CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

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CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:32pm

Is this a delay or a "maybe we just shouldn't do it"?
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/102668.html

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:47pm

"Lack of Broadway Theatres" = the new "The dog ate my homework."

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:56pm

Did they seriously think this would succeed?

HIGH FIDELITY has a bigger fan base than this movie has and that's not saying much.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:58pm

To be fair, I didn't know much about the original Hairspray movie until the musical came out and I love that one. I'm willing to give Cry-Baby the benefit of the doubt.

#5

re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:34pm

THE SHow would fit perfectly into the Belasco, if its producers really wanted to bring it to Broadway this season.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:38pm

I was really interested in seeing this, although I'll admit it doesn't sound like the world's most fantastic idea.

I really don't believe that no theatres will be available. We aren't that jammed up already, are we? Martin Short won't be playing by the time Tony season comes around. At least I doubt he will, and there's always the good chance something will fail.

And, as noted above, the Belasco would work.

I guess they just needed more time to work on it.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:47pm

"The dog ate my theatre."

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 7:57pm

What is with producers and cult film adaptation slash "Let's write a book filled with cheesey (decade name here) jokes" shows? Didn't The Wedding Singer teach us anything?

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:08pm

Are you the one and only Nick Kenkle?

#10

re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/11/06 at 11:04pm

John Waters films seem to be a big influence for musicals.
Expect Polyester: The Musical by 2010.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 1:08am

Maybe they decieded to re-work it? Or just scrap it all together. It seems odd that they would scarp it though? I mean, what if they were plenty of theaters available, I wonder if they would have thrown their money into a bunch of crap? Hm.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 1:21am

Wasn't Jim Steinman composing this at one stage?

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:19am

I hate the movie and I'm a huge Waters fan. I just can't see this being much different than All Shook Up. I think these movie-turned-musicals are really going to confuse people. Wedding Singer, High Fidelity and Legally Blonde makes Broadway sound like a Cineplex. I would have a hard time deciding which one to see, none were worth a Broadway makeover or $110.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:21am

As I see it, the problem isn't in making musicals of movies, it's the pedestrian movies they pick to musicalize. Start with a great story and great source material - it's almost like all these composers are getting their inspiration from the 7.99 bin at Walmart.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:28am

Maybe they were looking for an orignal cast recording and got lost in the soundtrack section.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:31am

Or maybe they just can't get the rights to the really good films.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:35am

That's FAR more likely, MB. Witness the decades-long attempts to get "the Princess Bride."

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 11:36am

I think even bad films can be converted into something great (Little Shop), but it is just not something that should be rushed.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 12:39pm

If they aren't doing it then I'll be sad because I was really looking forword to hearing the score (rockabilly music I hope) but I think that If they still do it it might do well because people love hairspray, and that same crowd would go.

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re: CRY-BABY Delayed Due to Lack of Broadway House

Posted: 10/12/06 at 12:43pm

I'm with jv92...it's hard for lightning to strike twice, case in point TWS, Times They Are a Changin'

I know Thanksgiving is several weeks away, but I smell a "Turkey"! But I am a little dissappointed because I love Chandra Lee Schwartz.

This is my first post on here! I'm so excited!