Laufey - musical theater in her future?

On Wednesday she had Rachel Zegler come out and duet with her. She’s very clearly a musical theater fan, if not an aspiring theater composer herself.

I really love her music and think she’s suited to do it. She clearly has the chops. I wouldn’t be surprised if she did some music for a play or a dance piece.

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "(Here’s hoping it’s not a lame musical adaptation of some chintzy romance movie - sorry, Ingrid Michaelson.)

Curious if anyone else sees the theatricality in her work or thinks similarly?"

I really like Laufey, and I do think she has the skills to pull out a great MT score, but couldn’t agree more with this sentiment. PLEASE don’t give us The Time Traveler’s Wife: The Musical or some other BS.

it is VERY very preliminary--so itll likely take a few years at least. A musical based on a public domain novel. But I was quite excited/intrigued by the prospect

I think she would be a great replacement for Helen J Shen in Maybe Happy Ending and I think she would sell tickets.

She would like to play Claire in HME, and to write a musical someday:

"I really, really want to write a musical... I feel deeply that I need to be in a musical before I write a musical. I don't have the experience of being in a show, I only have the outside viewership experience and my own songwriting experience. I feel that to understand the inner workings of a musical, I need to be inside someone else's art first. So yes, I have my own ideas. But I need to be in a show first before they can become anything more than voice memos."

https://playbill.com/article/laufeys-big-broadway-dreams

lastmidnights said: "I thought she would've been a really great replacement for Connie in Just in Time."

Connie Francis was an Italian American girl who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and learned Yiddish so everybody thought she was Jewish. She was also a big belter. I don't see how Laufey is even remotely appropriate for the role.