Alex Kulak2 said: "By the way, we almost got a Joe Iconis Beetlejuice. According to him, he was also in the running to write the score. He did one of his spec songs at a concert.
https://youtu.be/WPvuC_hPWlA"
I know I'm in the minority on this board that mostly enjoys the score we got. I absolutely hated King Kong's writing so I thought it was interesting, they're both quite different. That being said, some of the musical structure is weird- I'm not a music theory aficionado so I may not be quite as versed in this take as I should be, but it's weird that songs like Say My Name have like two/three completely different chorus sections all with different melodies- when Adam and Barbara come in the song towards the end, it completely changes. Parts of it are definitely written weird and I understand a lot of the criticism, personally I think that song in particular is one of the worst in the show. Both No Reason and What I Know Now are absolutely stellar in my opinion.
I didn't know Joe Iconis was up for it originally though and nor have I ever heard that song. Not a huge fan of Joe's work though so I'm sort of glad it went the way it did to be honest... I think the melody is absolutely beautiful but, like many of his songs just can't take the lyrics too seriously. Especially the chorus, being "I'm a strange and unusual girl...". It'd be like if Mean Girls had a song literally called "So Fetch," (Not that Mean Girls' lyrics are much better...) It just doesn't feel like it's anything more than him just "musicalizing" one of the most iconic lines in the movie for the sake of including it. Still super interesting nonetheless and it's a very pretty song- I just don't think it'd fit into a musical.
I think others have mentioned this in the past and please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Tim Minchin up for it at one point? I think that would've been incredible- I absolutely love Groundhog Day and Matilda and I really he comes back to musicals one day.
