On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:43 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In my book Grease is still an inferior Musical, but it makes about one > thousand percent more sense than Peter Pan does. > > Inferior... and not really the right message for modern teenage girls. Also, as I once tried to tell a school principal when she insisted I show the film to middle school students as a reward, it really isn't family-friendly entertainment.
I'm probably in the minority with my opinions (who am I kidding... I am in the minority), but if there has to be televised Broadway musicals, and if they aren't going to use actual Broadway talent, the only way this concept works is with no-holds-barred stunt-casting. Katy Perry as Sandy, one of those One Direction kids as Danny, Lady Gaga as Rizzo, another of those One Direction kids as Kenickie, etc. It still isn't something I'd watch, but if Fox is just phoning in a musical so they can say they did a musical (kind of like they did "Greed" just so they could say they had a gameshow like "Who wants to be a millionaire?"), the least they can do is attach some names. To the larger issue, music specials notoriously underperform in the ratings, and since Fox's primetime is only two hours long, a musical wipes out an entire evening's programing for the network. A special based on a 35 year old film isn't exactly aimed at a desired demographic for advertisers. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
