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Frosted Flake posted:Someone told me that Mean Girls: The Musical, like Legally Blonde, have librettos written and music composed in a way that suggests they were designed to be licensed for high school productions. I don’t know enough about performing to say what the signs of that would be. Licensing productions for high school and college drama departments is apparently big money though and it would make sense to write a “francisable” show, but I don’t know how you could tell. Hasn't play licensing been a thing for a while? The school I went to did productions of Bye Bye Birdie and Pippin and that wasn't a unique thing where I grew up. quote:The very traditionally produced revivals of Rogers and Hammerstein have been critical and audience darlings for the past decade. Why no movie version of The King and I or South Pacific ? I think the music is just a bit too dated for both of those. You'll also get a PR headache trying to remove the racism from the King and I. They managed to do a really successful Broadway revival in 2015 though, so maybe a movie remake is ultimately going to come. It looks like some producers pushed really far with remaking South Pacific, but it eventually fizzled out. https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/michelle-williams-offered-lead-in-remake-of-south-pacific-98324/
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:the only musical rn that doesn’t fit either of those archetypes, btw, is Days of Wine and Roses, which is adapted from a 60s film and which I, a musical liker, just heard of for the first time right now. Somebody made a musical out of that movie? It's one of the most depressing things I've ever seen.
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Cael posted:Jackie Brown loving rules, I'm glad that semi-recently it seems like it's getting more of the appreciation it deserves (sadly probably in part due to Robert Forster dying). Ladies, find you a man who looks at you like Max Cherry looks at Jackie Brown when he first meets her. Idk why I put off seeing it for awhile, sometimes I like to "save" movies from a director that I like. But I'm glad I waited because I don't think I would've appreciated this one as much at 16. It's much more reserved compared to Tarantino's other movies.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:cast size, nothing too raunchy in the lyrics, even the diva roles singable by a mildly talented teenager, a simple staging, etc. definitely feels plausible to me!! That seems pretty smart, right? I guess you trade the Tonys you may have won by pushing the envelope for the long term revenue from licensing. Are there any other shows like that? The Addams Family and Seussical? e: I agree that shows have always been licensed, iirc either Gilbert or Sullivan saw that as their main business later in their partnership. It hadn’t occurred to me that shows could be written for licensing though. To use the example, Gilbert and Sullivan always wrote for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and then when they travelled to America or Europe to help start productions ran into problems with people not being experienced in singing their style of light opera. It apparently plagued productions of the Mikado in Japan until very recently, now that Japanese singers are more familiar with, and trained in, western pop music type singing. When they were coming from Japanese opera they couldn’t sing the patter songs. I wish I knew more about the performance side of things, instead of just cultural history. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 19:27 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Are there any other shows like that? The Addams Family and Seussical? https://playbill.com/article/the-10-most-produced-high-school-plays-and-musicals-of-2022-2023 I would count the SpongeBob and Shrek musicals in that category I think?
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Idk why I put off seeing it for awhile, sometimes I like to "save" movies from a director that I like. I absolutely do this. It's nice to know that if the mood strikes me, there are a handful of movies I can rip open and consume that will be good or at least interesting.
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Eric Cantonese posted:Somebody made a musical out of that movie? It's one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. it’s pretty funny that it’s the same people that adapted Light in the Piazza. they’re obsessed with 60s movies
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I absolutely do this. It's nice to know that if the mood strikes me, there are a handful of movies I can rip open and consume that will be good or at least interesting. Yeah I saved The Master for my 30th birthday a couple years ago and I'm glad I did because I've watched it probably five times since
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Idk why I put off seeing it for awhile, sometimes I like to "save" movies from a director that I like. But I'm glad I waited because I don't think I would've appreciated this one as much at 16. It's much more reserved compared to Tarantino's other movies. I hear you because I absolutely watched it at that age and went "WTF THIS ISN'T LIKE PULP FICTION OR RESERVOIR DOGS" like a dumbass teenager and had a negative opinion for a long timer. Probably wasn't until late 20s or even early 30s that I rewatched it and had my mind blown for how great it was. Anyone who watched it a long time ago and doesn't remember it fondly is doing themselves a disservice by not revisiting it.
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sonatinas posted:I’ll save everyone time and here ya go 
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:isn't half the fbi mormon now, or some crazy poo poo like that they hired a bunch in the 70s and they took over the agency from the inside and intentionally never changed the hiring requirements. they run diplomatic security too. also means the agency is so toxic socially the only people who want to work there don't know better and are drummed out or are already mormons. this is also the major reason why the cia has so many gay theater kids
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Cael posted:I hear you because I absolutely watched it at that age and went "WTF THIS ISN'T LIKE PULP FICTION OR RESERVOIR DOGS" like a dumbass teenager and had a negative opinion for a long timer. Probably wasn't until late 20s or even early 30s that I rewatched it and had my mind blown for how great it was. Anyone who watched it a long time ago and doesn't remember it fondly is doing themselves a disservice by not revisiting it. As teens I had one friend who insisted it was better and looking back he was right and the rest of us were stupid teens.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:it’s pretty funny that it’s the same people that adapted Light in the Piazza. they’re obsessed with 60s movies Critics loved that one though, right? Sort of the opposite of music written for high school casts, it has counterpoint songs in multiple languages and operatic scales. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_umTxYD-o3k&pp=ygUXdGhlIGxpZ2h0IGluIHRoZSBwaWF6emE%3D
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Frosted Flake posted:Critics loved that one though, right? yeah. but I think they were trying to make art, not sell out theatres, so it stands to reason it had a better shot at being legit good lol. when I was in eighth grade my friend fell in love with Matthew Morrison off the strength of his performance in that show. but then he starred in Glee and now he’s dead to all of us
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KirbyKhan posted:I kinda miss sex in tv shows. It's been so long since the early seasons of Power. It's been so long since Game of Thrones opened the series with a backshot that slammed so hard it crippled the future king. i will grant that there's not much sex in movies right now, but i just watched bridgerton (aka the netflix regency-era-in-britain-minus-racism show) and the entire second half of the season was a bunch of sex scenes that revolved around whether or not a guy would creampie his wife riverdale ended recently but that show also had a shitload of sex for basic cable also wasn't there that show with the weeknd recently that was getting a bunch of flak because it was nothing but a bunch of (very misogynistic) sex scenes?
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Aglet56 posted:also wasn't there that show with the weeknd recently that was getting a bunch of flak because it was nothing but a bunch of (very misogynistic) sex scenes? that's not tv, it's HBO
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Bro Dad posted:HBO set 100 million dollars on fire because the execs/director wanted to be friends with the weeknd And they probably helped him kill his career in the process
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Cael posted:Jackie Brown loving rules, I'm glad that semi-recently it seems like it's getting more of the appreciation it deserves (sadly probably in part due to Robert Forster dying). Ladies, find you a man who looks at you like Max Cherry looks at Jackie Brown when he first meets her. it’s his best work imo
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:And they probably helped him kill his career in the process His career is fine, he was just in Fortnite
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Cael posted:Jackie Brown loving rules, I'm glad that semi-recently it seems like it's getting more of the appreciation it deserves (sadly probably in part due to Robert Forster dying). Ladies, find you a man who looks at you like Max Cherry looks at Jackie Brown when he first meets her.
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Aglet56 posted:i'm far from the first to point out that the maquis don't really make any sense in the star trek universe. why would they be so bent out of shape about having to leave their colonies when they can just replicate their exact homes again on one of the thousands of other habitable planets in the galaxy? it's kind of transparently a 20th century political scenario transplanted into star trek Yeah this plotline came up in 90s trek a fair bit. DS9 where people wouldn't leave a planet when there were only like a few hundreds them tops on the whole planet. And this arrangement is like commonplace in the Alpha Quadrant. Peeps could have an entire continent to themselves but oh no there's some other band of a couple hundred people who insist that the entire planet is theirs actually. I bet the amount of people who even sympathetic to the Maquis let alone Maquis themselves wouldn't even fill Wembley stadium, but somehow all of that is preferably to just going to another planet and setting up shop with their free energy replicators.
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tv iv posters have poo poo for brains. read a loving book
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KirbyKhan posted:His career is fine, he was just in Fortnite Did he manage to kill Fortnite too?
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skooma512 posted:Yeah this plotline came up in 90s trek a fair bit. DS9 where people wouldn't leave a planet when there were only like a few hundreds them tops on the whole planet. And this arrangement is like commonplace in the Alpha Quadrant. Peeps could have an entire continent to themselves but oh no there's some other band of a couple hundred people who insist that the entire planet is theirs actually. I bet the amount of people who even sympathetic to the Maquis let alone Maquis themselves wouldn't even fill Wembley stadium, but somehow all of that is preferably to just going to another planet and setting up shop with their free energy replicators. Oh gently caress, why couldn't the Federation and Cardassian settlers just share the planets Planets are big We share this one with English people for fucks sake
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Cardassians are English people and the humans of the 24th century finally decided enough was enough.
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Aglet56 posted:also this is fake Yeah I've been confused by the reaction to this because it doesn't look real in the slightest
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Speaking of movie buffs On Cinema is back.
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In Training posted:Speaking of movie buffs On Cinema is back. I just can't figure out this new Stars to Bags conversion
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