New Broadway Musicals
Thu, 24 June 2004, 05:12 pmWalter Plinge15 posts in thread
New Broadway Musicals
Thu, 24 June 2004, 05:12 pmI made this post earlier today on one of the other boards, but I think it got lost somewhere in all the stuff about young actors...
OK, the basic trend of previous posts was, why do we do the same old musicals all the time.
So... a little test for everyone, these are all the musicals currently running on Broadway:
How many of the 21 do you know?
Brand New Musicals:
Caroline, or Change
Wicked
Avenue Q
Hairspray
Aida
Rent
Bombay Dreams
The Phantom of the Opera (original production still running!)
New Musicals based on pre-existing songs:
The Boy from Oz
Mamma Mia!
MovinÂ’ Out
New Stage Musicals adapted from films:
The Producers
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast (original production still running!)
Non-Broadway Musicals making Broadway debut:
The Frogs
Assassins
Little Shop of Horrors
Revivals:
Fiddler on the Roof
Wonderful Town
42nd Street
Chicago
Personally, not counting what IÂ’ve seen on Tony broadcasts, I know a little bit about all of them, but I can only admit to knowing 11, only one of which came from the first category, and that was Phantom. But IÂ’m working on it!
Paul Treasure
OK, the basic trend of previous posts was, why do we do the same old musicals all the time.
So... a little test for everyone, these are all the musicals currently running on Broadway:
How many of the 21 do you know?
Brand New Musicals:
Caroline, or Change
Wicked
Avenue Q
Hairspray
Aida
Rent
Bombay Dreams
The Phantom of the Opera (original production still running!)
New Musicals based on pre-existing songs:
The Boy from Oz
Mamma Mia!
MovinÂ’ Out
New Stage Musicals adapted from films:
The Producers
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast (original production still running!)
Non-Broadway Musicals making Broadway debut:
The Frogs
Assassins
Little Shop of Horrors
Revivals:
Fiddler on the Roof
Wonderful Town
42nd Street
Chicago
Personally, not counting what IÂ’ve seen on Tony broadcasts, I know a little bit about all of them, but I can only admit to knowing 11, only one of which came from the first category, and that was Phantom. But IÂ’m working on it!
Paul Treasure
Re: New Broadway Musicals
Tue, 24 Aug 2004, 08:39 pmWalter Plinge
If only our audiences took a chance and came to see these "new" shows!! Unfortunately, most of the audiences in the societies I am involved with are elderly and will only go to see musicals they know and love.
I have recordings of all but 3 of the shows you listed (2 of which i don't have much desire to get (Wonderful Town & Fiddler), and one i don't know much about - (Bombay Dreams)). I have also purchased sheet music for more than half of those musicals. I love keeping up to date with the new interesting shows. I am involved with an up-and-coming society in Sydney (Shire Music Theatre) which has evolved from a Light Opera Company, and are now establishing a name for themselves doing these new interesting shows. It is extremely hard to convince people to come and see the shows we are doing, but everyone who comes loves them. These shows tend to attract a fantastic cast from all over Sydney.
We did "Songs for a New World" in March this year, the NSW premiere of "The Baker's Wife" in May, and "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" opens this Friday (27th August 2004) and runs for 2 weekends. It is very difficult to cover costs for these productions, so the society will be putting on "Jesus Christ Superstar" in November, hopefully as a guaranteed money-maker to cover the costs of us doing these rarely-done shows.
Next year, Shire Music Theatre will be doing the NSW premiere of "Prodigal" - an Australian musical written by (Helpmann Award Nominee for Direction of "The Last 5 Years") Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank from Melbourne and Maury Yeston's "Phantom". Do yourself a favour and come and see some of these different shows.
Andrew
I have recordings of all but 3 of the shows you listed (2 of which i don't have much desire to get (Wonderful Town & Fiddler), and one i don't know much about - (Bombay Dreams)). I have also purchased sheet music for more than half of those musicals. I love keeping up to date with the new interesting shows. I am involved with an up-and-coming society in Sydney (Shire Music Theatre) which has evolved from a Light Opera Company, and are now establishing a name for themselves doing these new interesting shows. It is extremely hard to convince people to come and see the shows we are doing, but everyone who comes loves them. These shows tend to attract a fantastic cast from all over Sydney.
We did "Songs for a New World" in March this year, the NSW premiere of "The Baker's Wife" in May, and "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" opens this Friday (27th August 2004) and runs for 2 weekends. It is very difficult to cover costs for these productions, so the society will be putting on "Jesus Christ Superstar" in November, hopefully as a guaranteed money-maker to cover the costs of us doing these rarely-done shows.
Next year, Shire Music Theatre will be doing the NSW premiere of "Prodigal" - an Australian musical written by (Helpmann Award Nominee for Direction of "The Last 5 Years") Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank from Melbourne and Maury Yeston's "Phantom". Do yourself a favour and come and see some of these different shows.
Andrew
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