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rockfenris2005 04:13 am UTC 12/03/09 |
| In reply to: | So you really think this is gonna go? - BULLWHIP 10:37 pm UTC 12/01/09 |
| A lot of people are actively trying to make it happen. That’s good enough for me. What you also have to remember is how difficult it is to produce a major new work of musical theatre these days. Revivals, “jukebox” musicals and famous movie adaptations have all become the norm on Broadway and in the West End for a reason. Anything else is too much of a risk these days and shows like “Next to Normal” are the exception and not the rule. Prove me wrong. But this is based on my experience as a writer myself and basically having to produce my own show if I ever want to see it done. Also, if you want to see a convincing and well done spectacle these days, you have to spend in excess of at least $15 million. “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” is rumoured to have a budget of US$52 million which is the highest budget in the history of musical theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to “The Phantom of the Opera” will probably cost just as much when you take into consideration the back to back launches in London and New York. And then you have Shanghai, Sydney and/or Melbourne where it’s moving next. Again, this is all in a short amount of time. With that said, I wish it wasn’t like this. Musical theatre feels like it’s becoming too much of an impossible dream. I think if we ever want the artform to survive we have to do what Jim did back in college, a great intimate and powerful little show like “The Dream Engine” which I feel only ever relied on the power of words and music. Perhaps if this dream becomes too impossible, we’ll return to a golden age when it was all about substance more than spectacle. In the meantime, I’m prepared to wait for “Bat out of Hell” which, like everyone else, is battling against some almost immeasurably impossible odds, but I do wish that Jim wouldn’t devote himself entirely to this one project because I want to hear the new music written and produced by Steinman for some of the world’s most famous recording artists. Example, Adam Lambert could do a thrilling version of “Body” and I’d love to hear Susan Boyle and Paul Potts record a duet version of “Not allowed to love…” My 200 cents. | |
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