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Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES...

Posted by: Chazwaza 01:39 pm EDT 03/16/14
I haven't seen the show yet, but from everything I've read and videos I've seen... it seems like the better fit would have been BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. It is also a haunting, aching love story about two lonely people trying to find something before it's too late, etc etc... it is the kind of story that lends itself to the kind of score it sounds like JRB wrote for BRIDGES, but the property would be MUCH more interesting and of interest to the public (and especially the Broadway audience) these days, and it would have been more newsworthy and headline grabbing, the casting would be more interesting, and they'd sell plenty of tickets to people who just want to see what it's like. Unlike BRIDGES which I think made comparatively little impact as a film and has been around for a long time.

This has been the thought that keeps coming into my head when I read comments and reviews about Bridges and it just makes me wish that's what he'd done instead.

(I know someone recently did an opera of it that wasn't terribly well received, but either way that's a different animal)


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