Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:33pm
#2re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:39pmNo. Just, ugh. Eww. What is Broadway coming to?
gilvisto
Understudy Joined: 8/2/08
#3re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:40pm
Another 'save the theater' plot... with a cartoon.
Well, we'll have to wait and see, I suppose. But it's off to a bad start.
#4re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:43pm...I'd rather a musical based on one of the most influential, beloved, and recognizable cartoon characters of all time than on another ****ing B-grade movie from the 90s or overwrought popera based on a novel from the 1800s.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#5re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:43pmEver since Legally Blonde I have learned to keep an open mind. We'll see...
LoveIsCompany
Stand-by Joined: 5/11/08
#6re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:52pmAs disturbed as I am by this, I could somehow, just somehow see Jane Krakowski doing an awesome job with the character. Would I hope her to take it? Not really, but she was the first one that came to mind.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#7re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 4:56pm
I smell a TONY for whoever lands the pivotal role of KoKO the Clown.
I loved it when he climbed out of the ink bottle.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#8re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:01pm
>Ummm.... ew.<
Wasn't that the same reaction Charles Strouse had when he was first pitched the idea of doing a stage musical based on Little Orphan Annie? You never know how these things will turn out.
#9re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:06pm
This has got to be for Kristin Chenoweth, right???
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=983759&dt=8&boardid=1
Updated On: 11/6/08 at 05:06 PM
#10re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:06pmI think it will be cute.
#11re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:08pmJennifer Cody, please!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#12re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:10pm
David Foster?
Oy. Let's hope he composes something better than the usual pop-drivel he's come up with for Josh Groban, Celine, Il Divo, yadda yadda. Do we really need elevator music on the boards?
I do like the songs he did with Madonna way back when though, but his recent stuff is nothing extraordinary.
#13re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:14pmI'd be more excited if Lippa was still attached.
#14re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:26pm
Kad, I totally agree.
I usually tend to keep an open mind when it comes to new musicals. But I don't know how much more I can take of shows like this...we were all pleasantly surprised by Xanadu, and many were happy with Legally Blonde, but I'm ready for another completely authentic, original musical. Was The Drowsy Chaperone the last one?
#15re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:28pm
[title of show]
Passing Strange
In The Heights
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#16re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:29pmI think it sounds great! Chenoweth as Betty and Orfeh as Bimbo.
#17re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:31pmNot a David Foster fan and I don't think the world is crying out for Betty Boop, but I think Kristin Chenoweth or Jane Krakowski could kill in something like this.
Little-Lotte
Leading Actor Joined: 4/27/06
#18re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:42pm
I think its a really cute idea! Like anything it could be really bad or really great but its not like Betty Boop is everywhere. She's iconic yes but its not a property that has had a resurgence in popularity in a while. Also it allows the creative team to be, well, creative in plot ideas since they're not committed to one storyline but can draw on a lot of material from her shorts.
I don't know why people are complaining, Broadway is 90% of the time not original in its selection of material. This has gone on since the beginning. Besides no idea is truly original anymore, it always will draw from something in the past its just how its executed that makes it fresh or unique.
#19re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 5:45pmIt's a cute, iconic image to turn into a musical. But I have to echo the sentiments that it seems more and more of Broadway is turning into the graveyard of fiction past.
#20re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:01pm
Jen Cody is sublime casting, Foster.
And wasn't Jason Robert Brown attached to this at one time? Or was it Lippa?
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Joined: 12/31/69
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#22re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:11pmI heard a while ago in a New York Times magazine article about Andrew Lippa about this.
#23re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:24pm
Andrew Lippa was indeed writing it at one point as a vehicle for Kristin Chenoweth.
I'm in the Jane Krakowski bandwagon, she would be perfection.
#24re: Betty Boop Musical Aims for Broadway in 2010
Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:27pmVery interesting.
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