Telling your own story in the theater is near impossible these days when practically every new Broadway musical is based on a blockbuster film.
Think about the abundance of this phenomenon in the past decade alone:
The Producers, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Cry Baby, The Lion King, Shrek, Billy Elliott, 9 to 5, Mary Poppins, Xanadu, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ,The Wedding Singer, The Full Monty, Young Frankenstein…the list goes on, and there is no end in sight with musical versions of Ghost, Sleepless in Seattle, Sister Act and The First Wives Club recently announced.
Even Stephen Sondheim was recently quoted as saying that he’d love to adapt Groundhog Day into a musical.
So what do you do as a writer in a climate where the only shows getting produced are based on films?
You write one.
Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical is the satirical deconstruction of the current trend on Broadway of turning hollywood films into commerical musicals.
Think about the abundance of this phenomenon in the past decade alone:
The Producers, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Cry Baby, The Lion King, Shrek, Billy Elliott, 9 to 5, Mary Poppins, Xanadu, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ,The Wedding Singer, The Full Monty, Young Frankenstein…the list goes on, and there is no end in sight with musical versions of Ghost, Sleepless in Seattle, Sister Act and The First Wives Club recently announced.
Even Stephen Sondheim was recently quoted as saying that he’d love to adapt Groundhog Day into a musical.
So what do you do as a writer in a climate where the only shows getting produced are based on films?
You write one.
Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical is the satirical deconstruction of the current trend on Broadway of turning hollywood films into commerical musicals.