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Musicals
After the recent discussion of possible Who on Broadway, I was interested to
read an article in today's paper about a Mel Brooks musical (THE PRODUCERS)
in work--with budget at $10 million. I gather this is one impediment to
producing a show on Broadway, and one reason that Disney, with their deep
pockets, seems to be taking over.
Anyhow, there's a quote from Susan Stoman, who's directing and doing the
choreography, on style. She says, "An audience today has a more cinematic
eye. People want the lyric and the choreography and the staging to all push
the plot forward."
I gather that she's an expert, as she's worked on Broadway for a while and
won various Tony awards. The mention of movies is interesting, and it
suggests that it would be efficient to plan a movie and a musical production
at the same time, and to use the movie script as the basis for a musical
production.
I didn't get much in the way of response to my question about what
non-album/concert tour projects fans would like to see, but "movie" was the
one that did come up. I'm thinking it would be great to see various Who
songs/opera produced as films, including BORIS, LIFEHOUSE, PSYCHODERELICT,
and whatever else, and then a move right away to produce them as musicals.
QUAD and IRON MAN have already been done as movies, so have scripts ready to
convert (though I expect IRON MAN would be tough because of complicated
rights).
This does appear to be Disney's strategy, although they don't have the opera
to start. Comments from anybody?
keets
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