Stage Directions: Tim Burton, who wrote and directed the film Beetlejuice, has such a distinctive vision. What has been the process of translating his work to the stage, because presumably it’s not just about copying what he did.
It’s funny because, with Alex Timbers, I have had an opportunity to translate Tim Burton before. We did Pee-Wee Herman on Broadway, and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was his first movie. I think part of the challenge with Tim Burton is we forget how early on Beetlejuice was in his trajectory, and how much his iconography and his oeuvre have become an imprint on what his films look like.
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