Across The Universe on Broadway????
Across The Universe on Broadway????
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#1Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:26pmI would love to see it on broadway people like rock musicals and it is so good what are the chances?
#2re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:28pmNone, I'd hope. I don't think it would be good at all.
BrodyFosse123
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#2re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:28pm
Um, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is based on the Broadway musical, which was also directed by Julie Taymor.
This was her first work on Broadway before Disney's THE LION KING.
#3re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:39pmI don't think so. Ive never heard this!!
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#6re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:47pmI think he MAY be joking. I don't know though.... strange thought.
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#9re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:55pmi thought so! I know everything about Across the Universe its my favorite movie!!! lol
#10re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/9/08 at 11:56pm
Brody regularly posts blatant lies for no reason whatsoever.
Get used to it.
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#11re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 12:46amBrody should pay a visit to Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor on Fleet St. He could really use a close shave.
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#12re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 12:57amI actually think Julie wants to try staging it after she's done working on Spiderman (gag). And I read she wants to use the movie cast, so...
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#13re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:00amIt was bad enough on screen.
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jam_man
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#14re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:11am
I think it could POTENTIALLY work on stage, but it would need some serious re-working.
Usually when you're trying to make a movie into a stage show, you want to add things, but it would probably be better surved if they cut some things (pretty much the entire Bono "I am the Walrus" through "Mr. Kite" section). In fact, being the supreme dork I am, I've been trying to work out in my head what I'd do to make it better were I to adapt it on stage, and one major thing I'd consider is cutting/diminishing a few characters, especially Prudence. And I'd probably give more time devoted to Max in Nam, with him ending up deceased.
Just my thoughts - probably won't be anything like what it would end up like should it materialize on Broadway. Infact, they'd probably find bad ways to squeze more songs in there. It could be good, though.
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#15re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:29amAre you serious? I am the Walrus is the sweetest part about that movie. Both visually and meangfully. (is that a word?) it is so neat to watch, plus it sums up what they believe in, unity and they we are all together.
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#16re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 4:21am
Hey Brody, so is the Broadway version of "Across the Universe" up there with the stage version of HELP, and Yellow Submarine?? hahaha
wow...
I think if they turned this into a musical on broadway, it would do as well as Lennon didn't. But at least with this, Yoko would have little to no creative control over the songs used. (The dictator will step down!!)
Updated On: 2/10/08 at 04:21 AM
#17re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 9:58amI am the walrus would be amazing one stage. Especially if they kept the rainbow bus:)
#18re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 10:04amWow, I really don't see this making the trasition. If someone want to try, and its brilliant, more power to them. But the movie was so heavy and extremely cinematic. It's basically a two hour exercise in visual storytelling. Theatre is much more text based.
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#19re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 11:18amMaybe if it had a coheisive nad decent plotline...But no! The film was very elaborate and god awful! Who wrote this film? Suri Cruise?
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#20re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 11:45amI think it would work if they just revised some of the storyline and added some more Beatle songs.
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#21re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 11:56am
No, it looks as if it would only work as a film.
Same with Enchanted.
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#22re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:45pm
Not every movie musical needs to be adapted for the Broadway stage. The movie is what it is, take it or leave it.
However, I would like to see Julie Taymor direct/design, etc. another play or musical.
#23re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:18pm
The Lion King was a one off - you'll know what i mean if you saw this!
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jam_man
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#24re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 2/10/08 at 3:01pm
I may or may not be in the minority on this, but I thought Bono's whole part felt tacted on and distracted from the story, which I thought muddeled enough as it was. Maybe the fact that it was played by Bono had something to do with it for me, but I don't think so. It might make a great number on stage, and actually might be forgivable since slight distractions from plot is much less of a sin in stage musicals. However, I would likely start out trying to fix that section somehow.
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Updated On: 2/10/08 at 03:01 PM
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#25re: Across The Universe on Broadway????
Posted: 4/3/08 at 4:44pm
Well, for one, I would love to produce this and have a lot of ideas.
These are some of them:
Jude's Dad, the guy in "Come Together", Uncle Sam, Paco, Dr. Robert and Mr. Kite are ALL PLAYED BY THE SAME GUY.
The act break occurs after I Am the Walrus, which becomes a big production number.
The entire wall behind the actors is a giant screen, on which is projected everything from a Vietnamese jungle to the moving backdrop behind a rainbow bus to a desolate beach.
Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds becomes a desperate plea from Mrs. Carrigan to Lucy in the phone booth scene, singing an old nursery rhyme she would sing to Lucy.
Jude's paint-flinging during Strawberry Fields involves no actual paint-he flings his brush with synchronized paint splotches appearing onscreen.
I Want to Hold Your Hand is moved to Prudence singing it about Sadie.
Act II begins with the entire cast singing "Because" on an empty stage, followed by Mr. Kite.
The show revolves around a turntable in the center of the stage that rises and falls.
Come Together is expanded to include Jude, Max and Sadie.
We Can Work It Out is added at the Thanksgiving dinner scene.
So yeah, I've put a lot of thought into this...anyone else have any ideas?
