Memphis Expected to Be Movie Musical

[sundayclothes2]

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

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:04pm

Beyonce as Felicia. I'm calling it now. Ice Cube as Bobby. Jamie Foxx as Delray. Meryl Streep as Mama. Gator.... Corbin Bleu?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:06pm

Justin Bieber as Huey. He can sang.

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:06pm

So they're making mostly every show on Broadway into a movie musical except Wicked and Avenue Q? UGH! (the Avenue Q part)

[BwayTday]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:07pm

Wicked i in the works(right?) so just Avenue Q.

[adamgreer]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 10:17pm

Oooh a lifetime movie starring Meredith Baxter in blackface!

[Mr Roxy]

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.

[Wayman_Wong]

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.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:02pm

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.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:03pm

I don't like it not because it was cliched, but because it sucked so bad.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:07pm

Well that's just fine then.

[adamgreer]

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.

[TalkinLoud]

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

[BwayTday]

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

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/27/10 at 11:47pm

Lifetime Movie of the Week? They're making an N2N film?!?!

Awh SNAP!

[TheEnchantedHunter]

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

[MEMPHIS10]

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......

[Brick]

Posted: 4/28/10 at 2:00am

Yawn.

[ClumsyDude15]

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.

[MEMPHIS10]

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

[BwayTday]

Posted: 4/28/10 at 11:46pm

To 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.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/28/10 at 11:58pm

I meet the over 17 criteria, but not the New York state criteria. Woe is me!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/29/10 at 12:01am

Again, MEMPHIS10, I told in that other thread you hurting more than helping.

[JP2]

Posted: 4/29/10 at 1:24am

Beyonce and Justin Timberlake.