Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#1
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:02pm
The creators of Broadway's Memphis, the high-energy musical about a white radio DJ who falls in love with a black singer in the 1950s, are in talks to develop the property as a feature film.
Lyricist and book writer Joe DiPietro told Playbill.com, "We actually have three very serious film offers right now. ...Real serious offers from big Oscar winners. It makes us all very happy."
Playbill Article
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#2
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:04pmBeyonce as Felicia. I'm calling it now. Ice Cube as Bobby. Jamie Foxx as Delray. Meryl Streep as Mama. Gator.... Corbin Bleu?
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#2
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:06pmJustin Bieber as Huey. He can sang.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#3
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:06pmSo they're making mostly every show on Broadway into a movie musical except Wicked and Avenue Q? UGH! (the Avenue Q part)
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#4
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:07pmWicked i in the works(right?) so just Avenue Q.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#5
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:12pm
I assume it will be a Lifetime Movie of the Week, right? Possibly starring Kim Fields (of Facts of Life fame)?
I mean, that's about the level of quality of the predictable, cliche-ridden book that they'll be adapting.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#6
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:17pmOooh a lifetime movie starring Meredith Baxter in blackface!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#7
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:47pm
Not bad for a show people on this board trashed before it opened
Truth be told, I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than Wicked.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#8
Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:50pm
Adamgreer, if I had a nickel for each time you've knocked 'Memphis' at BWW, I could be a rich man. 
You never seem to miss an opportunity. At one time, it was a little annoying, but now it's just kinda funny and laughable.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#9
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:02pmI think it is dumb to not like something because it's cliche. Almost everything has been done and it is truly hard to make something that is truly completely original or free of cliche.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#10
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:03pmI don't like it not because it was cliched, but because it sucked so bad.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#12
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:14pm
I think it is dumb to not like something because it's cliche. Almost everything has been done and it is truly hard to make something that is truly completely original or free of cliche.
That's hilarious.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#13
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:30pm
Lifetime Movie of the Week? They're making a N2N film?!?!
Updated On: 4/27/10 at 11:30 PM
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#14
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:39pm
Adam, glad I could make you laugh? Let me rephrase. It takes a lot to make something that wouldn't be compared to something making some people call it unoriginal. Of course you can make something that is based off something and execute it with skill and make it a masterpiece (Shakespeare is a good example). A lot of people I see on this board place so much stress on things not being original, while it might take more skill to execute a completely original idea well, a show can be excellent and based from other sources. I muddled the line of cliche and originality in my last post, they are obviously very if different things. Memphis is a good example of a show that try to be original but wasn't execute as well as it could be. I got off track there, but looking at it again my first comment is a tad ludicrous. Ok, done.
Updated On: 4/27/10 at 11:39 PM
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#15
Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:47pm
Lifetime Movie of the Week? They're making an N2N film?!?!
Awh SNAP!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#16
Posted: 4/28/10 at 12:38am
That an illiterate (the worst lyrics I've ever heard from a Broadway stage) and musically bankrupt piece of junk like MEMPHIS is being considered for a movie speaks volumes about the current state of Hollywood, Broadway and the entertainment industry in general.
Updated On: 4/28/10 at 12:38 AM
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#17
Posted: 4/28/10 at 1:30am
People LIKE it...
I think of what i have seen so far....its the most talent on
one stage,,,
I really need to see American Idiot and Million Dollar Quartet..
I saw MEMPHIS with a friend who said he liked it because it did not
have the "Broadway" greasy crowd pleasing crap that gets rolled up onto stage......
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#19
Posted: 4/28/10 at 4:50am
I saw MEMPHIS with a friend who said he liked it because it did not
have the "Broadway" greasy crowd pleasing crap that gets rolled up onto stage......
Except ya know, it stole a lot from Hairspray and Dreamgirls.
I really enjoy the show for what it's worth: Entertaining and a pretty catchy score.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#20
Posted: 4/28/10 at 11:34pm
I get such a kick out of those, who act so freaky, when this musical comes up...
ITs no worse or better than "In the Heights"
They are even...
Talk about SAPPY story ITH....like that really is Washington Heights..Cartoon Characters....
Also come on people...Who really on here was alive in 1959-63?
I was ....race was a HUGE topic.....you have no idea.
I feel like 80% of the "theater enthusiasts" on here are not even in New York State,,,,or over 17 yo
CLUELESS
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#21
Posted: 4/28/10 at 11:46pmTo critic Memphis one must be: 17+, In New York, around in 1959-63. Ok no. I could use your argument with ITH(not that I am even a fan.) Do you live in Washington Heights, now? How do you know what people are like there? Honestly I enjoyed Memphis but it has a lot of issues and to deny that is clueless. People here are judging it on historically accuracy, but on execution. The attitude that someone has to be older and live in New York to be well informed and have valid opinions is one I do not agree with.
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#22
Posted: 4/28/10 at 11:58pmI meet the over 17 criteria, but not the New York state criteria. Woe is me!
Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical#23
Posted: 4/29/10 at 12:01amAgain, MEMPHIS10, I told in that other thread you hurting more than helping.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
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