Posted: 6/30/18 at 10:32pm
I know the articles are saying it's an adaptation of the Disney stage show, and Heidi Blickenstaff is reprising her stage role, but three trailers/clips have come out and not a single one has contained music in it. Either Disney does not want people to know this is a musical, or they have potentially cut a lot of the music from the show.
Posted: 6/30/18 at 11:09pm
It will be a musical, though I imagine with much fewer songs than the stage version. But it's clear that, initially at least, they want to sell it on the title and concept and not that it's a musical.
Posted: 7/1/18 at 10:11am
One of the trailers for the Disney movie FINALLY showed some choreography. But it's been strange to me that it seems like they are avoiding selling this as a musical; especially after the successes of High School Musical and the like. I saw the stage musical twice at Signature and though it was really fun. I hope they haven't ruined what I saw by twisting around this made-for-tv movie.
Posted: 7/1/18 at 10:28am
BroadwayMan5 said: "It already is:https://www.mtishows.com/freaky-friday"
Totally NOT what the OP was asking. DCOM = Disney Channel Original Movies (I had no idea). They are making a Freaky Friday movie for the Disney Channel and the op was simply asking if THAT was the musical version or a non-musical. He thought it was unclear from the trailers.
Posted: 7/1/18 at 3:56pm
I had no idea either, so perhaps it's time for posters to stop using initials for everything - just type it out so everyone knows what is being talked about. JSWTIA!
Posted: 7/24/18 at 7:52am
Posted: 7/24/18 at 9:00am
Glad I celled own and saw what DCOM is as I didn't plan on looking it up. If you are going to abbreviate a word in the subject why not just spell it out in the comments?
Posted: 7/24/18 at 9:57am
maybe I'm only surprised so few people knew it because I'm younger (20) and grew up with them, but DCOM is an accepted acronym, not one randomly-made-up by the OP - pronounced like "D-com" - so it is a fair acronym to use, and familiar to many people. totally valid to not know it, but not something worth criticizing the OP for when a google search is easy. regarding the original post, the trailer is definitely weird in basically leaving out that it's a musical and I don't understand why they wouldn't promote that...hoping they didn't cut too much out
Posted: 7/24/18 at 11:00am
You would think that Disney Channel would want to promote that this is a musical and based on the stage adaption. All the reception from the trailer seems to be "why does this need to be remade" because people just assume its a tired reiteration of the three previous Disney film adaptions.
Plus, the DCOM musicals are usually the more successful ones.
Posted: 7/24/18 at 11:04am
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