Friday, October 08, 2021
'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion' is becoming a musical!
www.timeout.com/newyork: You may have passionately skipped your own high school reunion, but this is one gathering you won't want to miss.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, the 1997 cult classic about best friends (Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) who attend their 10-year high school reunion, is about to hit the stage. Because truly the only improvement these two iconic best friends could have would be more singing and dancing.
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“When will it stop?” was my first thought at reading this, quickly followed by ponderings about when we will run out of films to turn into nostalgia filled musical trips. Personally, I don’t think they'll ever run out and this will be a problem we are dealing with until the end of time. However, I am sort of a sucker for big sets and high energy dance numbers, so I’d probably buy a ticket. I guess I’m simply a part of the problem. One thing this article made me consider was the way we treat every play or musical as a disappointment if it is profound or perfectly done entertainment. I think we ought to treat theater more like film in that we allow some of it to be cliche and tacky and some of it to cultural masterpieces. So perhaps there is room for Romy and Michele on broadway but if it wins best musical so help me god…
I have never heard of this movie before. I am typically a bit annoyed when movies get turned into musicals and then sweep everything. It feels a bit like cheating, like the show creators didn’t have to worry about characters or plot or anything like that because it was already pre made for the show. However, I do find it interesting that more often than not the movies made into musicals tend to be cult classics. I had never heard of this movie before reading about it here. I had never heard of Heather’s before listening to the musical’s soundtrack. Of course this isn’t universal as seen with the Mean Girls Musical but it is interesting at the sheer amount. The show runners may see it as breathing fresh life into the story. Giving it another chance after it didn’t make it big on the silver screen. I think that it is an interesting phenomenon at the very least.
It is absolutely fascinating to me the movies that have been chosen to become musicals in the past decade. My thesis is analyzing different Broadway musicals that were adapted from romantic comedy movies like, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Amelie, and its been so interesting seeing more and more romantic comedies being added to Broadway’s roster of upcoming shows. Traditionally, the model of moving romantic comedies to Broadway has never been as good as an investment as people think it will be. This mainly comes down to the fact that the romantic comedy genre is not one that is popular with the current generation, and Hollywood hasn’t produced one that has had a positive response in years. If the movies aren’t liked by the people who are paying for a tickets, why would they want to say a cheesy musical version of it that will cost 3 times more than the movie?
When I first read the title, my thought was “this is most definitely already a musical” but I couldn’t remember where I had seen it. But I guess it was in the run in Seattle in 2017. Like the other comments, I don’t love when all new musicals are based off of movies because we have so many of those, but that doesn’t make me like the musicals any less. I just wish there was a little more creativity when creating new musicals, but I really don’t think that makes the musicals based on movies any worse. I really liked this musical when I saw it 4 years ago, and I had never seen the movie. So, this musical does stand on its own apart from the movie. And like Jessica said, she had never heard of this movie, so there are a lot of people who don’t know it but could still enjoy it. And from what I noticed when I saw it, everyone who does the movie really well also loved it.
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