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Mean Girls: The Musical?
RockabyeHamlet
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#25re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:06amlakezurich- What?! No Herbie: Fully Loaded?
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#26re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:16pmBoq, that's my problem with "Devil Wears Prada." It just seems like Miranda Priestly would never sing about anything...nothing gets to her enough.
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#27re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:03pmHow 'bout Requiem For a Dream with Christine Ebersole and Cheyenne?
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#28re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:25pmThough I like the idea, I'd rather Heathers be made into a musical.
#29re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:40pmI'd rather have Heathers myself.
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rich.hanson59
Stand-by Joined: 8/7/07
#30re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:27pm
I think that Mean Girls would make a very good show. I'd like to see:
Cady: Anneliese Van Der Pol
Regina: Kerry Butler
Gretchen: Leslie Kritzer
Dumb plastic(name?): Diana DeGarma
Regina's mom; Cheno
I'd see it
#31re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:32pmDumb plastic = Karen
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#32re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:32pmWow, rich, you really nailed the cast there. *and I'm not being sarcastic*.
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Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#33re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:13amMiranda Priestly's tempo for a song would only allow her to sing like one verse, any more and the show would run too long.
#34re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:41amWhat about when she's in Paris talking about her divorce? That could be an emotional song...
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Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#35re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 2:55amIf she didn't sing at all until then? I mean it could be a very stylized world, with the heirarchys and so on.
rich.hanson59
Stand-by Joined: 8/7/07
#36re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:58amYou could probably fit in a song when shes explaining to Andy about her blue sweater
#37re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 11:56amI would imagine that Miranda's songs (if this is ever done) wouldn't be conventional, but almost militant marches type of songs. Much like most of Blood in the Water from Legally Blonde. Barely sung but fast talking with a beat.
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#38re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:57pm
I would love to see a musical of Mean Girls.
well... I'd actually be terrified. There's no way it could be as good as the movie. The movie is so...perfect. I actually watched a little bit of it last night :). SUCH an amazing movie.
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#39re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 8:30pmOMG I hope this happens! I love the movie...I just hope they don't mess it up.
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#40re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 8:45pm
"I would imagine that Miranda's songs (if this is ever done) wouldn't be conventional, but almost militant marches type of songs. Much like most of Blood in the Water from Legally Blonde. Barely sung but fast talking with a beat."
Exactly. Like "I Don't Get It," from Catch Me If You Can
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Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#41re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:18pm
I find it so cool when Craig puts in his opinion...
I like that idea though.
#42re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:19pm
"I find it so cool when Craig puts in his opinion... "
Chill, he's not MargoChanning.
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YoYo12345
Understudy Joined: 7/26/07
#43re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:13pm..sure hope Miss Cheno isn't checking up on this thread.
#44re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:39pm
If it happens, I would hope that Tina Fey would be involved in adapting it.
The heart and humor was completely sucked out of "The Wedding Singer" and I would hope that the same wouldn't happen to "Mean Girls," as the humor used in it is the only defining difference from it and other such teen movies (ie "The Sleepover").
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#45re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:45pmYeah, I agree that Tina would definitely have to be involved with that. She is brilliant.
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#46re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:05pmI actually love the idea and would kill to hear the song "I don't hate you because you're fat, you're fat because I hate you!"
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#47re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:12pm
See thats what I don't want to see.
There are clearly two different ways you can go with a film>musical adaptation.
Legally Blonde/The Wedding Singer or Grey Gardens.
Obviously content governs a certain amount of this adaptation, but at the same time I think that Legally Blonde succeeded where TWS didn't because it was able to bring in charm (quite possibly not the same as that of the film) that created a fast fanbase.
I think Grey Gardens is a supremely funny and heart-wrenching film, and the songs of the musical capatilize on both the silly happenings of the movie (Jerry likes my corn or Edie's monologue about costumes for the day) as well as the overriding emotion a character is experiencing ("Another Winter" and "Will You?") which created a show and score that couldn't be tossed away as trying to replace the dialogue rather than trying to accent it.
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Updated On: 8/9/07 at 04:12 PM
#48re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:17pmThe other thing that made Grey Gardens work as a musical is that they didn't tie themselves down to the film order. They added an arc for Little Edie (actually GETTING to the gate) and played with the dialogue. It sounds like the problem with "Young Frankenstein" already is that they're trying to be too faithful to the movie instead of adapting and toying with it.
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#49re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:34pm
would love to see this! I think it really has potential as a musical, alot of it seems very adaptable. But I agree that Tina Fay would have to be involved.
Oooo, now I really want this to happen.
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