October 16, 2025: Revivals, Remounts, and "Revisals" (2000-20)
Class Preparation
Recommended Reading:
- Broadway: The American Musical:
- “In fifty years or so, it’s gonna change, ya know—Revivals” (pp. 392-397)
- “I can do bloody well without you—Tradition and Transitions in Revivals” (pp. 462-468)
- Selected Dialogue Passages from 21st Century Revivals (in lieu of a "Lyrics Sheet")
- Handout of Key Class 5 slides
YouTube Playlists
Rodgers & Hammerstein Revivals, 2008-2019:
- South Pacific (2008 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
- South Pacific (performance videos from the 2008 revival)
- The King and I (2015 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
- Carousel (2018 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
- Oklahoma! (2019 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
- Cast of the Oklahoma! revival at the 2019 Tony Awards, featuring Ali Stroker singing "I Cain't Say No" and the whole cast singing "Oklahoma!"
- YouTube currently has a complete video performance of the 2006 Broadway Revival of Sondheim's Company (directed by John Doyle and starring Raúl Esparza) The dialogue leading up to "Being Alive" (which Esparza sings and plays) starts at 2:00:00.
- Fiddler on the Roof (2016 Broadway Revival Cast Recording)
- My Fair Lady 2018 Revival (Tony Awards performance, recording sessions, and more)
- Company (2018 London Revival Cast Recording) The "gender-flipped" revisal with Rosalie Craig (Bobbie), Patti LuPone, Jonathan Bailey, Ben Lewis and Alex Gaumond.
- Class 5 Videos