AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#1
Posted: 2/2/10 at 4:39pm
I, for one, am VERY enticed by this concept. I am a HUGE Bret Easton Ellis fan, though I realize he does write pulp trash on occasion, and I find it interesting that this is actually happening in the cultural/economic climate these days. I also think that Paul Scott Goodman proved with his musicalization of Jay McInerney's equally hard-to-permeate BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY that he is MUCH more appropriate for the project than Sheik seems to be, but we will see. Sheik doesn't have the true rocker edge I think this needs, I see it more as a Trent Reznor type project, I understand the desire to go with a more rock sound from an established theatre composer who comes from rock, but I really think this would have been the perfect opportunity for a more current rocker to try their hand at a musical score.
I wonder if they are basing this on the book or the movie, or both? They are quite different properties.
Also, I think LESS THAN ZERO and THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (and even LUNAR PARK) lend themselves to musicalization more than this does, but I am willing to keep an open mind.
I know this was first announced to be a jukebox show using 80s hits, but I'm glad they are going the original score route now.
Other thoughts?
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#2
Posted: 2/2/10 at 5:07pmNot interested in seeing a musicalization of this story. It's a stunning piece of literature, but I don't understand the need to stage it, much less musicalize it. I don't know, it could end up being fantastic, but there is nothing about the project that appeals to me in any way.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#2
Posted: 2/2/10 at 5:09pmI think Duncan Sheik works well for this, compared to Trent Reznor. The yuppie edge of the book wouldn't work well with someone QUITE too edgy- remember, this is a killer whose idol is Phil Collins.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#3
Posted: 2/2/10 at 6:54pmI really don't know much about this movie/book. But don't you think Sheik is taking on a lot of projects. I would rather him focis on one and make it amazing. Who knows, maybe he can handle it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#5
Posted: 2/2/10 at 11:33pm
"I am a HUGE Bret Easton Ellis fan...."
Ahahahahahahahahaha. 'Nuff said, P. Now and forever.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#6
Posted: 2/2/10 at 11:39pm
If you're gonna quote, at least quote the full CLAUSE if not the whole sentence, gutter trash.
"...though I realize he does write pulp trash on occasion..."
Though why give a care about syntax or sentence structure when you can just be a bitter old crab and misquote whoever whenever?!
Zzzz. Try A LOT harder next time, Namo.
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#7
Posted: 2/2/10 at 11:43pm
That nugget contained everything I will ever need to know about you. Seriously. I meant it. Enough said.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#8
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:13am
Not everyone can be Yoko Ono. Or Patti Smith.
Or (insert literary equivalent here - probably Thomas Wolfe or John Irving).
SUCH a cliche... in every way...
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#9
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:15am
I practically peed laughing when you referred to Trent Reznor as a "more current rocker."
Man, that s--t is comedy gold.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#10
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:18am
No one knows more about p*ss and sh*t than you, Namo.
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#11
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:26am
Ah, the old rubber/glue defense. ALMOST as cutting edge as calling Trent Reznor a more current rocker. Skeik's first album: 1997. Trent Reznor's: 1989.
Yeah, you're so hep to the sounds of the young people and the contemporary literature of today!
Ahahahahahaha.
You're forever lost in the credibility gap. Have fun down there. Ahahahahahhaha.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#12
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:30am
LOL! The cliche calling the credibility card?!
Now, THAT is funny!
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P.S. Let me know when Sheik writes a score half as good as THE FRAGILE.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#13
Posted: 2/3/10 at 12:31amNothing like watching a moron compare apples and oranges. On the other hand, I fully support Sarah Palin getting upset on your behalf.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#14
Posted: 2/3/10 at 1:10am
"Moron"? "Apples and oranges"? "Sarah Palin"?! THAT's the best you've got?! What a sad day it is on BWW when even Namo has a toothless bite. Zzzzz.
More boring and tired than Yoko Ono and Patti Smith COMBINED!
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#15
Posted: 2/3/10 at 4:00am
"That nugget contained everything I will ever need to know about you. Seriously. I meant it. Enough said.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha."
To have the audacity to judge someone based so solely on their enjoyment of a particular author tells me everything I will ever need to know about you. Seriously. I mean it. Enough said.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#16
Posted: 2/3/10 at 4:02am
If they cut the shower scene, the tanning bed scene, the threesome scene or the scene where he runs around naked with a chainsaw then I'm not going.
Oh, and if Jonathan Groff isn't playing Patrick Bateman then they might as well just stop now.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#17
Posted: 2/3/10 at 8:08am
Wow this thread turned to another playground thread very quickly, and oh what a suprise to see Namo's name there.
Anyway, im pretty excited for this, its a great story which was perfectly translated to the screen.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#18
Posted: 2/3/10 at 8:32amTO be fair, you're both right and wrong here. Duncan Sheik begain his career later than Trent Reznor, but only Trent is still a current star, releasing successful albums with regularity in this past decade.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#19
Posted: 2/3/10 at 9:45amI would be more excited if Mr. Sheik could write anything but a over intellectualized pop song.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#20
Posted: 2/3/10 at 10:43amAgainst my better judgment, I'm excited for this. I hope it's bloody though. Like super bloody. Like you have to wear a raincoat in the first few rows like The Evil Dead musical.
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AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#21
Posted: 2/3/10 at 10:58amTrent is still a current star? Really? Seems like they have both had current successes. Duncan as a Composer of a wildly successful Broadway show and Trent as a guy who can still give away his music to the folks who would have paid for it 15 years ago.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#22
Posted: 2/3/10 at 11:19amExactly.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#23
Posted: 2/3/10 at 1:03pm
I'll admit it, I liked AMERICAN PSYCHO a lot when it was published. Good mean fun, deliberately intended to provoke reactions, and some of the darkest pitchblack comedy outside of Martin Mcdonagh. And I liked LESS THAN ZERO, too -- it seemed there was a real sadness to it that BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY never really came near somehow. I know I read THE RULES OF ATTRACTION, but don't remember much about it.
I don't have the active rabid dislike of Ellis that lots of folks have, but I'm not wild about him either. He's no David Foster Wallace, that's for sure. I always thought that Wallace's story "Girl With Curious Hair" was a brutal parody of AMERICAN PSYCHO until someone pointed out that Wallace's story pre-dated Ellis' novel.
As for the musical, well, okay, we'll see if it ever happens.
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Duncan Sheik's new musical#24
Posted: 2/3/10 at 2:05pm
He's very much the "intellectual pop trash" author of his generation, like Chuck Palahniuk was for the next one. Either brilliant, worthless or brilliantly worthless, depending on perspectives.
And as far as Duncan only writing over-intellectualized pop songs, that's probably because he's an overly-itellectual pop songwriter. Pete Townshend's been turning out rock operas and concept albums for years of the same sort of thing, but no one ever said, "Write something different!" Just like no one would have said to Cole Porter "Write some bebop, man!"
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