JERSEY BOYS failed for many reasons, not just one. Personally, I think that as soon as Clint Eastwood was brought in, all chances of the movie being remotely watchable were lost. I can't imagine a director who is more disconnected for the kind of energy that a film like this needed. The casting did give the movie a "cheap" feel to it that it never overcame.
BEAUTIFUL needs a director who can make those numbers work cinematically. The whole thing may look deceptively easy since there are almost no "book songs," but making songs about people sitting and writing music cinematic will be a challenge. What's funny is that the staging of the show relies on cinematic conventions (the montages, the close ups, the quick transitions) much like JERSEY BOYS and DREAMGIRLS did before it.
I find that girl from GLEE to be completely forgettable. I sure hope I don't have to see her play King. Someone on another site suggested Lauren Ambrose, who is also older, but God she'd be incandescent...maybe she can replace Chillina Kennedy (in my dreams)?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
