Musicals You Want Revived

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Someone needs to change the dance law so this can happen. I would pay Chess money REGARDLESS of who's in it. (Michael Ball can't dance, can he? Just checking for a friend.)

My Fair Lady, Aida, Into The Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, The Music Man, The Color Purple, The Wiz...

I'm not greedy. At all 😁😂

Thanks theatremadness. I didn't know about that. Great cast though.

Starlight Express
Whistle Down The Wind
The Beautiful Game
Moby Dick
Martin Guerre
Children of Eden
Closer To Heaven

Sadly can't really see any of them happening any time soon, at least not as a major revival. Though of course The Union have had a crack at three of them!

Starlight Express
Memphis
We Will Rock You
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

How could I forget Sweeney Todd also!

Mr Snow, I am absolutely certain that that line does not occur in the original cast album of 'Tenderloin'. Actually, it sounds as if it might have been written by Sondheim, a la 'I never do anything twice'.

Despite what Wiki says, 'Fiorello' was done in London at the Piccadilly Theatre in the early 1960s and I remember enjoying it, especially 'A Little Tin Box' which John Wilson included so brilliantly in one of his Albert Hall concerts. No reason why 'Fiorello' couldn't be revived by one of the small London theatres like the Menier.

The last London production of 'Pal Joey' in 1980 with Dennis Lawson and Sian Philips was superb and really did justice to this unusual show. A well cast revival could be very successful. I seem to remember a great revival of 'The Boys from Syracuse' at Drury Lane in 1963 with a very starry cast and I think it would be well worth reviving. In fact if the National thought 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' worth mounting a few years ago (as indeed it was) that they should certainly do 'The Boys from Syracuse'.

Just to widen this discussion a bit, I an surprised to see suggestions for a revival of 'She Loves Me' when we have been awash with productions of this in recent years. Similarly, I would have thought we have seen enough (unsuccessful) attempts to get 'Mack and Mabel' to work, including Chichester with Michael Ball, to realise that despite its great story and terrific score, the second act fails to gel and it just isn't viable as a stage musical. I did in fact enjoy the pared down version with Janie Dee and David Soul but there are many other shows that have been far more neglected and deserve reviving ahead of 'Mack and Mabel'.

Oh, by the way, I don't suppose it will happen, but I would love to see 'Annie Get Your Gun' staged exactly as it was originally written with its original script and all the offensive material about native Americans intact, especially Annie's song 'I'm an Indian Too'. Sorry, but I am an unreconstructed lover of old musicals even when they are seriously non-PC. And I see somebody asking to see 'The Desert Song' but that would never be acceptable in these days of female empowerment, unless perhaps the Red Shadow was played by a woman!

OK, I guess I had better call a taxi!

I’ve saw the 2011 Broadway production but I’d like to see How fo Suceed in Business Without Really Trying done at The Open Air or Chichester

Brigadoon, Camelot and By Jeeves are ones I’d like to see.

How to succeed was done at Chichester in 2005, i saw a good if small scale revival of it at Wiltons Hall last year.

RE: Memphis, as much as I'd like to see it again, I think its too soon. Maybe a tour of the original rather than a WE Revival.

For those wishing for a Starlight Express revival, surely this must be on the cards soon giving the workshopping late last year.

She Love Me was revived last year at the Menier