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#26

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/19/17 at 5:35pm

http://www.playbill.com/article/to-wong-foo-musical-adaptation-in-the-works-from-douglas-carter-beane It's in the works, apparently. I consider it a part of a (sort of) trilogy: La Cage, Priscilla and now To Wong Foo.

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

#27

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/19/17 at 6:14pm

I would love to see it. The key is that you can use a Julie Newmar character as a sort of Spider Woman persona commenting on the story.

#28

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/19/17 at 6:20pm

Just as long as it's not a jukebox musical.

#29

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 10:14am

I spoke with Doug about this years ago and he said he really was longing to but with Priscilla coming there was little use, I'm glad he changed his mind.

I love the movie of Priscilla but hated everything about the musical really. It took a face-value earnest movie and made it campy and glittery. To Wong Foo is campy and silly and glittery from the offset and adding original songs would really add to the fun.I can already see the finale, "Red and Wild!"

It will be compared to Priscilla if it's great or if it's terrible. I'm sure some people will hear about it and say "Oh I saw that, remember they painted the bus rainbow!" and not see it. I'm already exploding with dream-casting it. I've always wanted Marc Kudish as Vida and she'd never do it because it's more work for less money than her normal gigs, but Adore Delano for ChiChi.

#30

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 10:17am

"Adore Delano for ChiChi."

I hadn't thought of this, but party!

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

#31

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 10:43am

"Hog Body" will be a guaranteed hit from the show, with crossover airplay.

#32

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 10:51am

The fact that it is having a reading at AADA strikes me as a weird and not necessarily good sign.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#33

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 11:46am

What about John Leguizamo taking the role of Vida?

#34

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:10pm

newintown said: ""Hog Body" will be a guaranteed hit from theshow, with crossover airplay."

If she had made the AS2 top 4 and have a verse in "Read You, Wrote You" it would have been epic.

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

#35

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:19pm

Valentina3 said: "newintown said: ""Hog Body" will be a guaranteed hit from theshow, with crossover airplay."

If she had made the AS2 top 4 and have a verse in "Read You, Wrote You" it would have been epic."

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#36

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:36pm

Haha, I would have, but I'm watching Torch Song tonight. Speaking of which, Michael Urie would be great in this show if he could sing (can he sing?)

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

#37

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 12:41pm

If Adore was top 4 then we'd not have gotten RoXy's verse and IT IS ICONIC.

I actually don't love her as a queen at all, but she totally has the right energy and vibe and spirit of the part.

#38

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/20/17 at 1:54pm

It will be a good musical if Harvey Fierstein isn't involved. Priscilla was total junk.And La Cage had an awful book.

#39

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/21/17 at 6:42am

I haven't seen this film in two decades but my strongest memories are of the cringier moments. Swayze gets molested by a cop, Leguizamo gets threatened with gang rape and Channing's being beaten by her husband. Yet these moments are played for comedy and the antagonists are given scenes where they're meant to be sympathetic.

Priscilla found the right tone for darker moments on film. Less so on stage though the "Hot Stuff" sequence tries it's darndest. I'm curious how Beane would tackle these moments in 2017.

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#40

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/21/17 at 2:27pm

Kad said: "The fact that it is having a reading at AADA strikes me as a weird and not necessarily good sign."

It would be a bad sign if it was at AMDA. AADA is a bit more respectable, IMO.

I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.

#41

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/21/17 at 2:29pm

AADA's actually a very good school. I didn't go there, but you can't deny that their alumni are pretty impressive. They seem to be putting out good people. Don't confuse it with AMDA aka SCAMDA.

#42

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/21/17 at 3:00pm

Valentina3 said: "Haha, I would have, but I'm watching Torch Song tonight. Speaking of which, Michael Urie would be great in this show if he could sing (can he sing?)"

He was a replacement Bud Frump in the most recent How to Succeed revival (I saw it before he came in so I don't know how he did), and I recall on the old Ugly Betty podcast he, Becki Newton, and Ana Ortiz talking about their experiences auditioning for musicals before landing Ugly Betty.

#43

To Wong Foo

Posted: 10/21/17 at 7:32pm

I'm sorry, no. There are so many movies I didn't think would be a good musical (AHEMMM Mean Girls, but I'm still giving it a try AHEMMMUG). And this is one of them. But, I'll give it a try.

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#44

To Wong Foo

Posted: 2/6/18 at 7:38pm

Here we go.

Douglas Carter Beane to Direct Santino Fontana, Alice Ripley, and More in TO WONG FOO... Musical Workshop

According to Beane, the show's musical transformation is something of a homecoming for the story, which was originally intended for the stage.

"I was a struggling writer trying to break into the theater," he says. "I was working as a nanny in Brooklyn, and every time the family went on vacation, I'd write a play. I started working on 'To Wong Foo' but couldn't figure out how to put a car onstage. So I turned it into a screenplay instead."

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Douglas-Carter-Beane-to-Direct-Santino-Fontana-Alice-Ripley-and-More-in-TO-WONG-FOO-Musical-Workshop-20180206

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#45

To Wong Foo

Posted: 4/23/18 at 11:47am

Any more on this? Some of the music can be found here

http://lewisflinn.com/projects/to-wong-foo/

Updated On: 4/23/18 at 11:47 AM

#46

To Wong Foo

Posted: 5/4/19 at 1:45am

Reviving this old thread because I'm curious as to what happened to this. We heard about the workshop and then it was just radio silence. Did it die? With the people attached to it (Douglas Carter Beane, Santino Fontana, Robin de Jesus), that would surprise me.

Anyone know anything about the project that I don't?

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