Giles

I must admit the last musical 'Nine' was both a critical and audience humdinger and might have done more harm than intended to the genre, but I'd like to know what future musicals we can expect?

what's the statues of the remake musical version of 'Footloose'?

sadly the rumour that John Landis' was doing a film version of 'Batboy: The Musical' was just that, a rumour

supposedly, 'Miss Saigon' and Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of 'Sunset Boulevard' are in some sort of development.

??

MrSmearkase

Footlose signed a bunch of people last week, including Dennis Quaid
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Also, while not a new production, the Grease Sing-a-long is coming out in a few weeks

Giles

yes and for some reason the MPAA decided to brand that version with a PG-13 rating (?!? - go figure)

Groucho

I'm surprised there's not a slew of these being pumped out starring the Glee kids.

MrSmearkase

Must be the cigarettes. I had heard that they were removed the trailers and TV spots, but remain intact for the film.

Drexl

Maybe showing the words "pussy wagon" is considered worse than the characters merely singing them.

BJacks

It's not in development. If it happened it'd be with Glenn Close and she told me it's dead in the water. She said Hollywood isn't interested in musicals.

sauce07

Is Craig Brewer really directing Footloose now? I'm shocked and intrigued.

Giles

Patti luPone is still pretty livid over the whole 'Sunset Boulevard' London to Broadway debacle (and the show itself). On a side note, the Signature Theatre in Arlington Virginia,(which won the regional theatre Tony in 2009) are doing upcoming productions of Chess (in August ) and Sunset Boulevard starting in December - a recent production of Les Miserables was amazing!

Giles

now is the new version of Footloose - the musical theatre version or an entirely new version? - the recent remake of Fame which I thought would have been the 'theatre' version, wasn't and quite frankly sucked.

someone should do a new version of Hair - the 1979 movie is a walking abortion in my mind - the recent Broadway revival was utterly fantastic.

BJacks

Here's what Brewer said when he was announced as director:

I should also say the cynic in me isn't entirely sure the film will actually happen. Two leads (Zac Efron and Chace Crawford) already dropped out and they've been replaced with a no-name. But we'll see.

gmanca

What about that 3D rock opera on Cleopatra that Soderbergh wants to do?

Giles

supposedly it's still 'in preproduction' according to imdb, but that in itself is no guarentee. With Catherine Zeta Jones and Ray Winstone, the music by Guided By Voices and set in the 1920 one article states it will be 'like Las Vegas meets Tommy' - oh boy, that an endorsement!!!

davidh777

Musicals are still big. It's Hollywood that got small.