Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
#1Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 8:56am
What are some shows that you'd like to see be revived on Broadway for the very first time? Who would you like to direct them? Here are my choices:
*Barnum
Directed By Jeff Calhoun
*Beauty & the Beast
Directed By Laurence Connor
*Dreamgirls
Directed By Jerry Mitchell
*Funny Girl
Directed By Kathleen Marshall
*Once on This Island
Directed By Julie Taymor
*Passion
Directed By John Tiffany
*Rent
Directed By Alex Timbers
*Singin' in the Rain
Directed By Rob Ashford
#2Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 9:07am
City of Angels
(Hal Prince)
#2Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 9:56amTechnically, Dreamgirls has already been revived. (Yes, the 1987 run was for all intents and purposes a return engagement, but the touring production was substantially different.)
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#3Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 11:43amI'll second Barnum and add the oft-discussed but still nebulous On The Twentieth Century.
rorschach37
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/10
#4Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 11:45amRent was also revived, albeit Off-Broadway.
#5Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 11:46am
Spring Awakening directed by John Doyle. They're sexually frustrated AND they play guitar!
Roo McGoo: Stories that Sing
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 11:56am
A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine
What's the deal with not reviving this? It's a fun show.
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.
#7Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 12:21pmBarnum seems to be a perfect vehicle for Neil Patrick Harris. I'd like to see that.
#8Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 12:26pm
Rent was also revived, albeit Off-Broadway.
As was PASSION, this year alone.
A revival of Grand Hotel is past due.
"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
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 12:31pm
Lil Abner
High Spirits
Superman
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#10Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 1:21pm
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
* directed by Alex Timbers
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dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#11Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 1:34pmI think you need a Walter Bobbie type of director/choreographer. The show is very dance heavy and as much as I love Alex Timbers I'm not inclined to believe he's the right director for this property.
#12Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 3:20pm
NO STRINGS
and THE REAL PROMISES, PROMISES not that pushed back to 1962 version that played a couple of years ago.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 3:38pm
Not every show is a musical.
Life With Father (the longest running play in Broadway history)
Les Blancs - by Lorraine Hansberry
Once in a Lifetime - by Kaufman and Hart
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 3:45pm
"Not every show is a musical"
But every show has the potential to be a musical.
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.
Noel&Cole
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/07
#15Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 5:29pmI really want to so see CARNIVAL! I think this show could be a beautiful revival.
NoHSMisNotAMusical
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#16Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 6:14pmI would love to see Forum or Crazy for You revived... not quite sure what directors.
#17Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 6:46pmForum has been revived on Broadway twice once with Phil Silvers and then Nathan Lane, Crazy for you was basically Girl Crazy with a revised Book and song list, Would love to see Grand Hotel again
NoHSMisNotAMusical
Stand-by Joined: 10/21/11
#19Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 7:49pmYou're right, theatredk, I wasn't thinking.
#20Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 7:54pm
I'd fly to New York to see LI'L ABNER again, but then I remember the politics of the 50s and 60s. Somebody's going to have to do a major "revisal" to make the show comprehensible to anyone under the age of 50.
But still one of the great, all-time musical comedy scores!
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#21Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 8:01pm^^ Carnival!! What a great idea. I would vote for that over my original choice.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#23Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 10:47pmThere was a Kismet "revisal" of sorts called Timbuktu, starring Eartha Kitt. Gilbert Price was the romantic lead (and had one of the most glorious voices I've ever heard).
matineeidol2591
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/09
#24Shows You Want to See Revived for the Very First Time
Posted: 11/26/13 at 10:58pm
The Secret Garden!!!
Diane Paulus or Bart Sher
