I'm not a fan of bio-juke box musicals, but..I really wouldn't mind seeing this. I'm just posting to ask if a musical about Selena was ever in development or talked about?
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story Jersey Boys Fela! Million Dollar Quartet Baby It's You! Motown the Musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical On Your Feet?
I would love for there to be a Selena musical! I grew up watching the movie and listening to her music. But I don't think her music is the right kind of music for a musical. None of it really has enough story to it. I don't think the songs would be able to parallel well enough to her life for them to be a part of the story. They would just be playing songs to play the songs really. I couldn't really see any of them not being an outright concert performance. They wouldn't really be able to help the story move along.
If anything I think it could be a play with music. Like Lady Day. A show about a singer, with their music in it. But not what I would call a musical.
Not my cup of tea for the most part. (Although I enjoyed Fela!, likely because I knew nothing of him previously.)
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I love, Love, LOVE that movie. The ending "drops the microphone" always makes me cry. I think it would be the next Jersey Boys in my opinion. Never seen that time of music on broadway before. Hope someone makes this happen one day before I die.
It actually already happened. I wanted to catch it when it played the Montalban in Hollywood in 2001, but I never got the chance. The Wikipedia page tells the sordid tale. Maybe it's time for a rewrite/revival? Selena Forever - Wikipedia
Well! I would certainly say let us see how On Your Feet fares, but I wouldn't object to a good stage production / bio show featuring Selena's music. Lord knows her life is ripe for a dramatic telling. As someone from Texas and familiar with her story and the production of the film, I would only exercise great caution because the casting, politically, would be very tricky. There was MUCH controversy when Jennifer Lopez was cast because despite sharing the exact measurements of Selena - allowing them to very faithfully recreate her wardrobe, Lopez is not of Mexican descent and many people in the community were quite upset with that.
Actually there was a Selena musical in Mexico a few years back. It was terrible!!!! really bad... A lot of people still laughs about the fact it actually happened. Here's a clip from a TV promo appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psdua5rRDc4