Houdyshell to star in MCC's CORALINE

Jayne Houdyshell will play 9-year-old Coraline in David Greenspan and Steven Meritt's musical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's CORALINE.

Greenspan will also star, playing the Other Mother.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/theater/09arts-ANOTHERCORAL_BRF.html?ref=theater

yeah, I love stardust!!
I'm still hoping for some sort of adaptation of Anansi Boys!!!

She's been with the show for a while now. Glad she's staying with it.

I'm trying to remember what they said in the MCC promotional stuff they sent to get subscribers. I almost want to say puppets in places...but I'm not positive on that.

I hope to god it's better than the crap they're showing now. I'm seriously considering not re-subscribing after the bait and switch they pulled this year.

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Since I would imagine they've been working on this probably as long as they were on the movie I'd guess it's based on the book.

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Saw the movie yesterday in 3-D, and was blown away by it- !

Felt like you were part of the movie. The only other movie that I can compare it to as far as the 3-D effect was "Monster House"-

Truly brilliant !

Ummmm.... Jayne Houdyshell(55) is going to play a nine year old?

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A 55 year old making believe that she is nine?

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I'm insanely excited to see how this works out. I absolutely adore Jayne Houdyshell, so I'll see her in anything. And I also happen to adore "Coraline." It works out well.

Well and a man's playing a woman. They're obviously thinking outside the box (interesting both the songwriter and playwright/actor have a history of works about gender identity/sexuality. So does Neil Gaiman--most obviously in his awesome Sandman comics, but not so much in Coraline though it is a bit about finding your place in the world...)

It's based on the book but considering how closely the film was based on the book any thoughts about the film should fit to this--and I could picture puppets for some of the characters for sure.

Pianolin, Gaiman did a good radio playa daptation of Anansi Boys himself. a movie was meant to be in the works but they wanted to cast it with white actors and not black and Gaiman objected (quite rightly). Also Stardust was an expensive film that didn't do that well (much better overseas though), though I expect liek that other comic fantasy flop Princess Bride it will or has already recouped on DVD.

His next project is a film adaptation of Death: the High Cost of Living his awesome spin off graphic novel from his Sandman series about Sandman's sister Death--it should be perfect for movies (various screenwriters have tried to adapt various of the volumes of Sandman for movies--usually turning it into a dumb sounding horror film but thankfully none have been made)

"Pianolin, Gaiman did a good radio playa daptation of Anansi Boys himself. a movie was meant to be in the works but they wanted to cast it with white actors and not black and Gaiman objected (quite rightly)."

ok, I read it last summer, so I forget the names, but I, for some reason, pictured the main characters as White.. but I can see why he wants them black but I would LOVE for it to still happen!

I can't wait. I have tix.

Jayne playing Coraline? Fascinating.

Question: Does anybody know if the rights to the book were sold first to the musical peeps, or to the flicks?

It just seems strange that Hollywood and Off-Broadway would have access to the same property.

"Well the fact they were sons of an African God (and there were mentions of race a few times) you skipped over those parts? "

Lol see I never put two and two together. Since they were from England, I assumed.. which I shouldn't have lol