Down with Love the musical- Page 2
Down with Love the musical
#25re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:07pm
I was just going from memory about the release dates and that is my bad. I really did think it came out before Chicago.
As for it not being a musical. Yes, I realize that. But it has the campiness of a musical and I just think that audiences are more primed for it now than in the past. I do agree with you BrodyFosse123...people didn't get it.
#26re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:31pmMark's cameo in that clip makes me a very happy girl. too cute (and I love the song).
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#27re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:47pm
The biggest problem is that it's a "valentine" to a specific film genre.
Others that have tried this on Broadway with questionable results:
Young Frankenstein (a hit because of the name alone)
Singin' in the Rain (expensive flop)
I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's almost like trying to make a good film out of Broadway's A Chorus Line. It belongs on the stage, perhaps more so than any other musical. Certain things just don't translate well.
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#28re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:16pm
Most people are leaving out a very influential reason why it flopped: it opened the same weekend as Ang Lee’s HULK film. Granted that was even more of a flop than Down With Love (financially as well as artistically) it had a more marketable and popular image.
I think the film would make a very cute musical but could possibly have a short lived and forgettable run. It could adapt well, the costumes, sets and tempo would all work on stage and I’m sure there’s a reasonable way to have a split screen effect on stage, just build a dual set against black or isolated light whatever blah blah
I believe it could work very well I just don’t know how successful it would turn out.
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"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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#29re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/6/07 at 7:36pm
Kristin Chenoweth or Sherie Renee Scott as Barbra
Shoshana Bean as Vikie
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#30re: Down with Love the musical
Posted: 12/6/07 at 7:49pmMarc has better things to do right now
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