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Beetlejuice the Musical
Beetlejuice the Musical#25
Posted: 4/19/18 at 5:19pm
I don't think he is. He is in My Fair Lady and that is just opening tonight. I cannot imagine he would leave the chance for a Tony nomination, right?
Beetlejuice the Musical#26
Posted: 4/19/18 at 5:30pm
BwayGeek2 said: "I don't think he is. He is in My Fair Lady and that is just opening tonight. I cannot imagine he would leave the chance for a Tony nomination, right?"
Considering beetlejuice won’t start performances until the fall, he can still get that nomination and win before he has to leave the show
Beetlejuice the Musical#27
Posted: 4/19/18 at 8:30pm
Two movie-to-theater adaptations from Mr Alex Timbers in the same season? Wow.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
Beetlejuice the Musical#28
Posted: 4/19/18 at 9:28pm
MadsonMelo said: "Two movie-to-theateradaptations from Mr Alex Timbers in the same season? Wow."
Im thinking this might come Fall 2019.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
Beetlejuice the Musical#30
Posted: 6/14/18 at 7:43pm
Mean Girls didn't announce until August. There's plenty of time.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Beetlejuice the Musical#31
Posted: 6/14/18 at 10:32pm
Schindler's List- The Musical?
OOOHH Human Centipede- The Musical!
SAW- the Musical! ( they could mix elements from all 7 Movies!)
Beetlejuice the Musical#32
Posted: 8/10/18 at 11:11am
Kerry Butler joining the DC run?
https://twitter.com/KerryButlerNyc/status/1027923981251293189
She was part of the lab, right?
Beetlejuice the Musical#33
Posted: 8/10/18 at 1:24pm
Yeah, she and Danny Pudi were the ghostly Maitlands. I hope he's still in!
Beetlejuice the Musical#34
Posted: 8/10/18 at 2:55pmdarquegk said: "Yeah, she and Danny Pudi were the ghostly Maitlands. I hope he's still in!"
I'm really hoping Danny Pudi comes back as well. He's fantastic.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
Beetlejuice the Musical#35
Posted: 8/10/18 at 3:16pmHoping that Alex Brightman stays on with this. Looking forward to seeing his energy, talent and humor back on the NY stage again soon!
Beetlejuice the Musical#37
Posted: 8/11/18 at 11:00amI'm not sure who Wesley would be- he doesn't seem to type for any of the main roles unless they've added some new characters. He might be a contender for Otho Fenlock (although original screenwriter/legendary queer horror novelist Michael McDowell described the character as "obscenely fat and f****ty," which sounds more Jiminy Glick than Wesley Taylor).
Beetlejuice the Musical#38
Posted: 8/11/18 at 11:09am
Even more than the cast announcement, I'm just really excited to see the set. I imagine something dark and larger than life.
Beetlejuice the Musical#39
Posted: 8/11/18 at 11:12amI'm curious how they'll reimagine it: consider how much of the movie depends on characters growing, shrinking and teleporting.
Beetlejuice the Musical#40
Posted: 8/11/18 at 1:04pmDavid Korins is the scenic designer and the last time he worked with Timbers was on pee wee Herman, so I imagine it will be filled with tricks and magic.
Beetlejuice the Musical#41
Posted: 8/12/18 at 5:53pmThe show starts in 8 weeks, I can’t believe there’s no cast yet.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
Beetlejuice the Musical#42
Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:04pmI suspect there is - they just haven’t announced it yet.
Beetlejuice the Musical#43
Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:09pmWell yes, I just mean they haven’t announced anything with only 8 weeks to go.
Beetlejuice the Musical#44
Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:15pm
I’m very curious about the cast and the show in general. Sometimes drawings and models show up in a David Korins’s instagram story and what we’re shown is so.much.fun. It’s not a Tim Burton rip off, but they look so spot on for the world of Beetlejuice we already know, with just a touch of cartoonish fun.
Beetlejuice the Musical#45
Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:40pm
This tweet seems to indicate Brightman isn't involved anymore. Such a shame - I'd love to see him in this role.
https://twitter.com/abrightmonster/status/1027532951163219969?s=21
Beetlejuice the Musical#46
Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:51pm
My predictions: Beetlejuice will be an immensely divisive musical, just as it was a divisive movie. The film is brilliant as an impressionist art piece, and the characters are all vivid, but the plot is not only nonsensical but completely falls apart at the climax. Mostly, Beetlejuice on film is a series of outrageously conceived, high camp set pieces.
The trouble with this is, if you give it a more linear plot (like the original screenplay, which press releases hint this musical is drawing from), people who liked the shambling stream-of-consciousness quality of the film will hate it. And if you continue to play all loosey-goosey with the plot, that won't make for a very solid musical, and you can't run a show on a singular artistic vision and a prayer as well as you used to.
It'll play, people will have mixed feelings and deep passions about it one way or another, but a large number of people will just ignore it, because (like HEATHERS) the material is simply not to many people's tastes. And like HEATHERS, it'll do really well in regionals despite not really sticking around long in NYC.
Beetlejuice the Musical#47
Posted: 8/12/18 at 7:02pmI’m guessing Brightman was probably filling in for Fitzgerald in the labs, while he was busy with waitress. Or maybe the Norbert rumor is true.
Beetlejuice the Musical#48
Posted: 8/12/18 at 7:32pmMitch Jarvis was after the role for years- maybe he’s betting on Getting the Band Back Together not lasting?
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/24/17
Beetlejuice the Musical#49
Posted: 8/12/18 at 8:20pm
My guess is Fitzgerald, who left Waitress a few weeks back with no announced reason.
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