Today is a great day! Jesus Christ Superstar is going to get a Broadway Revival in 2012! I didn’t even believe it when I first saw. Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to have one heck of a year on Broadway in 2012 with two EPIC revivals. This announcement has completely psyched me up for the Tony Awards this year! So, I figured I would make this post about the 2012 Tony’s and how excited I am for them…yes, it is only October.
It will be battle royal at the Tony’s this season, with Evita, JCSS and Godspell all returning. I’m assuming that they will all be eligible for the 2012 Tony’s, but it may be a little late for Evita which won’t open until April. All of these revivals have me VERY excited and it would be greatly appreciated if someone bought me tickets to each of these shows. J
As for my super early predictions of how new shows will do, I think the highly anticipated Bonnie & Clyde will be a force to reckon with. My favorite Broadway information sight, Broadway.com, just uploaded a press screening for this show and what you can hear of the music is great. Both leads, Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes, have exceptional voices and I am expecting a lot from them. I have a good feeling about this show.
I’ve already said my piece about Lysistrata Jones.
Some sad news broke this week, Laura Benanti’s new show The Playboy Club has been cancelled by NBC. I didn’t watch the show and didn’t really plan on it. I just really like Laura and wished it would’ve worked out for her. Well, that’s just the life of an actress, just got to pick up the pieces and move on.
I send out congratulations to Andrew Lloyd Webber and everyone involved in Phantom for the last 25 years. It’s amazing that a show has the stamina to run this long. There are a lot of good things going on for ALW. I wish I could say he deserves it, but I’m a bitter Patti LuPone fan. I can, however, say that he is very talented and he knows how to write a spectacular score. I saw Phantom in London this summer while I was studying abroad. I was very impressed. All three shows I saw in the West End left me very impressed to be honest. I’ll save my West End analysis for another post though.
Since this week has been a good one for Sir Andrew and Phantom, I will leave you with one of his classics from the show.
