What musical should Meron and Zadan do next? — Page 10

If they want something Christmasy, just do James Joyce's The Dead and get Christopher Walken to reprise his role as Gabriel.

Unless, of course, they want to even come close to having ratings like The Sound of Music. And by if, I mean there is no way in hell James Joyce's The Dead will ever get the TV treatment.

Filmed stage shows usually go to PBS.
NBC would never air the stage show of CINDERELLA. A show starring Laura Osnes would never get 18.5 million viewers.

Ariana Grande has a very strong theatrical voice. Last night I heard her sing a snippet of "Spoonful of Sugar" and it sounded really nice. She had a strong vibrato, and it seems easy to her to switch over to her theater side.

Unrelated to tv musicals: I think Grande would be a magnificent Anne in A Little Night Music based on her voice, I've never seen her act.

"Kids know Cinderella and the current production is dazzling enough that between promos of "Impossible" and the ball and kids wanting to see what they think is the Disney movie it could be more successful than TSoM. Now will a filmed version of the stage show ever make it to network television? Doubtful. But it would be a smart move. And a real coup for the Broadway community if done right. Spend a minute or two talking about "the magic of live theater", the grand tradition of Broadway"

Exactly sisebyside what I was thinking....think of the money they'd save in production alone. The play would make lots of mney for the rights too.

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Exactly. The taped shows will stay on PBS. There is a not a huge audience for them.

Bestie that's what I meant doing it LIVE.

Carlos. Fairy tales are very I now... grim. Once upon a time. Wonderland. 2 snow white movies. Red ri ding hood movie etc.

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Well, this ain't the New Testament, y'know. Seussical would require a full-blown resurrection.

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I'll throw my support behind restaging the Daniel Radcliffe version of "How To Succeed," and the idea of "Hello, Dolly!" with Reba as Dolly and Benanti as Irene sounds great. I'd put Victor Garber in there as Horace, but the suggestion of Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Cornelius is top-notch. I really think country stars are generally marketable.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing a big star with a sweet presence and a serviceable soprano in "The King and I." Bjork or Jewel, maybe? I'd be worried about being ethnically sensitive in casting other roles in the show, though.

I'll also mention a version of She Loves Me with Justin Timberlake as Georg, Laura Benanti as Amalia, and Jane Krakowski as Illona. Josh Radnor seems tied up with CBS and Timberlake has the necessary star power.

Now for some potentially worse suggestions... I also think "The Wiz" has great star-casting potential, but it might be a bit risque and esoteric for TV. I could also see an actual younger male Peter Pan (though I wouldn't love Daniel Radcliffe, that music is so beautiful) singing the role in tenor keys?? Cut "Mysterious Lady" if need be. Maybe that would change things up just enough to make it more dynamic for a modern audience, not that I think the show really needs that. I also think work could be done by a good orchestrator and a good costumer to make the "Indian" portions inoffensive.

Is Man of La Mancha an absolutely terrible idea? Patrick Wilson as Cervantes with Katy Perry as Aldonza? I know it might be hard to market and a bit dark/inappropriate for children, but it has a great uplifting message and Aldonza is definitely castable.

As I suggested in another thread, what we really need is a Halloween broadcast of Rocky Horror starring Ricky Martin as Frank, Adam Lambert as Riff Raff, Lady Gaga as Magenta, Sutton as Columbia, Megan Hilty as Janet and Zac Efron as Brad.

FINE! Miley can play Magenta.

And if anybody thought the fall out from Kinky Boots performing on the parade telecast was bad do you really think there wouldn't be screams for the heads of the NBC (or whatever network) exec who tries to put Rocky Horror on prime time?

That would never happen. A broadcast like this requires too much revenue to offset the multi-million dollar budget for a cable channel. It has to be on network television....