BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
#1BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:13am
My life is complete
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''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#2BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:18amLove Jackman, but the film of Big Fish completely bored me. And I've yet to hear a score by Lippa that sticks in my memory.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#2BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:22am
I love the movie. Not Lippa's biggest fan, but if he writes it, I will come.
I wonder who will play the Albert Finney role. (He was brilliant in the film.) I hope this happens (and that Hugh Jackman does it-love him!).
#3BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:44am
Hate the movie. I was bored with it as well.
I like Lippa's music, and Jackman can make anything a hit. So I'm excited for this also. Hope it pans out.
....but the world goes 'round
#4BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 12:44pm
Incidentally, I watch/listen to this video often someone made on YouTube, telling the whole story of BIG FISH to the tune of Hans Zimmer's "You're So Cool" from TRUE ROMANCE. (tazber you could've just watched this and gotten the gist in less than 5 minutes.) I especially like how he times the scenes perfectly with the tempo.
BIG FISH:
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Updated On: 5/18/11 at 12:44 PM
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#5BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 1:17pmThis could be fantastic. Big Fish is my absolute favorite Tim Burton film. I won't admit it, but I'm going to admit it-- I cry at the ending every time. And the heightened and magical elements of the source material will really lend itself to a musical.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#6BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 1:41pm
Wait a minute. Andrew Lippa and Michael John LaChiusa both write Wild Party musicals. LaChiusa's gets to Broadway, Lippa's goes off-Broadway.
Then LaChiusa writes a musical called Little Fish. Now Lippa's going to write Big Fish?
Is this all just a coincidence?
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 6:32pm
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The only logical next step would be for both to write musical adaptations of Hugh Wheeler's play, "Big Fish, Little Fish."
Failing that, i'd like to see that play revived.
#8BIG FISH THE MUSICAL?
Posted: 5/18/11 at 6:34pmI'd much rather have a composer of Lachiusa's talents working on this difficult material. Lippa's scores are often doggerel and musically uninspired.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
