# HELP - Which Broadway show to see in two weeks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534 "2007-01-26T05:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534/21 "2007-01-26T20:21:16Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] I think Lea Salonga was the replacement Eponine in the original production of _Les Mis_, not the original Fantine. I like Miss Saigon, the other Schonberg and Boublil show, but Les Mis has never appealed to me. [/QUOTE] :smack: You’re absolutely right. I always get those names confused. I’ve never seen **Miss Saigon** , but I do like Schoenberg & Boublil’s **Martin Guerre** , though that one never did make it to Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534/22 "2007-01-26T20:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] :smack: You’re absolutely right. I always get those names confused. I’ve never seen **Miss Saigon** , but I do like Schoenberg & Boublil’s **Martin Guerre** , though that one never did make it to Broadway. [/QUOTE] I liked **Martin Guerre** , too. I was disappointed that it never found a home. There’s just something about the music from \*\*Les Mis \*\* that’s never appealed to me. I can’t say why because I do like individual songs from it and I do like their other two shows, but as a whole, it’s never worked for me. I have no idea why. E. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534/23 "2007-01-26T20:51:17Z")
For any Boublil/Schoenberg fan that isn’t aware, their latest musical [The Pirate Queen](http://www.thepiratequeen.com/) is scheduled to hit Broadway! ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534/24 "2007-01-26T21:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] Probably Daphne Rubin-Vega. [/QUOTE] Seeing the name triggered the memory – that’s who it was… ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534/25 "2007-01-26T21:00:50Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Monty Python is a “their” not a “his”. [/QUOTE] Ironically enough, the usage is probably defensible here. Eric Idle was the only member of the original Monty Python comedy troupe to work on Spamalot, so it could be called “his”. I’d put the ratio of old/new material at 35/65, so it was mostly “his” and his new collaboraters. Still, much of Spamalot is drawn directly from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was indeed a full troupe collaboration, so I would consider it more appropriately credited as “theirs”. > [@Elza B](#): > > I have theatrical experience, and I still find [A Chorus Line] pretty dated, musically. It’s not a bad show, I’m just worried about how well it’s going to do with a revival. Then again, it may do well just because it’s one of those shows that many people know. Yea, the music hasn’t aged all that well. Still the dancing, and assmuing a Broadway production would get good dancers, is still amazing. I look at the coreography and my knees and back start hurting, it’s just that tough a show to do and to see it done well is really cool. Enjoy, Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-which-broadway-show-to-see-in-two-weeks/389534.md?page=1)