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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 20, 2018 17:49:03 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 I sadly only found out far too late!
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 20, 2018 18:16:01 GMT
I don’t know why I didn’t put West Side Story. I’d love to see it. Never have. But a new version without the Jerome Robbins choreography...
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 20, 2018 18:22:58 GMT
I don’t know why I didn’t put West Side Story. I’d love to see it. Never have. But a new version without the Jerome Robbins choreography... Well, you know what? I wouldn't care what choreography I saw - I've never seen the show on stage...who has? (apart from tonyloco probably !) If someone were willing to take it on with the Robbins choreo that would be just fine and dandy by me. Likewise, if someone were allowed to change it that would also be fine. Those songs scream to be sung. Live. By real musical theatre stars.
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 20, 2018 21:34:44 GMT
I don’t know why I didn’t put West Side Story. I’d love to see it. Never have. But a new version without the Jerome Robbins choreography... Well, you know what? I wouldn't care what choreography I saw - I've never seen the show on stage...who has? (apart from tonyloco probably !) If someone were willing to take it on with the Robbins choreo that would be just fine and dandy by me. Likewise, if someone were allowed to change it that would also be fine. Those songs scream to be sung. Live. By real musical theatre stars. I am puzzled, souchyboyy, why you don't want the Jerome Robbins choreography if you have never seen it? Or do you mean you have seen the choreography in the movie and want to see the show on stage with new choreography? Why? The Robbins choreography was just as much a part of the creation and conception of the show as Bernstein's music, Sondheim's lyrics and Arthur Laurents' book, so for me, any staging of 'West Side Story' should include at least an adaptation of the Robbins choreography. Of course people elsewhere on this website are discussing the possible reimagining of certain musicals and I guess 'West Side Story' could be reimagined with different choreography as well as other possible changes, but again why, when it is one of the greatest of all musicals as it stands? I saw a touring production of 'West Side Story' at Wimbledon just a couple of years ago (which was excellent) and I also saw the original London production at Her Majesty's in London in March 1960, on which I have delivered a Tonyloco lecture in the thread about productions improving or deteriorating over a long run – that one was a tired, listless shadow of what it should have been and after a run of only 16 months. As regards Tibidabo's comments, I agree that the score is magnificent and we heard extracts extremely well performed at a recent John Wilson Prom concert at the Albert Hall. The great tragedy is that in his own recording of the show, which should be definitive, Bernstein chose two totally unsuitable singers in Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras. So yes, by all means let us have real musical theatre stars singing the music, but the show also contains a lot of music for dancing so a concert version or even a semi-staged one would hardly do justice to the show as a whole without dancing. It was the way the dancing was such an integral and powerful part of the show that caused it to be such a sensation on Broadway in 1957 and I don't see any reason to change it, any more than we need to change any of the music!
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Post by danb on Feb 20, 2018 21:55:34 GMT
I would agree that the tour a few years ago was magnificent. Louis Maskell and Katie Hall were both lovely and the whole thing felt authentic; no gimmicks.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 21, 2018 1:03:56 GMT
Have seen the film, so if we get a revival of it I’d like something completely different, rather than something that resembles what we know. I love it, don’t get me wrong, but I just want a brand new WSS. Maybe that’s just me, but that’s what I’d like.
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Post by cheesy116 on Feb 21, 2018 1:05:09 GMT
Memphis! I know it's very soon but I never got to see it and it's a big regret
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Post by Michael on Feb 21, 2018 5:50:45 GMT
Xanadu needs to return, and Beauty and the Beast would be nice, too.
And I second Memphis.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 11:10:17 GMT
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. I've been listening to the Merman recording today ("She shouts the Berlin music with good effect" Wikipedia tells me the New York Sun said at the time), almost every lyric is a size 12 cliche, it's gloriously insensitive by modern standards ("hatchet face"), but it's naïveté rather than malice, and I can't help but think it's a damn good song.
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 22, 2018 12:46:40 GMT
I've been listening to the Merman recording today ("She shouts the Berlin music with good effect" Wikipedia tells me the New York Sun said at the time), almost every lyric is a size 12 cliche, it's gloriously insensitive by modern standards ("hatchet face"), but it's naïveté rather than malice, and I can't help but think it's a damn good song. You are right, cmonfeet. It's a damn good song from what was a damn good show before the PC brigade got at it. As you say, the clichés are there (they were meant as clichés at the time) and the insensitive elements throughout the script and songs are indeed due to naïveté rather than malice. The famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann has commented recently that much of what is contained in the repertoire of popular opera and operetta would no longer pass muster by present standards, especially how women are perceived and treated and he quotes the Franz Lehar song 'Girls were made to love and kiss', a great favourite when sung in both German and English by Richard Tauber, as being quite unacceptable by today's notions of how women should be treated. So what do we do? Trash all the works of Bizet, Puccini, Mascagni, Verdi, etc, completely or change them to suit today's attitudes: Carmen now kills Don José at the end of 'Carmen' in a recent production and perhaps Desdemona should shoot Otello in Act IV next time the Verdi opera is produced!
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 22, 2018 16:42:45 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 22, 2018 16:44:53 GMT
Bat Boy, please!
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Post by Elle on Feb 22, 2018 19:39:50 GMT
I was also thinking Xanadu. Such a fun show!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 20:23:35 GMT
Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. A fantastic score. The Secret Garden, the original Broadway version, not the RSC version or the new 2018 version with some songs cut. And although neither will ever happen, Lautrec and Carrie.
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 22, 2018 22:15:34 GMT
Aida Kiss of the Spiderwoman Scarlet Pimpernel Starlight Express Into The Woods 9 to 5 Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Xanadu
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 9:46:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 16:35:36 GMT
I'd also like to see a production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
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Post by romeo94 on Apr 7, 2018 19:17:59 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music please.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 20:23:23 GMT
Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music please. Yes. Im hoping for a Sunday in the Park with George at Regents Park Open Air sometime soon.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 20:26:56 GMT
I want a proper production of Evita, and not just the low-budget Kenwright touring version. It is an amazing show, if done right.
Same thing goes for Hairspray.
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Post by dani on Apr 8, 2018 11:59:46 GMT
Pal Joey, because I have never seen it.
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Post by dani on Apr 8, 2018 12:10:09 GMT
I also really regret not seeing the Ernest Hemingway musical - Ernie Get Your Gun or whatever it was called - but there is no chance of that ever coming back.
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Post by sf on Apr 8, 2018 15:22:11 GMT
No votes for Monkee Business, the Monkees jukebox musical?
I'm shocked.
(Yes I saw it.)
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Post by lem on Apr 8, 2018 17:47:14 GMT
La Cava - ok, it sank rapidly, but I enjoyed it Me and my girl Time Martin Guerre
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Post by loureviews on Apr 9, 2018 12:58:56 GMT
Bat Boy Rockula Marlene Pal Joey Camelot Damn Yankees Flower Drum Song Salad Days
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Post by viewfromthewing on Apr 10, 2018 22:10:42 GMT
I warmly second 'Carmen Jones' (so long it is not done with an all-white cast – sorry, but I couldn't resist that one re the all-white 'Porgy and Bess') but at one time I was obsessed with the Broadway cast album of 'Tenderloin' (Bock & Harnick 1960) and I would love to see it performed, but whether it would be stageworthy today I have no idea. It ran only 216 performances in 1960. This looks to be being revived Off Broadway. John Doyle directing and Anika Noni Rose playing the title role. www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-anika-noni-rose-to-star-in-carmen-jones-off-broadway
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Post by tonyloco on Apr 10, 2018 23:37:59 GMT
That's good news about 'Carmen Jones'. The piece in Playbill says it has never had a major revival on Broadway since its first production in 1943. It is a great show and more than does justice to Bizet's 'Carmen'. The Otto Preminger movie with Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Pearl Baily is top class and the London revival in 1991 at the Old Vic showed just what a stage-worthy piece Hammerstein's adaptation is. Gary Wilmot played Joe (Don José) for part of the run.
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Post by undeuxtrois on Apr 22, 2018 12:40:04 GMT
Gypsy Cabaret West Side Story My Fair Lady On The Town On UK tours not JUST London
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Post by anthony40 on Apr 22, 2018 15:21:16 GMT
If its not been mentioned already,
Once.
Parade
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 23, 2018 13:04:38 GMT
Hopefully, there will be a wider tour, but audiences in Ipswich and Hornchurch will be able to see Once in the autumn.
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