| re: 3 of 11 new musicals are jukebox | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:46 am EST 02/22/19 | |
| In reply to: 3 of 11 new musicals are jukebox - dramedy 11:28 am EST 02/22/19 | |
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| I think a worse trend is movies to musicals which we have 4 this season also: King Kong, Tootsie, Pretty Woman and Beetlejuice Of course, we've had endless conversations about this out here lol. Movies as source materials for musicals goes back at least as far as the 1960's and Nights Of Cabiria: The Musical (better known, of course, as Sweet Charity) - if that was even the first one, which it may not have been. There have been plenty of well-written musicals with films as their source - surely as many as the ones we like to deplore. But I'm sure we can point to a similar success/failure rate with musicals based on novels, etc. What has seemed to have changed is the marketing angle - that we tend to see more film-based musicals that rely on title recognition and/or the nostalgia/fame of the film source, instead of perhaps choosing a film source MAINLY because it actually has something special and unique to offer in musicalization. But I don't think the problem is in the "trend" of using films as a source - it's HOW that source is used and presented. (And given that, I'm looking forward to Tootsie in particular, because I feel that David Yazbek has consistently been very smart in his choice of films to adapt and in how to adapt them - even if not all of his shows have been huge hits with the public. Even Women On The Verge..., probably his least successful show to date, has a score that I admire a great deal.) |
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