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MEMPHIS is the only musical I still want my money refunded for after all these years. Montego gave a nice performance, but that's reaching to try to give the show some kind of compliment. IMHO, it is the most overrated musical on this board.

Big aficionado of foreign cast recordings and this is a dream! Would love to see this done with other shows. Les Miz has some beautiful recordings. I could also see more Webber ones - I’d kill for Sunset, Joseph, and Evita especially! I wonder how difficult this was to license- or maybe Webber kept a large stake in the recordings.

Just an honest question… has Joseph ever been successful on Bway? As I heard it, the only reason the 90s version was on the main stem was as a placeholder for Sunset since Webber wanted the Minskoff. I’ve never heard it discussed as successful in either the original or revival run. 

Oh, forgot to point out… SIX has many EDM sounds, but that band is nailing that work. I imagine an EDM show would involve a bunch of DJs/engineers as the primary live talent. There is a recording of France Joli and I doing Heart of Stone that takes things in a further EDM direction, for some comparison.

Gosh I’d love to see Murphy without having to project through all that foam nonsense she had to keep adding through act one in the SITP production. So fascinating to have her play both sides of Rapunzel’s mother figure with previous work in Tangled. One day she needs to do a Mother Knows Best/Stay With Me medley! 

Lot666 said: "I love this song. I'm surprised it didn't become a drag performance staple."

I agree! However, I have seen multiple gay men's choirs perform this and I wish they wouldn't. It just does not work.

verywellthensigh said: "Try...listening to the link I posted. "

I listen to it frequently and it reminds me of how tremendous she would have been as Norma. I can hear it in that exact voice...

"You do know a Mr. Gillis? Well, exactly how much do you know about him? Do you know where he lives? Do you know what he lives on?"

At least I was able to catch her stellar work in Master Class!

While we’re on the subject, I have a little page dedicated to my Sunset collection. Check it out - missing somethings, but it has the Canadian posters. Always looking for more material to add, if you have scans or photos of things I’m missing, I’d love to see & share (with credit of course) and create a larger repository! https://www.joeldickinson.com/sunset

Thanks for sharing that Faye story. So sad, but it sounds like reviews may have been devastating.

Ummm… I’ve been looking for visual evidence of that Faye poster for two decades. Thanks for sharing that photo! If you ever need to clean it out of your collection, PM me. 😇

I’m not a fan of her stage work, but this will never be the worst Menagerie even if Adams leaves much to be desired. That honor is still held by the Leveaux/Lange/Paulson disaster, or as I call it, the original American Horror Story. 

Omg. I’d have loved to have seen Christian Borle & Patrick Wilson in this. And Julie Taymor & Reznor? Count me in for Jack’s Big Homophombic/Homoerotic American Musical! Get Sutton Foster in as Marla, book Korins & the Beetlejuice design team. And please, let’s get Brad Garrett for Bob. Done. 

This is the only show I will have seen that I have no interest in even getting a window card, and I’m a collector. Unless that logo gets revised it’s ugly and I want no part. To be honest, the more I learn and see about this show, the less I feel it was worth it to go invest in premium seats. 

Someone mentioned Joseph. That has been revived and on tour non-stop for years in the UK and it is a community (and church) theatre staple performed so often that it’s not unusual to see on season schedules many years in a row. Unless Daniel Fish takes the helm, I just don’t see what another big revival would even offer. Although it’s nice to have kid-friendly fare, Disney has done it bigger and better. Now, the long-rumored cartoon might bring some new life. 

The reveal of Norma’s mansion in the original Sunset Blvd. is still one of the few times I remember an audience giving scenery a star entrance with applause.