Profile for Musical Master

"The visuals look straight out of Cats"??? Uh, I thought it looked perfectly fine from the trailers, it's not even close Cats' horrible visuals. But I do agree that it'll do fine at the Golden Globes and nothing else.

So glad to hear that The Prom might turn out to be really good, we need a really good musical film adaptation after the horror that was called Cats. I would love the miniseries to take on a Fosse/Verdon path and be about Michael Bennett and the people that inspired the creation of A Chorus Line. I'd watch it.

I think in early 2021 we'll have a teaser trailer. Hopefully it can generate some buzz.

The trailer looks cool and at least everyone looks like they're having fun. This could be a really good, fun musical movie that is highly entertaining, it's about time Ryan Murphy did something much more lighter in comparison to his recent work.

I am okay with having this movie this year and have In The Heights and West Side Story to come out in 2021.

Screw COVID-19. So. Hard.

Oh well, at least The Prom is coming out this December and ironically, In The Heights and West Side Story are now being released next year as competitors once again.

Sure the movie was a cause of movie musicals to fall for many years to come until Moulin Rouge! and Chicago brought it back from the dead, but I am one of the few who really love it. Also it wasn't just Hello, Dolly! alone but a slew of other big budget movie musicals of the mid to late 1960s before Hello, Dolly! that were huge critical and commercial duds that were made anyway because My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, and The Sound

Why don't we wait and see what the studio will do first, because we all don't know what they'll do yet. If it's pushed back, it will be pushed back; if it stays in December 18th, it stays on December 18th.

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. It's just the matter of waiting and see what the new film will do with them.

Interestingly, the role of Alyssa was originally going to be played by Ariana Grande but due to her Sweetener World Tour she had to drop out. Then stage star Ariana DeBose (who's also cast as Anita in West Side Story) replaced her shortly afterwards.

Honestly that was for the best because I think Grande would've been a little bit distracting in the role. I love that DeBose is in 2 well known movie musical projects that will utilize her talents.

There's two possibilities: one is that they will use the 1961 version's placements of the two songs, or they have them restored to their original 1957 placements. It has been reported over and over again that Tony Kushner's script will be closer to the original Broadway script than the one used in the 1961 version.

I don't think it will be an awards contender, but it will be a fun, heart-warming, light, and fluffy movie musical that the world actually needs right now.

I personally don't think it's going to be pushed back. I think that if things still don't go well in the next month or so, they can pull the theatrical release and make it a Disney+ Original on December 18th. That would be a good alternative.

Most December movie musicals don't have their marketing push until late September/early October anyway so why don't we wait and see what happens.

On one hand, I really like this change where the number (judging from the filming footage online so far) opens up in a big way in comparison to the original to differentiate itself, yet on the other, it can fall into either well done opening up ("Do Re Mi" from The Sound of Music) or unnecessary opening up ("Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello Dolly!).

It is interesting though that Spielberg is taking a note or two from the 1960's era o

Speaking of awesome tweets, he's another angle of the America number being shot with Ariana and David in the center. Justin Peck's choreography is going to look stunning on film.

https://twitter.com/bwaydarlene/status/1304912562715156480

Pretty flashy poster and the arrangements sound really dope. I guess this means a trailer will be coming soon.

She was a wonderful Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady and one of the best actresses among her peers. She will be missed.