Posted: 2/14/22 at 6:38pm
^ I haven't seen Encanto so I can't speak to the movie itself but I do love original work soooo I would see.
Posted: 2/14/22 at 7:10pm
hearthemsing22 said: "Absolutely, 100% not necessary *right now*. Maybe in a few seasons, but how often do we complain about original work instead of movie adaptations?"
I’ll give Disney four or five years
Posted: 2/14/22 at 7:17pm
It took Frozen 4-5 years, and that did not capture the same magic it did on screen.
But I trust LMM completely if Encanto makes the leap to Broadway. He can actually enhance the work in effective ways.
Posted: 2/14/22 at 7:29pm
It’s a sweet movie with stunning visuals and the fact it’s pretty much all set in one location makes it an easier physical adoration than many. However, the visuals of the film cover up its flaws. The glaring fact that it basically has no story will be harder to hide on stage. The film felt like a thrown together origin story to an already existing movie. I felt like I was waiting the entire runtime for the lead girl to go off on an adventure and save the family magic issue…it never happens. It was the first act of a three act narrative, stretched into one movie.
children are going nuts for the music but I can’t see them sitting through two hours of this on stage, with new music and a cast of entirely human characters and no subplot or secondary stories.
Posted: 2/15/22 at 10:16am
I don't know, I feel like unlike Frozen, which basically has a few main characters all of whom are separate from each other, so the musical had to do a lot of padding, Encanto's cast is all right there in the town, and many of them had at least one good song each, I could easily see them all getting a second song, making a big musical production number out of the reveal at the dining room table, going further into the grandmother story, etc. There's plenty of moments ripe to expand.
Lest not forget, Lin's first big show, In The Heights, really didn't have a central conflict either. But it pulled off being a "fairy tale" of their neighborhood, so I can easily see something similar happening again should they try to bring Encanto to the stage.
