The Breakfast Club

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 3:31pm

Does anybody know if this film has even been put on stage (Pro or AmDram) XXxx

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 3:41pm

The Appel Farm Arts & Music Center in Elmer, NJ did their own take of it during Summer Camp 2006.

The Playah's Club took on John Hughes': principal, brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal in a Theater Minor performance of THE BREAKFAST CLUB:


The Next Stage Theater in Los Angeles, CA took it on in August 2002.

Here's a link to a review: http://www.moviecall.org/happyhour/?article=279

Here's a link regarding a stage adaptation in Michigan in 2007: http://www.lansinglowdown.com/index.php/article/970

If you Google this, you'll find lots of others who've staged it.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 3:58pm

You are always so helpfull Thanks

One more thing, the rights to this show dont seem to exist, i take it they did it without?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:05pm

Yup. From the various articles I've read, they just transcribed the film's script, making the appropriate changes (profanity, etc.).

Since it was written and filmed like a stage production (in sequence and basically one setting), it doesn't require much to adapt it.

[stevenycguy]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 10:20pm

They did a parody of it a few years back at the off-off-Broadway Kraine Theater on East 4th Street.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 6/16/08 at 12:21am

I could see this be a fun stage play for high schools and colleges to perform. Don't see it as a musical.