Hit or Miss
03/21/08 Filed in: Hoohaw
A few comic-strip/cartoon cross-overs that have
succeeded as Broadway musicals:
Annie
The Lion King
Beauty and The Beast
Lil' Abner
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
And a couple that have not:
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!
Tarzan
Snoopy
Doonesbury
Next up:
Shrek
and
Spider-Man....with songs by Bono and The Edge, under the direction of Julie Taymor. (The story linked is dated last year, but this is really going ahead, and has been in the works since at least 2004)
If anybody can make Spider-Man work, its Julie Taymor, and Shrek is probably going to be a hit on name value alone, but I can't say I'd pay to see either one.
Annie
The Lion King
Beauty and The Beast
Lil' Abner
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
And a couple that have not:
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!
Tarzan
Snoopy
Doonesbury
Next up:
Shrek
and
Spider-Man....with songs by Bono and The Edge, under the direction of Julie Taymor. (The story linked is dated last year, but this is really going ahead, and has been in the works since at least 2004)
If anybody can make Spider-Man work, its Julie Taymor, and Shrek is probably going to be a hit on name value alone, but I can't say I'd pay to see either one.
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