Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
#1Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:23pm
From the Entertainment Weekly homepage:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20016233,00.html
Nothing of substance yet, but still potentially interesting news on a possible Goonies Bway adaptation!?
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#2re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:38pmGod, I hope not...
#2re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:41pm
I'd go to see it. I think it's a hell of a better pick than Xanadu.
....Xanadu, wtf.
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#3re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:42pm
this was talked about in like 2001...finally seeing it has resurfaced again!
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#4re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:42pm
"I think it's a hell of a better pick than Xanadu."
True.
#5re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 12:15am
I think someone did a verison a couple years ago at the new musical festival..
I love Goonies.. I would love to see this run.. Off Broadway would be a better place for it.. Perhaps New World Stages.. Sooo good. DO IT
#6re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 9:50am
Let's not stop at GOONIES. I say we turn all the great 80's kids flicks into musicals. After this one, how about RAD and SPACE CAMP???
Edit - The musical you guys are thinking of was called "Save the Goondocks" and was part of NYMF (I believe) in 2004.
Updated On: 3/29/07 at 09:50 AM
#7re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 10:04am
haha thats my childhood film
yeah bring it on
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#8re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 10:24am
I can't wait until we get "Heavyweights: THE MUSICAL!"
lol.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 10:30amThis is Guettel's next project. And Martha Plimpton has signed on to reprise her role. I'm excited!
#10re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 10:42amthey could do MEATBALLS or PORKY'S too.
#11re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:24amGoonies wouldn't work, but I think that The Breakfast club, the musical could hold potential.
#12re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:29amThis show would have to be HUGE -- think of the settings involved: the underground caves, the booby traps, One-Eyed Willie's pirate ship, etc.
LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#13re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:32am
OurTime, I was thinking the same thing. It would have to be quite a spectacle for it to work. The concept is intriguing, though. I loved this movie as a teenager!
By the way, OurTime, is your screen name a reference to the Sondheim song, or the line from 'The Goonies' where Sean Astin says, "It's OUR TIME...down here!"? 
#14re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:35am
I'll never forget that scene, at the wishing well.
*goes to put the movie on his MUST HAVE list*
#15re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:37amBring on "Space Camp: The Musical!"
#16re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 11:42am
"I think it's a hell of a better pick than Xanadu."
I think it's not.
LoringsGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
#17re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 12:03pmI'm envisioning some big ballad during the wishing well scene (do you think Sondheim would let them use "Our Time"??) and then a big "Goonies 'R' Good Enuf" megamix at the end.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#18re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 12:10pm
Mouth: "and its myyyyyy dreeeeeeaaaaam, Its my wiiiiiiiiiiiisssssh, and I'm taking theeeeeeeeeeem baaaaaaaaack. I'm TAKING THEM ALL BAAAAACK!"
The truffle shuffle becomes a soft shoe.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#19re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 12:15pmI have a hard time watching kids in supporting roles, the thought of this is just not something I would have any interest in.
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#21re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 12:46pmWhy not? This could be fantastic!
#22re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 1:10pmLoringsGuy, the answer is BOTH! When my friends and I graduated from high school a decade or so ago, we were really into Merrily We Roll Along. "Our Time" was like our theme song (I know, how full of ourselves...). Around that time we watched The Goonies again, and the synchronicity (happy coincidence) was just too good to be true. We quoted that line ALL the time. My screen name was born a few years later (the 99 being 1999; the 2 because I was an idiot and signed up for BWW twice). So this thread is sort of a bizarre coincidence that links those things back together in the most unlikely way. Thanks for asking!
sweeedboy
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/03
#23re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 1:17pm
"Space Camp The Musical" There are no words...that would be GENIUS...
there could be a duet between max and the robot Jinx, complete with a little tap break...
how would one accomplish the pivitol scene of Andy getting hurt while trying to connect the oxygen tank and then floating outside the space shuttle?
#24re: Possible Goonies Bway adaptation?
Posted: 3/29/07 at 1:33pmI'm talking.. GOONIES... Evil Dead style.. total parody.. with adults as the kids... with lines from the movies.. I can see it now.. sooooo good.. DO IT DO IT.. maybe I'll write it.
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