Beetlejuice the Musical — Page 2

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

MadsonMelo said: "Two movie-to-theateradaptations from Mr Alex Timbers in the same season? Wow."

Im thinking this might come Fall 2019.

Mean Girls didn't announce until August. There's plenty of time.

Kerry Butler joining the DC run?

https://twitter.com/KerryButlerNyc/status/1027923981251293189

She was part of the lab, right?

I'm really hoping Danny Pudi comes back as well. He's fantastic.

Even more than the cast announcement, I'm just really excited to see the set. I imagine something dark and larger than life.

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.

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.