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Encores! Next Season
#25re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:20amWell JENNIE would attract me! I would go to all five performances...
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#26re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 12:27pmI still say they should do Ballroom, with Donna McKechnie (Hey, if Ebersole is enough star-wattage for Appaluse, Donna is MORE than enough for Ballroom)
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#27re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 12:27pm
I second that Trace! "See Seattle!"
If they're going to go for familiar, why not Funny Girl, which would work great in the Encores form. The Actor's Fun concert used a different Fanny for each song, so this would really be the first legit NYC run. I know everyone is scared to go within 100 feet of anything Streisand but that score is so great and with the book problems, Encores is the best choice.
What happened to their plan to do Anyone Can Whistle? They could get a top-notch cast (Donna Murphy for Cora Please!).
#28re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 12:31pm
I agree. My perfect Encores! season would include Meryl Streep (though I LOVE the Murphy idea, Bobby), Jane Krakowski, and Neil Patrick Harris in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE; Krakowski reprising her magnificent turn as Mabel Normand in MACK & MABEL; and Debbie Gravitte in SEESAW.
That's kind of hard to pull off, but even if there's so many other shows that I rather see them do than what they picked for this season. Oh well. At least we're getting a star-studded DAMN YANKEES.
"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"
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#29re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 2:05pm
I don't understand ENCORES! vision any more. I think audiences would jump to see interesting obscure shows that haven't been staged or recorded ad infinitum. When I saw JUNO, City Center was packed.
My choices are all over the map: In addition to LOVE LIFE PANAMA HATTIE, GOLDILOCKS, SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS, I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE, JAMAICA, THE GAY LIFE, WHOOP-UP (saw this last year at a mini-staging at the Duplex and was amazed how funny the score was and how good it sounded in context. I have the Polydor CD and a lot of the songs didn't impress me...with zippy staging , it could be the next XANADU.
MR. PRESIDENT features one of my favorie bad Broadway songs - "Meat and Potatoes" (Blueberry pie. That's the kind of guy am I!)
And, even though it was done in New Jersey last year, Id love to see a full staging of FALSETTOS.
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#31re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/12/08 at 2:12pm"On The Town" is going to be fantastic...their big flashy tap-dance filled shows are always so well-polished.
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#33re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 5:07pm
Here's a list I devised, any of which would be a delight.
Most had no original cast recording (although some had later studio recordings, which are not always true to the original), and none are revived except very rarely.
La, La, Lucille (1919) Gershwin
Tell Me More (1925) Gershwin
Song of the Flame (1925) Stothart/Gershwin
Yes, Yes, Yvette (1927)
The Five O'Clock Girl (1927) Ruby/Kalmar
Funny Face (1927) Gershwin
Keep Shufflin' (1928 ) Waller
Treasure Girl (1928 ) Gershwin
Bitter Sweet (1929) Coward
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) Porter
Simple Simon (1930) Rodgers/Hart/Wynn
Gay Divorce (1932) Porter
Jubilee (1935) Porter
Jumbo (1935) Rodgers/Hart
Red, Hot and Blue (1936) Porter
The Eternal Road (1937) Weill
I'd Rather Be Right (1937) Rodgers/Hart
Hooray For What! (1937) Arlen
Between the Devil (1937) Schwartz/Dietz
You Never Know (1938 ) Porter
Leave It to Me! (1938 ) Porter
Yokel Boy (1939) Canova/Ebsen (stars)
Too Many Girls (1939) Rodgers/Hart
Very Warm for May (1939) Kern
Higher and Higher (1940) Rodgers/Hart
Hold on to Your Hats (1940) Lane/Harburg
The Firebrand of Florence (1945) Weill
The Day Before Spring (1945) Lerner/Loewe
Billion Dollar Baby (1945) Comden/Green
Beggar's Holiday (1946) Ellington
Love Life (1948 ) Weill
Texas, Li'l Darlin' (1949) Mercer
Carnival in Flanders (1953) Rome
Sandhog (1954)
Ankles Aweigh (1955) Fain
The Vamp (1955) Channing (star)
Shangri-La (1956)
The Body Beautiful (1958 ) Bock/Harnick
Greenwillow (1960) Loesser
The Conquering Hero (1961) Charlap
13 Daughters (1961)
Hot Spot (1963) M Rodgers/Sondheim
Foxy (1964) Mercer
A Time for Singing (1966)
The Fig Leaves Are Falling (1969) Sherman
Dude (1972) MacDermot
Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don't You Ever Forget It (1973)
Molly (1973)
Doctor Jazz (1975) Buster Davis, Luther Henderson
Home Sweet Homer (1976) Mitch Leigh
A History of the American Film (1978 ) Durang
A Broadway Musical (1978 ) Strouse
Saravà (1979) Mitch Leigh
Oh Brother! (1981) M Valenti
Smile (1986) Ashman/Hamlisch
#34re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 5:23pm
I'd see anything on your list, newintown, but would be especially excited for Red, Hot and Blue, The Body Beautiful and Hot Spot.
I'd also really love to see Darling of the Day with Victoria Clark (which I know has been mentioned many times as a dream Encores! show) or Dear World with Patti LuPone.
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#35re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 6:25pmI would love it if they would do shows like Rachael Lily, but there's no chance in Hell. I do agree with old posts on here that they've kinda lost some of their original appeal when they do shows like Bells are Ringing... Frankly I'm surprised they haven't done either of R&H's 50s flops yet, particularly Me and Juliet.
#36re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 6:29pmI would love for them to do Carmelina with Laura Benanti.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#37re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 8:39pmI, for one, would kill to see them do PIPE DREAM.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#38re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:04pmI too would kill to see Pipe Dream. I know it's a very uneven show, but the score has some real winners. However, it is my understanding that the Hammerstein/Rodgers estates have put the kabosh on ANYONE resurrecting this show.
BroadwayEd
#39re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:27pmShouldn't they be announcing the shows for next season soon?
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
#40re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/19/11 at 9:26am
Just wanted to mention in regards to PIPE DREAM - whatever issues existed that once existed on that property, apparently they have been resolved and R&H has been working on a restoration of the original materials of PIPE DREAM which will be released next year - probably in a full production at a regional theatre as opposed to a condensation at Encores!
Here is a link to a story about the restoration process
PIPE DREAM gets restored
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#41re: Encores! Next Season
Posted: 5/19/11 at 10:30amLA, LA, LUCILLE for me! Why not YES, YES, YVETTE too?
