31Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 10:52amI've never been to an Encores production but I've often wondered something. With a theatre presumably full of musical theatre devotees, is everyone quiet during the overture of those shows that have one?
#32Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:09amI haven't been to an Encores! show in years, but I do recall wanting to scream at the pair of ladies sitting next to me during GYPSY who were acting like the Overture was a karaoke tract instead, singing the lyrics every time a new tune would play.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#33Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:17amThe elderly patrons at Encores shows are particularly ornery, I've noticed. But I think most are at least quiet during the overture.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
matineeidol2591
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/09
#34Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 11:25amAs much as I love all of the suggestions of older, presumably un-revivable (is this even a word?) shows, at this point my top choice would also be one already mentioned; 'The Secret Garden'.
#35Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/27/13 at 1:16pmIt sounds like many people would prefer Encores to be less about presenting undeservedly neglected scores, in favor of putting on almost-fully staged revivals of shows that are relatively well-known (and well-recorded).
#37Encore Suggestions
Posted: 6/28/13 at 1:40amAn "Off-Broadway" season might be fun, with little-heard shows like RIVERWIND, MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF, NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN, BALLAD FOR BIMSHIRE and such.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#39Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 2:37am
Smile!
Raisin
High Spirits
Something's Afoot
Mack & Mabel
Milk & Honey
Over Here
RJ COMMUNICATIONS
Swing Joined: 7/6/10
#40Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 3:51am
"Smile" is being done by "Musicals Tonight" in Oct/November.
I know that's probably not the big orchestra production you'd get at Encores...
#41Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 12:23pmI would love to see productions of Purlie, Irene, Dear World and No,No, Nannette(I know they did it in 2008 but I didn't get to see it).
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#43Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 1:33pmTheaerfan, Encores! also did PURLIE in 2005 with Blair Underwood and Anika Noni Rose in the Melba Moore role. Anika singing "I Got Love" makes me happy.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#45Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:47pmWilmington, Encores did Kismet a few years ago, and it was quite disappointing. The woman playing the ingenue (forget her name) had vocal problems, Brian Stokes Mitchell didn't really connect in the Alfred Drake role, and Paul Gemignani's conducting was surprisingly stodgy.
#46Encore Suggestions
Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:51pm
Will the Musicals Tonight be staging the Broadway "Smile," the pre-Broadway version that is the licensed version (fixed most of the Broadway problems), or the recent revision Hamlisch approved just before he died?
I hope it's not the Broadway version, although I wouldn't mind hearing "The Horny Dermatologist" just for laughs.
#47Encore Suggestions
Posted: 12/10/13 at 2:44pm
The Baker's Wife
Sweet Smell of Success
The Happy Time
....but the world goes 'round
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#48Encore Suggestions
Posted: 12/10/13 at 2:54pm
As I said in the other thread, my 3 picks would be:
Mack and Mabel
Rags
either They're Playing Our Song or Irma La Douce
#49Encore Suggestions
Posted: 12/10/13 at 3:02pmDreaming, you are in luck. They are doing Irma La Douce this season!
