The things that may become musicals
It’s fun to come up with movies/plays/stories/anything that could be turned into Broadway musicals. One of my favorite movie musicals, The Court Jester, would be perfect for Broadway. It starred Danny Kaye. Need I say more? Now that they have White Christmas opening on Broadway, I am really praying for someone to put that one on the stage. There are many fun roles in the show, but if I was a guy, I would be dying to do the Danny Kaye role. For me? No, I don’t think there’s a role for me unless they cast the witch a lot younger.
I went searching on the internet to learn if there were any other “interesting” musicals coming to Broadway. Here’s What I found:
Rocky, The Musical
Yes, the Rocky Balboa movies we all saw on the big screen with Mr. Stallone. Yep, they are actually considering making this thing a musical. You don’t believe me? I can’t believe it myself! But when I read a small article about it, it looks like they are really taking it seriously.
“The New York Times and Playbill.com have reported that the hit movie franchise and Academy Award winning film Rocky will be made into a Broadway musical. The book will be written by Thomas Meehan (TONY Award winning best book of a Musical for Hairspray and author of the book for The Producers and Young Frankenstein). Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, currently represented by Glorious Ones at Lincoln Center, will take on the lyrics and music. It was also mentioned that Joe Mantello (Wicked and The Ritz) would possibly direct.”
Really? I mean, REALLY?
