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Yaddo 42
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2004, 11:46:19 AM » |
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Since they've done (or are soon going to do) "Interview With the Vampire", "Carrie" (apparently a huge Broadway bomb at the time, several people have tried to stage revivals), "The Last Starfighter", "Footloose", "The Lion King", "The Producers", etc. I don't see why not get more mileage out of another film. But to tell the truth, the plot of "Death Wish" sounds more like material for an opera, lots of violence, conflicted emotions (former conscientious objector turned vigilante), the police search for the killer in the big city, Kersey lurking among the scum baiting his prey, etc. Sounds over-the-top enough for an opera.
I know it got mentioned as a throwaway joke in an online comic strip about a "Battlestar Galatica" musical (in response to the news about "Last Starfighter" -that was linked to in a thread on this board IIRC) but I'm surprised someone hasn't adapted the 1980 version of "Flash Gordon" into a stage musical. The goofy plot, the garish costumes,the broad dumb cardboard characters, the special effects, the Queen music that could be adapted or expanded. I know little about Broadway, and usually hate musicals of most types anyway, but it sounds like it could be a cross between "Starlight Express" and "Phantom of the Opera".
Then again as a fan of The Byrds/Roger McGuinn, I still wish someone would stage the aborted musical McGuinn co-wrote with Jacques Levy called "Gene Tryp" years ago. It was supposed to be a country-rock western adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play "Peer Gynt". They never got the backing, but McGuinn used several of the songs on later Byrds albums, most were pretty good. The descriptions don't sound anymore complex than some of the elaborate stuff they do on Broadway now.
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