Sondheim Announces "Monday in the Mall With George"
Sondheim Announces "Monday in the Mall With George"
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#1Sondheim Announces "Monday in the Mall With George"
Posted: 3/2/07 at 2:35pmIf Lloyd Webber can announce Phantom in Manhattan, why not a little one-upsmanship?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#2re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 2:56pm
I have heard the Weber also has another musical in the wings that takes place in a Taco Bell.....
Just give the world Love.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 3:09pm
You got it!!!
Jellicle songs for Jellicle rats
We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze
We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a well
We can run up the wall, we can swing through the trees
We can balance on chairs, In you Taco Bell
Just give the world Love.
Updated On: 3/2/07 at 03:09 PM
#4re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 3:14pmAnyone else thinking of Hey Arnold right now?
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#5re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 3:15pm
Oh my god Wickedgeek!
"We're rats, we're rats, we're furry and furlorn!"
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#6re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 3:17pmThank you for bringing a "Hey, Arnold!" reference into my ****ty day. I admit it. I am 25 and I love Hey, Arnold!
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#7re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 3:21pm
Will this finally give the green light to "Rent II: Condo Fever" starring Homer Simpson?
Where is the rent? I must have the rent. Dollars, dimes, and nickels -- I need them all right now!
#8re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:20pm
Haven't you guys heard? With the latest advances in technology Sondheim feels it's finally time to finish his Follies trilogy. First they're going to remount the original Follies with new Loveland special effects. Then watch out for
2008's Follies 2: Sally Strikes Back!
Having repaired their failing marriage Ben and Phyllis decide to adopt a Chinese orphan. When Sally sees this in the local newspaper she realizes that if she doesn't stop them she will never be able to get Ben back from Phyllis. So Sally leaves the dirty dishes in the sink AGAIN and sets out at once for China, where Ben and Phyllis are to get their newly adoped baby. But hilarity ensues Ben finds out that his job as a door to door salesmen is in jeopardy--and he has to go to concidentally has to go to China to prove his mettle by selling his wares to Chairman Mao. So he and Margie pack it up, leave a note for Sally that he'll be gone a while, and are off to China. Let's just say that things get messy from there, when Sally puts national security at risk, but Nixon shows up to set things right in the end.
And then in 2009 we go forth to the 80s in Follies: The Next Generation
Since Buddy finally has finally left Sally for Margie, and Ben has succumbed to liver cancer, Sally finally jumps the gun and kills herself. When Sally's two boys find out, they are both in the full throes of their own midlife crisis and the Sally Durant crazy gene is hitting them. They start romanticizing the memory of their mother (who appears in this Follies as a ghost needling them on) and need someone to blame, but who?
Naturally, Phyllis, the one who took everything away from Sally.
So they set out to assassinate the famous Phyllis Stone, but Buddy finds out about their plot. The race is on. Captivating suspense as old Follies girls start popping up dead all over the place. Can Buddy save Phyllis before it's too late?
Of course there's a twist at the end. Let's just say, is Ben REALLY dead? Stay tuned.
S.Sondheim finally gets his mystery musical... I would go see these.
yr ronin,
joey
joey
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#9re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:24pmI'm so thrilled that someone mentioned "Hey Arnold"--it's the first thing I thought of. It's a hilarious little snippet because...it's true.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#10re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:28pm"More Company" - Bobby and his boyfriend adopt a baby
#11re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:28pm
Why doesn't Sondheim totally overthrow Lloyd Webber with a musical called...
A FUNNY THING HAPPEND ON THE WAY TO THE PHANTOM
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#12re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:31pmWith Vanessa playing Dot!
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#14re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:34pmThat's brilliant, Roninjoey.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#15re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:50pm
If Hollywood can do it, why not Broadway?
"Let's turn it into a franchise!"
The R&H Organization has announced the following to be written by Adam Guettel and Mary Rodgers:
"Kansas!" in 2008
"Missouri!" in 2009
"Iowa!" in 2010
Just think... 51 potential shows, if you count Puerto Rico! Sure to be the longest-running franchise in show business history.
Also...
"Ferris Wheel"
"Roller Coaster"
"Merry-Go-Round"
"Tilt-A-Whirl"
"The Queen and Me"
"The Prince and You"
"The Doge and Y'all"
"North Atlantic"
"Rigoletto Washington"
Sound of Music 2: The Other Side of the Mountain
Sound of Music 3: The Lonely Goatherd's Revenge
Sound of Music 4: Return of the Baroness
Sound of Music 5: Uncle Max's Friend
Sondheim has held a press conference today to announce the following on a whirlwind production schedule:
A Little Late Afternoon Music
An Even Smaller Gospel Brunch
A Mid-Morning Peck Between Meals With My iPod
Atlantic Overtures
Baltic Overtures
Mediterranean Overtures
North Sea Exit Music
Adriatic Entr'actes
A Terrible Thing Happened on the Way Back From the Forum
Merrily We Roll Again
Sweeney 2: The Night HE Came Home
Sweeney 3D: Even Prettier Women
Anyone Can Snap Their Fingers
Into the Woods 2: Even Still More Happier Ever After Still, Even
Jerry Herman has made plans for the following:
Auntie Vera
Goodbye, Dolly!
Les Cagelles A Go-Go
Mack & Fatty
I think they're onto something big!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 3/2/07 at 04:50 PM
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WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#16re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:55pm
And let us never forget...
The Phantom in Manhattan
by
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Oops....
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
lady godiva
Broadway Star Joined: 11/20/05
#17re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 4:58pmI just burst out laughing in my office.
my life is brilliant. my love is pure.
galindagirl2
Stand-by Joined: 12/22/06
#18re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:04pm
Several days ago at the L.A. New Musicals Festival, Stephen Schwartz announced that in order to capitalize on the financial success of his Broadway hit, Wicked, he will be composing and lyricizing two sequels, Wickeder and Wickedest, with the hopes that these musicals will also become Broadway legends.
He is currently seeking the financial backing of Disney, rather than Universal Studios. His reasons are obvious, since Disney has historically had much experience with creating wonderfully successful sequels to its classic films, a la Cinderella III.
...Goodness, I certainly hope my sarcasm reads well :)
#19re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:16pm
galindagirl2---Absolutely!
But I heard they were calling them:
Wicked 2: Who's Bad?
Wicked 3: For Good Already
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:29pmSondheim announces "Out of the Woods: Rapunzel's Revenge".
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#21re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:31pm
""We're rats, we're rats, we're furry and furlorn!""
I'm also thinking of Mice! from Pinky and the Brain. 
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
galindagirl2
Stand-by Joined: 12/22/06
#22re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:40pmB12B, those are the names they're using for the video games.
#23re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:41pm
I heard Fred Ebb and John Kander had a few ideas to sequalize (Is even a word?) their popular shows before Fred Ebb passed away.
Kiss of the Spiderman with Toby Maguire as the title character
Think Kiss of the Spiderwoman gone Spiderman. Yes, Molina's son is a man obsessed with the popular comic book locked away for years in a Latin prison.
Chicago 2: The Stock Market Crash
Roxie and Velma realize life isn't good Nowadays after the stock market crashes and their beloved friends begin jumping off the orchestra platform into a Bob Fosse orgy of sex and symbolism.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24re: Sondheim Announces 'Monday in the Mall With George'
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:50pmComden & Green Present "Leave the Town: The Ed Koch Years"
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
