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    09/22/09

    In reply to The "Super Freak" Number Will Bring the House Down
    Max Fisher brought the jungles of Vietnam and helicopters to the small stage. A VW bus is child's play.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to The "Super Freak" Number Will Bring the House Down
    OR (and bear with me for a minute because this will blow your mind) we could write DIFFERENT work SPECIFICALLY for the stage rather than adapt a great MOVIE, whose creative process is COMPLETELY different and then we’ll have even MORE great art out there.

    The day I see "Godfather the Musical" I shoot myself, I swear to Christ…
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    09/22/09

    @LaComtesse: I agree. I thought it was over for me when they actually made Legally Blonde into a musical.
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    09/22/09

    @LaComtesse:
    Hold the phone here. Originals ideas?? Okay now you're blowing my mind.
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    09/22/09

    @hydrogen_jukebox: I'm a little more okay with books being adapted, but even then it's like "Write your own material!" Legally Blonde the musical made me want to vomit in terror.

    @MegiEr: Wait until I get to the part where actresses can be a size other than zero, a color other than white, and an age over 30!
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    09/22/09

    @LaComtesse:

    Head exploded, brains all over keyboard.
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    09/22/09


    @hydrogen_jukebox & LaComtesse: I think it was just made for this dude.
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    09/22/09

    @LaComtesse: Meh, I'll play devil's advocate. Back in the heyday of Broadway, all the biggest shows eventually became films (think "West Side Story," "The Music Man," etc). Now the creative process simply goes in the opposite direction.
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    09/22/09

    @Princess Leela: Not just does the American musical have a history from near its beginning of interacting with movies, there is an even longer history of the basis of plays coming from other sources. Look at Shakespeare. I also appreciate that people have a desire to see live theatre, even if it is theatre I have no wish to see.
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    09/22/09

    @Princess Leela: I'm not saying it can't be done, but it should not be Broadway's exclusive source of material. Also, half the movies turned plays just don't work on stage.

    @Lymed: The Coliseum was live theater, but I don't think elevated anyone. "Live theater" isn't synonymous with "culture." What most people who are going to see shows like this are interested in is "spectacle" which is fine, but let's call it what it is and not think that it's accomplishing the same thing as, say, "Into the Woods."
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    Image of Yahtzii Yahtzii
    09/22/09

    In reply to The "Super Freak" Number Will Bring the House Down

    It's a cute idea, but I can already see some problems.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    09/22/09

    @Yahtzii: You could have a previously recorded tape, projected on a screen that displays whatever he wrote. Dramaturge of the world unite!
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    09/22/09

    @CurtCole: You totally did a production of Godspell or West Side Story in high school, didn't you? Non-theater people don't think of this stuff.
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    09/22/09

    @Yahtzii: I took a couple of dramaturgy classes as an English major in college. Gotta love those interdisciplinary educations.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to The "Super Freak" Number Will Bring the House Down
    The VW bus would be an incredible example of spectacle.
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    09/22/09

    @CurtCole: Or duct tape, spackle and gum.
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