I agree about First Wives Club (sorry SFK ) but actually I disagree on the other front. It's often a more interesting show (when it comes to musical adaptations) when it's done from a movie that has been out of the public consciousness for a while, and so a fresh angle can be taken without the old "worry' that fans will object.

The whole idea of making these musicals so many years after the movies came out seems odd to me unless the original movies were timeless. First Wives Club was not (I thought it sucked and I think it mostly just got attention because of the stars and the timing), and Soapdish is also of that era. Even a musical version of something like When Harry Met Sally might make more sense.

I watched First Wives club last night and yes it sucked.Never watched the entire Soapdish movie.

Are you all nucking futs?? 1st Wives Club is hilarious! "Lesbians are *great* these days..."

Admittedly, that was one of the last films I saw in the theatre with my mom and it was right before I moved to New York so it had a certain aesthetic charm that I was really into at the time. But what a great cast full of NY theatre faces, costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge, a great soundtrack, and tons of quotable one-liners. Ah well, diff'rent strokes...

I am against this.

This is reminding me of the The First Wives Club musical that never made it to Broadway.

Sometimes a movie (like the two aforementioned) are just such fun campy perfection that they need not be touched. I just think it cheapens the overall impact of the source material. Oh whatever, maybe it'll be great.

But a musical of a film satirizing a television medium, it's all a little too meta for me.

So whatever happened to the novella-esque Soapdish reboot they've been talking about?

*sits and waits for the She-Devil and Death Becomes Her musical announcements*

(and *DEAD* at the young man who commented from Facebook at the bottom of the article, like, of course)

I would LOVE a Death Becomes Her musical.

You pushed me down the staaaaaaaairs

My head, and life, is twisted arooooooound

And look, I can see my aaaaaaaass

I think I put on a few pooooounds

*jazz hands*

I remember admiring a few of the soap actors who, instead of going along with easy PR, said, "This has nothing to do with daytime soaps."

If it has John Stamos I can't see myself watching it.

IIRC, Stamos' last foray onto Broadway was Bye Bye Birdie. I wish him better success with this.

However his involvement would be a perfect PR opportunity seeing as how he got his start in soaps.

Edited October 18, 201213 yr by marceline

He might finally do that Blackie cameo.

(Blackie takes hostages!!!)