Archie musical

[Globefan]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 1:34pm

Do you think there will ever be an Archie musical on Broadway? 

[Fosse76]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 1:46pm

Globefan said: "Do you think there will ever be an Archie musical on Broadway?"

Who would the audience be? 

[itsjustmejonhotmailcom]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 2:26pm

There are (were?) people working on it: http://archiemusical.com. Adam McKay, who co-founded Upright Citizens Brigade wrote the book.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 3:50pm

Wasn't the late Adam Schlesinger attached as composer/lyricist before his passing? 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 3:59pm

This was also pre-Riverdale

[Globefan]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 4:11pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "This was also pre-Riverdale"

There's no reason they still can't try. 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 5:33pm

You don’t just “try” on something. If the team doesn’t sense the property is going to work, there’s no point in going at it.

The property and IP has changed since the musical was announced. Seems like it’s dead as a doorknob now

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 6:23pm

Damn, I thought this was about Archie Bunker. Sigh...

[darreyl102]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 6:56pm

Fosse76 said: "Globefan said: "Do you think there will ever be an Archie musical on Broadway?"

Who would the audience be?"

The Archie comics have been published since the 1940s, with various TV adaptations, cartoons and movies over the years. So I assume that there are people in many generations that are aware of or fans of The Archie franchise. So there would definitely be an audience. However, whether it would ever work as a musical? IDK. I'd see it though.

 

Updated On: 12/22/20 at 06:56 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 8:55pm

 

[ggersten]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 9:00pm

Maybe something like The Brady Bunch Live - where scripts of The Archies get performed?

But where is the Henry Aldritch musical?

Updated On: 12/22/20 at 09:00 PM

[zainmax]

Posted: 12/22/20 at 9:53pm

Not happening, for better or for worse

[Owen22]

Posted: 12/23/20 at 7:06am

If a compelling story with great songs are attached to an Archie musical (any musical based on a book, a film or an original idea) that catches on with the public (and maybe the NY Times critic) it would be viable.

Source material alone has NEVER made for a hit musical.  It's what one does with the source material.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/23/20 at 8:35am

It’s not as if Archie was a dead franchise before Riverdale- the famous supermarket digests and free religious tracts were hackneyed as always, but the horror-focused side series which launched in the 2000s was critically acclaimed, and the “Archie universe” reboot in the 2010s became a prestige comic series, with major indie comic creators and figures from the then current boom in animation contributing, like Rebecca Sugar.

[missthemountains]

Posted: 12/23/20 at 10:32pm

Well, interestingly enough, Roberto Aguirre Sacasa originally made a stage parody of Archie called Archie's Weird Fantasy at Dad's Garage in Atlanta, which got a cease-and-desist from Archie Comics. And then he went on to create Riverdale.

I think I would be down to see an Archie musical if it divorced itself from Riverdale. But I see them in this moment of time being so culturally tied, that I don't think it would ever happen. I just don't think the dark re-imagining really suits the material. The reboot of Sabrina--totally different story (though it really went off the rails towards the end, almost Ryan Murphy still).

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/24/20 at 1:29am

Yeah, give me the reboot universe over Riverdale any day. I want the asexual, autistic, snarky Jughead whose only sexuality comes in a weird vore fetish that even HE finds troubling.

[Leaf Coneybear]

Posted: 12/28/20 at 1:57am

darquegk said: "Yeah, give me the reboot universe over Riverdale any day. I want the asexual, autistic, snarky Jughead whose only sexuality comes in a weird vore fetish that even HE finds troubling."

Agreed! Seeing Jughead and Betty going at it constantly is NOT appealing. Any way another adaption of the series could take over the current universe would be welcome.