Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:12pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Irving-Berlins-HOLIDAY-INN-Heading-to-Broadway-Next-20150811

The clips from The Muny and Goodspeed look fantastic!! I hope this comes in at some point!

This seems like a trend we are getting on Broadway; turning a movie with music by a famous composer into a musical. Top Hat and An American in Paris, and now Holiday Inn

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:17pm

A trend that is not exactly new, yes. But still, this seems exciting. Have always loved the music of Irving Berlin. I wonder if it would just be for a limited engagement over the holiday season or an open run.

Updated On: 8/11/15 at 06:17 PM

Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:25pm

well the show takes place over many holidays so I'm assuming it would be an open ended run. If it ever comes at all. and i think its a new trend.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:43pm

Don't get ahead of yourself Philly

The landscape is littered with shows from movie musicals by famous composers that flopped

Gigi

Singing in The Rain

Meet Me In St Louis

On The Town

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Updated On: 8/11/15 at 06:43 PM

Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:43pm

I'll be 100% honest right now. I bought the movie from Target two years ago (it was $5), put it in, and immediately turned it off and never watched it again as soon as I saw them applying blackface.

Please tell me that the musical does not have any racist undertones in it, because I am not a scrooge and I adore Christmas (and most other holidays) and I really want to love this.

Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:49pm

Don't get ahead of yourself Philly

The landscape is littered with shows from movie musicals by famous composers

Gigi

Singing in The Rain

Meet Me In St Louis

On The Town

On the Town was adapted into a feature film, NOT based on one!

Updated On: 8/11/15 at 06:49 PM

Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:53pm

Maybe I am wrong Jeffrey but OTT was a movie with music from a famous composer even it was adapted from one. It is called splitting hairs.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:57pm

It's not splitting hairs; they're two completely different things.

On the Town was written for the stage, then later adapted as a film, with most of the original score abandoned. The latest production was a revival of the stage show, not an adaptation of the movie.

Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 7:03pm

I agree with Jeffrey. It is not the same thing. OTT is a movie based on a Broadway musical, not a Broadway musical based on a movie. There are a lot more of the former than the latter.

AAIP may be the first hit in the Movie to Broadway route, which also includes State Fair (flop), High Society (flop), and Victor Victoria, which only ran as long as it did because of Julie Andrews, but which I think was a flop.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 7:09pm

the only one i can really think of is Singin in the Rain, but that didn't have a famous composer. 42nd Street was a movie first and had some music right? but then it got more songs and was changed a lot for broadway.

Im not to familiar with these types of movies. Meet me in St Louis was a movie first?

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 7:34pm

"Meet me in St. Louis was a movie first?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 7:58pm

What is so funny. I don't know these movies that well

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:14pm

It's considered one of the seminal movie musicals, and also the third most notable Judy Garland movie.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:22pm

Oh well excuse me I've never seen it

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:24pm

Ok Steve Martin

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:29pm

That one is far over his head, Roxy.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:18pm

Phillypinto, you also realize that most of the Singin' in the Rain songs were by Nacio Herb Brown, who I would call very famous indeed.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:25pm

I'd add State Fair to that list, too.

Updated On: 8/12/15 at 09:25 PM

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:28pm

"Phillypinto, you also realize that most of the Singin' in the Rain songs were by Nacio Herb Brown, who I would call very famous indeed."

With lyrics by Arthur Freed, who pretty much shaped the movie musical as we know it during that MGM golden age.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:29pm

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers too

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:29pm

AEA, whoops, I meant to include him in my original comment. Of course, he is very famous too.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 9:37pm

PromisesPromises-There weren't any racist undertones that I detected when I caught Holiday Inn at Goodspeed last December. Wonderful show, superb choreography. Loved Patti Murin. I would absolutely see this again.

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 10:36pm

"Im not to familiar with these types of movies. Meet me in St Louis was a movie first?"

Meet Me in St. Louis is one of the best musicals of the 1940's. You've never heard of The Trolley Song? Clang clang clang and all that?

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

Updated On: 8/11/15 at 10:36 PM

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Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN Heading to Broadway Next?

Posted: 8/11/15 at 11:23pm

Bla bla I know Broadway and im sure someday I'll familiarize myself with the mgm stuff and watch all the movie musicals from back in the day

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