A group of us looked into working on an original Barbie musical about 15 years ago. Her "image" is so tightly controlled by Mattel that they would never have agreed to the kind of "vision" we had for the show.
We were hoping for an evening of double-meanings, raised eyebrows, light camp, and yet still family friendly (enough). Think "Brady Bunch Movie" as far as pushing the level of what we could get away with and still come off as innocent. Both celebrating and skewering her image.
Unfortunately we were told early on that Mattel would NEVER go for it, so we gave up our efforts.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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