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#1

Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 10:41pm

I think this should def happen! Anyone else agree?
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#6

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 11:12pm

Christopher Guest was approached by top broadway producers and he stated that he REFUSES to bring it to the stage. it's a dead issue. He said it would take too long to fix everything , add new stuff and he wants to leave it where it ended.

Originally before the movie became a cult hit, he had plans to bring it to the stage but, they kept it on film instead.
#7

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 11:20pm

I'm not surprised that he doesn't want to associate with creative types. He'd probably just rather hang out with the scrabble club and other people with babies.

It's just as well though. The show could never be as utterly amazing as the movie. Although I wouldn't mind seeing a new cut of the movie that put This Bulging River back in its rightful place.
#8

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 11:20pm

sorry about the double post guys! didnt know how that happened
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#10

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 11:26pm

re: guest's aversion to bring it to the stage--I believe it. I read a quick interview w/ him in new york once and he's a total b*tch. Non-responsive and just not very friendly. Shame.
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#11

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/18/06 at 11:34pm

From what I have read or seen with him,. he seems so uncomfortable when spotlight is shone on Christopher Guest, even though he can take it as a character.

I guess we will just have to wait until For Your Consideration..his next mockumentary.
#13

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:19am

I'm still quoting the lines from the movie...


"Ya no quiero las tortillas...prefiero que..."
"We're the center of a stool boom and it's spreading out from Blaine..."

But the one I feel like quoting in situations like this is...
"And that's the way it is? Then I JUST HATE YOU AND I HATE YOUR ASS FACE!"
which is probably the best quote in the movie
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#14

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:23am

I think the elements, as Dr. Watson said to Sherlock, "are coming together, sir."
#15

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:25am

Hush child, hush.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#17

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:42am

I JUST HATE YOU AND YOUR ASS FACES! -- that's THE best!
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#18

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:46am

No, I'd agree with 1 Train - "Everybody dance!" is the best.

"It's a zen thing, like how many babies can fit in a tire..."
#20

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 9:53am

GRAB YOUR LADY BY THE ARM,
TAKE HER OUT BEHIND THE BARN!
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#21

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:06am

"Straight off a destroyer... with nothing but a dance belt and a tube of Chapstick!"

"It kind of reminds of me the olden days, in Paris, when men use to slap each other with white leather gloves, you know, 'Oh, D'Artagnan, how dare you speak to me that way'. And Smack Em. "
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#22

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:11am

How HIGH a ridge I could not TELL

I have a lazy eye...
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#23

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:36am

Everybody Dance has to be my fav quote!
and also...
It kind of reminds of me the olden days, in Paris, when men use to slap each other with white leather gloves, you know, "Oh, D'Artagnan, how dare you speak to me that way". And Smack Em'.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

Updated On: 2/19/06 at 10:36 AM

#24

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:08am

This film would not be an easy transfer to the stage. The "faux documentary" style (talking heads facing the camera candidly) would have to be dropped or altered drastically...

...which is basically the main gimmick of the movie.

The only way I see this working is if it was re-conceived completely for the stage. Maybe a theatrical musical could actually have the documentary film crew coming to Blaine to make their movie. We could see the cameras, equipment and the crew (new characters), and they could still keep some of the "docu-style" of the original film that way.

But it would have to be different to work in a theatre.
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#25

re: Waiting for Guffman...the musical!!

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:12am

best12, perhaps it would work in the vein of KISS ME KATE. Sort of the "show within a show" concept. But, I agree, it can't be a documentary on stage. There would be too many asides.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

Updated On: 2/19/06 at 11:12 AM

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