BEETLEJUICE Previews

Beetlejuice features music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The Alex Timbers-helmed production begins previews on March 28 with opening night set for April 25 for an open run.

SYNOPSIS: Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager who is obsessed with the whole “being dead" thing. Lucky for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and a degenerate demon who happens to have a thing for stripes. When Lydia calls on this ghost-with-the-most to scare away her insufferable parents, Beetlejuice comes up with the perfect plan, which involves exorcism, arranged marriages and an adorable girl scout who gets scared out of her wits.

CAST: Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Sophia Anne Caruso (Lydia Deetz), Rob McClure (Adam Maitland), Kerry Butler (Barbara Maitland), Leslie Kritzer (Delia Deetz), Adam Dannheisser (Charles Deetz), Danny Rutigliano (Maxie Dean), Jill Abramovitz (Maxine Dean), Kelvin Moon Loh (Otho), Dana Steingold (Girl Scout) Tessa Alves, Gilbert L. Bailey II, Will Blum, Johnny Brantley III, Ryan Breslin, Natalie Charle Ellis, Brooke Engen, Abe Goldfarb, Eric Anthony Johnson, Elliott Mattox, Mateo Melendez, Sean Montgomery, Ramone Owens, Presley Ryan, and Kim Sava.

Updated On: 3/31/19 at 03:01 PM

I'll be there on Monday (third preview). Excited and intrigued!

I was there!

Everything went pretty smoothly, apart from a couple minor performance errors (ex. one of the performers not catching a prop that was tossed to them - you know, things that could happen at ANY performance). Show never had to stop. Alex Timbers came out and spoke to us before the show, so that was pretty cool.

I didn’t follow the show during tryouts, but I was told that Leslie’s number in Act II is new, and it was probably my favorite of the entire show.

There are a couple things that I hope are corrected before opening (technical and book stuff), but it’s pretty solid overall. Don’t want to spoil anything, so if anyone wants more info then feel free to send me a PM!

Updated On: 3/28/19 at 10:39 AM

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY had an 850,000 weekly nut. Geeze.

any merch reports?

SomethingPeculiar said: "zainmax said: "CurtainPullDowner said: "CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY had an 850,000 weekly nut. Geeze."
I can't believe that to be true. That's like Spiderman numbers, and there really wasn't much to Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, as I recall. It was like too small for the theater."


36 in cast + 18 in the orchestra isn't cheap, but I would guess that the running cost was closer to $700/750Kthan850. Unless there was some crazy royalty pool that involved paying the UK creative team even if they weren't involved with the US production, along with the film authorsand Dahl estate? (Pure speculation.)

$850 wouldn't be insane nowadays for a big musical, or one with a star... I bet DOLLY was north of 850, and KONG is probably close to it."

Would the royalties be included in the weekly nut?

Also, do you think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cost more or less than Beetlejuice both in terms of cap and weekly nut?

zainmax said: "Would the royalties be included in the weekly nut?

Also, do you think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cost more or less than Beetlejuice both in terms of cap and weekly nut?"


Royalties would be part of the weekly nut.

Don't know about cost comparisons, I haven't seen BJ. WB mostly self-financed Charlie, whereas BJ has a bunch of outside co-producer/investors.

Regardless, $21mil is huge. Especially since screen-to-stage adaptations of similarly beloved properties like Groundhog Day, Charlie, Rocky, Ghost, 9 to 5, and Big Fish all tanked.