Would a musical adapted from Neil Diamond's "The Jazz Singer" work?- Page 2

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 3:46pm

"Broadway is like a sideshow barker selling his attractions. When quality creative shows like Sideshow or The Last Ship cannot survive, producers start shying away from creativity & try to cater to the lowest common denominator."

I agree. I was so disappointed years ago that a show like "Next To Normal" did not have a longer run.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 3:50pm

So, the example of producers shying away from creative shows is very recent examples of creative shows? Got it.

[JayG 2]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 4:08pm

Huh?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 4:16pm

If that "Huh?" is for me, I guess I'm saying an example of producers of shying away from more creative work would be HinV and such, and how we are getting more of those shows than anything more challenging. And that you would probably need to show more of the less-demanding shows coming in, and less of the creative ones.

You can't use examples of recent creative shows to prove producers are not putting money into creative shows, since, well... they just put money into those shows.

Personally, I think both types of show have always existed, and always will, though. But Roxy loves grand theories.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 4:27pm

I think it would make a great stage musical.


But they would inevitably add a dozen songs from his catalog and turn it into a jukebox musical.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 4:57pm

A great musical indeed!

The blackface numbers would totally kill!

[Kad]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 5:06pm

The 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer was a commercial and critical flop; its only success was its soundtrack. As a film property, it's eclipsed by the Jolsen film which remains to this day iconic.

A Neil Diamond musical probably will happen eventually... sadly... but not in the form of The Jazz Singer.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 5:12pm

Kad, I've never seen more than a few minutes when channel flipping, but I was totaling embarrassed for Mr. Diamond each time. But EricMontreal should be by shortly to tell me to take another look. He has done that with several things I had shrugged off and he hasn't been wrong yet.

[Kad]

Posted: 1/27/15 at 5:16pm

I can't speak for EricMontreal... but it's a truly embarrassing film, for Diamond and for Sir Laurence Olivier.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/28/15 at 2:33am

Eric's silence says it all. LOL.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/28/15 at 4:45am

Updated On: 1/28/15 at 04:45 AM

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 1/28/15 at 6:19pm

Can we agree no one knows what makes a show sell?

It isn't necessarily a known title, or stars, or tested creative teams.

But, I don't think you can say there has been a lack of original ideas with a diversity of styles in the last 10 years.

Pacific Overtures
Light in the Piazza
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Drowsy Chaperone
Grey Gardens
High Fidelity
Spring Awakening
Curtains
The Pirate Queen
A Catered Affair
In The Heights
Passing Strange
[title of show]
Next To Normal
A Tale of Two Cities
Memphis
The Addams Family
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
The Scottsboro Boys
Women on the Verge...
The Book of Mormon
Catch Me If You Can
Bonnie & Clyde
Lysistrata Jones
Chaplin
Hands On a Hard Body
First Date
Big Fish
A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
The Bridges of Madison County
If/Then
The Last Ship

I don't think you can call those cookie cutter shows.
I have excluded big name movie makeovers and jukebox musicals.
I would take that list for quality and diversity against any 10 yr period.



Updated On: 1/28/15 at 06:19 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/29/15 at 9:16pm

You know Pacific Overtures is way more than ten years old, right?