When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
#1When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 3:45pm
I recently saw Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biographical film and thought it was extremely well done. It made me wonder if there has ever been an attempt to make an Elvis bio musical, similar to that of Beautiful or Tina. If not, I think Baz should hire his moulin rouge broadway collaborators and get started on the stage adaptation of the Elvis film. Danny Burstein as the Colonel and Sam Gravitte as Elvis please!
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#2When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 3:48pm
All Shook Up wasn’t so successful on Broadway… I dunno.
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Joviedamian
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
#3When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 3:51pm
All Shook Up wasn’t so successful on Broadway… I dunno
Though I wouldn't call All Shook Up a bio musical of Elvis. But I do see your point.
#4When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:04pm
Hopefully never. I’m ready for more original, daring musicals to make it to Broadway. Sondheim has left us, but I’m so grateful for the Strange Loops, next to normals, and the Caroline or Changes.
Just my opinion!
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#5When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:09pm
I was thinking about how well Baz's Elvis would translate to the stage. I do wonder, though –– is Elvis's voice SO iconic that it would be a distraction without it? I know there have been many bio-musicals of other iconic artists, but Elvis seems a little different (sort of like a Sinatra bio-musical). I believe Austin Butler's voice is heavily augmented by footage of the real Elvis.
#6When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:13pm
Ermengarde, you make an interesting point and I think that is why I enjoyed the film so much. Elvis’ voice has such a big presence in the film.
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#7When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:15pm
I feel like Elvis had one of the easiest voices to impersonate.
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#8When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:17pm
TotallyEffed said: "I feel like Elvis had one of the easiest voices to impersonate."
Yes but not necessarily impersonate well –– and could become camp very easily since there's more to it. (Not that Baz's film ISN'T campy.) But I suppose one could say the same of MJ so who knows?
#9When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:18pm
Cirque du Soleil couldn’t make Elvis work in Vegas either; “Viva Elvis” didn’t last long.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#10When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:23pm
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I was thinking about how well Baz's Elvis would translate to the stage.I do wonder, though –– is Elvis's voice SO iconic that it would be a distraction without it? I know there have been many bio-musicals of other iconic artists, but Elvis seems a little different (sort of like a Sinatra bio-musical). I believe Austin Butler's voice is heavily augmented by footage of the real Elvis."
Hasn’t Baz been continuously saying that it is indeed all Austin?
#11When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 4:28pm
I’m pretty sure the early portions of the film, it’s all Austin butler. Though, they start to blend the voices later in the film, especially the Las Vegas scenes. You can kind of tell.
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#12When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 5:20pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "All Shook Upwasn’t so successful on Broadway… I dunno."
That wasn't a biomusical . the book for ALL SHOOK UP is dreadful but it is a fun show.
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#13When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 5:35pm
I think Baz's film is very deeply theatrical and close to genius at times, but I don't really desire to see it or any more of his films translated to the stage. It's a theatrical *sensibility* applied to cinematic techniques that cannot be replicated as effectively in any other setting. And absolutely zero interest in yet another local tribute conc--sorry, Broadway bio-musical.
SouthernCakes
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/19
#14When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 5:38pm
If they can make Michael Jackson work…
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#15When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 5:42pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "All Shook Up wasn’t so successful on Broadway… I dunno."
ALL SHOOK UP had zero to do with Elvis Presley. It only used his music and the characters and plot twists in the musical were inspired by William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It.
#16When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 5:59pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "All Shook Upwasn’t so successful on Broadway… I dunno."
ALL SHOOK UP had zero to do with Elvis Presley. It only used his music and the characters and plot twists in the musical were inspired byWilliam Shakespeare'sMuch Ado About Nothing,Twelfth Night,As You Like It. "
Sounds like you need to brush up on the meaning of “zero to do with.”
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#17When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 6:06pm
TotallyEffed said: "Sounds like you need to brush up on the meaning of “zero to do with.”
Cheyenne Jackson may have emulated an Elvis-like persona, but his character Chad was not Elvis nor were there any elements of Elvis’ life woven into the storyline. In the same way MAMMA MIA! uses the music of ABBA but the musical itself has nothing to do with the band or their story.
#18When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 6:13pm
So the entire scores of these shows are compiled of these artists’ music but has nothing to do with them, got it.
I didn’t realize all those people who saw Mamma Mia just wanted to see the Grecian backdrops!
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#19When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 7:10pm
Well, if they went for a show about ABBA, they must’ve been pretty disappointed
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#20When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 7:31pm
The movie is garbage, it's Austin that shines. Just like Rami in Bohemian Rhapsody. Elvis was such a loser in like a thousand different ways so I doubt anyone cares to see his life turned into a musical.
See: All Shook Up
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#21When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 7:48pm
Sutton Ross said: "The movie is garbage, it's Austin that shines. Just like Rami in Bohemian Rhapsody. Elvis was such a loser in like a thousand different ways so I doubt anyone cares to see his life turned into a musical.
See: All Shook Up
"
That so-called “garbage” is Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes - 78% positive critic reviews (over 300 of them) and a 94% audience score with over 5,000 people weighing in.
KevinKlawitter
Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/20
#23When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 9:21pm
I haven’t seen the new Elvis movie yet, but I saw the Kurt Russell version that seems well liked. I think what’s central to the story in the Russell version is the contrast between Elvis’s public persona of glorious voice and raw charisma, and his extraordinarily dysfunctional, almost pathologically uncool reality. That’s a hard balance to strike in a stage show.
However, I can see “Walk Hard” translating well to the stage and rendering all artist biomusicals instantly obsolete.
#24When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/7/22 at 10:17pm
Sutton Ross said: "The movie is garbage, it's Austin that shines. Just like Rami in Bohemian Rhapsody. Elvis was such a loser in like a thousand different ways so I doubt anyone cares to see his life turned into a musical.
See: All Shook Up
"
Michael Jackson was a loser in a thousand different ways and they successfully turned his life into a stage musical.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
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tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#25When will we get an Elvis bio musical for the stage??
Posted: 7/8/22 at 11:15am
There was a musical. ELVIS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL that toured and did a lengthy sit in Vegas in the late 80s. Broadway was the goal but not 100% sure it got there. Johnny Seaton starred, who later played Pharaoh opposite Donny Osmond in the Livent JOSEPH tour.
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