"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team- Page 2
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#25
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.
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#26
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.
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#27
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/17
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#28
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
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#29
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#30
Posted: 5/8/26 at 9:27am
Just thought of another.
I thought the ALMOST FAMOUS musical was better than its reputation, but British play director Jeremy Herrin was such a weird choice for it and he probably contributed to some of the other problems of that show. Needed a director like Tommy Kail, Alex Timbers, Michael Mayer, or Michael Grief.
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#31
Posted: 5/8/26 at 9:29am
Doubtfire.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#32
Posted: 5/8/26 at 9:36am
tacotheatrelover said: "Doubtfire.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk."
Alan Menken, David Zippel, and Harvey Fierstein were adapting it at one point before the Kirkpatricks, and that would have undoubtably been better.
"Fix" a musical by giving it a new team#33
Posted: 5/8/26 at 3:05pm
My very real, not-so-hypothetical one is that I've spent the last ten years trying to decipher the rights to Pokemon the Musical: Gotta Catch 'Em Live. With a new libretto and a few more songs from the franchise's back catalogue, I genuinely believe it would print money in licensing like SpongeBob does, as a "make your own magic theatrical spectacle" type show with multigenerational appeal.
Unfortunately, the original script writer (a soap opera writer with no connection to Nintendo or the Pokemon franchise) passed away a few years ago, the composer is a music exec who is intentionally unreachable, and the rights to any multimedia associated with the franchise's first decade in America got stuck in a VERY messy legal divorce between the three rights-holding companies at the time.
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