How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas- Page 3
How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#50re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/28/09 at 6:40pm
"Instead, it seems that producers go to a Blockbuster, pick a random aisle and say "Oh, I remember loving this movie! If turned into a musical, it will still be a Broadway hit - even decades later, of course!"
This is dumb."
Basically what I said ... The only way it works is if you pick an entirely classic movie with a great plot to it: Something like SUNSET BLVD. or if you call Grey Gardens based off the documentary...
Legally Blonde was/still is immensely popular film, where-as 9to5, you're lucky if people remember the Dolly Parton song of the same name unfortunately.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#51re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/28/09 at 6:48pmIn any case, NOSTALGIA alone will not make your Broadway show a hit!
#52re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/28/09 at 6:51pmPaula Dean as Roz. HA! sorry.
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#53re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 1:31amPhilly03 - uuuum lots of people know the song and the movie... It was nominated for an Oscar and hit #1 on not only the Country charts but also the Hot 100. It was the 2nd highest grossing film of 1980... People know it, lots of people...
TheatreDork2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/21/09
#54re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 1:33amMaybe if they started offering happy endings.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#55re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 1:49am
It was the 2nd highest grossing film of 1980
Hello?! That was almost 30 years ago! It's Broadway, not Musical Theatre CPR!
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#56re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 2:17amHello people over the age of 30 see musical theatre
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#57re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 8:59amI must admit I loved this show. The cast is outstanding. They should do talkbacks with Dolly after the show. That would boost ticket sales and she is such a nice lady. I would pay to see it again if Dolly did a talkback hosted by her with the cast.
#58re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 9:16amHere is what the need to do...Call ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX etc and start whoring themselves out there again. Push their way onto every daytime morning show and do whatever it takes to get on EVERY single late night show.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#59re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:21am
I REALLY want someone to explain to me the producer's logic behind putting on musicals out of all these old movies.
As musical material goes, I thought both 9 to 5 and First Wives had great potential. The execution for both has just been dreadful.
#60re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:02pm
The producers can "save" it by taping it for MTV and creating an America's-Next-Top-Model-like reality show.
We can "save" it by seeing the show and buying all the crap they're selling.
#61re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:04pm
Or, they could just go back to the drawing board and totally
re-conceive the show with a good score and book.
Then Dolly should star in it.
#62re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:26pmHow about the Country Music Channel does a reality show called The Search for the Next Backwoods Barbie! But I would hate for them to get rid of Megan Hilty.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#63re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:41pm
Why not cast former AI contestants?
Carrie Underwood for Doralee or Kat McPhee for Judy.
And get a TV commercial! I haven't seen a single ad for this show on TV.
#64re: How to Save 9 TO 5: Your Ideas
Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:49pm
The CMT idea is actually pretty good.
Maybe for the tour.
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