Mr. Saturday Night to Broadway

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 8/29/19 at 11:32pm

Where did this show come from? Very left field. But a new JRB score? Im in!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/30/19 at 12:06am

I haven’t seen this film in many many years but I remember liking it. But the idea of Crystal in a new musical later this season excites me very very much! And now that “Lehman Trilogy” is going to the Nederlander this Fall, I’m guessing that means Harry Connick will have to find a new theater for his Christmas show.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 8/30/19 at 1:55am

MR. SATURDAY NIGHT is one of my all-time favorite movies.  And I think Jason Robert Brown wrote the decade's best score for BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.  But I wonder if Billy Crystal intends to play the lead, Buddy, as he did in his film?  I fear he's a bit too old.  Perhaps the story will be reworked to fit his senior persona.  In any case, I'm in! 

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 8/30/19 at 3:31am

mamaleh said: "MR. SATURDAY NIGHT is one of my all-time favorite movies. And I think Jason Robert Brown wrote the decade's best score for BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.But I wonder if Billy Crystal intends to play the lead, Buddy, as he did in his film? I fear he's a bit too old. Perhaps the story will be reworked to fit his senior persona. In any case, I'm in!"

I haven't watched it in a while but it feels like at least half of the movie is him playing an older comedian at the end of his career. If he decides to play the lead, I think he'll be able to handle it but I'll have to pull out my VHS copy to doublecheck.

 

Buddy Young, Jr, at the end of his career playing a gig at a Jewish Nursing Home. "Hey, a bald headed man. What are you, a Jewish Mr. Clean. Hey, TWO bald headed men. Put your heads together and make an ass of yourself."

To his brother Stan played by David Paymer who just moved into a nursing home:

"Do you have friends here?"

"Yeah, you get a choice of friends or cable. I took the friends."

"Over cable???"

I really hope they keep those in.