Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016

[tuckandroll]

thoughts? http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/25/falsettos-broadway-return?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

[Jshan05]

Really excited about this announcement! Happy the rumors from last year are finally coming to fruition...terrific score and great story! Can't wait to hear the casting and creative team...

[Blockhead24]

^creative team is listed in the BWW article

[Jshan05]

My bad...didn't read far down enough. :)

[Broadway kid 2]

Jshan05 said: "Really excited about this announcement! Happy the rumors from last year are finally coming to fruition...terrific score and great story! Can't wait to hear the casting and creative team...

 

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[ChildofEarth]

Spencer Liff is choreographing and I think that's a perfect mix. Now to get the right cast and cast dynamic, which I think will be difficult.

[BroadwayBen]

I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again.  He's had his say on the show.  I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view. 

[ACL2006]

anyone else thinking this should just be a limited run?? I doubt this will sell well even with some big Broadway names.

[RaiseYouUp]

This may be a dumb question, but how can it be at the Walter Kerr if it is a Lincoln Center Theatre production? 

[After Eight]

"Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016"

 

Ugh.

[LimelightMike]

RaiseYouUp said: "This may be a dumb question, but how can it be at the Walter Kerr if it is a Lincoln Center Theatre production? 

 

"Not dumb at all. He just means that Lincoln Center is producing the venture, just like it did Disgraced on Broadway. That play went up at the Lyceum. I have a good feeling that this will, in fact, be a limited engagement.

 

[wonderfulwizard11]

I honestly forgot this was still planning to come in, but good for them for getting a theatre locked down.

Was I mistaken, or wasn't the rumor that Natasha Pierre was playing the Kerr?

[tazber]

BroadwayBen said: "I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again.  He's had his say on the show.  I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view. 

 

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I agree with you on that.

 

But I'm still really excited. One of my favorite musicals.

[Robbie2]

Wizard Jordan Roth-Jujamcyn are producing with LCT and Falsettos was planned for the Walter Kerr.

I believe Natasha Pierre is going into to the Cort

[GavestonPS]

BroadwayBen said: "I'm disappointed Lapine is directing again.  He's had his say on the show.  I'd love to see someone else contribute a fresh view. 

 

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Yeah, 'cause all those directors re-interpreting FOLLIES has worked out so well.

 

I don't always like Lapine's work, but his direction of MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS remains one of the most amazing stagings I've ever seen. The man knows the FALSETTOS world. It will be enough of a challenge to compile a cast that compares to the original; no need to make the task even more difficult by reinventing the wheel.

[GavestonPS]

After Eight said: ""Falsettos to Return to Bway Fall 2016"

 

 

 

Ugh.

 

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You really are quite the boor. You know perfectly well how much that show means to a lot of us here. You could have just skipped over this thread, but, no, you are too ill-mannered to do so.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Yay!!! I'm so excited! Whizzer and Marvin will be back on Broadway where they belong. 

 

I was hoping to have Sam Gold direct, but I'll take any production I can get. I have trust that LCT will cast this well. 

[GavestonPS]

Whizzer, since I probably won't get to see the production, I look forward to your review of it!

[WhizzerMarvin]

Thanks! You can bet this is one first preview I wouldn't miss for the world. What Would I Do? is one of my favorite songs written for the stage. Putting on March of the Falsettos right now- this score never gets old, no matter how many times I listen to it. 

[BroadwayBen]

I remember there was a highly acclaimed production at Hartford Stage in the 1990s directed by Graciela Daniele that Frank Rich went nuts for.   My memory is that production was announced to come to Broadway, but it later turned out to be the Lapine production.   I'd love to see a different director. 

[gypsy101]

I doubt she will come back to broadway only a few months after She Loves Me, but I think Laura Benanti would be a fantastic Trina. Also I think Christian Borle would be a good Mendel.

[RippedMan]

I am beyond excited! This is one of those shows I can always listen to. And I've never seen a production of it! And with LCT, I know it will be a quality production! And at such a gorgeous theater! Whoot!

[GavestonPS]

WhizzerMarvin said: "Thanks! You can bet this is one first preview I wouldn't miss for the world. What Would I Do? is one of my favorite songs written for the stage. Putting on March of the Falsettos right now- this score never gets old, no matter how many times I listen to it. 

 

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I agree. We played "What Would I Do?" at our wedding.

I thought MARCH suffered a little when paired with FALSETTOLAND. My memory of MARCH off-Broadway is dominated by the ferocity with which it was performed. I happened to see Michael Rupert after the show and he could barely talk to the fans who were waiting for him. (He did his best: very nice guy.)

 

When the two acts were paired, I thought MARCH suffered a little because the actors had to save something for the second (FALSETTOLAND) act. Not that I didn't enjoy it thoroughly, mind you, and it was great to finally see Stephen Bogardus. I had seen Brent Barrett every time I went to MARCH.

 

What I'd really like to see is some sort of presentation of all three Marvin plays in rep. Since each is only an hour long, I'm not sure how that would work commercially (and God knows the actor playing Marvin would need lungs of steel). But I find each act quite brilliant in its own, unique way.

[hork]

Damn, I forgot about this. Yet another show to add to my difficulties in choosing which shows to see on my next NY trip. 

[_IrisTInkerbell]

Wasn't SJB rumored to be in this? When I saw her at Showbiz After Hours on Monday she said that she was coming to Broadway in the fall, but couldn't say what show.

Some of the cast also seems to already be set in stone. Paul Wontorek said that he knows some names during Live At 5 today, and if the SJB thing is correct, Frank DiLella know too, as he said he knows what show she was talking about...

[FindingNamo]

I heard PMK or TJB.