Is there any new talk about the future of BEETLEJUICE?

With The Music Man officially up on the boards at the Winter Garden, has there been any new speculation of Beetlejuice taking a new theatre?

I think Beetlejuice would be ideal for a capture and streamed on Netflix.

Biggest licensing roll out since Shrek. Beyond that? I suspect even the tour will be canned.

I'm going off of memory so this might not be 100% accurate, but I recall a few weeks ago, David Korins posted a picture of what looked like sketches of the Maitland house telling Beetlejuice fans that something exciting was coming on his instagram story. Not sure if he followed up about it yet.

Either a tour or production abroad is probably in the making, but with the current world situation I can't imagine it coming to fruition anytime soon, if at all.

hearthemsing22 said: "JUST SAYING...until they bring something up about something else happening, why torture yourself by dwelling on what may or may not happen with the show? I have NEVER seen people be so obnoxious about a show closing."

Hmm....I have NEVER seen someone be so obnoxious about people being upset and sad that a show was closing...

Jordan Levinson said: "It will be exorcised outside of licensing, like it deserves to be. Ya know, the whole "being dead" thing.

This will become anotherAddams Family- reviled by the NY critics, but a hit in schools all those years later."

So they will also rewrite half the show like Addams Family?

There will absolutely be revisions to cover theatres not having as much set and prop trickery as the Broadway cast did, and probably a different death for Adam and Barbara since trapdoors are a rarity.

Only their fans have seemed to keep the talk going. The cast and creative teams seemed to treat its closure with finality on social media around the time it happened. Time to move on I say.

I've learned in general to "never say never." I do think that since a pro-shoot was never able to be completed (Alex Brightman confirmed on twitter weeks ago they were scheduled to do it in April but due to COVID it never took place) that at some point Warner Brothers will do what Nickelodeon did with Spongebob and have the original cast come back for a filmed live performance that would air on a different platform. (A deal with Netflix for it could certainly happen.) With the current situation the future for many shows on Broadway in general is fairly up in the air. I enjoyed the show, and am a fan of it. If nothing else it did get many younger people interested in theatre and as others said will do well with licensing and a potential West End transfer.

I am waiting for this to appear on netflix :)

TNick926 said: "hearthemsing22 said: "JUST SAYING...until they bring something up about something else happening, why torture yourself by dwelling on what may or may not happen with the show? I have NEVER seen people be so obnoxious about a show closing."

Hmm....I have NEVER seen someone be so obnoxious about people being upset and sad that a show was closing..."

100%

I can't recall...has there ever been a show that got this much weird attention. I did not see BJ (hated the movie, so I figured there was no way),but I can't ever remember a flop getting the type of almost desperate attention that this has gotten. I have to ask why is this? A lot of shows that many people loved flopped and did not get this much attention. To those who say that it had clearly turned itself around and was going to turn into a big hit if allowed to percolate longer, I say that this show would have continued to benefit from holiday periods, etc., but there was no indication that it was ever going to make back its investment.

So, why the constant returning to the topic?

@Jarethan

you're not imagining it, and actually there's a fairly clear-cut reason for it, and why it seems different from other cult-favorites that closed early.

It's because of the highly unusual circumstances surrounding its closing:

Beetlejuice was doing well at the box office, and had an avid fan base. It had a nearly-miraculous turnaround after it performed on the Tonys, and was at the height of its popularity - when it had the rug abruptly and unexpectedly pulled out from under them. The negotiations with the Shuberts and Scott Rudin went horribly against their favor, and the Shuberts made the highly unusual decision to retro-actively invoke their stop clause from Beetlejuice's early weeks of under-performing at the box office. And all of this happened because Music Man was such a sure-fire bet to rake in a ton of money for the Shuberts - it's rare that such a sure-fire hit comes along, and even rarer that they demand a specific theatre, and even rarer still that the current occupant of that theatre is still doing very well financially, and yet again, even MORE rare that the current occupant had previously been doing poorly enough to allow the landlord to invoke a stop clause.

And when all of this combined with the show's avid fan-base, I think it's creates a sense of shock, frustration, and also potential hope: most of the time when a cult-hit closes, it's because they were flopping financially, so once it's closed, it's closed, and even the most passionate fans can understand that. But Beetlejuice was doing well enough that they could have POTENTIALLY moved to another theatre and continued playing. It was always a long-shot, but the fact that it was even a possibility is what has inspired the conversation to continue on and on.

@hearthemsing22

I’m not sure if your post was all meant to be directed at me, or if you’re just making general statements about your opinions on the fandom. But in case you meant to direct this at me, let me just clarify:

I have no real horse in this race. I enjoyed Beetlejuice, and I think it’s a damn shame what happened to the production. But I do not consider myself a part of the “fandom,” and I agree with just about everything you said in your post. I don’t condone any nastiness that’s taken place. And I agree that any animosity toward Music Man is misplaced. I would even go so far as to say that much of the animosity toward Scott Rudin is misplaced (on this issue, at least). Ultimately it was the Shuberts that threw Beetlejuice under the bus.

The point of my last post was simply to explain how the unusual circumstances of the show’s closing might have impacted the quality and duration of the conversation around the show. I just think it’s a fascinating case, but I wasn’t trying to excuse or condone any bad behavior.