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What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
#25What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 3:45pmI've been waiting for them to do Rags forever. It would be a perfect show for them with that glorious, full score. I'd love to see Judy Kuhn play Rebecca.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#26What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 4:09pm"Rags" would be ideal. I think "They're Playing Our Song" would be neat (I'd be interested to see who they'd cast). "Mack and Mabel", much like "Rags," would be great with a full orchestra (that score would be amazing). (Not sure who I'd cast in this either. It was written for the talents of Peters and Preston-but I'm sure there are others who could do the roles justice.)
#27What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 4:09pmSeeing Fiorello done again at Encores (and much better the second time) made me wish that they would bring back a few shows from past seasons of Encores: Lady in the Dark (done badly), One Touch of Venus and Boys From Syracuse (both done wonderfully).
#28What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 4:19pm
HIGH SPIRITS
HAZEL FLAGG
MAKE A WISH
BEST FOOT FORWARD
THE GOLDEN APPLE
The last one especially. I would love to see some older shows that were recorded, but either heavily abridged, without their original full arrangements or only in mono.
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#29What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 4:34pm
I often think about how I can't wait for the flops that I fell in love with when I first started going to the theater (which was just in the 90s) became old enough to make a go of it at Encores. But with Side Show's retooled version going around these days, that one's less likely. And Titanic may even be coming back. So I'll stick with this wish: that some day they'll do The Life, and I'll have a chance to see it.
I'd also be down for a season that's all Tony winners that haven't been performed recently: Kismet, Redhead, Hallelujah Baby, Two Gentleman of Verona, and Raisin could all be considered.
And just looking at what's been done before, it really might be time for some Cy Coleman in general--Wildcat, Seesaw, I Love My Wife...
#30What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 6:03pmA MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE. The score is Ahrens and Flaherty's greatest since Ragtime.
Borstalboy
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#31What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 6:33pmZORBA
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#32What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 6:45pmThey need to tackle SEESAW right away, same goes for MACK & MABEL
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#33What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 7:40pm
Love Life
Oh, Brother
Ernest in Love
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#34What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 8:48pmI'm not going to spoil their upcoming season announcement but one of the shows mentioned on page two of this thread is basically confirmed for next season.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#35What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 8:50pm
I believe Roundabout has done a few workshops of Rags, which would probably prevent Encores from tackling it, at least until Roundabout abandons it.
I would like to see Fade Out, Fade In featuring Leslie Kritzer.
#36What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 9:28pmMatt - When is the announcement?
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#37What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 9:39pm
Spitfire Grill!
It's my current obsession. I'd love for it to include Patti Lupone (hannah), Sutton Foster (Percy), and Laura Benanti (Shelby). Think of all of that awesomeness on one stage.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#38What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 9:56pm
I know with MACK AND MABEL, Herman has not wanted them to do it, as he wants a full production.
But I wonder what's keeping RAGS, THE RINK, THEY"RE PLAYING OUR SONG, and ALLEGRO. I think any and all of those would create quite a bit of interest.
I'm surprised they did 70, GIRLS, 70 before THE RINK
#39What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 10:03pm
They've already done Allegro, although obviously there's a chance they would do it again a la Fiorello.
My vote is for Darling of the Day, preferably with Rebecca Luker or Victoria Clark as Alice Challice and Jefferson Mays as Priam Farll.
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
#40What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 10:56pmAMOUR, one of my favorite 21st-Century scores that seems to be widely forgotten.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#41What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/14/14 at 11:13pmjnb9872, Le Passe-Muraille (Amour when it premiered on Broadway) actually premiered in 1997 in Paris, so it is late 20th century, though I agree it is lovely but forgotten because the performers on the OBCR are just awful.
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#42What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/15/14 at 1:41pmGalt McDermot's THE HUMAN COMEDY would be a wonderful show for Encores. Big cast, amazing score.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
Joviedamian
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
#44What would you like to see at City Center's Encores!
Posted: 5/15/14 at 2:48pmI would love to see them do THE BOYFRIEND!
