The subtitle of Encores! is Great American Musicals in Concert, and in the website's description of Irma La Douce it says "Encores! breaks the mold with its first musical not written on American soil."
So there you have it.
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
The Golden Apple Oh, Captain! The Robber Bridegroom Lady, Be Good! Let Em Eat Cake Is There Life After High School? Scrambled Feet (updated to include some material since the original, as the authors suggest) Sail Away
As stated about Whorehouse in this thread's sister thread, The Robber Bridegroom may be unlikely due to the fact that it's scored for 7 bluegrass musicians, not the orchestra they like to showcase at Encores.
Actually, Is There Life After High School is also written for a small (8 players) band, not an orchestra; and Scrambled Feet (which never played Broadway) is 1 piano only, as I recall (although several cast members are meant to play it).
Perhaps Scrambled Feet could be part of the Off-Broadway series, but presenting a show that small and intimate in the City Center would be like playing a 2-person game of charades spread out in an airplane hangar.
I would like to see them produce Fade Out - Fade In, preferably with someone like Leslie Kritzer in Carol's role. The show will probably never see a full scale revival but I think it would fit into an Encores season quite nicely.