PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
#1PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/8/14 at 5:50pm
Ugh. Just leave these films alone already. I can't wait to hear what song Vivian sings while she's blowing Edward.
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#2PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:05pmWith the eleven o'clock number, "Fifty Bucks, Grandpa".
#3PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:20pm
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Lace?
On the Street Where You Work?
The Stain in Spain?
Blow Me?
#4PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/8/14 at 6:29pmThat act one showstopper "Standin' On The Corner..."
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#7PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 1:27amWell they definitely have a book writer, and they didn't say who's writing the music, but I'm sure they either already have someone writing the score, or are close to finding the right composer for this project
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#8PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 6:52amLooking forward to the inevitable colored condom number.
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#9PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 6:56am
The original musical....one that is not based on previous material is truly a dead art form.
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 06:56 AM
#10PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 7:13amThe original musical has always been a white elephant. We think it used to flourish and was the reigning kind, but it never was
#11PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 9:16am
Musicals with original books 1) have always been the exception and rare, 2) are still being written and 3) can be just as bad or worse as any musical with an adapted book.
Why do people still perpetuate the myth than a musical with an original book used to be common and automatically makes a show better in some way? Is it because they hate the majority of musical writers and composers?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 9:35am
This ^.
Fun Home is not original. Matilda is not original. Kinky Boots is not original. The King and I is not original. I could continue with many, many shows.
The part that is new(er), and I don't seem to like either, is that "they" just seem to be grabbing blockbusters and expecting that alone to make a success. It seems the INSPIRATION to alter work is what is missing.
I want wonderful theater. If they succeed in that, I'll be happy.
Does this SOUND like a winner to me? No -- but it might be!
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#13PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 9:44amEven in the past musicals were based on movies. Back then they changed he titles (sugar,promises promises, Mame) which I DO like better than saying ,X the musical'. But it isn't new
#14PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 10:41am
I am in no way saying that original musicals are better than non-original musicals. One of my favorite musicals is based on a motion picture. That being said, I do feel they are too few and far between and not everything needs to be musicalized - - - I mean, c'mon...."Pretty Woman"?!!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#15PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 11:00amI think the last authentic "original" musical on Broadway was FIRST DATE. We saw how that ended up....
#17PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 11:13amMame was a novel and play before it was a film.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#18PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 2:05pmAgain, not disputing that there have been great musicals based on material from another medium, but completely original musicals are few and far between...extremely rare.
#19PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 2:32pmWhy.
#20PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 2:36pm
MadAboutTheBoy, it's hard to tell from the context of the thread if you're mentioning Sweet Charity as an original piece or an adaptation.
I'm pretty sure you're saying it was adapted, which it was, from Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria".
....but the world goes 'round
#21PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 3:52pm
but completely original musicals are few and far between...extremely rare.
Right. And they always have been. Nothing has really changed. It's not a dead art form nor was it much more alive. Most likely, the highest concentration of completely original material was most likely found in the pre-golden age era simply because it was a new art form and there were fewer sources (and media) of adaptation available. Show Boat was also an adaptation, but the original books of early Gershwin, Berlin and Porter were often fluffy and thin confections as vehicles for songs and laughs with melodramatic and implausible love stories. Sorta like...Pretty Woman. Or Legally Blonde.
Every time this conversation comes up, which is A LOT, I always wonder where this magical place is where there are LOADS of COMPLETELY original musicals that were all highly celebrated quality works. When and where did this take place?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 03:52 PM
#22PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 4:04pm
Every time this conversation comes up, which is A LOT, I always wonder where this magical place is where there are LOADS of COMPLETELY original musicals that were all highly celebrated quality works. When and where did this take place?
You can rest easy Mister Matt. I assure you that there isn't a magical place where there are LOADS of COMPLETELY original musicals that were all highly celebrated quality works. It has never happened and it never, ever, EVER took place.
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 04:04 PM
#23PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 4:31pm
Oh, that comment wasn't directed at you, Carlos. But I do rest easy, regardless. It's just that the mourning of the loss of completely original musicals and its variations (like how original material should be given critical favor over any adapted material, regardless the quality) gets wrung out as often as we hear that the current season, or any current show, or any popular composer, or any new style or trend, or any popular and/or long-running show, or any combination of the aforementioned, is indicative of the demise of Broadway.
Maybe it's like Brigadoon. It only pops up for the rest of us every 100 years, but to those living in the magical land, it appears to be every day business as usual.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 04:31 PM
#24PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 4:39pm
I know...I was just playing around with you. I know that there are far more musicals produced that are based from material from another medium as opposed to wholly original ones.
PROMISES, PROMISES is one of my all time favorite musicals which happens to be based on one of my all time favorite films, THE APARTMENT.
I just feel that now producers are taking anything and turning it into a musical, so I really have to question the reasoning behind turning PRETTY WOMAN into a musical. The hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold musical is passe anyway and was already done with great success as SWEET CHARITY.
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 04:39 PM
#25PRETTY WOMAN Musical Being Developed
Posted: 12/9/14 at 4:44pm
Well, if there's one thing I learned from the original book and score of Brigadoon, if you love someone hard enough and sing loud enough, you can cross even the boundaries of magic spells.
I just need to work on my projection.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 12/9/14 at 04:44 PM
