Richard Simmons "interactive work out musical"?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 11:19am

"I am so excited! I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is an attorney and manages famous artists in music. She ran an idea by me…..she wants to do an interactive Broadway show about my life. The seats on the ground floor will be removed so people can work out to some of the musical numbers in the show. What do you think? Love, Richard"

https://x.com/TheWeightSaint/status/1790463873532744183

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 11:56am

Well, that sounds all sorts of awful . 

[quizking101]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 12:24pm

Just enjoy the Act II opening of THE HEART OF ROCK & ROLL instead.

 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 1:31pm

Is this guy well known?  He posted a recent thread of Broadway experiences I guess to show that he's an actual fan

I could maybe see this in one of the downtown theater spaces, something like Daryl Roth where it's a bit modular, but I don't think there's any way this works on Broadway.

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 3:46pm

Either senility has finally set in, or the housekeeper still has him held hostage.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 5/15/24 at 3:56pm

Given how he openly derided the idea of Pauly Shore playing him in a movie, I guess this could be seen as Simmons finding a way to take control over his own image again.

But maybe I'm just being too optimistic.

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 7/13/24 at 6:59pm

RIP Richard Simmons. 

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 7/13/24 at 7:08pm

Broadway Flash said: "RIP Richard Simmons."

I liked him.  He gave me the incentive to keep on moving even when I wasn't in the mood.  Ta Ta For Now, Richard.

[George in DC]

Posted: 7/14/24 at 6:49pm

He was truly an original.

 

Thank you for making us laugh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-r4Flc_d2M

[Wick3]

Posted: 7/14/24 at 7:23pm

I remember him back in the 80s/90s and his aerobic style fitness videos. May he rest in peace.

 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 7/26/24 at 12:23pm

Patrick Leonard: "there's a plan to proceed" with the Richard Simmons musical, "and that's about all I know right now".

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 7/29/24 at 2:14pm

Probably not the direction they plan to take it, but I can imagine a one-act workout musical that thematically ties physical aerobic strain to what it must've been like for Simmons to keep going as himself even after becoming a national punchline.