Mean Girls: The Musical?- Page 2

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:06am

lakezurich- What?! No Herbie: Fully Loaded?

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:16pm

Boq, that's my problem with "Devil Wears Prada." It just seems like Miranda Priestly would never sing about anything...nothing gets to her enough.

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:03pm

How 'bout Requiem For a Dream with Christine Ebersole and Cheyenne?

[JulesReverie]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:25pm

Though I like the idea, I'd rather Heathers be made into a musical.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:40pm

I'd rather have Heathers myself.

[rich.hanson59]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:27pm

I think that Mean Girls would make a very good show. I'd like to see:
Cady: Anneliese Van Der Pol
Regina: Kerry Butler
Gretchen: Leslie Kritzer
Dumb plastic(name?): Diana DeGarma
Regina's mom; Cheno

I'd see it

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:32pm

Dumb plastic = Karen

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:32pm

Wow, rich, you really nailed the cast there. *and I'm not being sarcastic*.

[Boq101]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:13am

Miranda Priestly's tempo for a song would only allow her to sing like one verse, any more and the show would run too long.

[dramarama2]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:41am

What about when she's in Paris talking about her divorce? That could be an emotional song...

[Boq101]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:55am

If she didn't sing at all until then? I mean it could be a very stylized world, with the heirarchys and so on.

[rich.hanson59]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:58am

You could probably fit in a song when shes explaining to Andy about her blue sweater

[Craig]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 11:56am

I would imagine that Miranda's songs (if this is ever done) wouldn't be conventional, but almost militant marches type of songs. Much like most of Blood in the Water from Legally Blonde. Barely sung but fast talking with a beat.

[Parks]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:57pm

I would love to see a musical of Mean Girls.


well... I'd actually be terrified. There's no way it could be as good as the movie. The movie is so...perfect. I actually watched a little bit of it last night :). SUCH an amazing movie.

[TheFriarsDruggist]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 8:30pm

OMG I hope this happens! I love the movie...I just hope they don't mess it up.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 8:45pm

"I would imagine that Miranda's songs (if this is ever done) wouldn't be conventional, but almost militant marches type of songs. Much like most of Blood in the Water from Legally Blonde. Barely sung but fast talking with a beat."

Exactly. Like "I Don't Get It," from Catch Me If You Can

[Boq101]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:18pm

I find it so cool when Craig puts in his opinion...

I like that idea though.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:19pm

"I find it so cool when Craig puts in his opinion... "


Chill, he's not MargoChanning.

[YoYo12345]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:13pm

..sure hope Miss Cheno isn't checking up on this thread.

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:39pm

If it happens, I would hope that Tina Fey would be involved in adapting it.

The heart and humor was completely sucked out of "The Wedding Singer" and I would hope that the same wouldn't happen to "Mean Girls," as the humor used in it is the only defining difference from it and other such teen movies (ie "The Sleepover").

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:45pm

Yeah, I agree that Tina would definitely have to be involved with that. She is brilliant.

[Footlooser]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:05pm

I actually love the idea and would kill to hear the song "I don't hate you because you're fat, you're fat because I hate you!"

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:12pm

See thats what I don't want to see.

There are clearly two different ways you can go with a film>musical adaptation.

Legally Blonde/The Wedding Singer or Grey Gardens.

Obviously content governs a certain amount of this adaptation, but at the same time I think that Legally Blonde succeeded where TWS didn't because it was able to bring in charm (quite possibly not the same as that of the film) that created a fast fanbase.

I think Grey Gardens is a supremely funny and heart-wrenching film, and the songs of the musical capatilize on both the silly happenings of the movie (Jerry likes my corn or Edie's monologue about costumes for the day) as well as the overriding emotion a character is experiencing ("Another Winter" and "Will You?") which created a show and score that couldn't be tossed away as trying to replace the dialogue rather than trying to accent it.


Updated On: 8/9/07 at 04:12 PM

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:17pm

The other thing that made Grey Gardens work as a musical is that they didn't tie themselves down to the film order. They added an arc for Little Edie (actually GETTING to the gate) and played with the dialogue. It sounds like the problem with "Young Frankenstein" already is that they're trying to be too faithful to the movie instead of adapting and toying with it.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:34pm

would love to see this! I think it really has potential as a musical, alot of it seems very adaptable. But I agree that Tina Fay would have to be involved.
Oooo, now I really want this to happen.