COYOTE UGLY musical adaptation with music by Diane Warren to premiere in West End in 2027

directing & choreography by Jerry Mitchell

Im happy to be surprised. But truthfully no thanks!

Ensemble1711444445 said: "Love everyone involved. But can we stop with every movie needs to be a musical?"

Hundreds of movies are made each year. A very very small percentage of them ever get turned into musicals or plays.

Diane Warren keeps missing out on the Oscar, so I guess she's gunning for the Olivier instead

Ensemble1711444445 said: "Lets see if we can get that percentage lower...just from what I knowis in development -it is all movies all the time.

SteveSanders said: "Ensemble1711444445 said: "Love everyone involved. But can we stop with every movie needs to be a musical?"

Hundreds of movies are made each year. A very very small percentage of them ever get turned into musicals or plays.

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It used to be plays and books... but nobody reads books or goes to plays anymore. You adapt from what's in the vernacular, and film has BEEN the vernacular for at least half a century.

Some of you and your sweeping generalizations. Geez.

RippedMan said: "Ensemble1711444445 said: "Love everyone involved. But can we stop with every movie needs to be a musical?



rosscoe(au) said: "Im happy to be surprised. But truthfully no thanks!"

Can we turn GOOD movies into musicals. Not everything works for the stage - Beaches, etc - and this doesn't strike me as too theatrical. I could understand why with the bar dancing, but the characters don't seem big enough.

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This is the exact opposite of what needs to happen. There is no purpose in turning good movies into musicals. By nature of being good you are begin the process at a place of "inserting songs into thing that was already good in it's original form." The skill in adapting is not writing perfectly acceptable songs and shoving them into a story we all already liked. It's taking something that's questionable and creating a work that delivers.

Now, that being said, the idea of a Diane Warren musical makes me wanna walk off a bridge. Tesori (with what lyricist I couldn't say) or JRB would've been my choice for this. The main character wants to be a Laurel Canyon redux singer-songwriter. Personally, I find that quite boring but both composers have proven themselves capable of translating that vibe into true blue musical theatre. They can also do the rowdier numbers that the bar scenes call for.

Warren will probably eek out one tolerable ballad for this but an entire evening of them? God save us all.

Ke3 said: "RippedMan said: "Ensemble1711444445 said: "Love everyone involved. But can we stop with every movie needs to be a musical?



rosscoe(au) said: "Im happy to be surprised. But truthfully no thanks!"

Can we turn GOOD movies into musicals. Not everything works for the stage - Beaches, etc - and this doesn't strike me as too theatrical. I could understand why with the bar dancing, but the characters don't seem big enough.

"

This is the exact opposite of what needs to happen. There is no purpose in turning good movies into musicals. By nature of being good you are begin the processat a place of "inserting songs into thing that was already good in it's original form." The skill in adapting is not writing perfectly acceptable songs and shoving them into a story we all already liked. It's taking something that's questionable and creating a work that delivers.

Now, that being said, the idea of a Diane Warren musical makes me wanna walk off a bridge. Tesori (with what lyricist I couldn't say) or JRB would've been my choice for this. The main character wants to be a Laurel Canyon redux singer-songwriter. Personally, I find that quite boring but both composers have proven themselves capable of translating that vibe into true blue musical theatre. They can also do the rowdier numbers that the bar scenes callfor.

Warren will probably eek out one tolerable ballad for this but an entire evening of them? God save us all."



Except Warren wrote the four songs Piper Perabo’s sings in the film and recorded and made famous by LeAnn Rimes. So having Diane Warren write the music you know damn well the songs “But I Do Love You” and “ Can’t Fight the Moonlight” will make it into the show. Although they absolutely should try and get The Devil went down to Georgia included in the show!


Also… slightly off topic haha, but when I was in Denver before going to see my favorite artist Tash Sultana at Red Rocks, my best friend and I kept seeing these signs with arrows saying “this way to the best views in Denver” so we were following these random signs and they brought us up this large stairway going up…. Leading us to a Coyote Ugly bar. 🤣

Ke3 said: "RippedMan said: "Ensemble1711444445 said: "Love everyone involved. But can we stop with every movie needs to be a musical?



rosscoe(au) said: "Im happy to be surprised. But truthfully no thanks!"

Can we turn GOOD movies into musicals. Not everything works for the stage - Beaches, etc - and this doesn't strike me as too theatrical. I could understand why with the bar dancing, but the characters don't seem big enough.

"

This is the exact opposite of what needs to happen. There is no purpose in turning good movies into musicals. By nature of being good you are begin the processat a place of "inserting songs into thing that was already good in it's original form." The skill in adapting is not writing perfectly acceptable songs and shoving them into a story we all already liked. It's taking something that's questionable and creating a work that delivers.

Now, that being said, the idea of a Diane Warren musical makes me wanna walk off a bridge. Tesori (with what lyricist I couldn't say) or JRB would've been my choice for this. The main character wants to be a Laurel Canyon redux singer-songwriter. Personally, I find that quite boring but both composers have proven themselves capable of translating that vibe into true blue musical theatre. They can also do the rowdier numbers that the bar scenes callfor.

Warren will probably eke out one tolerable ballad for this but an entire evening of them? God save us all."

I’m sorry but a Tesori Coyote Ugly is a wild idea haha. This show just needs to be fun and catchy. They aren’t going for art.

Recalling Hammerstein's assignments for the young Sondheim, I think good musicals can be made from good material or very flawed material. Maybe it's easier to answer the "why" question when the source material isn't very good to begin with, but it's definitely possible to take a great movie and adapt it into a great musical: Smiles of a Summer Night and Hairspray come to mind.

Jerry Mitchell isn't right for every musical, but this one could be a perfect fit for him. Quite interesting.

It's very BURLESQUE in its set-up, but a few things about this intrigue me. The first is that the original writer is adapting it. If it is going back to her original screenplay before it was put through the Hollywood factory, maybe the producers are aiming for a storyline with a bit more sincerity.
The second is that the story actually presents itself as a great framework for a musical. If you know the movie, you can see a lot of the numbers forming in your head and how, if the money is there, they can make an impressive staging.

Then again, it could be BURLESQUE :)

You mean, like, with his development of the female-driven "Boop"?

All joking aside, I don't know if he brings anything more or less to the table than a number of other folks could.