What Ever Happened to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:14pm

What Ever Happened to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? I thought for a while around the late 90's, early 2000's they were doing some version of it around the country. Does anyone know about this?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:25pm

In 2002, the World Premiere was at Theatre Under The Stars. It didn't garner the reviews/interest to move forward. You can google for the reviews.

There was a production since then done somewhere in Europe. No idea what has been going on with it in the past year or so.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:51pm

The opening scene of GYPSY reminds me so much of the opening scene of this film.
I think GYPSY could be a prequel to WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE if June had never ran off with Tulsa and Louise had been a movie star instead of a stripper.
In all seriousness, the film is great and should stay a movie, not a stage piece.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:56pm

The first stageing of 'Whatever...' was a semi-staged production at the Theatre Royal, Brighton in the UK. In 1998 and was well recived in the state it was in but was never taken up for full production. It had some great music in it. There is/was a tape of the show recorded on the sound desk.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:58pm

I was blessed with anonimously being sent an archive DVD of the entire show. The Texas World Premiere starred Millicent Martin as Baby Jane and Leslie Denniston as Blanche. The production aspect was visually stunning -- it had a 2-level set for the Hudson house. Never got around to watching the entire thing, but it did look quite good from the few minutes I watched of it.



Here's Theatermania's review from October 17, 2002: http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/2679