Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Stage to screen news


News from New York as just a couple of days ago at the Oct. 6 Revival: Broadway's Next Act panel discussion at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, as possible film adaptations of the award-winning musicals Spring Awakening and In The Heights were mentioned.


Ana Gasteyer moderated the evening, which featured Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik, In the Heights creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda, Legally Blonde director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell, original Rent star Anthony Rapp and "Hairspray" film director Adam Shankman.

Although both refused to go into much detail regarding the topic, I think we can all agree that this is going to happen. With the right casting and with a director like Baz Luhrmann, Rob Marshall, or Stephen Daldry, we could see some powerful film adaptations of important Broadway shows.

1 comment:

lramadei said...

Have you seen the tour blog that the national tour of SA is posting? It's great stuff - youtube.com/totally trucked and totallytrucked.blogspot.com.