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BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
#25re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 5:53pmI hope he uses his money to buy back the Mark Hellinger from the Times Square Church.
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#26re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 5:55pmThat would certainly be wonderful.
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#27re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 6:05pmI wouldn't call what Brooks does "Composing"
#28re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 6:19pm
Brooks certainly is a business man. but all this makes me wonder if he actually doesn't have a lot of faith in the show. rehearsals are in full swing, arent't they? and they had a lot of casting issues (Mullaly instead of Chenoweth, plus the super-long search for a male lead).
I dunno, I'm admitteddly kind of worried for this show.
Brooks ain't buying back no theatres.
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#29re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 6:27pm
He's not a composer by definition. He hums a tune and hires Glen Kelly, or someone of that rank (Mr. Kelly's work is quite good on every show he's been a part of, I might add) to "flesh out" and actually write the music. Then takes credit for doing it all and credits those who did the real work with lesser titles. PRODUCERS, IMO should be billed in the very least as "Music by Mel Brooks and Glen Kelly".
#30re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 7:50pm
It's his show. How is that a bad thing.....making money on your own show?
That's very smart of people to have all aspects of the money pool.......that shows how smart a business person they are.
How is Mel Brooks making money, on the show that he wrote, a bad thing? What am I missing here?
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#31re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 9:10pmI just recently watched this for the first time and in the "making of", it mentions that this was originally Gene Wilder's screenplay and Mel Brooks was hired as the director and helped him flesh out the screenplay. So anyone know what, if any, role Gene Wilder had in making this a stage musical?
#32re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 9:43pmMoney makes the world go around, the world go around...
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#33re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 9:49pmWilder had no role in making the musical, but I'm sure he's an uncredited royalty recipient.
#34re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 10:19pmI'd love to know how many actual broadway composers do all of the "grunt" work of writing out the full scores and such? The answer I bet would be VERY few of them.
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#35re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 10:20pmJealousy is a terrible, terrible thing.
#36re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 10:35pmI have a feeling that people are building this us so much that the real thing is going to be a terrible disappointment.
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#37re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:03pm
Umgeoboy, while many composers do not write their own incidental or dance music, or often recycle music from other shows or from their trunk, and most have someone else orchestrate their music, most Broadway composers have been capable of recording their own music on paper (Irving Berlin is a notable exception). It's not really grunt work. It's composing.
It's kind of like a novelist hiring someone to type... or spell words, or compose sentences.
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#38re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:15pm
This thing that people are jumping all over Mel for (concerning 'composing') has earned John Barry four Oscars for film score 'composition'.
Welcome to the real world.
If Glen Kelly wants his name recognized, let him compose a score of his own. Meanwhile, it's Mel's name that sells tickets.
And for the record, the awareness and iconic status of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN the movie is WAY more than THE PRODUCERS ever was - this is going to go through the roof.
#39re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:19pmDG, I can't say I disagree. They've marketed Young Frankenstein so much that people will pays hundreds to go see it even if it's the worst thing to ever hit Broadway. Take High School Musical, for example. Was it that great of a movie? Not really. But they marketed it the right way, and now it's virtually impossible to say you've never seen it or at least heard about it.
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#40re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:22pmConsidering who the majority of BWay tickets are sold to these days, this is as close to a sure thing as I can imagine.
#41re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:29pm
Why is everyone so mean-spirited in here? You guys HATE when something is successful---or has the potential for success. It drives me crazy. Then someone has to go drag Disney into this! Oh man...just enjoy! Stop hating EVERYTHING!
Lets pretend this was Sondhein's Young Frankenstein with Lupone as the monster.
Then maybe there would be YF love threads!
Jeeze!!!!
#42re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:33pm
No one hates it because it has the potential to be sucessful, bert.
People I think just don't like Brooks very much for whatever reason, and I guess people aren't happy about his top ticket price.
And I don't know why anyone would wish failure on anyone, but whatever...
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#43re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:37pmI'm not wishing failure on anybody and I'm not saying that Young Frankenstein's gonna flop, because that's ridiculously unlikely, I'm just pointing out that it's all about marketing. Sorry if you took my comment the wrong way.
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#44re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:38pmNo, I was talking about other comments in the thread, not yours Glinda.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
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#45re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:38pm
"Sondhein's Young Frankenstein with Lupone as the monster."
That brings SO MANY vivid mental images - thanks!
#46re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/4/07 at 11:52pm
Lupone would sell even more tickets! I think since there were some musical numbers originally in YF and the fact that Mel was originally involved is building the hype up. It has a great cast, a potentially wicked set, lot's of money being poured into it, lots of reasons to expect this to succeed.
Timing, if they get it all up for the Haunted Season! Only the score could kill it from what I can see. We know with this talent, they will make the best of it. If Sutton wasn't involved, I doubt I would be so excited to see it live.
Mel does have a big ego, at least he is taking his profits and pouring it back into the Theatre, so we could be a little appreciative for that. New jobs, more reasons to come visit New York.
I do believe Mel should share the composing rights if someone helped him do the work. Maybe Kelly didn't want the press? Some people are like that. I don't know how Mel is about these kinds of things and paying for printing fees?
If he doesn't share the wealth, I would be surprised if the staff didn't bark if it makes a mint. That is what keeps Lawyers sitting in the aisles. ;P
#47re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/5/07 at 12:04am
"I wouldn't call what Brooks does "Composing""
Absolutley. It's more like...
Doo, doo, da. Dee, da, dee. Okay Glen, make that sound good!
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#48re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:46amA good show will sell itself---word of mouth travels VERY fast. Jersey Boys is a good example----very little advance word (I just rec'd one of those postcards)--but once it hit the stage---the demand became incredible. (and then so did the prices)
#49re: BANKENSTEIN: MEL BROOKS' MONSTER MILLIONS MAY SET RECORDS
Posted: 8/5/07 at 2:13pmWe have no buzz on the actual SHOW yet and if it did flop due to it being bad, it would not be the first green giant to fall.
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