Pushing Daisies on stage!

I read in Entertainment Weekly that Bryan Fuller has had "conversations very recently with Barry Sonnenfield about financing a film, and with [series star] Kristen Chenoweth and Warner Brothers about developing a stage musical."

I think PD would be fun as a musical.

Updated On: 2/15/14 at 06:33 AM

Do ALL TV shows have to be musicals now?

^ LOL HEADBAND!!!

Why do you get to be snarky but not Headband? Ridiculous.

(But you are both right.)

I never feel TVshows work as a finite product (stage show, movie). A series is meant to be ongoing, with no definite story....just ideas, premises, etc. A musical (or whatever) needs to have a distinct arc with an ending.

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Does EVERY cultural product have to be a musical now? Is it illegal for a truly original musical to open on Broadway?

LH- Many musicals are based on some source material, but just to play along with your challenge, here's 10 from the last five or six years:

Passing Strange
The Story of My Life
Glory Days
[title of show]
13
Next to Normal
Curtains
The Book of Mormon
The People In the Picture
First Date

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The Story of My Life has a character obsessed with It's a Wonderful Life, and they share a few similar themes, but the musical is not an adaptation of any source material, which is what I consider the main criterion of an "original" musical to be.

The title of Passing Strange comes from Othello, but the musical itself has nothing to do with it, ha. (Do you think it does?)

Even Chaplin, Scandalous and The Scottsboro Boys I would consider original musicals, despite their bio-nature, unless they were specifically adapted from one (auto)biographical source.

If we are talking about the repackaging of a cultural product for the Broadway stage then The Story of My Life and Passing Strange are certainly not that.

For the record, I don't think a musical being "original" makes it any better or purer than a musical adapted from source material.

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LOVE this idea! Even thought of it while watching the show!

My problem is that Chenoweth's character on the TV show was a supporting role. I fear it she stars in the musical, will turn into "The Olive Show".

I would love this to happen. I think it could work really well as a small-scale, maybe Off-Broadway type of show, although I don't know if the creative team would want to go that way. I also think that the crime-solving aspect might have to be changed since disconnected crimes might not work if the story is compacted into a single entity rather than its original ongoing episodic format.

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Aw, fer cute, this would make a fantastic show.

It really isn't meant for the stage. There were several sight gags that need closeups and can't be recreated onstage.

Plus there is absolutely nobody that could be as good as the sisters as Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene were.

They really need to do a separate show about the sisters because they made the show interesting.

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The show was set in what some people call "Batman time," a term which denotes a sliding timeline in which a certain stretch of years are existing concurrently on top of each other.