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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 18:02:03 GMT
Groundhog Day, My Fair Lady, Cabaret (not stunt cast, preferably with Alan Cumming), Singin' in the Rain and maybe White Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 19:00:20 GMT
Aida
Singin in the Rain
West Side Story
I'm going to NYC to get my My Fair Lady fix...
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 19, 2018 19:03:14 GMT
It's taken until page TWO? 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.) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 19:08:10 GMT
Has The Music Man ever been revived professionally in the UK? It seems to be done all the time in the US, but have never heard of it being done here.
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 19, 2018 19:09:32 GMT
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 😁😂
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Post by theatremadness on Feb 19, 2018 19:10:35 GMT
Has The Music Man ever been revived professionally in the UK? It seems to be done all the time in the US, but have never heard of it being done here. Chichester did it in 2008 with Brian Conley as Harold Hill and Scarlett Strallen as Marian. Cast also had Katy Secombe, Jenny Galloway, Zizi Strallen and Sophie Louise Dann. It was really glorious - I presume primed for a transfer but never happened for some reason! Though I don't speak with any knowledge about that. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 19:16:09 GMT
Thanks theatremadness. I didn't know about that. Great cast though.
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Post by paplazaroo on Feb 19, 2018 20:12:09 GMT
I’d love to see The Boy From Oz. Also while we’re on the subject of Jackman surely we’re due a another lavish Oklahoma? Annnd Brigadoon, Mack and Mabel, return to the forbidden planet. I agree someone should do Lord of the rings again but strip it back to actor muso Mumford and sons/once vibes
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 20:20:49 GMT
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!
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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 19, 2018 20:25:39 GMT
Memphis and She Loves Me and many older ones which I never got the chance to see due to my youth...
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Post by Raven on Feb 19, 2018 20:35:35 GMT
Starlight Express
Memphis
We Will Rock You
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Post by alece10 on Feb 19, 2018 20:45:30 GMT
Time for the return of Forbidden Broadway
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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 19, 2018 20:48:14 GMT
How could I forget Sweeney Todd also!
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 19, 2018 21:12:49 GMT
Has The Music Man ever been revived professionally in the UK? It seems to be done all the time in the US, but have never heard of it being done here. Chichester did it in 2008 with Brian Conley as Harold Hill and Scarlett Strallen as Marian. Cast also had Katy Secombe, Jenny Galloway, Zizi Strallen and Sophie Louise Dann. It was really glorious - I presume primed for a transfer but never happened for some reason! Though I don't speak with any knowledge about that. It was def supposed to tour but in the end of course didnt, not sure why. |
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 20, 2018 0:17:32 GMT
Tony Yes and Yes. Canyou help me out? I long ago lost a tape containing a song that I believe came from Tenderloin. The lyrics made me smile and can you confirm they were something like? "he acted celestial, when I wanted bestial..." (Google not helpnig so I maybe barking in the wrong forrest?) Would also love to see their Fiorella, at one time Radio 2 played "A Little Tin Box" once a week. My annual plea for Pal Joey or any Rogers and HART musical. 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! |
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Post by romeo94 on Feb 20, 2018 0:45:57 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music
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Post by Jon on Feb 20, 2018 6:13:24 GMT
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.
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Post by macksennett on Feb 20, 2018 7:06:47 GMT
Would love to see a revival of Jerry Herman's Mame.
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 20, 2018 7:11:44 GMT
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. |
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Post by clair on Feb 20, 2018 8:11:57 GMT
Mame, Man of La Mancha, The Boy Friend, Love Never Dies, Brigadoon and Jack the Ripper
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 9:58:49 GMT
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.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 10:29:09 GMT
I'm going to keep demanding an Open Air Theatre production of The Secret Garden until Tim Sheader finally does the right thing and gets it done.
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Post by alece10 on Feb 20, 2018 11:35:01 GMT
Memphis and She Loves Me and many older ones which I never got the chance to see due to my youth... She Love Me was revived last year at the Menier |
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 20, 2018 12:11:33 GMT
I am finding this thread extremely interesting and I have now thought up a few more mainly obscure old shows I would love to see staged although they may not all work in this day and age:
The hit show of 1898: 'The Belle of New York' – a sort of early version of 'Guys and Dolls' with a wonderful score and a book that would need some editing. The Fred Astaire movie had nothing to do with the stage show apart from the title and the title song.
Edwardian musicals by Monckton, Talbot, Jones, etc: 'Our Miss Gibbs', 'The Country Girl', 'The Arcadians', 'The Geisha', etc, for their delightful tuneful songs and period charm. The Finborough successfully did 'Our Miss Gibbs' in 2006 in a very pared down version and the shows used to be done often by amateur companies.
Shows by George M. Cohan especially 'Little Johnny Jones' and 'Little Nelly Kelly'. A taste of these can be had in the James Cagney movie 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'.
Shows by Jerome Kern, especially 'Sally' and 'Sunny'
Shows, mainly in the form of operettas, by Victor Herbert, especially 'Naughty Marietta' and 'The Red Mill'
Big stage spectaculars: 'Chu Chin Chow', 'Cavalcade', 'Kismet', 'The Desert Song', 'The Vagabond King', 'Man of Lamancha', 'The Maid of the Mountains', 'Rio Rita', 'White Horse Inn', all with lavish sets and full orchestra and chorus.
And lots of others...!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 20, 2018 12:15:33 GMT
At the Open Air
Iolanthe
Secret Garden
Sunday
Night Music
At Wilton’s
Follies
Pal Joey
Candide
Spider Woman
Carmen Jones
Bet you can’t guess what two of my favourite venues are?!
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