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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They're At It Again
03/20/08 Filed in: Hoohaw
Here's the Story: 'A Very Brady
Musical' Will Premiere in
L.A.
The story even references the cringe-inducing Happy Days -The Musical that I took issue with a while back. (Yeah, that thing is still breathing.) This show will probably make pots of money.
There's got to be a way I, too, can recycle material from the 1960's into good old American de-valued dollars. Hmmm- fifth and sixth grade Spring Recitals? As I recall, the material was snappy and topical and funny.
Folks I attended grade school with have stopped by this site recently....
Does anybody still have Mr. Benedict's script?
The project is a real family affair: The show's director and co-writer, Lloyd Schwartz, is Sherwood's son and business partner; Hope Juber is Sherwood's daughter, married to co-writer Laurence Juber (a one-time guitarist for Paul McCartney in Wings); Lloyd's wife, Barbara Mallory, will play Carol and is also associate producing the show.......Elliot Kevin Schwartz....as Peter
The story even references the cringe-inducing Happy Days -The Musical that I took issue with a while back. (Yeah, that thing is still breathing.) This show will probably make pots of money.
There's got to be a way I, too, can recycle material from the 1960's into good old American de-valued dollars. Hmmm- fifth and sixth grade Spring Recitals? As I recall, the material was snappy and topical and funny.
Folks I attended grade school with have stopped by this site recently....
Does anybody still have Mr. Benedict's script?
