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| So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 11:07 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Seeing this morning that SUMMER, which is still running here, is coming to Broadway this spring, joining a show built around Jimmy Buffet music that premiered here earlier this year. Reidel’s speculation was that SUMMER is rushing in because Cher is coming in the fall. Is there such a lack of traditional “product” for Broadway that producers and theatre owners are preferring to present known quantities where money can be made in the short term, no matter what the reviews? Have things really gotten that cynical on the Great White Way? Inquiring minds want to know. Bill, in San Diego |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: Zelgo 02:56 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - BillEadie 11:07 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| The producers are running out of ideas. They have to keep this cash cow going, of course. | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: carolinaguy 11:26 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - BillEadie 11:07 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Imitation is the sincerest form of show business. With things like JERSEY BOYS and BEAUTIFUL making gazillions, it's an attractive prospect for producers. These kinds of shows tour well too, especially with a Broadway pedigree. Plus you don't have to do icky things like work with actual composers on original songs, because that's hard. | |
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| I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:47 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - carolinaguy 11:26 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| To hear "Mr. Sandman" as an act one showstopper, and "Lollipop." | |
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| re: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes | |
| Posted by: bmc 09:52 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes - Delvino 11:47 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| My 20 track CHORDETTES cd also has their hit recording of the theme song from Disney's ZORRO("Out of the night/when the full moon is bri-i-ight/comes the horseman known as ZORRO/The bold cavalier carves a Z with his blade/a Z that stands for Zorro!(Perhaps Senor Banderas could do a guest spot) | |
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| re: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:18 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes - Delvino 11:47 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| We've already had The Marvelous Wonderettes with both those songs (and The Taffetas had "Sandman" if not "Lollipop"). I think that's enough for me, lol. | |
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| re: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes | |
| Posted by: Delvino 04:06 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes - Chromolume 12:18 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| You raise a good point. | |
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| re: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 12:11 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: I'm waiting for a show about The Chordettes - Delvino 11:47 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| I would love to hear a poignant Act 2 reprise of "Lollipop." | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:32 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - carolinaguy 11:26 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Plus you don't have to do icky things like work with actual composers on original songs, because that's hard. Of course this new Death Becomes Her musical seems to have worked around that by having a new score but no writers (yet), lol. Let's also not forget that there's a Go-Go's musical in the works (currently called Head Over Heels). |
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| its Tryout is in San Fran in april | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:54 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - Chromolume 11:32 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| At least it’s not a biop, but a jukebox like Mamma Mia. | |
| Link | https://sfcurran.com/shows/head-over-heels/ |
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| Maybe more like All Shook Up than Mamma Mia | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 04:53 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: its Tryout is in San Fran in april - dramedy 12:54 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Head Over Heels is an adaptation of The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney. | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 11:13 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - BillEadie 11:07 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| The Buffet one at least makes sense in a crassly commercial way - his legions of fans will buy any garbage with his name attached to it (which includes his music, as far as I'm concerned.) Still, the pop collection show already feels past its expiration date to me. (And I know there are shows built around Springsteen and The Grateful Dead in the ether too, and probably a bunch of others I haven't noticed.) | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:57 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - JohnPopa 11:13 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| "The pop collection show already feels past its expiration date to me." I would think the success of JERSEY BOYS and BEAUTIFUL alone would be enough to keep more shows in the genre coming, and I'd say it's all but assured that at least some of them will be big hits. |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 04:26 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - Michael_Portantiere 03:57 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| You're probably right. I know 'Jersey Boys' still does massive business on the road. I tend to forget about 'Beautiful,' which is probably more about me than the show. When I think about these kind of shows I go back to things like 'All Shook Up' and 'We Will Rock You' that seem kind of silly. | |
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| the temptations at Berkeley rep | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:56 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - JohnPopa 11:13 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Was extended a few times. | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: rikepsych 11:46 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - JohnPopa 11:13 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| And I’m sure TINA will make its way from London to Broadway. Maybe they will change the TONYS to the GRAMMYS!!!!! Lol |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: Jax 02:04 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - rikepsych 11:46 am EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Why would anyone be surprised that audiences line up to see shows that they know in advance will have great music...largely because they have grown up with that music. More than half a century ago the music of Broadway WAS the popular music. That day is long gone and now the public sings the songs of Springsteen, Donna Summer (Gorgio Moroder) The Four Season (Bob Gaudio) and others. If you think of it this way, it's surprising that it took this long for the jukebox musical to be invented. Broadway turned its back on rock, folk, folk rock and other kinds of music at its own peril. Did any ever ask Joni Mitchell, John Phillips, Stevie Wonder, or Brian Wilson to write a show back in the day when they ruled the music scene? Yes, thirty years later Paul Simon wrote one and fell on his ass. And Elton John wrote a couple and they were mostly big hits. But Broadway, with the exception of PROMISES, PROMISES did not integrate contemporary music into its "sound" and so it became archaic. The public, hungry for what it wants...now wants Cher. I exaggerate a bit, but only to make my point. | |
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| re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? | |
| Posted by: Thom915 09:19 am EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: So, what’s with all the Broadway shows built around pop music icons? - Jax 02:04 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| But now, Broadway has integrated contemporary music into its sound in shows like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" which seem to be doing fairly decent business. | |
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