If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
#1If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 10:57pm
What would you produce?
I would produce Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady, Bernadette Peters in Sweeney Todd, and Patti LuPone in Into the Woods.
I was asked this question today, and found it fun to think of all the productions I've dreamed of seeing for so long, and I thought I'd forward the question on to you guys!
Updated On: 1/9/16 at 10:57 PM
#2If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 11:08pm
Mama Courage
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#3If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 11:14pm
I would produce enough new and exciting shows that there would no longer be space for revivals, jukebox musicals, magic shows etc. And the funny thing is, there would be enough money to do it again and again for well beyond my natural life.
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#4If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 11:31pm
a Barlett Sher revival of WSS at LCT (vivian beaumont)
a new show similar to Light in the Piazza (score influenced by classical / operatic music)
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
stevie3
Stand-by Joined: 5/29/10
#5If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 11:51pm
Honeymoon in Vegas !!!!
#6If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/9/16 at 11:55pm
A lady Gaga musical. Costumes like bad romance works look amazing.
Broadway kid 2
Stand-by Joined: 6/7/14
#7If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 12:07am
I would produce something ORIGINAL AND NEW
Broadway kid 2
Stand-by Joined: 6/7/14
#8If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 12:07am
I would produce something ORIGINAL AND NEW
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 12:47am
Produce all of Wildhorn's unproduced shows on Broadway.
Poster Emeritus
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#10If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 12:52am
A musical adaptation of the 1966 Hayley Mills/June Harding/Rosalind Russell film THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#11If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 1:15am
I would fund EVERYTHING needed for a cast recording of The Apple Tree revival with Kristin Chenoweth, Brian d'Arcy James and Marc Kudisch. #notbitter
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#12If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 1:20am
jacobsnchz14 said: "I would fund EVERYTHING needed for a cast recording of The Apple Tree revival with Kristin Chenoweth, Brian d'Arcy James and Marc Kudisch. #notbitter
"
yes.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#13If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 1:52am
The Rink with Beth Leavel and Leslie Kritzer
#14If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 2:07am
It is disheartening to me that so many here seem more interested in resurrecting the old than creating new original theatre.
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#15If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 2:17am
Original muisicals1960s sitcoms:
Hogans Heroes the musical
Batman, the musical
Newhart, the musical
Lost in Space, the musical
the odd couple, the musical
I dream of Genie the musical
Addams family the musical(oops too late)
#16If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 2:19am
Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in Sweeney Todd. It'd either be brilliant or a disaster, and I don't care which.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#17If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 3:15am
I would do a lavish production of my own pipe dream show.
It's a romantic musical set before and after WWII in a mill town theatre. Too many other details to list here.
I don't know who could do the score, maybe do a contest like they did for RAGTIME to see who has the best ideas. Something mixing very classic R&H type stuff with jazz/swing. Maybe some more off the wall Blitzstein type stuff.
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Updated On: 1/10/16 at 03:15 AM
#18If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 3:20am
Dance of the Vampires revival.
The RIGHT way this time!
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#19If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 4:24am
- "Funny Girl" with Annaleigh Ashford
- "Sweet Charity" with Carly Rae Jepsen
- "Song & Dance" with Erin Davie
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#20If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 5:31am
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (the musical), dammit!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
kristinj1
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/11
#21If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 5:36am
I'd commission a new musical based on the old Planet Money episode called "The Giant Pool of Money". In my opinion it's a fascinating and important slice of history of near-operatic scope.
Updated On: 1/10/16 at 05:36 AM
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#22If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 5:42am
qolbinau said: "Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters in Sweeney Todd. It'd either be brilliant or a disaster, and I don't care which.
"
it will be glorious either way. LOL
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#23If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 8:05am
I would produce hamlet 2
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Julie Yard
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#24If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 9:04am
I read the question and my mind immediately flashed here...
Max: The two cardinal rules of producing are one: Never put your own money in the show.
Leo: And two?
Max: [yelling] Never put your own money in the show!
Dolittle
#25If You Won the Powerball and Could Mount a Production on Broadway...
Posted: 1/10/16 at 9:22am
Well, joanf, it's kind of more of a risk to put your money in the show if you have a lot to lose. As the pot is currently $1.3 billion, I think the hypothetical winner could risk their own money on a few shows and still be able to invest the rest and live off the interest.
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