Musicals or Plays You Want To See Revived

Though who could take on memory of Art Lund today?

FOLLIES! FOLLIES! FOLLIES!

Pacific Overtures

I’d love a big revival of Most Happy Fella as well. I know Bart Sher has missed the mark a few times but I think he could do well with this.

Who’ll Save the Plowboy?

R5

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf has been done enough times and is close enough.

Agreed, R4! An LCT/Sher MOST HAPPY FELLA could be glorious. Present-day Paulo Szot (as on view in the current & JULIET) may already be suitable for the lead.

It's too late now, but Kelli O'Hara certainly sounded wonderful in the leading lady's music a few years ago (link below).

Sigmund Romberg’s “The New Moon” would be nice to see again on Broadway or even Lincoln Center again as well. New York City Opera was last revival IIRC back in 1989.

"The Blonde in the Thunderbird."

OP - are you thinking of full-blown NYC/Broadway revivals only? If that's the case, here are two musicals, which if produced with the script and score as originally produced, should make audiences happy...

High Spirits

City of Angels

"are you thinking of full-blown NYC/Broadway revivals only"

Yes, if at all possible. But would settle for Lincoln Center or something along those lines. This with realization that many plays or musicals may not be able to fill a huge house for long enough run to make money.

Would love to see "Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" on Broadway again. But given current woke nature of things and fact last revival on Broadway didn't do very well shan't hold my breath.

I know they did it 20 years ago, but I missed the recent revival of Pajama Game.

I love that show.

R13

Poor you, that 2006 revival of "Pajama Game" was quite good.

Harry Connick, Jr. surprised many naysayers in the "Pajama Game".

Suppose if another revival were to happen now Hugh Jackman would be slotted into star role.

Eddie Foy, Jr!

Medea

We need another John Raitt!

Hit The Sky!

Aged In Wood

Moose Murders!

They did Most Happy Fella at Encores with Laura Benanti, who was quite good. Not a full revival, but they did play the original orchestrations, which are glorious.

I love the show, but it is quite hard to pull off. You need actors who are also excellent singers and can straddle the line between opera and musical comedy.

[quote]Suppose if another revival were to happen now Hugh Jackman would be slotted into star role.

No, it would be Wayne Brady and Ariana DeBose.

No, No Nanette!

Amulets Against the Dragon Forces.

Carrie.

"My One and Only"

Wonderful Town

The Student Prince

Agnes of God. Three great roles for women.

Hey! There’s My Tractor!

Voice of the Turtle

Wonderful Town was last revived on Broadway back in 2003, so it's about due for another run but who to cast in lead roles?

Who are all those cute Aggie boys? Especially the two soloists on the “ 25 miles until” parts.

Bajour! (Seriously, even if the script is bad—and I know “gypsies” are problematic—and only with Chita! As Anyanka).

How many of those Aggie boys died of AIDS before five years out after filming the that scene?

R33

If "Aggie Boys" were from OBC here you go...

Actor Gerry Burkhardt (on right in clip linked @R12) died in 2017

"I love the show, but it is quite hard to pull off. You need actors who are also excellent singers and can straddle the line between opera and musical comedy."

Seth MacFarlane for Joey!

Small scale for sure, but I'd like to see Natural Affection and Hagar's Children mounted again. I think Natural Affection had a revival some years back, but it's time to bring it back again. Hagar's Children seems to have disappeared forever.

"Ow! My Balls!" - the musical

“Our American Cousin”

“Time and Again” the musical.

Problematic book, but the Skip Kennon score is glorious.

Nyet, Nyet, Nannette.

There were so many I wanted to see revivals of…and then Encores did them and I realized they’re mostly crap

Oh! Calcutta!

Fun topic, OP! Would love to see a revival of Sondheim and Wheeler's A Little Night Music. But ONLY if it's exceptionally well cast and only with a full orchestra and production values. I say Sondheim and Wheeler because I think the book gets a bit overlooked in Sondheim shows and the Night Music book is one of the finest written.

Wouldn't say no a Sweet Charity revival as long as they kept the Fosse choreography and hired a true triple threat in the lead. Can Lea dance?

It's probably too cost prohibitive, but a big, full scale revival of Showboat would be lovely.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum but WITHOUT James Corden, please!

Before I die, I would love to see a really good revival of Brigadoon.

Two of my favorite comedies:

Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" (last on Broadway in 1986 with Rosemary Harris)

Shaw's "Misalliance" (last on Broadway 70 years ago with the young Roddy McDowell and Richard Kiley)

Flower Drum Song, starring Sara Porkalob

Piaf with Lea Michele.

Assassins, with Beanie Feldstein as Sara Jane Moore and Ben Platt as Squeaky Fromme

In all honesty, Lady in the Dark. They'd have to re-write the ending and some of the book.

Lucy and Ethel saw the original Most Happy Fella. (when Lucy dropped her purse from the box seat.)

The musical that won the Tony over ‘Gypsy’. I think it was about some beloved New York mayor played by Tom Bosley.

Fiorello, r54.

"Fiorello!" tied with "The Sound of Music" for the Tony that year.

Lil' Abner

Broadway is too woke for Showboat to happen again, well not at least without some very heavy changes to the book. When that is all and done what's left likely won't be worth bothering about.

How did Elaine Stritch get cast in 1994 revival?

The wonderful Lonette McKee.

Bit more of the Toronto production.

"The Name's LaGuardia" from Fiorello!

"Footsteps on the Ceiling."

r58 - can you explain what might be considered objectionable in Showboat today? Admittedly, I haven't seen a full production since the 90s (not the Hal Prince production), but if, anything, I recall it being surprisingly progressive for a work from the 1920s. I vaguely recall that one of the songs originally used the N-word in the lyrics, but that was definitely removed in the production I saw in the 90s.

[quote]An LCT/Sher MOST HAPPY FELLA could be glorious. Present-day Paulo Szot (as on view in the current & JULIET) may already be suitable for the lead.

He could certainly sing it, but Tony is supposed to be as homely as a mud fence.

Haven't heard much about Mr. Szot in "& Juliet" -- has he much to do in the show or is it a small supporting role?

Wouldn't mind seeing "Me & Juliet". It never seems to be revived and it does have some very good R&H songs in it. There have been some good productions of "Allegro" and even "Pipe Dream", but I've never had an opportunity to see "Me & Juliet".

What was that play Joan Rivers starred in, I think it was about Lenny Bruce’s mother or something. That might be ripe for revival.

My point, R64, is that in & JULIET Mr. Szot is anything but sexy. He looks portly and middle-aged.

[quote]What was that play Joan Rivers starred in, I think it was about Lenny Bruce’s mother or something. That might be ripe for revival.

It was called "Sally Marr ... and Her Escorts."

Ripe for revival? I don't see a lot of point in reviving a bomb.

She knocked over Ethel's purse, r53.

R69 It had too much Joan and couldn’t be it’s own thing, that’s why a revival might work, especially post Maisel.

[quote] My point, [R64], is that in & JULIET Mr. Szot is anything but sexy. He looks portly and middle-aged.

An enormous plot point of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA is that the lead is portly and middle-aged. if he were sexy, he could not convincingly play the role.

Emily & Laura

I've always winced over Tony's pidgin-Italian. He sounds like a caricature, the Italian version of Stepin Fetchit.

I take it you're not fan of "Life With Luigi" either.

Pal Joey. We need a take on it that doesn't depend on smarmy charm but something more awkward and innocent.

Whatsa madda yoo?

The problem with star vehicles is that some of them were so carefully crafted to their original star that without their magic, the shows don't play on Broadway as well. Funny Girl, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing. I don't see Redhead ever getting a Broadway revival.

The book would need an overhaul but I'd love to see someone take on "Tenderloin."

Tony in MOST HAPPY FELLA is only "ugly" in his own eyes. A kind and generous, if somewhat dim, momma's boy who never married, True, he can't be super-handsome but he doesn't have to look like a toad either. He does have to be about 10 years older than his leading leady though.

[quote] The book would need an overhaul but I'd love to see someone take on "Tenderloin."

Encores did it years ago with a pre-fame Patrick Wilson.

[quote] What was that play Joan Rivers starred in, I think it was about Lenny Bruce’s mother or something. That might be ripe for revival.

I saw this. It was boring as hell. They took an interesting subject and made her boring.

[quote] Sigmund Romberg’s “The New Moon” would be nice to see again on Broadway or even Lincoln Center again as well. New York City Opera was last revival IIRC back in 1989.

Maybe the last full scale revival, but Encores did a production of it several years ago.

I want a blatino-trans cast celebrating a reconstruction of "Song of the South!"

"Scat!" - with a holographic Al Jarreau leading the review.

"Maybe the last full scale revival, but Encores did a production of it several years ago."

Rod Gilfry & Christiane Noll: I'll buy that!

I've never seen a production of NEW MOON but the Encores recording is absolutely glorious. I suspect a full production would totally bring it down, however, as the book is probably hopelessly corny and dated. Same could be said about HOUSE OF FLOWERS, ST. LOUIS WOMAN, THE GRASS HARP and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN.

If for nothing else to gaze at Rod Gilfry.

How about "A Little Night Music" with some actually attractive people?

Right, R72. That's why I recommended him for the role. I was backing up that suggestion against someone else's objection.

Steel Piers!

No, r91...just...

Side Show! With actual conjoined twins!

That's going to be tricky when they have to separate, r93.

R87 - I love, love, love the score to the Rodgers & Hart musical "By Jupiter" - crazy mis-mash of Greek/Roman mythology with Hercules and Roman soldiers invading Amazonia to retrieve the "sacred girdle of Diana" from Hyppolita.. this will, I think, lead to the women being subservient to men. The show was built around the comedic skills of Ray Bolger who played Sapiens. Not an easy role in 2023... Sapiens sounds very gay (flamboyant) on the recording and in the script. I do wish Encores! had done it before they went completely woke. It could have been an entertaining, if dated, afternoon.

Sally Field in The Trip To Bountiful

Jan "You're soaking in it" Miner was good as Sally Marr in "Lenny," but it was a tiny role there.

[quote]How about "A Little Night Music" with some actually attractive people?

Maybe some TikTok "stars"?

Funny Girl with Beanie

No No Nanette with Lens Dunham

Ragtime with Sara Porkalob

Promises Promises with Andy Randells and Maud Apatow

Simply Heavenly

The Happy TIme, great Kander and Ebb score.

R95 - you got me thinking. This isn't 100% on topic, but I wouldn't say no to a "new" Rodgers & Hart or Cole Porter musical. This seems to have been done a lot more with Gershwin (Crazy for You, Me & My Girl, Nice Work etc.)

It seems one of the challenges with reviving most Rodgers & Hart or Cole Porter musicals (Anything Goes, aside) is that the books don't work. But, those classic R&H and Cole Porter songs are still sublime. So, maybe it's time for a strong writer to conceive a new show that combines R&H or Porter songs from multiple older musicals into a new one.

"Boys From Syracuse" worked wonderfully well at Encores, but heard the later Broadway revival was re-written and terrible. "On Your Toes" still works well, too.

There used to be the On Your Toes number and Slaughter with Makarova out there and I can't find them anymore.

Over The Teacups

I bet I can get my hand in your foot faster than you can get your hand on my ass

Lysistrata

- Very Elder Gay

The Baker's Wife.

If only because am tried of hearing Meadowlark only in concert or recordings.

For R104

Original...

Half fucked Fox

Christine Baranski as Peggy Porterfield, Encores performance 2013

Thank you, r109, but I still want to know where those other two clips are. The On Your Toes number was very fun.

Who is that adorable boy singing with Baranski??

R114

If one had to guess would say Shonn Wiley..

"Christine Baranski as Peggy Porterfield, benefactress to a ballet company, offers some advice to Shonn Wiley as Junior, music professor and occasional ballet star,"

Babes in Arms. Corny plot but it has "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady is A Tramp," "Where or When?", "Johnny One-Note", "I Wish I Were In Love Again" ....and "All Dark People are Light on Their Feet" (sung and danced by the Nicholas Brothers in the original production)

The original version had strong political overtones with discussions of Nietzsche, a Communist character, and two African-American youths who are victims of racism. In 1959 George Oppenheimer created a "sanitized, de-politicized rewrite" which is now the most frequently performed version. In the new version, the young people are trying to save a local summer stock theatre from being demolished, not trying to avoid being sent to a work farm. The sequence of the songs and orchestration are changed drastically, and the dance numbers eliminated.

The sanitized version was the only one available for performance until 1998 when the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music presented the original version (with a few race references slightly re-edited).

In 2002, a very successful production was mounted at Goodspeed Opera using a new book by Joe DiPietro which included plot points from the original 1937 version and also elements from the 1939 MGM film. The original score was utilized along with several additional Rodgers and Hart songs. Randy Skinner choreographed the production. (Sounds dreadful. UGH. KEEP JOE DIPIETRO AWAY FROM EVERYTHING)

[quote]The original version had strong political overtones

It's interesting how some of the political commentary from those early shows plays to a contemporary audience. It all depends if the contemporary society has similar issues so that they'll relate to the story more. Granted it's from a topical revue, but has this song lost any relevance since 1933?

r85=Erna

A topical heatwave!

She sang that song 90 years ago...

A Fynny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

R2- You mean old queens 🤴 with Caftans and Pocketbooks.

Charlotte Sweet (80s musical) and Ira Levin's Veronica's Room (play).

An all autistic singer and dancer production of Cats!

Shenandoah. My first Broadway show. To my knowledge, it’s never been revived. I remember the TV commercials featuring the song “Freedom” being played all the time back in the day.

Shenandoah, directed by Jeff (Newsies) Calhoun, was revived at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC about 10 years ago with an eye to transfer though it never did. It's probably considered too sentimental for these ironic times on Broadway.

If one judged the score of HOUSE OF FLOWERS from the Original Cast Album one thinks "This score is magnificent. WHY HASN'T THIS SHOW BEEN REVIVED? " " (It's my favorite score from 1950s Broadway). But the problem with HOUSE OF FLOWERS is the book. And boy, oh, boy is it lousy. And as the Encores! production of a few years ago revealed, it is completely unfixable.

Many years ago, The Duplex of all places did a semi-concerty performance of WHOOP-UP! And to my surprise, it was tremendous fun. The score is terrific and the gist of it is not anti-Native American at all - but it's a total cartoon. It could be a new XANADU. But today NO WAY IN HELL with such a cheeky goofy show come to Broadway. It probably wouldn't be allowed to play The Duplex.

[quote]Shenandoah. My first Broadway show. To my knowledge, it’s never been revived. I remember the TV commercials featuring the song “Freedom” being played all the time back in the day.

r126, it was also my first Broadway show. It really needs a leading man with a strong singing voice and gravitas. I don't know who would play the Father these days.

[quote]Shenandoah. My first Broadway show. To my knowledge, it’s never been revived.

It's very old-fashioned, very derivative and, at times, very hokey. I think it would bomb.

How about Brian Stokes Mitchell, R129?

There's the issue of slavery in the show -- the kid who duets on the big song "Freedom" is black. Having Stokes as the lead would add additional questions the authors probably didn't intend.

"Candide"

Also, R132, the male lead in "Shenandoah" is opposed to his sons fighting in the Civil War, an additional complication were Stokes to be in the lead.

Man, that Levin play "Veronica's Closet" is disturbing... was it well-received?

“Veronica’s Room Is Found Empty,” by Clive Barnes (26 October 1973)

There was deception, foul language, nudity, incest, necrophilia and murder at the Music Box Theater last night. And that was just onstage. The play was Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room.

A note in the program suggests that: “For the enjoyment of future audiences, it will be appreciated if you do not disclose the plot of the play.” Their secret will be safe with me. There were times when it looked pretty much safe with the playwright.

The difficulty with any suspense thriller is how to escape out of the end of the tunnel. How do you provide that final clinching surprise that will have the audience leave gasping but happy? Mr. Levin has quite a good idea —and now I have to tread delicately, for I must discuss something of it without disclosing it.

A girl (Susan) is lured into a room. She has found a boyfriend. They meet a couple in a restaurant and are taken back to a house. Susan is said to look like another girl, Veronica, who is dead. She is persuaded to pretend to be Veronica. She wears Veronica’s dress. She is in Veronica’s room. A door is locked. She beats on it. She cries. But in suspense thrillers, nothing good comes out of a locked door.

As in Pirandello’s Henry IV, although I am sure Mr. Levin would be the first to admit that he does not play games in Pirandello’s ballpark, there is a confusion of time here. Are we in 1973 or 1935?

Susan is in 1973, and she has the names and the memories to prove it. In a moment of torment she can shout a litany of names such as Henry Kissinger’s. And in 1935 who apart from his parents had heard of Henry Kissinger? But despite this, despite even her knowledge of advanced radio technology, despite her very certainty of existence, there are those who think that she is mad. Not only mad but also guilty of such horrid crimes that “even angels could not forgive.”

The play is strong on atmosphere and totally weak in reality. It shouts a lot but means little. Here is a family that makes the Addams Family look as though it would be fun neighbors, and yet its melodramatic extravagances are never really funny, thrilling nor convincing.

I found myself thinking of the black‐red horrors of Webster’s and Tourneur’s Jacobean tragedies. There, extravagance took on a certain poetic exuberance, and nothing seemed too farfetched because it was always fetched with feeling. Here the fetching, like the writing, is mechanical.

The overheated and gothic tensions of the play are matched by Ellis Rabb’s startled style of staging—with everyone freezing into groups at a second’s excuse, and exchanging meaningful glances whenever possible. Yet it is difficult to see how it could be done otherwise (the play is no more naturalistic than it is realistic) and he has found admirable and familiar collaborators in Douglas Schmidt (scenery), Nancy Potts (costumes) and John Gleason (lighting). Veronica’s Room simply could not look more right.

The acting also had a full‐blooded expertise. As Susan or Veronica, Regina Baff was most impressive. She beat against fate like a spunky little sparrow, and her mixture of frenzy, and reason was nicely judged. Eileen Heckert and Arthur Kennedy are every polished as her friends and tormentors.

Miss Heckert is malicious in her modulation, throwing away asides with acidulated panache, and Mr. Kennedy, more bluff and blustering, provides her with a subtle contrast: Kipp Osborne as the young man in Susan’s life, perhaps goes too far at the end. But then so did the young man.

These things are usually more fun in the movies. One can see it with Vincent Price or Peter Cushing and all manner of berserk and naked ingenues. But for tile stage, not really. It has the merit of brevity. It looks as if it had been cut to the quick. At 1 moment Susan cries out: “My God you are very. sick people, you need help very badly.” She said it.

Thanks for that find R136... why would anyone want it revived?

Personally, I've always wanted to see a good production of Alan Ayckbourn's "The Norman Conquests." I've read about the plays, and the way they interconnect is fascinating.

I’m ready for an all star production of ‘Night Mother.

I want the musical version, r138.

[quote] I’m ready for an all star production of ‘Night Mother.

Been there done that. Brenda Blethyn and Edie Falco. Even they couldn’t make that boring play interesting.

Oprah and Audra were supposed to do it on Broadway. Whatever happened to that? Oprah had this habit of announcing projects that never happen. She must have learned it from Kristin Chenoweth.

Oprah and Kristin Chenoweth starring in “Night Mother.”

[quote]It's very old-fashioned, very derivative and, at times, very hokey. I think it would bomb.

Probably.

However I remember Shenandoah having very well written book. And the anti-war and slavery theme could be interesting.

You'd need a charismatic lead and maybe a couple of revised songs.

[quote]You'd need a charismatic lead and maybe a couple of revised songs.

Some of the lyrics are dreadful.

My fantasy 'NIGHT MOTHER cast these days -- Carrie Coon and Ann Dowd. That would be stunning.

John Cullum did a revival of "Shenandoah" on Broadway about 10 years after the original. He was great, though the production seemed to be kind of chintzy.

Oh, r145, even the original Broadway production of SHENANDOAH looked chintzy. The mid-70s was an especially low point for design in Broadway musicals, including THE WIZ and I LOVE MY WIFE.

[quote] John Cullum did a revival of "Shenandoah" on Broadway about 10 years after the original. He was great, though the production seemed to be kind of chintzy.

The original was chintzy. Hardly any scenery.

But I love the score. “Over the Hill” “Next to lovin’ I like fighting’”. “Freedom” “We Make A Beautiful Pair.”

My Hole My Joy

[quote]But I love the score. “Over the Hill” “Next to lovin’ I like fighting’”. “Freedom” “We Make A Beautiful Pair.”

"Freedom" was just ghastly in the '70s and would make audiences cringe today. When I saw it, they did two encores that I swear not one person in the audience asked for.

r137 - did you catch the Broadway transfer of the Norman Conquests in 2009? This was before I'd started visiting NY to see theatre, but it looked vey entertaining. Good cast, too, including the wonderful, late actor Paul Ritter who was a delight in the cult hit British sitcom Friday Night Dinner.

Jumbo

R150. It was excellent, but if you saw all three on the same day, you walked out exhausted. I don’t know the actors did it!

R140, I did not... I think that was when I learned about the plays. Some time later I read a number of Ayckbourn's works for a community theatre group I worked with. So much good stuff.

Ayckbourn's "Communicating Doors" is a pretty cool play to revive.

A Catered Affair with a new book, closer to the original TV/movie. Without a very gay Uncle popping in from the future!

R154, I love Communicating Doors (I saw that years ago) and Absurd Person Singular (oh, that second act!) and the very clever, Taking Steps!

Now why can't a summer theatre just produce a season of Ayckbourn?

I'd buy a subscription...

Double Anal in a Double Bed

COMMUNICATING DOORS would make a fabulous little miniseries of 3 episodes!

Mary-Louise Parker was fabulous in the off-Broadway production that played the dearly departed and sadly lamented Variety Arts Theatre. I saw it on opening night and a little mouse scooted right past M-L, but she just kept acting.

[quote]and a little mouse scooted right past M-L, but she just kept acting.

You expected her to jump on a chair and scream "Eek!"?

[quote]You expected her to jump on a chair and scream "Eek!"?

While lifting her skirt.

Well, actually IIRC, the mouse suddenly appeared and wandered downstage and then lingered there for a few minutes before scooting across the stage. So, there was definitely time for M-L to figure out her options. I wasn't sure if she was even aware of it. But it certainly created some dramatic tension.

r155: That "gay Uncle" gimmick was so stupid. A real gay uncle would have seen the beauty in letting the kids get married however they wanted.

Oh that was just Harvey being Harvey, r162.

Stop the planet of the Apes, I want to get off !”

H. Simpson

[quote]Well, actually IIRC, the mouse suddenly appeared and wandered downstage and then lingered there for a few minutes before scooting across the stage.

I can't find it now, but I remember reading a hilarious review of "Gypsy" at the Bucks County Playhouse -- starring TV's Joyce DeWitt as Rose -- that included a description of a stagehand chasing a rat across the stage with a broom.

A New Brain by William Finn.

Thou Shalt Not...

R166, if you travel to Pittsfield, MA late this summer, you can get that wish... Barrington is is putting it on.

City Of Angels

Hot L Baltimore

The Lady In The Van

Love, Valour, Compassion

Raisin

Granted it was a long time ago, r169, but I remember *zero* about Raisin.

[Quote] I’m ready for an all star production of ‘Night Mother.

R138 what about Night Clit?

The revamped version should be called Night, Motherf*cker (with a hat)

Motherfucker! Motherfucker!

When threads devolve...

This has only been off Broadway, but I would love to see it revived:

Bat Boy, The Musical!

A revival of "Loose Ends" would be similar to an archeological dig.

A revival of “”Loose Pussy” would be similar to a snatch scratch

Flora the Red Menace!

The Who's Tommy

Brigadoon

No danger of theatah in the hinterlands

"Bajour!," of course.

r175 I saw "Batboy" three times (different productions -- community and college theaters) and adored it.

Camelot, with the full original book, score, orchestrations, lush and expensive-looking costumes and set, and actors who like doing it, and can sing very well.

Ballroom with Madame LuPone in the lead role.

"Ballroom" will star Sara Porkalob, who'll stop the show with her rendition of "37.5%."

Funny Girl!

Oh wait.

Auntie Mame (non-musical).

Wish You Were Here

I saw Veronica's Room in community theatre. Very well done.

I saw Veronica's Room on Broadway. When I saw Grey House, I immediately flashed on that play. Heckart and Baff were sensational in the original Bway cast. Hell, yes, it should get a revival, as long as Levin's idiot son doesn't rewrite it.

I hate when they rewrite the books for shows like Flower Drum Song. Not that that was a great book but once it's rewritten the original seems never to surface again.

What hapened to Miss Baff?

Yes, R192 -- one hated to see all those regional productions of FLOWER DRUM SONG and THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE dry up.

One never saw them. One isn't that old.

The Matchmaker, My Sister Eileen, Green Grow The Lilacs, Porgy, Merrily We Roll Along, They Knew What They Wanted - anything that was musicalized, I'd like to see the original non-musical version revived.

r185 - She doesn't dance, peoples.

My Sister Eileen

As with Mame Dennis, Roz absolutely owns the role of Ruth Sherwood.

Yes Roz was perfect in it, any version. (And Betty Garrett in the musical film wasn't all that great.)

I always find Betty Garrett to be a bit underwhelming.

[quote]The Matchmaker, My Sister Eileen, Green Grow The Lilacs, Porgy, Merrily We Roll Along, They Knew What They Wanted - anything that was musicalized, I'd like to see the original non-musical version revived.

Liliom? Auntie Mame? Chicago (1926)?

We played 'Liliom' for three performances, I was awful - then the war came, and we got married.

What's a musical revival that would be good for Donna Murphy? I want to see her in a leading role again.

The Who's TOMMY is being revived at Chicago's Goodman Theatre this summer, directed by Des McAnuff, again, and definitely with an eye for Broadway, r179.

Skyscraper!

I'm with R41, revive Our American Cousin

I hear it's a banger.

R201 Auntie Mame was already mentioned earlier.

R196... what a great idea. I'll add A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to your list.

There isn't a straight play version, r208.

Oh, Calcutta!

As directed by Diane Paulus, with only multi-ethnic women and trannies in the cast.

^^Oh Shitta!

As directed by Diane Phalic Symbol, with only multiple personality disorder trannies in casts.

110 in the Shade, a musical based on "the Rainmaker" is a very good musical from 1963 by the team that wrote the Fantasticks. It was overshadowed by Hello Dolly and Funny Girl. Apparently it was revived in 2007 with Audra McDonald as Lizzie, but that wasn't a successful run.

The Starbucks was not great, but Audra was, and the 2007 production was about as good as one could expect. The show has limited appeal, despite a fantastic score. The gender constructs inherent in the show have been uncomfortable for decades.

^the Starbuck

[quote]but that wasn't a successful run

Wasn't it a limited run?

It was Roundabout, so yes it was a limited run that would have extended if it had made sense. R213 linked to a Ford’s Theatre production from 2016, though it had been done across the river in VA at Signature in 2003.

RUMORS

A COUPLA WHITE CHICKS SITTING AROUND TALKING

Would Miss Lyman be up to directing it again, r218?

Yes, r218, and the stars will be Kim Delaney and Susan Lucci.

Brennan and Sarandon weren't chopped liver.

Though they'd all be too old for their roles now, I wish there would be some kind of special event reading of LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! with all of the original actors: Nathan Lane, John Glover, Justin Kirk, Stephen Bogardus, Stephen Spinella, John Benjamin Hickey.

But WEHT Randy Becker?

I'm surprised MTC, who originally produced the play, haven't done this as a benefit.

Carnival in Flanders.

Flahooley

Pajama Game #unionstrong

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Will Rogers Follies.

Does it hold up without Tommy Tune and Willa Kim, r227?

R209 - oh my God, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.

I've always thought there was a straight play of ATGIB... wow.

Mame and Vera in Chu Chin Chow

R228-It didn't hold up WITH them.

r230 How does it compare to Beatrice Stockwell and Roman Bartellli in "Message from a Nightingale?"

Redhead, House Of Flowers, Fiorello, that musical version of Anna Christie I can’t remember the name of...

Jinx Monsoon IS Redhead!

[quote] that musical version of Anna Christie I can’t remember the name of...

New Girl in Town

[quote] What's a musical revival that would be good for Donna Murphy? I want to see her in a leading role again.

70 Girls 70?

Peppermint in 'Bajour".

Red.

I hate Red.

Blue/Orange

Mame- the musical- with Lady Gaga or God help me- Lea Michelle

There will never be a Broadway revival of Mame unless someone smart rewrites the book. Just not Aaron. Or Amber Ruffin.

Oh, joy, Jennifer Holliday in Pal Joey at City Center for the November gala. Please shoot me now.

"Bewitched, bothered and bewildered is - UNHH - MEEEEEEEHHHH!!!!"

[R165]: I was an apprentice at the Bucks County Playhouse in the summer of 1969. Had a great time, despite being terribly sexually conflicted.

We’d have an occasional issue with bats backstage, mercifully after the show, when most people had already gone home. But one particular night, during the run of “Scuba Duba,” actress Shelly Plimpton, lately from “Hair” on Broadway, was scared a bat would get tangled in her long hair. Her bf Steve Curry, also from “Hair,” got her out OK, while actor Chris Wines and I went after it with tennis rackets.

As I recall, it eluded us, and I don’t remember seeing it again.

That was an old building even then. It also had a winch system in its depths where the nearby waterfall could be turned off and on for the duration of each show.

Bucks County Playhouse got a thorough renovation about 10 years ago. Very pleasant space work and watch a show now.

Miss Holliday isn't playing Vera in PAL JOEY; Elizabeth Stanley is.

[quote]There will never be a Broadway revival of Mame unless someone smart rewrites the book. Just not Aaron. Or Amber Ruffin.

Or Harvey Fierstein.

Harvey’s a Vera not a Mame

It said in the Encores press release that Jennifer Holliday would play the "club owner" but in the original show the club owner doesn't sing. It isn't even much of a role (though in some iteration he was a hunky gay!). So it'll be interesting to see what they give Jenn to sing.

Asshole Woman and Queef Man

My Three Tits

Guys and Dolls. I want a remade film version too.

Guys With Their Fuckdolls

Mark my words, London's Bridge Theatre's HUGE hit immersive Guys & Dolls will take over The Broadway Theatre once Here Lies Love quickly folds.

And they'll employ live musicians.

Rim Lord

How can we deny the inevitable truth of your predictions, O prophetess Cassandra at r255?

the national tour of the soon to close 'Doll House" but this time with Pam Grier, "The big doll house"

Cuntland

Dear Ruth.

Drood.

Forget Grey House. How bout Grey Gardens with Hannah Waddingham!

If you have to rewrite Mame or Auntie Mame you might as well not even do it.

Not produce or stage it, I mean. Anyway, why would you have to?

Doubt.

R265 works at Roundabout.

Gypsy!

MHF has been done in NYC twice since 1992 production. NY City Opera did it with Paul Sorvino. Encores did it too. I’ve done it three times. Great show.

Hey, That’s My Asshole!

Hannah Waddingham should do A Little Night Music.

The first ever Broadway revival of Hairspray starring Jinx Monsoon feels inevitable (not in a bad way).

Grey Gardens with Sherie Rene Scott (where did she go?)

Waddington already did ALNM is London.

Bring back HTMA.

The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild

Baker Street.

Drat the Cat!

Beanie Feldstein in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale."

Bring back Laurette Taylor in "The Glass Menagerie." I heard she was really good.

Let's see Meryl do it, r277.

R273-I agree.

Get the Poplar Pike Playhouse cast!

"Abie's Irish Rose."

‘Footsteps on the ceiling’

E. Harrington

Bring back Bring Back Birdie!

Phantom will be back on Broadway this Fall.

One revival we don't need is Amadeus with Anthony Ramos.

Lydie Breeze trilogy.

"The Black Crook."

Starring Tonya Pinkins.

Oh wait, I thought you wrote schnook.

I can get it for free

R169

OBC Raisin included young Ralph Carter. Norman Lear saw his performance and bought out balance of contract so Mr. Carter could star in his new television series "Good Times"

Sidewalk Tree...

Fresh Litter with Lee Merryweather

Take Me Out revived again, then running as long as Phantom with a fresh rotation of hot actor du jour cock.

Pussy Pussy Oui Oui with Paul Rudd & Jenna Elfmann

R293 All the latest tween heart throb celebrities should star in it on their18th birthday doing full frontal as the young naive rookie player.

Arsenic and Old Lace is way overdue for a revival. Unfortunately, it's perfect for Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

There are lots of good off-Broadway plays that could be revived"

The Boys Next Door (1987)

As Bees In Honey Drown (1987)

Naomi Court (1973)

Naomi Court 1973 with Brad Davis in a fantastic performance as a murderous gay hustler

As Bees In Honey Drown (1997) with a great performance by SUCCESSION actress J. Smith-Cameron

The Real Inspector Hound, and After Magritte (1972) by Tom Stoppard

The Boys Nextdoor. But I think Sean Penn totally ruined playing the differently abled.

I'd also like to see Carnival

I’m surprised Other People’s Money has never been revived.

Gammer Gurton's Needle

Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil.

Grey Gardens

I would love to see A new production of On A Clear Day.. .. with a good cast.

The Secret Garden (the Lucy Simon version, not the TV movie) and Into the Woods.

Hey hey that’s my asshole!

[quote]The Secret Garden (the Lucy Simon version, not the TV movie) and Into the Woods.

Are you aware that "Into the Woods" was nominated for best musical revival at this month's Tony Awards?

R310 No, I wasn’t aware; thanks for that

The Secret Garden just had a critically panned production in Los Angeles that might forestall any planned revival.

I’ve about had it with Annie.

Now that Riverdale has come to an end, I think it’s time for the Cott boys to star in a splashy production of Blood Brothers like the Cassidy boys did before them. What 80s musical pop icon should play their mother? Debbie Gibson? Tiffany?

I don’t think Asian Annie has been done yet and Disney needs a win in China. Maybe it can be set during the Cultural Revolution and her parents were intellectuals and killed. Nixon can play Daddy Warbucks. Will the double “Rs” in Tomorrow be too hard to sing in an Asian pingdin accent?

[quote] Now that Riverdale has come to an end, I think it’s time for the Cott boys to star in a splashy production of Blood Brothers like the Cassidy boys did before them. What 80s musical pop icon should play their mother? Debbie Gibson? Tiffany?

I keep hoping that Blood Brothers is done with Megan Hilty. She’s technically the right age for it (early 40s). The mother should not be played by a geriatric.

I’m pretty sure I saw Lulu in the role, isn’t it traditional that a pop diva of an earlier generation play the mother? What is age on the stage anyways?

Into the Woods, Gypsy and Superstar should wait ten years before they are revived again!

An all-Sean Cody version of "Oh! Calcutta!"

The Visitor with Lens Dunham.

Gee R320, wouldn't you rather see Lens as one of the hapless campers in the stage version of The Evil Dead?

"Six Point Seven Five," with Sara Porkalob as Guida Contini

R296 Do you see him as an Aunt Abby or an Aunt Martha?

Pirates of Penzance!

But only if something handsome and packing like young Simon Gallaher is cast as lead. Must be able to hold that b flat as well.

Hair with Adriana DeBlasio and Sarah Porkylobe

Fanny

Kismet (or Timbuktu)

Allegro

A Connecticut Yankee

Next To Normal

Beautiful score and story.

Pacific Overtures in a full-orchestra, go-for-broke presentation.

I would love to see Can Can as originally staged with its choreography intact. Likewise for Pippin, not the stupid family show we were subjected to in the last revival but the sexy, naughty show that Fosse staged with his choreography.

I'd love to see Groundhog Day come back in its new incarnation, but we know that'll never happen.

[quote]Kismet (or Timbuktu)

AKA "Hello, Mali!"

Gigi

Marnie

Yentl

Oliver!

"The Grass Harp" with Sesshie