A Baby revival? Who would be in it?

[shermanslave]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 9:37pm

I was listening to my recording of Baby and wondered if anyone else would like to see a revival of that 1983 Maltby and Shire show? I love so many songs from it.

Updated On: 7/5/11 at 09:37 PM

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 9:43pm

Baby is so wonderful. I think Laura Benanti would make a great Pam.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 7/5/11 at 11:19pm

Baby June, Baby Snooks, Baby Jane and Baby Beiber singing the title song to them, BABY BABY BABY.

[once a month]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 8:17am

Casting wise, I doubt they could improve on the production which featured Kerry Butler, Alice Ripley and Faith Prince!

[mallardo]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 11:14am

I saw that production in LA - really just a staged concert of the show - and you are correct. Those three ladies blew the roof off with "I Want It All" and Kerry Butler's "The Story Goes On" was astonishing

[twinbelters]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 11:39am

Is there a recording of this concert? =)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 12:09pm

I never liked Baby. I don't know if it's the music or how uninteresting the subject is. It never seemed to me to be a show worth fooling with.

[dwwst12]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 3:58pm

I think the problem with Baby (which was the first show I ever saw, at the mildly inappropriate age of 8 ) is that some societal changes have made the story of the "old" couple a little hokey.

Alan and Arlene are 40 -- and this is supposed to be soooo ancient! It always strikes me as kind of funny when they sing "I'll be 60 when she's 20!" I just turned 36 and my wife and I are hoping to have our *first* child in the next year or two -- which is still a little bit late, but not terribly unusual anymore. Listening to Alan complain about his body falling apart on the cast recording, you'd think the guy is 60 *now*!

How they could alter the plot, if at all, is an interesting idea to ponder....

[newintown]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 4:32pm

It's also a rather dull, plodding book, where each couple gets a set-up song, a development song, and a resolution song, as well as the other numbers throughout the score. You just dread having to sit through them work out what you the audience figured out an hour ago. And few of the songs leave you wanting more - Maltby and Shire are rarely economical in expression, repeating their ideas over and over and over.

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/6/11 at 5:08pm

When I saw Baby, there were six people in a theatre that sat over 800. It really doesn't grab the attention of audience members but I did enjoy it and ended up seeing it more than once.