Premiere of Cole Porter's The Pirate

Seeing as how the big name transfers (Singing In The Rain, Gigi, Meet Me In St Louis) all flopped, maybe this lesser known title will make it

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MoCoCo

Mack the Black
It has a great score, makin it work is the problem.
I think it has been tried before.

Gene Kelly was a ham in ALL of his movies.

Yeah...aside from Garland, Kelly and the N-Bros, the film is pretty heavy going. Imagine THE PIRATE without them.

Though I'd love to hear Marc Kudisch sing "Nina" (can't to the curly thing on my PC these day for some reason...bum keyboard).

I actually think SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT would be a smoother Porter film to transfer to the stage.

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With all due respect to the Lunts, it still sounds like a lumbering play. We'll see.

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I saw it opening night and it was Terrible! The musicians were great but the orchestra was too thin. The new songs were like square pegs made to fit in round holes. It didn't work! Some of the actors were good but some were really not too good. The story was reworked and was terrible. It was trite and contrived. It was obvious and some really didn't make sense. The costumes were cheap and bad. The sets were good. I won't even get into the gay over and undertones.

All in all, remember the movie fondly and don't waste a dime on the show.

I've always loved this film and I have always thought that it would transfer well to stage in the form of an outdoor musical however, not one of Porter's best scores and without Kelly, Garland and the Nicholas Brothers cameo it just isn't that great.

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