SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
#1SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 1:46am
At the SCANDALOUS CD signing the other day, Kathie Lee said she had meetings this week about making a movie out of the show.
Seriously.
ZoeTheGoat
Understudy Joined: 5/9/12
#2SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 2:14am
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#3SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 2:17am
Oh my god. Please let this happen.
I mean....can you imagine?
....but the world goes 'round
#4SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 6:47amThe life of Aimee WOULD make a wonderful movie, and Carolee should play her---but if you're gonna do it, start from scratch. Don't springboard off material hat has already proven itself to be a failure. And don't make it a musical.
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#5SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 7:42amShe is so delusional and must get off on being humiliated. She probably thinks it will be the next Les Miz. I say Adele or Taylor for the lead! Or maybe go the color blind way and think Fantasia.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 7:56amNow, when she says "movie", wouldn't Hallmark Channel count?
#7SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 8:53am
To be fair, Kathie Lee didn't make some announcement that she was working on a movie. The truly delusional party was the audience member who asked during the Q&A section if she was adapting Scandalous into a movie.
The audience member added something like, "I mean Les Miz just had such success, why shouldn't you adapt it!?" to which Kathie Lee quickly responded, "Well I think Les Miz did run a little bit longer than Scandalous did."
She did say she had worked on a screenplay, but the meetings that week were just to discuss Scandalous' future- possibility of tours, a concert version, regional productions, etc.
The signing was A LOT of fun. Kathie Lee is a riot and I hope she writes a one-woman show for herself. I don't think she's delusional at all. In fact she's very self-deprecating.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#8SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 9:39amShe specifically said she had a meeting about turning it into a film.
#9SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:14am
"Kathie Lee is a riot and I hope she writes a one-woman show for herself. I don't think she's delusional at all. In fact she's very self-deprecating."
I have heard from several people that she's a delight in real life. However, she is delusional; her delusion is that she believes she's a good writer. But as long as there are loons loony enough to pay money to support this delusion, more power to her.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#10SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:24am
I think it might work BETTER as a film. In our society so obsessed with celebrity and such I think it could work.
It would work better IF they cut the music and make it a straight dramedy (drama/comedy).
If they can get an A-lister (maybe Kathie Lee herself) to play Aimee at various stages of her life (I say double casting the role is the way to go.)
Magalamb
Chorus Member Joined: 7/28/08
#11SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:27amThere already is (essentially) a movie based on her life, the fabulous "The Miracle Woman" with Barbara Stanwyck, directed by Frank Capra.
#12SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:27amKathie Lee was SO SO SO SO SO nice. I really didn't expect her to be as gracious and talkative as she was, especially to her fans. It really wasn't that crowded at the signing and I would say a good 40% of the people there didn't even buy the CD so when it was time for people to line up and get them signed, the room pretty much cleared out. But the line still took forever because she was just talking and talking and talking with everyone and taking pictures signing any and everything. It was actually pretty cool. Oh, and I met Hoda!
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#14SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:41am
It was very cool to meet her. I'm at work when her hour of the Today show is on, but she was so quick with a joke that I wished I was able to watch more.
When she said, "I've never been in a horror movie, but I have been in a lot of horr-ible movies," I cracked up.
newintown, Maybe she is delusional that she thought Scandalous was well-written, but she did admit, "This show may not have been everyone's cup of tea, or even everyone's stein of beer, but it certainly was a lot of people's glass of wine!"
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#15SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 10:51am
Not just the endless and turgid Scandalous, but don't forget the cliché-laden Under The Bridge. There's also a rumor that she's working on a(nother) musical of It's A Wonderful Life, which one can easily imagine, based on her prior efforts, will be dull and trite.
Like I said, there are many who adore her, personally and professionally. I'm afraid that (to me) she'll always represent a certain kind of Middle American plastic hypocrisy - that need to pretend everything about you is perfect and bright, desperately trying to hide those (real) dark edges that keep peskily peeking out.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#16SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 11:00am
I saw SCANDALOUS the night after Sandy. And returned for closing. I found it fun in that horrible, campy flop kinda way. But actually like the score (or some of it, at least) now that I've heard the CD.
A terrible show. But not necessarily a bad idea for one.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#17SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 11:04amI agree that McPherson's life could be adapted into a good show; it just needs writers who actually know what they're doing, rather than blindly shooting into the dark.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#19SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 12:04pm
There was also that highly publicized made-for-TV film in the '70s with Faye Dunaway as the harlot and Bette Davis as its mother. (The gossip columnists had a field day with that one. Davis took a very public dislike of Dunaway and gave interviews comparing working with her to working with Joan Crawford. Needless to say, the atmosphere on the set became quite, um, frosty.)
Updated On: 7/19/13 at 12:04 PM
#20SCANDALOUS: The Movie?
Posted: 7/19/13 at 12:39pm
Newintown, your comments about her choice of material and her Middle American everything-is-fine plasticity made me think of something.
Kathie Lee tends to pick material, and I would wager accidentally, that supports this view of her. She takes stories that have edges of the American Gothic, the grotesque, the blackly comic, and tries to use them as trite, sentimental tales. Consider Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo's "It's A Wonderful Life," which goes in and out of being titled "A Wonderful Life." This musical emphasizes the darkness beneath the surface of the Capra film more than the film itself ever did, but still covers it in a sentimental, somewhat cheesy facade for most of the time.
If you had an author stronger than Gifford, who would be willing to allow the tragicomic and the grotesque free rein in stories like Semple's or George Bailey's, you could create a great story and great songs. But Gifford is not that author.
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