What shows are due for a revival?
What shows are due for a revival?
Trytodefy
Swing Joined: 12/28/10
#1What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:11pm
Here are my top...
The Secret Garden with Ramin Karimloo, Steven Pasquale , and Betsy Wolfe.
Once on This Island
Funny Girl with Jessie Mueller
Children of Eden (kind of a revival)
Lippa's Wild Party ( A boy can dream right?)
TICK...TICK... BOOM
Little Shop of Horrors
Updated On: 8/9/14 at 08:11 PM
#2What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:14pmKiss of the Spider Woman
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
CoreyRyan3
Featured Actor Joined: 5/2/13
#2What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/9/14 at 8:20pmI'm pretty sure I just saw a thread dedicated to this a few days ago. My bids were for City of Angels and Grand Hotel.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#3What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:33am
The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off
Carnival!
Updated On: 8/10/14 at 12:33 AM
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#4What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:39amI would love to see Merrily We Roll Along revived. I saw the Encores version and I saw the Fathom Event of the one they did in the West End.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#5What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:45am
If they can do them properly:
MY FAIR LADY
MAME
DEAR WORLD
HELLO, DOLLY!
ALLEGRO
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
MILK AND HONEY
BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS
BIG RIVER
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
THE GOLDEN APPLE
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
ALLEGRO
SEESAW
TENDERLOIN
And I know I put ALLEGRO twice, but I want to see a revival twice as badly.
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#6What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:47am^I agree, a revival of ALLEGRO is way overdue.
#7What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:50am
DREAMGIRLS
HELLO DOLLY
FUNNY GIRL
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
ASSASAINS
CATS
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR...
MY FAIR LADY
SEUSICAL
CAROUSEL
SUNSET BOULEVARD
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
#8What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 12:59am
Little Shop of Horrors with Megan Hilty as Audrey.
Dreamgirls with Nikki M. James, Patina Miller, and an unknown for Effie.
jdavisinaustin
Swing Joined: 7/9/12
#9What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 1:30am
Love some of these listed on here, particularly SECRET GARDEN, Lippa's WILD PARTY, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, CITY OF ANGELS, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and SUNSET BLVD.
Kind of shocked that TOMMY isn't on here, though that's partially because I just saw a company in Austin do it with an Alice in Wonderland look to it. It sounds weird, I know, but it worked remarkably well and actually enhanced the story.
There's no doubt that the music from TOMMY has staying power, and the show's now about 20 years old. I think it could do well if revived, especially if a director does something different with it (the Alice in Wonderland idea would translate very well to NY) and if they got a music star (ie Adam Lambert) as Tommy.
Updated On: 8/10/14 at 01:30 AM
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#10What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 1:33amLippa's WILD PARTY should certainly not be revived. The only thing that made the show tolerable were the performances by the (admittedly great) cast. If any WILD PARTY should be revived, it should be the LaChiusa Wolfe one, but it just wouldn't be successful in today's or any day's market, so I don't even think that should be revived.
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#11What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 1:49amExcitedly seconding Roar of the Greasepaint.
#12What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 2:43amSingin I'm the rain and hello dolly!
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#13What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 2:46amThe Scarlet Pimpernel? *runs away and hides*
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#14What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 2:55amTHE SCARLETT PIMPERNEL, while far from a great musical (IMO) features Frank Wildhorn's best score, and it was actually the book that ruined the musical, and if that could be fixed, the show could have its own merit, so a revival could work.
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#15What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 3:32am
My Fair Lady needs a revival badly.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
Updated On: 10/6/14 at 03:32 AM
Trytodefy
Swing Joined: 12/28/10
#16What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 7:57pm
You know my biggest pet peeve about this message board? Its the fact that some people talk about shows in facts. "It was only the cast that made it tolerable." or "Frank Wildhorn's best score, and it was actually the book that ruined the musical." THESE AREN'T FACTS. This entire industry is OPINION BASED and I have no problem with people's opinions but when you present them as fact it just shows your ignorance.
THE END.
Updated On: 8/10/14 at 07:57 PM
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#17What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 8:01pm
Rags
The Secret Gard
Kiss of the Spiderwoman (with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Aurora/Spiderwoman)
PS-Allegro is having a production at Classic Stage this season.
Updated On: 8/10/14 at 08:01 PM
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#18What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 8:02pm
Trytodefy, well, that just, like, your opinion, man. 
Also, I know that my opinion is no more valid than yours or anybody else's, but I present them as facts because in my mind they present themselves as facts. If you want me to say "in my own personal opinion" before every judgement I make about a show I certainly am capable of doing so, but I figured that was unnecessary as the fact that it is my opinion is implied.
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
Updated On: 8/10/14 at 08:02 PM
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#20What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 8:07pmI actually like the book for Scarlet Pimpernel 3.0. The version that they ended up with on Broadway and on tour was far improved in my opinion. I'd like to see the show get a fair shake at opening on Broadway with that version instead of what happened the first time around which was to open cold in New York with that first version, get terrible reviews, revise it and get slightly better reviews but still have to fight the uphill battle of negative press and word of mouth from people who only saw the first version. I know we can't go back in time and change it but I'd like to see how a revival would do opening with that final improved version and starting out (hopefully) with positive press and word of mouth from audiences from the get go.
#21What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 8:23pm
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING.....
CHARLIE BROWN
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
SEUSSICAL
THROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
SOUND OF MUSIC
CARNIVAL
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#22What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 8:40pmOh, I forgot about CARNIVAL!, which I would love to see a revival of, as well as LADY IN THE DARK
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cknick
Featured Actor Joined: 5/9/13
#23What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 9:29pmI'd love an ALLEGRO revival with the cast from that gorgeous studio recording. Maybe not entirely possible now, a few years later.
#24What shows are due for a revival?
Posted: 8/10/14 at 9:33pmOne show I regret missing out on is Bat Boy.
