I was reaading in the Evil Dead Playbill last night that B.H. Barry ( fight director) is "directing a production of Treasure Island on Broadway next year."
Correction: The Jim Henson Corperation mounted a movie-musical entitled: "A Muppet Treasure Island" -- Starring the voice talents of Brian Henson and Frank Oz and Tim Curry as "Long John Silver". This was the musical adaptation that is being made mention of ... not "Treasure Planet" -- That's another movie from years later in 2-D. I highly doubt anything will come of this version of "Treasure Island" ... Having played Captain Abraham Smollet in a past production of the musicalized version some years ago, it's great for youth/community theatres, but please, please, please, DON'T bring it anywhere near "The Great White Way" -- Disney's done enough already!
>> the Disney movie was called "Treasure PLANET", adn was a retelling of "treasure island" in a futuristic world, with aliens and robots.
There was also a (I believe) made-for-TV version done for "Wonderful World of Disney" back in the late 50s. *That* was my referent, not Treasure Planet.
Awwwww that would be so mean to Pirate Queen to have to compete with another pirate show!
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
an adaptation of Treasure Island is having its premiere here in houston at the Alley Theatre (http://www.alleytheater.org)
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Actually, it would be cool! The two pirate shows could form crews composed of fans and go raiding each other's theatre! Throw in the Pirates of Penzance (Again? Again!), maybe some Pan fans, a crate of wooden swords, and a flock of parrots, and the streets would flow with booty! Mmmmmmmm... Booty. Wait, didn't the Scarlet Pimpernel fans already do that?
On a more serious note, I remember a musical version of Treasure Island that toured schools in the late seventies that made our Jr High production of HMS Pinafore look like a Broadway hit but this looks like a new book and score. I've always wanted to study with B.H. Barry, so I'm curious to see if he can direct a musical or whether it'd be a two hour fight scene with songs. Given his talent for making stage combat flow from and enhance a story when others try to marry the story to the fight, I suspect he'd do a pretty good job.
