Shaiman and Wittman to score musical based on an as yet unveiled Mattell toy?

[tazber]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 7:37am

Isn't it enough that we have toys being the basis for major motion pictures (Transformers, GI Joe, etc)?

I'm sure Shaiman and Wittman will write a catchy and clever score, but....why?

And more importantly, can it compete with "Mr. Potato Head - The Musical!"?
Mosnter musical

[BroadwayAbridged]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 7:55am

This was also the most vague press release ever. It's like a "I just got the musical rights to a book that hasn't been published by an author we can't say."

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 7:58am

My money is on Matchbox, Hot Wheels, or American Girl.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 8:42am

Hmmm...the American Girl movies have been pretty popular thus far but would the company want a big Broadway musical that will compete with the musicals at American Girl Place?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 9:27am

This is for a FILM not broadway:



Universal Pictures has made a big-bucks deal to acquire an untitled Mattel toy property for a ****live-action musical film**** to be produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. The duo will reunite with the "Hairspray" team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.


Live action mean people not animation. The article also specifically mentions: Monster Lore.

Updated On: 6/2/09 at 09:27 AM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 9:31am

This is, essentially, the same article with a few additions

UNIVERSAL, MATTEL to add "a fresh twist to monster lore?"

Updated On: 6/2/09 at 09:31 AM

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 9:45am

army men the musical!

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:06am

Marc and Scott have actually already written a musical based on a Mattel doll...sorta. Livin' Dolls (1982) was a sort of cross between Barbie and Gidget.

Akiva

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:07am

This is the most bizarre article to have EVER been released on Playbill.com.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:15am

in Barbie Coldcocks G.I.Joe
the heroine don't give no inch
when post-traumatic SD Joe
accosts her with a bottom pinch

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:27am

I should hope that Shaiman and Wittman do much better than that.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:33am

Oh God! This MUST be the Malibu Stacy musical that Waylon Smithers has been working on for years! I saw a workshop at a small theater in Arizona a few years ago- "Sold Separately" had everyone in tears but if they tossed out the rest of the score in favor of a new Shaiman score? Well, we're talking PULITZER here people!

[tazber]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 10:55am

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 11:26am

Joe, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who knows Sold Separately. Someone in another thread said the Phantom title song was the greatest duet in musical theatre, but they clearly haven't heard this.


I'm relieved this is a musical of the Barbie Unicorn Fairy Princess Cupcake type movie, instead of an actual show functioning as a toy commercial, which is what I originally thought based on the thread title.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 11:45am

I have long dreamed of hearing this number on the Tony Awards:

Smithers: Sold separately,
Sometimes I feel like I've been sold separately;
But out of the box I find you poseable..
Stacy: ..loveable..
Both: ..just like me.



THe Simpsons Lyrical Archives Updated On: 6/2/09 at 11:45 AM