Would any television network have the guts to livecast CABARET?- Page 2

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/28/17 at 10:12pm

PatrickDC said: "If MTV was pleased with the ratings and response for Legally Blonde they might be willing to try Cabaret. And there are others they could do: Rent, American Idiot, Spring Awakening, and maybe even Avenue Q."

 

Since it's been ten years and they haven't made any further forays into broadcasting musicals I'm going to guess that MTV wasn't over the moon with the ratings and response to Legally Blonde. 

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/28/17 at 11:02pm

bk said: "Dear Hog:  I get it now, I really do - took a while, though.   I offer opinions - you may find them nonsensical, but I find just about everything you post pedantic and nonsensical - so, funny how that works.  But I get it now, I really do."

Is your username bk because you only like to "have it your way"?

[jtishere]

Posted: 8/28/17 at 11:08pm

Cabaret would be wasted on today's MTV. To really do something of Cabaret's caliber, tone and subject matter correctly, you need the artistic commitment that HBO could give it. The networks would inevitably try to sand off its edges, and as was mentioned above, Bravo and A&E are far from their original identities.

I wish they had struck right after the success of Chicago, when the iron was scorching hot.

[bk]

Posted: 8/29/17 at 12:27am

I think that's my close personal friend you're talking about :)  Then again, who doesn't only like to have it their way?