I may go to Broadway

strandinthewind · #1 11-17-2005, 05:52 PM

because I could play Suzanne in a New York minute!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175854,00.html

'Designing' May Be Broadway Bound

Thursday, November 17, 2005

By Roger Friedman

'Designing Women' on Broadway? | Felicity Huffman | CMA Awards | Rachel Hunter

TV's 'Designing Women' May Be Broadway Bound

It's just a rumor, but it's pretty solid all the same.

I hear that Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is hard at work updating her hit TV series, "Designing Women," for Broadway.

And that's not all. The original cast — Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts and Jean Smart — are said to have signed on to recreate their TV roles.

Burke was on Broadway recently in "Steel Magnolias," and Carter has been a regular on the cabaret circuit for some time.

The word is that producers Anita Waxman and Elizabeth McCann, two of Broadway's most venerable and successful "designing women," will put the show on the boards beginning next summer.

So what will the play be about? For one thing, sources tell me that Bloodworth-Thomason has updated it in real time, so the women will have aged the 15 years that it's been since they were last on the air.

But the play will also be topical, with room left for changes week-by-week, depending on the news of the day.

If this works — and it seems like a lock to do just that — my guess is we will soon see plays based on shows like "The Golden Girls," "Soap," "All in the Family" and other television classics. The audience is certainly built in, and people know what they're getting up front.

It's all good fun, but it does kind of make you wonder how fast Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill are spinning in their graves.

dissention · #2 11-17-2005, 06:03 PM

Get out!! I'm so going to see that. We shall go together.

Have you seen Lupone yet?

amber · #3 11-17-2005, 06:08 PM

I'd pay to see that.

rbs3676 · #4 11-17-2005, 06:49 PM

I am so there!

rbs

ontheEdgeof17 · #5 11-17-2005, 07:04 PM

I've never seen an episode of Designing Women.

strandinthewind · #6 11-17-2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Get out!! I'm so going to see that. We shall go together.

Have you seen Lupone yet?

I went last weekend and she was, simply, magnificent. She never ONCE chewed the scenery or purposefully stole the show, though her coochie dance in that minnie skirt while playing the tuba brought the house down!!!!!!

Audience members who looked like hard core New Yorkers wept at her curtain call and many screamed that she was back where she belonged. I, too, wept as I did when La Nicks shot to where she belongs in B&B in Vegas.

The production is very sparse and odd, but it works and, to its credit, all of the hard core singers, musicians, and actors (many of which despise her) I partied with the night before heralded her performace as stunning.

sara1998 · #7 11-17-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I've never seen an episode of Designing Women.

You're fired....

ontheEdgeof17 · #8 11-17-2005, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sara1998

You're fired....

Well....I'm sure I saw episodes while it was on TV...but I was realllllly young and don't remember anything about it. I've never have caught it on reruns. Is it even on Lifetime anymore?

sara1998 · #9 11-17-2005, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Well....I'm sure I saw episodes while it was on TV...but I was realllllly young and don't remember anything about it. I've never have caught it on reruns. Is it even on Lifetime anymore?

I dunno if it is on Lifetime... but you just made me feel pretty old!

You're not that much younger then me, but I'm almost sure I've seen every episode of Designing Women!

jannieC · #10 11-17-2005, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I've never seen an episode of Designing Women.

I think I've only seen a couple of episodes, myself.

strandinthewind · #11 11-17-2005, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sara1998

. . . but I'm almost sure I've seen every episode of Designing Women!

I love you Julia

sara1998 · #12 11-17-2005, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I love you Julia

LMAO!

I love you too, Suzanne!

Beachwood Mac · #13 11-17-2005, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Well....I'm sure I saw episodes while it was on TV...but I was realllllly young and don't remember anything about it. I've never have caught it on reruns. Is it even on Lifetime anymore?

It's on all the time in LA. It may be Lifetime. The show still cracks me up as long as it's the original cast. I never liked Julia Duffy (?) when she was on. There is only one Suzanne (besides Strand)

dissention · #14 11-17-2005, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

The production is very sparse and odd, but it works and, to its credit, all of the hard core singers, musicians, and actors (many of which despise her) I partied with the night before heralded her performace as stunning.

They despise her?

She looks like such a hard-ass, but a lovable hard-ass.

I know how desperate you were to see it, so I'm glad it lived up to your expectations.

If it becomes a hit, hopefully they'll film it. I'd like to see how it compares to the Lansbury show and the one Lupone did a few years back.

sparky · #15 11-17-2005, 10:08 PM

Strandie, when I first saw the title of this thread and that you started it...I assumed you were finally taking that Merman Tribute somewhere.

I rarely go to NY, but I would make a special trip to see this. If they do it, it is going to be Homo Central.