Life of Brooklyn Creator Mark Schoenfeld to Be Explored in New Musical

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:22am

YES! It's finally out! This is going to be AMAZING!!!
Opening in Spring 2006!

Mark Schoenfeld, the co-creator of the recent Broadway musical Brooklyn, will be featured in a new Off-Broadway musical entitled How I Got to Broadway: The Untold Story of the Battles, Wins & Losses On Stage & Off of Mark Schoenfeld.

The musical will also feature a few songs cut from Brooklyn ("Natalie," "To Those That Crossed the Brooklyn Bridge" and "Miracle on 34th Street").

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94292.html

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:22 AM

[juice23]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:25am

im sorry, but this seems kind of silly to me.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:29am

^ Agreed.

This really sounds odd.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:29am

Why Silly?
I think the idea of a man talking about the "secrets" of Broadway off-broadway can be great! And with cut songs from Brooklyn- This is going to be AMAZING! hahaha :)

Do you think it's "silly" just because you don't like Brooklyn?

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:29 AM

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:30am

MORE BKLYN?

AH....

And what has he done that was so spectacular?

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:32am

^ THANK YOU! Exactly how I feel.
He helped create a musical that bombed - so he's going to have a musical about his life? Something is wrong. Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:32 AM

[Katecab99]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:32am

wow, interesting...i know he lived on my uncle's couch for a while - maybe that will be in there!

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:33am

Thenardier, he did Brooklyn, which touched so many people.
That's "what's spectacular".
And his lifetime story is amazing.

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:33 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:34am

^ What exactly is spectacular about that?

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:35am

And again, WHAT DID HE DO THAT WAS SO DAMN GREAT?

Writing Brooklyn should NOT be a career highlight.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:36am

"WHAT DID HE DO THAT WAS SO DAMN GREAT?"

Well you'll have to see the show and find out yourself.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:38am

No thanks.

BKLYN was enough of him for one lifetime.

And I don't expect living two lifetimes.

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:38am

ok, i'm not a BKLYN fan. didn't like it at all. But i'll admit, i'm a little tempted to check this out just for the hell of it. If its Off-Bdway, it'll be cheaper, and hopefully they'll be a discount somewhere. But my expectations are low if this is an encore to BKLYN.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:40am

I didnt say you must see the show Thenardier.
So you didn't like Brooklyn - OK. Some other people did.

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:40 AM

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:41am

You DID say "You will HAVE to...."

Let me know when they make KANDER AND EBB THE MUSICAL.
<---Starring the QUEEN.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:42am

Yes, if you want to find out what's "SO DAMN GREAT" about his life, you'll have to see the show. That's right.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:44am

I think BKLYN is already enough of a biography of Mark than to need another show about it.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:45am

I much rather see a musical based on the life of real legendary composers. Such as the late Cy Coleman or Bernstein. Those would be a bit more interesting than the life of Schoenfeld.

[juice23]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:46am

lol this is so unintentionally funny. I still dont see the point of this new show... and how many Bway secrets can this man have... "Dont do a show where everythings made of garbadge and a lot of the songs sound the same?".

[juice23]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:47am

and while we are making shows about composers of flops... why not Wildhorn??? now that would be great... hes written so many! (even though i love them all lol).

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:51am

did anyone else get the urge to do violence to the producers when they read the headline? I mean, i don't hate brooklyn (really, i don't) soI'm being unbiased when i say "why is this man's life worthy of a musical, and beynd that, me paying to see it?" Seriously, secrets of broadway? If i want to know secrets of broadway I'll ask elaine stritch or stephen sondheim or hell, the guy who played Radames father in the original cast of AIDA, not mark schoenfeld, isn't brooklyn his sole contribution to Broadway?



EDIT Zoser, it was Zoser right? that was radames' father right?

Updated On: 8/1/05 at 12:51 AM

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:56am

Oh. My. God. I thought In My Life was a bad idea?

The musical will feature cameo appearances by Brooklyn co-creator Barri McPherson throughout its run? Huh? She's just gonna show up from time to time? Will she have an understudy? Suzanne Summers, perhaps?

"What the F*** Does a Producer Do?," "Raising Money," "We Wuz Robbed," "Thank God for Tommy Tune," "Reviewing the Critics" and "Who the Hell is This Guy Tony, Anyway?" Now there are some song titles just dying for a Forbidden Off-Broadway Parody.

[JohnnyJune]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:57am

give the poor man a break. His doing another show doesn't affect your life. If you didn't like brooklyn don't go. But don't judge someone when it seems to me that they have done more in their life than you have done in yours. So you didn't like brooklyn, some people did. If you don't like his musical style then don't see the show otherwise get over and go on with you life. Being down on someone because you didn't like a show they created is childish and closeminded. Everyone is entitled to their opinion without having to resort to being rude and mean.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 12:59am

^ Diplomacy is such a cop out

[JohnnyJune]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 1:05am

not as much as trying to point out that is