Personally I think it's an awesome show. My theatre school did it and I love. What happened to it that made it such a flop? It has good music etc.....whats the deal? (P.S. I'm listening to it right now, hence the randomness)
Well, I know (and you do too, if you did the show!) that many, many songs seemed to have changed after Broadway, because the current script/score have many songs added from the tour(s.) I always assumed it was a bit like too many cooks in the kitchen ruin a million dollar show backed by FAO Schwartz, or whatever that expression is
Mr. Tuttle, (sorry I keep picturing you as that short chubby teacher with the nazal voice from "Saved by the Bell,") what makes a movie able to be musicalized or not able to be musicalized?
It's not so much whether or not a movie can or cant be musicalized, but how they do it. In the case of BIG, the original production lacked focus and heart, and without those, you're gonna die.
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
The late Mike Ockrent was a brilliant director of broad comedyh - as seen in ME AND MY GIRL and CRAZY FOR YOU, but not warmth and heart, which "big" was desperately in need of.
And who can forget the usually genius Stroman's attempt to capture the (sanitized suburban white kid) style of hip-hop dancing? FORBIDDEN BROADWAY parodied it wonderfully: