Shows In Need of A Revival- Page 4

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 7/10/14 at 10:29pm

Urinetown, with the original Broadway cast please.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 7/10/14 at 11:23pm

Carousel
Oklahoma!
City of Angels
Merrily We Roll Along
Allegro
The Wiz
Passion
Nine
Man of La Mancha

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 2:22am

I'd adore revivals of The Wiz and a reworked State Fair!

[DivosThoughts]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 4:25pm

• The Wiz, and Adrienne Warren needs to star as Dorothy. (Also bring back Jousha Henry and James Monroe Iglehart as Tinman and Lion)

• Dreamgirls

• The Who's Tommy

• The Wild Party, (Lippas)

• Dogfight

• Into The Woods

[jkstheatrescene]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:44pm

Grand Hotel, The Rink, and City of Angels

(Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone for The Rink, please!)
(Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes would also be great in either Grand Hotel or City of Angels)

Reading this thread makes me realize how old I am - I saw the original casts of all three...

And to whoever wrote "Is Larry Gelbart still writing?" (1st page of thread)... He is no longer writing... he passed away in 2009.

[Tink2]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 5:57pm

^ jkstheatrescene...I saw the original casts of Phantom, Les Mis, Evita and Sweeney Todd.
You can feel younger now.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 6:21pm

Anyone else want to see a revival of Taboo? I think it still has so much potential.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 7/11/14 at 11:08pm

Excitedly seconding Applause, though the script's kinda moth-eaten and could use a rewrite. I'd love to see someone give it a bit of a bite, if just to take it away from being a musicalized All About Eve. The possibility's definitely there (see also Gena Rowlands in Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT).

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 11:13am

Odd, I would think for Applause to work the script would need to have a hell of a lot more of All About Eve's wit, snap, crackle, pop and above all, sophistication - not less. Also having difficulty understanding how any version of Applause could be estranged from All About Eve - if it's not that story, what is it? Opening Night is a great movie but I don't see it as suggesting musicalization (maybe, though I doubt it, as an avant-garde opera, but that would hardly work with Applause's score as a foundation) let alone as a model for rewriting Applause.

And speaking of show biz musicals, agree with those who suggested City of Angels, a great funny show very much due for a revival. And if 20th Century is a success - hopeful! - then it may be very likely to happen.

Updated On: 1/4/15 at 11:13 AM

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 1:14pm

I'm of two minds about Lil' Abner. I know the score is great, but my issue is twofold.

1. The musical is a tie-in to a cultural mixed-media phenomenon that we don't have today. If you were to revise the musical's book, you'd have to assume no familiarity or affection for Abner and his fellow residents of Dogpatch- they're just not in the cultural conversation anymore the way Charlie Brown is, for one. It would have to be approached as an original work, not as a "based on the characters you know and love" style the way the original book was.

2. There's little getting around the fact that the whole concept is of uneducated hillbillies/po'whites in Appalachia. This is problematic, because not only is that not exactly poitically correct today, but we don't really HAVE that trope in the cultural conversation anymore either. Our idea of hillbillies has changed, as the advances of technology and slow cultural creep have more or less eviscerated the "hillbilly" idea to be replaced with its sister tropes, the "redneck" and "trailer park" character sets.

[songofendlesswondder]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 10:01pm

In a couple of years we need Next to Normal back...but I say give it a couple years.
Carousel
Chess
The Who's Tommy.

[songofendlesswondder]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 10:03pm

I actually recently did Applause...it would really need reworked. The story is interesting, and the music *screams* seventies. I like it, but I don't think a revival would do very well...

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/4/15 at 10:09pm

Sally
Dear World
My Fair Lady
Hello, Dolly!
La Strada
The Gay Life (The High Life)
Show Boat
Carnival
The Student Gypsy
Good News
No, No, Nanette
Of Thee I Sing
I Married an Angel
By Jeeves

Plays:
Camino Real
Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot
The Moon is Blue
Mary, Mary
Summer and Smoke
The Grass Harp
Summer and Smoke

[keb2]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 1:22am

It's been a while since the last Oklahoma revival, I'd love to see that on Broadway again. Preferably directed by Molly Smith, who did such a phenomenal job with the show at Arena Stage in DC a few years back.

I think it'd have to have a Hollywood name brand star, but I'd love to see She Loves Me.

And as much as I'd lovelovelove a Merrily We Roll Along revival, I think it'd be better suited for an off-Broadway run in a smaller house.

[South Florida]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 2:04pm

I want N2N, saw it in Pittsburgh of all places cause I wanted my sister to see it, Alice was bad. I prefer it not be redone now and Stephanie J. Block will get to play it some day

[songofendlesswondder]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 3:42pm

I would love to see Stephanie J Block play Diana. Maybe even Julia Murney. I dont know, but I'd love for it to come back in a couple years. Alice's voice wouldn't have the capacity to do it again though...in that tour she sounded pretty sad.

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 3:55pm

I saw her in San Francisco and I can say that she was incredible, but I don't think there is a market for a revival.

[Up In One]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 4:32pm

Not Cats! Another diversion of revenue from shows that deserve/need it. Can we start a petition?

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 7:56pm

- Into the Woods with Audra as The Baker's Wife. I still think Sherie Renee Scott would be fascinating as The Witch.
- Caroline or Change with E. Faye Butler
- LaChiusa Wild Party
- Dreamgirls
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Aida with Adrienne Warren
- Passion with Laura Benanti and Kelli O'Hara, as previously stated.

Updated On: 1/5/15 at 07:56 PM

[steven22]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 8:03pm

I'd love next to normal to come back.

I know it won't happen for a while, unfortunately.

I've been saying Julia Murney should play Diana since the show opened! Stephanie J. Block would also be great.

[theonlycatsfan]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 8:17pm

newsies

[avyrocks]

Posted: 1/5/15 at 8:35pm

Too early to revive Bridges and/or Side Show? :-P

[pippin423]

Posted: 1/6/15 at 12:44am

Golden Rainbow
Two By Two
Minnies Boys
The Me Nobody Knows
The Rothchilds

I don't think there's a chance in hell on any of these.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 5/28/16 at 10:42pm

I would really like to see a large-scale revival of Into the Woods on broadway.  

Audra Mcdonald- The Witch

Kate Baldwin- The Baker's Wife

Brian D'Arcy James- The Baker 

Phillipa Soo- Cinderella 

Sydney Lucas- Little Red 

Prince- Steven Pasquale 

Jack- Joshua Colley

Mandy Patinkin- The Narrator 

 

I think a large scale revival of A Little Night Music would be lovely as well.

Desiree- Jane Krakowski 

Fredrick- Michael Cerveris 

 

The Secret Garden- The most recent concert cast.

Caroline, or Change- Uzo Aduba and Jane Krakowski 

The Grand Hotel

The Most Happy Fella 

Street Scene

Merrily We Roll Along

Dreamgirls

Titanic 

City of Angels

 

[BroadwayPeasent]

Posted: 5/28/16 at 10:45pm

TMM with Zeta Jones or is she too old