Best Best Revival of the Decade
Best Best Revival of the Decade
funhamilton_rent
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/15
#1Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:39pm
This decade has had some amazing revivals! Including OOTI, what do you guys think have been the best and worst revivals of the 2010s?
Here's mine:
1. The Color Purple
2. Once on this Island
3. Pippin
4. Hello Dolly (very very close)
5. Anything Goes
6. Hedwig (very close)
7. The King and I
I haven't seen La Cage or Porgy and Bess so I didn't rank them. What do you guys think?
BwayLB
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/17
#2Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:40pmThe only winners I have seen this decade are La Cage, Pippin and King & I on their national tours
BwayLB
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/17
#3Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:40pm
Accidental double post
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 08:40 PM
Elegance101
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/24/17
#4Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 8:45pm
Once On This Island, Color Purple, and Hedwig were what I needed at those points in my life. Spent my time at all three crying and they all made me feel like I was soaring after they were over. They get my vote. :)
#5Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:11pm
1. Once On This Island
2. Color Purple
3. Pippin
4. Hello, Dolly
5. Anything Goes
6. King and I
7. La Cage aux Folles
Didn't see Hedwig or Porgy & Bess.
If the Deaf West Spring Awakening was in a different year than Color Purple, that would be my #3. Or tied with Color Purple, honestly.
willrolandsframes
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/17
#6Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:27pm
The interesting thing about Best Revival is that not all revivals are the same. Some are just well-thought out productions, while others are total re-envisions of the material. I find the latter to be much, much more impressive than the former. Casting a great revival or coming up with a cool neat idea for a revival is awesome, but doing what John Doyle and Michael Arden have done with The Color Purple and Once on this Island is beyond awesome.
With that in mind, here are my rankings.
1. Once on this Island
2. The Color Purple
3. Pippin
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Porgy and Bess
6. Anything Goes
7. The King and I
8. La Cage aux Folles
9. Hello, Dolly!
Alright, now hit me with your best shot.
ethan231h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
#7Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:30pm
My favorites by far have been, Pippin, Spring Awakening, Hedwig, Once On This Island and Side Show.
#8Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:30pm
This is my personal opinion, I saw Bette in Hello, Dolly! and hated it, I saw it with Bernadette and loved it.
1. The Color Purple
2. Once on This Island
3. Hello, Dolly! (With Bernadette)
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Anything Goes
6. Porgy and Bess
7. Pippin
8. La Cage
9. The King and I
10. Hello, Dolly (with Bette)
ScottyDoesn'tKnow2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/22/14
#9Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:48pm
This award may turn into the "Most Improved" award (thanks for being only ok-to-good the first time around). I think executing a great classic production is underrated and underappreciated because people think it's easy to do when it's quite the opposite.
Updated On: 6/11/18 at 09:48 PM
#10Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:54pm
Jessetenny said: "This is my personal opinion, I saw Bette in Hello, Dolly! and hated it, I saw it with Bernadette and loved it.
1. The Color Purple
2. Once on This Island
3. Hello, Dolly! (With Bernadette)
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Anything Goes
6. Porgy and Bess
7. Pippin
8. La Cage
9. The King and I
10. Hello, Dolly (with Bette)"
Did you only see 10 revivals this decade if the one you hated still made the list?
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#11Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:55pm
1. Hello, Dolly!
2. The Color Purple
3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4. The King and I
5. Pippin
6. Anything Goes
7. Once on This Island
8. La Cage aux Folles
funhamilton_rent
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/15
#12Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 9:57pm
haterobics said: "Jessetenny said: "This is my personal opinion, I saw Bette in Hello, Dolly! and hated it, I saw it with Bernadette and loved it.
1. The Color Purple
2. Once on This Island
3. Hello, Dolly! (With Bernadette)
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Anything Goes
6. Porgy and Bess
7. Pippin
8. La Cage
9. The King and I
10. Hello, Dolly (with Bette)"
Did you only see 10 revivals this decade if the one you hated still made the list?"
This isn't based on all revivals this decade, only the ones that won the Best Revival Tony.
funhamilton_rent
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/15
#13Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:05pm
There are a lot of revivals that weren't necessarily superior to the winner that year, but were still amazing.
Such as:
She Loves Me (Color Purple was better but this still was phenomenal)
Spring Awakening (Michael Arden gets it perfect every single time. This revival deserved way better)
On the 20th Century (Way better than King and I imo, but then again I'm not the biggest fan of Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Violet (Hedwig was great too but this was such an underrated and nearly perfect revival. The cast could not have been better and it was just done so well.)
Falsettos (I know people think this was overrated, but I just loved it. Anyone remember how the critics felt about this? I don't remember)
willrolandsframes
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/17
#14Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:29pm
ScottyDoesn'tKnow2 said: "This award may turn into the "Most Improved" award (thanks for being only ok-to-good the first time around). I think executing a great classic production is underrated and underappreciated because people think it's easy to do when it's quite the opposite."
I do think it is quite difficult to do either. Most of the 9 productions that have received this honor this decade, regardless of whether or not it is a "revival" or a "revisal", are extraordinary and were not easy to put together. With that being said, I tend to be more impressed by the "revisals" because they are so unexpected. While the 2011 production of Anything Goes was magnificent top to bottom and I will argue that it is Roundabout's best production altogether this decade, I don't really think it was as good as the true re-envisioning that we saw with a few productions like The Color Purple and Once on this Island. A lot of my issues with straight up reviving a classic production is that you'll end up with situations like Hello, Dolly!, where the theatre community fangirled to the Nth degree. They had dream-casted Bette in that role for years, and they finally got to live their dream. Everyone was so bewildered by this casting that nobody even stopped to think about whether or not the rest of the production was any good. The production was not re-envisioned in any way. There weren't really any new layers added that we hadn't seen before (although I will give them credit for the way they have used Charlie Stemp in the Bernadette version). Therefore, in my opinion, all revivals are tough, but it's much tougher to completely re-imagine the material than it is to simply bring it back to life.
#15Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:34pm
Of the winners I liked Pippin the best, but overall my favorite musical revival this decade was On the Town.
ScottyDoesn'tKnow2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/22/14
#16Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 10:40pm
It's funny how much I disagree with your post willrolandsframes, especially with Hello Dolly! And I saw it with Donna Murphy, not Bette Midler, and it reminded me of exactly what theatre should do and it's been so long since I saw such a perfectly executed and well produced, directed, acted, and choreographed evening. And it was not just a copy and paste job like Cabaret intentionally was when it was brought back for a spell.
The hard part about doing classics is that there are heightened expectations, preconceived notions, AND it's hard to make it fresh for people and not think they were just going to see another of the same production that they already expect. Some of the best classic revivals succeeded despite having all of that against them. Sometimes having those restrictions is much harder to pull off than taking a so-so show with a so-so original response and then being given leeway to go crazy with it. Especially if those so-so shows were recent and fit in with modern audiences' tastes and emotions that the more classic shows do not because they are many decades old and modern audiences don't appreciate those aesthetics.
#17Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/11/18 at 11:05pm
It didn’t win best revival, but I thought the revival of Drood a few years ago was noteworthy. I love the show, and this cast was excellent. Chita Rivera was not to everyone’s taste, but it was fun to see her hamming it up.
Ben_Platt_Out
Understudy Joined: 2/2/18
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#20Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 1:14am
My favorites (in no particular order):
Hello, Dolly!
Once on this Island
Hedwig
The King and I
Porgy and Bess
Pippin
The Color Purple
Favorite revivals that didn't win:
Falsettos
Spring Awakening
She Loves Me
Follies
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
Sunday in the Park with George
Honestly, we've had some really great revivals. In fact they're usually more interesting than the nominees for Best Musical.
#21Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 7:11am
In no particular order...
My Fair Lady
On the Town
The King and I
Anything Goes
Hello, Dolly!
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
twbrqr
Swing Joined: 5/1/18
#22Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 8:28am
Great revivals lately. Many could have won but from the winners I saw:
1. Hedwig
2. Hello Dolly
3. Pippin
4. Once on this Island
5. The Color Purple
6. The King and I
7. Porgy and Bess
#23Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 8:43am
I’m not sure I could decide BUT the Deaf West Spring Awakening revival was gorgeous.
Updated On: 6/12/18 at 08:43 AM
#24Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 8:51am
Since you didn't specify, and no one else has done this yet:
1. A View From the Bridge
2. Angels in America
3. Death of a Salesman
4. Jitney
5. The Normal Heart
6. Skylight
Didn't see the rest.
As for musicals, my ranking would be:
1. Hello, Dolly!
2. The King and I
3. Once on This Island
4. Porgy and Bess
5. Pippin
6. Anything Goes
7. The Color Purple
8. Hedwig
Didn't see La Cage.
#25Best Best Revival of the Decade
Posted: 6/12/18 at 9:13am
As far as the Tony winners go, these would be my rankings. Musicals:
1. Once on This Island
2. Pippin
3. The Color Purple
4. The King and I
5. Hello Dolly
6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
7. Porgy and Bess
8. Anything Goes
9. La Cage Aux Folles
Plays:
1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Jitney
3. A View From the Bridge
4. Fences
5. A Raisin in the Sun
6. The Normal Heart
7. Angels in America
8. Death of a Salesman
9. Skylight
Best among the non-winners: Spring Awakening, Three Tall Women, Golden Boy, Violet, Follies.
"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
Updated On: 6/12/18 at 09:13 AM
