The real question: Will the 2016 version of SHUFFLE ALONG ever be licensed? If not, we'll probably never see it again and it will remain just a memory. Maybe there is something between the original estate and the new material that's preventing it from being licensed? If it does get released, it's a show that won't get produced often (because of interest and ability to produce it). It was a unique show and closed under such strange circumstances, and I would imagine George Wolfe and Scott Rudin are still licking their wounds from it.
As mentioned by others above it had it's chance and lost. How do you hire a star actress that is leaving the show a few months later to do her other show on the West End. As we all know she fou d out she was pregnant too. Feel sorry for that big cast that worked so hard and the producers.
Even with the critiques of this show, including those aimed at the events behind its demise on Broadway, I still found it a highlight of the year for me. That was one stellar cast from top to bottom. With choreography that I STILL believe should have brought home the Tony for Savion Glover. Having seen Hamilton, I thought the choreography and movement in that show was exceptional as well. But the dance in Shuffle Along was beyond compare that season, IMHO.
And I agree with Audra, it was a story that needed to be told, and I also believe her when she says she thinks it would have found an audience. I do too. If for no other the reason, the Master Class of performers headlining the show.
Would it have run forever? No. But I think it would have had a more than respectable run. I just remember how abuzz the audience was leaving the show that night. It was a good one, and I'm glad I saw it.
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Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:44pm