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Scaramouche 11:57 am UTC 05/22/10 |
| Get the feeling the project is kinda rudderless at the moment? I fear that if Jim is (still) in control and the 'driving force' then it may never happen. Forget Lord of Excess, more Lord of Procrastination? I would suggest that any projects he has had success with, have always seemed to have someone else at the helm? (Todd, Polanski, ALW and various record labels geeing the thing along). Not a criticism, just an observation that if Jim concentrates on the songs/music and someone else looks after the project as a whole, it gets to the finish line a lot quicker? I can't really comment on the current so-called producers, as no-one really knows who they are or what they have done already (apart from an Evening Standard Ad), but perhaps someone with a fresh impetus & perspective needs to take over (as what has happened with Spiderman)? Is the book too 'weird', and therefore not getting the financial backing? Never a huge fan of Jim's 1977 Neverland script, and if the new show is based on this, then it may be proving too weird for the money men? I can't believe there isn't the necessary investment out there to bankroll a musical based on BOOH songs, so it must be the book, right? Can Jim write great musicals ON HIS OWN? There is no disputing his songwriting abilities but is he a musical book writer? Dream Engine, Rhinegold, Neverland etc are all wired & wonderful in their own right, but need a lot of work to make them viable for Broadway/West End? Maybe a (solo) Jim Steinman book isn't right for Broadway/West End? Maybe as a book writer he is merely destined for off-broadway cultdom? Maybe it should be a film first? I can see Tim Burton taking Jim's script (& songs) and turning it into something great, with Depp as Hook. I loved what he did with Sweeney Todd, and I think Peter Pan is right up his street? Jim's scene descriptions for the show (albeit 4 years ago) seemed far more suited to film than a stage and I'm sure with Tim Burton's name attached, the project would be 'green lit', as they say in Hollywood (I think). Having said all that, maybe the show is just around the corner, as a musical, and I've just wasted 15 minutes talking bollocks? I hope so. LoL | |
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