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"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
#25"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
Posted: 4/29/26 at 12:29am
"Big", a musical about the tension between the freedoms of youth and the wisdom of age, should perhaps have had a writing team with a median age under fifty.
#26"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
Posted: 4/29/26 at 12:35am
Maybe too familiar to Hadestown, but Anaïs Mitchell could’ve made something really marvellous and probably a bit mythical out of Tuck Everlasting.
#27"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
Posted: 4/29/26 at 1:30am
Charlie and The Chocolate factory, with a snappy new score by Tim Minchin. Set by Derek McLane who can do some DBH/Moulin Rogue type of crazy set work to help remedy what we got in 2017.
Maybe Alex Timbers or Christopher Gatelli direct? Someone who knows all sorts of theatrical lushness and visual indulgence.
And a new book by, I don’t know, someone. Anyone.
Please.
BwayLB
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/17
#28"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
Posted: 4/29/26 at 9:43am
kdogg36 said: "BwayLB said: "Give Xanadu a new book writer"
I couldn't disagree more. The book ofXanaduwas hilarious, told a nice, compact story, and used the songs to great comedic effect. Beane took a notoriously sub-par movie and turned itinto a joyful, laugh-a-minute satire, and he was absolutely the right person for the job."
I thought the movie was better
#29"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
Posted: 4/29/26 at 11:33am
DiscoCrows said: "Charlie and The Chocolate factory, with a snappy new score by Tim Minchin. Set by Derek McLane who can do some DBH/Moulin Rogue type of crazy set work to help remedy what we got in 2017.
Maybe Alex Timbers or Christopher Gatelli direct? Someone who knows all sorts of theatrical lushness and visual indulgence.
And a new book by, I don’t know, someone. Anyone.
Please."
It was weaker than Matilda, but I had the same thought about Malloy when I saw The Witches. The way both him and Minchin are able to mine the genuine fear under Dahl's whimsy in a way that feels effortless and canny, versus the constant flop sweat that plagued Charlie's score. Whether either would be willing to share space with the Newley/Bricusse songs, though...
edit: a Malloy Tales of the Unexpected would slap
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