Magic Mike on Broadway

Please, no.

I'd be all over a Magic Mike XXL musical, but not one based on the first movie.

When are they going to revive The Full Monty? It's time.

It's being directed by Tommy Kail i hear.

At least The Full Monty had some tongue in cheek humor. And guys who were not necessarily intended to be model types.

This show will be a bunch of pretty boys with pretty bodies who know they are pretty and know they have great bodies. If I want to see that I'll go to Vegas.

So I agree. Please, no. (Unfortunately it's apparently too late though).

Pretending it has some interesting story behind it? Sorry….no one cares about the story.

If it starred Channing Tatum and the original cast I might be tempted, otherwise .......

The movies pulled a bait and switch. You came for the stripping but the film made you sit through a lot of story. The second film they rarely took their pants off. Audiences had to settle for a lot of shirtless dry humping. Matt Bomer showed more skin in American Horror Story than he did in that second film. Broadway Bares it ain't.

And about those stories... Part one was about how depressing it is to be a stripper. Mike wants to make furniture and date a sourpuss. Alex likes stripping but becomes a junkie. Part two revolved around the idea that women's fantasies don't involve sex. The leading lady would rather eat red velvet cake with Mike and talk about her problems. There's potential for satire there but audiences and critics didn't want that so they ignored it.

DramaTeach said: "Looks like there was a reading today that Channing Tatum attended. Broadway talent included Ashley Park, Corey Cott, Derek Klena, and Javier Munoz. Good cast."

None of those guys strike me as intriguing, if you get what I mean. They have nice faces, though.

They're all..skinny...so yeah I'd pass. I think this would be a gigantic bore.

MrsSallyAdams said: "The movies pulled a bait and switch. You came for the stripping but the film made you sit through a lot of story. The second film they rarely took their pants off. Audiences had to settle for a lot of shirtless dry humping. Matt Bomer showed more skin inAmerican Horror Storythan he did in that second film.Broadway Baresit ain't.

And about those stories... Part one was about how depressing it is to be a stripper. Mike wants to make furniture and date a sourpuss. Alex likes stripping but becomes a junkie. Part two revolved around the ideathat women's fantasies don't involve sex. The leading lady would rather eat red velvet cake with Mike and talk about her problems. There's potential for satire there but audiences and critics didn't want that so they ignored it."

Yes to all of this! My boyfriend and I went to the movie to have fun and instead we were treated to a couple of provocative scenes at the top and then dragged through basic mindless bull**** for another 90 minutes. We thought this would be an excellent “girls night out” movie, but it wasn’t.

The appeal of The Full Monty - beyond what I remember being a good score and good performances - was the promise of full frontal nudity at the end. Let’s face it, that’s a big reason why the show is fun. If Magic Mike had something similar, I could see it putting butts in seats. I mean, Afterglow is still packing the gays into that tiny theater in Midtown so nudity in the theater is still a draw in some regards.

The subversive thing about the movies (at least the first one- I didn't see the second and doubt I will) is that it played to two different audiences in two different ways. Soderbergh is a modern "man's man" director associated with a sense of smart, progressive machismo; he made an eye-candy film for women but defined it on his own terms as a film for straight men, taking the subtextual sexual-power fantasies of action movies and superhero epics and making them textual. Women (and gay men I assume) got the message that "you deserve hedonism too- society has long objectified you, and it's time you got to try having the shoe on the other foot." Straight men got a different message: "You are the prince as much as women are the princess. There's nothing 'girly' about dancing, grooming, perfecting your appearance and honestly caring about giving women what they want."

But in a case of medium is message, I suspect that (please don't take this as homophobic) putting the show on Broadway will rob the story of its one truly transgressive quality: that it's a "women's movie" made specifically to bring in, and enlighten/entertain, straight men. It'll just be an eye-candy piece for women and gays, and there's already "Afterglow" (with my business manager from NYMF) and "Naked Boys Singing." And surely there's a market for that, and it will probably sell, but it kind of seems like missing the point; like thirteen-year-old me renting "Sex and the City" based on the titillating title and watching on mute hoping to see boobs, it's not at all reaching the audience it was built for.

DramaTeach said: "Looks like there was a reading today that Channing Tatum attended. Broadway talent included Ashley Park, Corey Cott, Derek Klena, and Javier Munoz. Good cast."

Corey Cott and Derek Klena are cute guys, but unless they're going to put them through some really intensive workout routines before opening, I don't think they'll have the requisite...beef.

I don't know - maybe if they hire Douglas Carter Beane to give it the Xanadu treatment it could be a hoot.

Updated On: 1/17/18 at 12:55 AM