One day, someone will take a collection of popular songs from the 1990s and turn it into a nostalgia musical.
Update July 2016: I was wondering if this had happened yet. I suppose you could count “American Idiot,” but apparently the album was intended to tell a story, so it’s not quite the same as someone stringing together the hits of ABBA or whoever.
It turns out someone put together a Spice Girls–inspired musical in 2012. It was not well-reviewed and didn’t last very long.
Saw Noises Off at South Coast Repertory. Hilarious. Also brings back memories from high school and college productions.
Home from seeing Brent Spiner in Man of La Mancha. Very good.
Update: Here’s a friend’s review of the production.
Just got back from seeing “The School of Night” in LA. Good play. Awful drive. Must sleep.
The latest newsletter for the Center Theatre Group includes a mention of The Fly: The Opera. Yes, The Fly, based on the sci-fi film about a scientist who gets combined with a housefly in a teleportation accident. And its remake. As an opera. 😯
Plácido Domingo conducts the U.S. premiere of the LA Opera-commissioned opera written by Oscar®-winning composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings)based on the original 1957 George Langelaan short story as well as David Cronenberg’s 1986 film, with a libretto by the Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly).
I used to figure, if someone can turn The Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, and Jekyll and Hyde into a musical, nothing should surprise me. But… seriously… The Fly? And not just a musical, but an opera? And the creative team: Placido Domingo and David Henry Hwang working with David Cronenberg?
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