13 THE MUSICAL Coming to the Big Screen

[Thparkaly]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:24pm

So thrilled about this. And surprised and happy to see Bert V. Royal attached. I trust this will be very good if it has the same tone as Easy A.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jason-Robert-Browns-13-THE-MUSICAL-Coming-to-the-Big-Screen-20140812

[tazber]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:26pm

Everyone here pretty much hated this show, so I guess this would qualify as a guilty pleasure for me.

I adore the show and love the score.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:32pm

I had no problem with the score, I enjoy a number of the songs on the cast recording but found the book to be awfully trite and banal. But I enjoy Bert V. Royal's work though, I found his screenplay for "Easy A" to be very well written so I'm hopeful about this.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:34pm

My favorite part of this show was when it was over and I didn't have to watch it anymore.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:36pm

13/Heathers double feature!

[newintown]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:47pm

My favorite part was also when Jordan didn't have to watch it anymore.

[AddisonMizner]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:48pm

This is very good news for me. I have never seen the show, so I don't know how it works in context, but I love the score. I love Jason's music full stop!

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 3:52pm

Then you should just listen to the OCR and leave it there. 13 THE MUSICAL features one of the most atrocious books I think I've ever seen played out on a stage before.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 4:11pm

^^Oh, the book was hideous. I'm confident Royal can beef it up.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 4:13pm

What an interesting concept, make flop musicals into movies before doing something worthy. I still want the wasted time back I spent watching that dreck.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 4:19pm

"What an interesting concept, make flop musicals into movies before doing something worthy."

Isn't Kathie Lee doing that for Scandalous?

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 4:37pm

The link is broken, would anybody care to fill me in on the details of the article?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 5:12pm

I know Bert and thst man will do a great job with bringing this to the screen and sorting the book out.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 5:56pm

And by "sorting," I hope you mean rewriting...

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/12/14 at 6:02pm

I was hoping that we get a FOLLIES film first before 13 THE MUSICAL did, but since the writer of EASY A is involved, it does have a chance to be much better than the show. Some of the songs are good but the story and characters are politely pedestrian at best.