Barbie: the musical. Will it ever happen? - Page 2

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 7:42am

bwayobsessed said: "I was watching the movie and was like these characters want to sing-at least in Barbieland. Like the music would swell and they’d just keep talking…"

Every so often a movie has the rhythms and cadences of a musical. It doesn’t even have to be a great movie, it’s just a thing that happens. The one I always think of is “Dark Shadows.” You can watch the movie and immediately spot “song cue, song cue, group number, song cue.”

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 8:45am

1. What would they gain by making it into a musical? Would it benefit the company to do it?

2. Would it actually have an audience? Would it be worth it? 

3. Again-not every movie needs to be turned into a musical! Why can't people realize this. "We want original work!" Oh wait but would "x" movie work as a musical?? Like come on. 

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 12:25pm

Musicals have been based on existing material pretty much since the beginning. I don’t know why people always act like this is a new phenomenon. Genuinely original musicals are a rare breed. And it’s not like we can’t have both.

I agree that the movie was crying out to be musicalized. Aside from having 2 musical numbers already, one diegetic and one non-diegetic, there were several moments where the soundtrack choices felt like musical theatre moments. Particularly Lizzo and Billie Eilish’s tracks. Plus the whole heightened reality of Barbieland, the satirical tone, and the self-reflective moments the characters experience all lend themselves to musical storytelling.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 12:34pm

I hope this happens. Dove Cameron as "Barbie" - - - please and thank you. 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 3:04pm

CarlosAlberto said: "I hope this happens. Dove Cameron as "Barbie" - - - please and thank you."

No thank you because it doesn't need to happen 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/25/23 at 3:41pm

No show ever NEEDS to happen. And I'm pretty sure no one will force you to go.

 

Will it? It wouldn't surprise me.  But I know that now I won't be able to watch it (I saw Oppenheimer last weekend) w/o thinking about it!

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 8:04am

I feel like Taylor Louderman and Aaron Tveit are the natural choices here

[Owen22]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 9:30am

There actually are already a lot of similarities between the plot of the Barbie movie and Once Upon a One More Time...

[BenjaminNicholas2]

Posted: 7/26/23 at 11:22pm

It happened already in the early '90s at EPCOT.  

It was delicious camp.  Absolute garbage, but I still sing some of those awful songs to this day.

[QueenTwinnied]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 12:23am

When this inevitably happens please cast Carrie St Louis

[QueenTwinnied]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 12:23am

hearthemsing22 said: "CarlosAlberto said: "I hope this happens. Dove Cameron as "Barbie" - - - please and thank you."

No thank you because it doesn't need to happen"

What made you such a miserable person? I would really love to know. 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 9:32am

I blocked some people on here but saw replies to my comment before I signed into my account...So I'm a miserable person because I don't want a movie turned into a musical? Wow. Maybe y'all need to re-evaluate yourselves if you say that about someone else lmao 

[Kad]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 9:42am

hearthemsing22 said: "I blocked some people on here but saw replies to my comment before I signed into my account...So I'm a miserable person because I don't want a movie turned into a musical? Wow. Maybe y'all need to re-evaluate yourselves if you say that about someone else lmao"

You’re the one repeating the same opinion over and over on this thread. 
 

Movies will always be adapted into musicals. And since that’s the case, I would strongly prefer good movies that make sense as musicals to be adapted. And Barbie hits both criteria. 

And we want Broadway musicals to succeed and be relevant, right? Well, Barbie managed to break records and get people across the country to show up and dress on theme to attend. That’s the kind of enthusiasm and energy Broadway needs. 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 11:24am

Kad said: "hearthemsing22 said: "I blocked some people on here but saw replies to my comment before I signed into my account...So I'm a miserable person because I don't want a movie turned into a musical? Wow. Maybe y'all need to re-evaluate yourselves if you say that about someone else lmao"

You’re the one repeating the same opinion over and over on this thread.


Movies will always be adapted into musicals. And since that’s the case, I would strongly prefer good movies that make sense as musicals to be adapted. And Barbie hits both criteria.

And we want Broadway musicals to succeed and be relevant, right? Well, Barbie managed to break records and get people across the country to show up anddress on theme to attend.That’s the kind of enthusiasm and energy Broadway needs."

Ah my bad. I didn't realize you get to dictate what I say on here. Even if it is repetitive. Yes obviously we want musicals to succeed. But that does not mean we need every successful movie to be adapted for the stage. If you think this is repetitive just keep scrolling sweetheart 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/27/23 at 11:53am

Oy, here we go again. 

 

I just want good theater. I dont care what the source material is. 

I hate bio-musicsls, so I don't see them. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be made. 

[dearalanaaaa]

Posted: 7/28/23 at 10:37am

I can get behind this as long as it's not a jukebox musical. Movie musicals get audiences into seats, but they do not need to be a direct rip of the movie. Give us a theater experience instead of a cover concert! I haven't seen BTTF yet, but a similar way to how that takes the source and adds songs would be interesting.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/28/23 at 12:45pm

Barbie isn't just a popcorn blockbuster, it's an explicitly Brechtian, metafictional movie by two of the smartest writers in the business. It's also unapologetically weird and ambitious.

Back to the Future and Legally Blonde are good movies (great movies if you're not a total snob and can appreciate a popcorn flick for what it is), but they're not the sort of inexplicable big-swing-and-connect that Barbie has been. To turn it into a simple easy cash-in would be not just wrongheaded but likely impossible; people like Barbie for the discourse and the smart-stupid dialogue, not just for "it's pink and femme." If this movie gets made into a musical, I think it's going to be a musical worth seeing.

[binau]

Posted: 7/28/23 at 12:57pm

That is exactly what I was thinking. My vision for this kind of musical is to match the complexity of the writing in the film not some trashy jukebox musical. It’s a canvas for a complex musical with a lot of subtext in the music and new ideas. If someone wants to do this they can and should do it well with the best musical theatre artists in the business. 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 7/28/23 at 1:16pm

The people that come out of the woodwork complaining about movie to musical adaptations need not be paid attention to. Since the dawn of the book musical, the vast majority of musicals have been based on preexisting material. They conflate poorly developed work that most often flops at huge financial loss (see: Pretty Woman, Honeymoon in Vegas, etc.) with the entire genre and it shows a real lack of critical thinking.

The reality is that a commercial market of any kind needs commercial products for said market to survive. Without big IP titles, we would not have more unique, original work like Kimberly Akimbo, Come From Away, etc on Broadway either because it simply would not exist. If you're anti-IP adaptations, don't pay money to see IP adaptations...it's rather simple.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 7/28/23 at 2:47pm

OhHiii said: "The people that come out of the woodwork complaining about movie to musical adaptations need not be paid attention to. Since the dawn of the book musical, the vast majority of musicals have been based on preexisting material. They conflate poorly developed work that most often flops at huge financial loss (see: Pretty Woman, Honeymoon in Vegas, etc.) with the entire genre and it shows a real lack of critical thinking.

The reality is that a commercial market of any kind needs commercial products for said market to survive. Without big IP titles, we would not have more unique, original work like Kimberly Akimbo, Come From Away, etc on Broadway either because it simply would not exist. If you're anti-IP adaptations, don't pay money to see IP adaptations...it's rather simple."

"Need to not be paid attention to" -Wow need a hand getting down from your high horse? My god.