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Jeffrey Karasarides said: "So Obviously, it's been getting on everyone's nerves lately that pretty much every single big movie out there is being turned into Broadway musicals.There of course have been several successful ones (The Full Monty, The Producers, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Once, Kinky Boots, etc.), and there also have been some flops (Big, Cry-Baby, 9 to 5, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Ghost, Leap of Faith, Big F...

haterobics said: "I love Idina, but isn't she way too old for the part? She's about twice Barbra's age when she played the role, no?"If you're going to play that game and bring up how old Streisand was when she took up the role then I can just as convincingly make the argument that Streisand was way to young to play Dolly Levi. Streisand was 27 years old and in the original Broadway production Dolly Levi was played by several actresses (Carol Channing, Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable...

The YouTube channel Musical Theater Mash did a video entitled “Don’t do this show, Do this show” where he suggested alternatives to the most performed musicals in American high schools. Although some of his suggestions were extremely impractical (I don’t care how progressive your school may be. As great as it is, no high school is ever going to okay a production of Gypsy) several of them were very good and one in particular I liked very much. He suggested instead of doing Mary Poppins, school...

cjmclaughlin10 said: "Agree on Pippin and HairWould also add Merrily We Roll Along, Barnum, Damn Yankees, Ragtime, A Funny Thing Happened On TheWay ToThe Forum, Grand Hotel, Spamalot, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,and Your A Good Man Charlie Brown"All the shows you said are great. My school did 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee a few years before I got there and it’s currently my favorite musical.

Boq101 said: "There is also the worry that most of these schools have literally no budget from the school to put on these shows. My high school years in the early mid 2000's we lost lots of money doing Cabaret even though it was the best show I feel like we put together. We HAD to go Oliver next year because we could use costume the school already owned and the large cast plus casting kids from the middle school brought in more families to see the show."That’s why I suggested A Chorus Line. I...

TheGingerBreadMan said: "Besides the challenge of most high schools not having enough students who can dance at the level required for A Chorus Line, “Dance Ten Looks Three” would not go over well in many communities, as well as Paul’s monologue."I get what you’re saying and I can see how that might cause problems in some communities. And I may be slightly ill informed growing up in a very liberal area. But I’ve seen high schools perform way more mature shows than A Chorus Line. And I’ve seen...

dramamama611 said: "There is no "should". Each school has to make the decisions right for them, based on a litany of things.A Chorus Line is difficult for most schools since if you dont have great triple threats and a lot of them, you dont have a good show. Regardless of the absence of a set.Ive only in my last 15 years, only produced 1 one those, so, Id say we already lesser done shows most of yhe time.Shows weve done:MillieSweeney ToddUrinetownEdwin DroodTo name a few. "

musicaltheater1 said: "There was an off-Broadway production of the Joy Luck Club, the musical. http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_The_Joy_Luck_Club_Opens_Nov7_20071101" That wasn't a musical. That was a play with musical staging. If it was a musical they would've listed it as one. I personally think The Joy Luck Club would make a great musical (I haven't read The Kitchen God's Wife). There's a lot of good cha

actionjaxson91 said: "Carrie proved that this was a bad idea." That's one example of a musical based on a book not turning out well. Some of the greatest Broadway musicals of all times were based on books. South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Miserables were all based on books. If done right they can turn out to be very good.

Queen Alice I'm not too familiar with the show but I watch a youtube chanel that talks about different Broadway musicals and they did a video on The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. From what they said it seems to me like some parts of the show have aged very well while other parts haven't so much. On the one hand it presents a positive representation of sex workers, highlights the injustice of prostitutes being punished for their work while the men who benefit from their service get off scot...

I didn't know that Ryan Murphy was adapting A Chorus Line for a ten part series. Seems kind of weird to me to turn it into a ten-part series but okay. Even so that's no reason not to do some fancasting. I do fancasting all the time for shows and projects that I know will never happen. It can be fun to just speculate sometimes.

I've always loved Fan Casting. So much so that I've considered becoming a casting director. I recently started a new project on MyCast.io, a fan casting website. Someone I watch online who posts videos about Broadway musicals said that A Chorus Line! might work great as a Live Television Musical. She said that A Chorus Line! deserved far better than it's 1985 film adaption and that it might be a perfect fit for live TV. I started a page on MyCast.io for fan casting A Chorus Line Live! (You ca...

According to NPR the most performed musicals in high schools are:1. The Addams Family2. Mamma Mia!3. The Little Mermaid4. Beauty and the Beast5. Mary Poppins6. Newsies7. Little Shop of Horrors8. Seussical9. Into the Woods10. Shrek The Musical (tie)10. The Wizard of Oz (tie)I'm not saying there's anything wron

This guy I watch online was talking about how the Broadway musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Drowsy Chaperone were both homages to the musicals of the 1920s. So I was wondering if they were any broadway musicals which paid homage to the next decade of musicals the 1930s. More specifically the films of dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers who made 10 films together during that time period. The only large scale Astaire-Rogers homage I can think of is the homage/parody High Hat, a ...