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re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage

Posted by: larry13 05:19 pm EDT 09/13/14
In reply to: re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage - bwaydiva1 04:53 pm EDT 09/13/14

The same "non-traditional audience(male, straight, young)" that made BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON the last Broadway hit for Benjamin Walker?


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re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage

Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:45 am EDT 09/14/14
In reply to: re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage - larry13 05:19 pm EDT 09/13/14

It's also the audience that the "Rocky" producers thought would come in droves. I also remember when we thought that "Rocky" would be a major contender for awards.

Neither happened.

And "Rocky" is a heartwarming story. Someone mentioned "Sweeney Todd", which has a moderate amount of gore, but there is also a high melodrama and multiple tender love stories running through it.

"American Psycho" is a narcissistic murderer who brutally slaughters woman on his streak of nihilistic mayhem and madness. The main character is so reprehensible that it inspired his author to write a follow-up book in which he (Brett Easton Ellis) was haunted by the character he created.

If they can sell it to Wall Street financiers as a loving self-portrait at $500 a seat, they might just pull off the greatest piece of pop-art and cultural commentary ever created and run for years. But I don't know if the people who love the source material are the people who go to musicals.


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re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage

Posted by: bwaydiva1 05:23 pm EDT 09/13/14
In reply to: re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage - larry13 05:19 pm EDT 09/13/14

This is a lot more mainstream than that-the book and film are popular.


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re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage

Posted by: AlanScott 07:04 pm EDT 09/13/14
In reply to: re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage - bwaydiva1 05:23 pm EDT 09/13/14

In fact, the movie was something of a disappointment at the box office.


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