Posted: 10/2/17 at 11:58am
Leslie Kritzer played Delia Deetz (the O'Hara role) in last year's reading and Jessica Phillips played the role in this workshop. I assume Kritzer's commitment to The Honeymooners prevented her from doing it this time.
Posted: 10/2/17 at 12:00pm
Has anyone here seen any of the workshops or readings? If you have, how's the material?
Posted: 10/3/17 at 11:43am
Pudi is a wonderfully left-field casting choice and I'd love to see and hear that he fits the material like a glove. Interestingly enough, his characterization of Abed Nadir (particularly the character's uncanny ability to imitate and impersonate his friends and celebrities) matches the original screenplay's concept of Beetlejuice not as a Sam Kinison/corpse hybrid, but as an ambiguously-Arabian djinn and master of disguise.
Posted: 10/3/17 at 1:13pm
^ I don't think he's playing Beetlejuice, is he? I thought Alex Brightman's playing the lead with Pudi playing the character Alec Baldwin had in the movie.
Posted: 10/3/17 at 3:26pm
Yeah. Pudi is playing Mr. Maitland; but when I saw his name attached to the show, before I knew what role, I wondered if they were returning to the original conception (like James Monroe Iglehart plays a pre-Robin Williams conception of the Genie in "Aladdin."
Posted: 3/28/18 at 10:12am
Announced to premiere at the National in DC in October 2018. http://www.playbill.com/article/beetlejuice-musical-to-premiere-in-washington-dc-before-broadway-bow
