I have not seen any news relating to ‘Shucked’ opening at the Nederlander. Is this insider information or just wishful thinking?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Every time I hear about this show it sounds like a fake musical within another musical or TV show. Even though it has talented people on the creative team.
BroadwayNYC2 said: "It changed its name because…it changed its name. Genuinely not sure what answer you want from this?"
If you don't understand this question, you're stupid. This person wants to know why a show would change its title multiple times. It's a fair question.
MysteriousLady said: "If you don't understand this question, you're stupid. This person wants to know why a show would change its title multiple times. It's a fair question."
ask that to LITTLE DANCER, I mean MARIE, DANCING STILL, I mean just MARIE. Or MJ, or Breakfast At Tiffany's.
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "MysteriousLady said: "If you don't understand this question, you're stupid. This person wants to know why a show would change its title multiple times. It's a fair question."
ask that to LITTLE DANCER, I mean MARIE, DANCING STILL, I mean just MARIE. Or MJ, or Breakfast At Tiffany's."
Yeah, I'm sure you could ask the producers why they made those changes and I bet they'd have an answer for you. However that's not the question of THIS thread, smartass.
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "MysteriousLady said: "If you don't understand this question, you're stupid. This person wants to know why a show would change its title multiple times. It's a fair question."
ask that to LITTLE DANCER, I mean MARIE, DANCING STILL, I mean just MARIE. Or MJ, or Breakfast At Tiffany's."
Or Wise Guys/Gold!/Bounce/Road Show. Producers and creators do focus groups and polling on these sorts of things. If the title polls badly, they'll want to change it.
Even with the tv pedigree, Shucked is probably a better name than Hee Haw. And with the current cultural divide, maybe they decided a show with an outright country/redneck name brand wouldn’t draw the right audience demographic.
See also: the studios removing the Tales from the Crypt branding from Death Becomes Her, to draw more women and gay men to the film.
Several stage favorites are set to lead the company of the new Broadway-aimed musical comedy Shucked. The world premiere musical will play Utah's Pioneer Theatre Company from October 28 through November 12. Shucked features a book by Tony winner Robert Horn and a score by Grammy-winning duo Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. Tony winner Jack O'Brien directs.
Leading the cast are Broadway alums John Behlmann as Gordy, Kevin Cahoon as Peanut, Caroline Innerbichler as Maizy, Andrew Durand as Beau, Alex Newell as Lulu, Ashley D. Kelley as Storyteller 1 and Taylor Trensch as Storyteller 2. The ensemble features Miki Abraham, Dwayne Clark, Rheaume Crenshaw, Kaitlyn Davidson, Jaygee Macapugay, Scott Stangland, Esteban Suero, Yasmeen Sulieman, Quinn VanAntwerp and Alan Wiggins.
Shucked proves sometimes tearing down a few walls, rather than growing them, is the only way to preserve our way of life.
The creative team includes Sarah O’Gleby as choreographer, Jason Howland as musical supervisor, Scott Pask as scenic designer, Tilly Grimes as costume designer, Japhy Weideman as lighting designer, John Shivers as sound designer, Daniel Edmonds as musical director/conductor and Mia Neal as hair and wig designer. Michelle Bosch is production stage manager.
Tagline from the show website: What do you get when you pair a semi-neurotic, New York comedy writer with two music superstars from Nashville? A hilarious and audacious farm-to-fable musical about the one thing Americans everywhere can’t get enough of: corn.
I have to say, that's some pretty ugly show art on their page, I hope it's only temporary. The cast shows some promise though, excited to see Alex and Taylor creating new roles.
Maybe this show will surprise me and be very entertaining, like Xanadu. I remember, with regard to the latter musical, thinking that nothing could make me like an adaptation of such ridiculous source material. Boy, was I wrong. Similarly, I suppose it's possible that I'll like a musical based on Hee-Haw, even though I hate Hee-Haw.
