Selena The Musical?

[sparepart973]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 12:22pm

I'm not a fan of bio-juke box musicals, but..I really wouldn't mind seeing this.
I'm just posting to ask if a musical about Selena was ever in development or talked about?

[Tag]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 12:34pm

I'd see it.

Something I could see Jennifer Lopez producing one day.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 12:43pm

I watched the movie about her life earlier this year and really enjoyed it a lot.

I had never thought about this for a musical, but the idea really intrigues me.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 12:44pm

Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
Jersey Boys
Fela!
Million Dollar Quartet
Baby It's You!
Motown the Musical
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
On Your Feet?

What other bio-musical would anyone love to see?

[JPeterman]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 1:50pm

"What other bio-musical would anyone love to see?"

Morrissey and the Smiths!

Updated On: 10/11/14 at 01:50 PM

[Tag]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 2:05pm

Found this…from 1998

[Bwaydide92]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 2:40pm

I would love for there to be a Selena musical! I grew up watching the movie and listening to her music. But I don't think her music is the right kind of music for a musical. None of it really has enough story to it. I don't think the songs would be able to parallel well enough to her life for them to be a part of the story. They would just be playing songs to play the songs really. I couldn't really see any of them not being an outright concert performance. They wouldn't really be able to help the story move along.

If anything I think it could be a play with music. Like Lady Day. A show about a singer, with their music in it. But not what I would call a musical.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 2:46pm

Not my cup of tea for the most part. (Although I enjoyed Fela!, likely because I knew nothing of him previously.)

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 10/11/14 at 3:45pm

I love, Love, LOVE that movie. The ending "drops the microphone" always makes me cry. I think it would be the next Jersey Boys in my opinion. Never seen that time of music on broadway before. Hope someone makes this happen one day before I die.

[twotrey]

Posted: 10/19/14 at 7:12am

It actually already happened. I wanted to catch it when it played the Montalban in Hollywood in 2001, but I never got the chance. The Wikipedia page tells the sordid tale. Maybe it's time for a rewrite/revival?
Selena Forever - Wikipedia

[phan24]

Posted: 10/19/14 at 9:25pm

A clip from the musical version, the girl playing Selena really butchers all her songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4SqvpzDO9M

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 10/19/14 at 10:58pm

Well! I would certainly say let us see how On Your Feet fares, but I wouldn't object to a good stage production / bio show featuring Selena's music. Lord knows her life is ripe for a dramatic telling.
As someone from Texas and familiar with her story and the production of the film, I would only exercise great caution because the casting, politically, would be very tricky. There was MUCH controversy when Jennifer Lopez was cast because despite sharing the exact measurements of Selena - allowing them to very faithfully recreate her wardrobe, Lopez is not of Mexican descent and many people in the community were quite upset with that.

[broadwaysweetheart]

Posted: 10/24/14 at 1:55am

Actually there was a Selena musical in Mexico a few years back. It was terrible!!!! really bad... A lot of people still laughs about the fact it actually happened. Here's a clip from a TV promo appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psdua5rRDc4