Bruce Lee the musical and a Sheryl Crow musical?

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 6:08pm

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2007/07/chicagos-elepha.html#more

Shows reported in development:
“The Addams Family”- slated for Broadway in 2009-10

“Bruce Lee: Journey to the West”- book by David Henry Hwang

“Saved"- already is on the Playwrights Horizon season for next spring, with a Broadway future possible thereafter

“Beauty Sleeping”- a feminist, musical retelling of the fairy tale

“1968”- to feature original music by Sheryl Crow

They all seem very...interesting. Discuss.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 7:04pm

If the producers have a lick of sense, they'll thank David Henry for his work to date and send him packing. The guy hasnt written a decent book for a musical yet, and further to the point: wouldnt a stage piece about someone like Bruce Lee work better as a dance piece? Lee was all about action and movement, not standing there singing a ballad in Act Two.

Sheryl Crow could be pretty cool as a songwriter for the stage; I've long loved her stuff. My only fear is that it's going to be stereotypical "counter culture" nonsense -- more a self-induced parody of HAIR than anything else. But hey, anything's possible, I guess.

The rest? At this point, dismissable.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 7:17pm

But Bruce Lee" will feature a score by David Yazbeck, which is always a good thing.

I think Saved is great material for an original musical.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:13pm

*bump*