The most circulated bootleg of the Broadway revival (is it the closing performance) ends the lovers sequence with an implied threesome with Rosa, Helena and one of the men. I don't know if that was something that happened regularly or if they were just clowning for the cast that day, but the crowd went nuts.
Brightman's clearly working "within the brand" of Beetlejuice thumbing its nose at Broadway culture in general. They may be the only Broadway show tweaking their competitors like this, but this ties into the show's connection to social media; if you've followed the rise of "Brand Twitter" over the past year, all the fast food and junk food companies have become these irreverent, self-aware voices on Twitter picking publicity pseudo-feuds with each other.
The pop single version from James Taylor's "Flag" album has a much better lyric there: "come on, sucker/come back, brother trucker." It's both appropriate to the song's narrative and a very clever pun/euphemism.
People tend to confuse medley and mashup: a medley contains multiple melodies or songs, while a mashup deconstructs elements of the various pieces, fitting pieces of the melody, the backing music and the structure of them together in a way that creates a single unified whole rather than "this song and then that song."
Despite Turnaround, ‘Beetlejuice’ Being Forced Out of Theater Dec 10
2019, 04:21:43 PM
Between the Beetlejuice stop clause being evoked, the star power of the year-unseen Music Man revival looming, and the avant-garde West Side Story... I think we’re living through the long-awaited season 3 of SMASH.
SpongeBob the Musical: Viewing Thread Dec 8
2019, 10:49:30 AM
I wouldn’t be surprised if these cuts, like the Avenue Q cuts, are canonized when the show goes to licensing.
What a man does when he sings or screams high is not a belt. The closest thing you'll get to a male belt is the "extreme power mix," where the head and chest voice are blended and then pushed forward more aggressively from the chest. It's an unusual sound, not as aesthetically pleasant as the female belt.
If you're a rock fan, you'll recognize the "male belt" primarily from Geddy Lee, lead singer of Rush, who slips into this range near the climax of
It's the Danny McBride of Broadway- well-crafted lowbrow with a heart hidden underneath. Danny McBride's works will never be loved by everyone, no matter how much the people who get "Vice Principals" or "The Righteous Gemstones" talk them up.
From a marketing standpoint, they way they reinvented the crass sexual predator BJ from the film, and the juvenile playmate BJ from the cartoon into the "anarchic memetic trickster figure who acts like a monster bu
Beetlejuice breaks Winter Garden Box Office Records Dec 2
2019, 04:30:07 PM
I can't help but suspect that the show's success has less to do with its much-touted social media presence and more that it's almost a willful backlash against the current more innovated and elevated tone of modern MT hits. There's none of Hamilton's nuance, Dear Evan Hansen's engagement with current hot-button issues, or Jagged Little Pill's wokeness.
It's loud, aggressive, and smartly stupid, targeted directly to the "bored millennial" instead of the now-obsolete "tired businessman."
Dream Jukebox Musical Nov 26
2019, 07:28:30 PM
Alice Cooper would work well, because his music is theatrical and focused on character and storytelling; plus, he has recurring characters and themes woven through his entire discography and has done a fair number of plot-centric concept albums.
Susan in company Nov 24
2019, 09:21:59 AM
Isn’t there a line in the script that sort of lampshades this, that Bobby mostly knows other upper middle class white people?
Perhaps they'll add a few more songs and cut down on some of the longer, clunkier stretches of book; the licensed libretto has already done some of this streamlining, but I always felt as though the show wanted to be a pop opera but felt obliged to have a book.
I wonder if they're deliberately "Atlanta-ing" Jackson by casting Sykes. In Donald Glover's TV show, Justin Bieber was portrayed incongruously as a young black man to make a point about the way Bieber exists in society and how he would be viewed differently if he were black.
Perhaps part of Nottage's concept is portraying Jackson in a way that reminds us that he was a black man, not the raceless, sexless "alien being" with a chemically altered voice
This secret revival- is it the one discussed earlier, rewritten to be a Finding Nemo-style multimedia spectacular with puppets rather than actors in increasingly elaborate costumes?
FOLLIES Film, Helmed by Dominic Cooke, Has Been Greenlit Nov 14
2019, 05:31:25 PM
If we're doing these now, I say: give "Company" to Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The songs all have to stay. He can do WHATEVER he wants to the script and structure. His work as showrunner and writer of BoJack Horseman and Undone (and the late Tuca and Bertie) has convinced me that he's the only creative besides Sondheim and the late George Furth who can give us something both new AND essential in Bobby's story.
I would imagine the eventual movie will resemble conventional movie musicals less than it will the still-nascent trend of long-form conceptual music video albums in the hip-hop world.
Movies that WILL be musicals, inevitably Nov 9
2019, 10:02:18 AM
It’s by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo. The material is intermittently charming and intermittently bonkers, complete with attempts at Sondheim and modernist opera.
