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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 4, 2019 10:30:31 GMT
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Post by woobl on Sept 4, 2019 10:52:11 GMT
Interesting. Considering the show takes place over one casting session, there's going to be a lot of filling going on to cover a whole season!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 4, 2019 11:24:12 GMT
Backstories, flashbacks, I can see it working. And RM knows what he’s doing.
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Post by sf on Sept 4, 2019 11:32:06 GMT
Interesting. Considering the show takes place over one casting session, there's going to be a lot of filling going on to cover a whole season!
I would guess it'll be the story of the show's development, from the late-night taped sessions that set the ball rolling (and from which several of the show's characters and a lot of the script were drawn) through the workshop process to the Broadway opening and maybe beyond. There's plenty of material there to fill ten episodes of a TV series.
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Post by robertb213 on Sept 4, 2019 15:40:17 GMT
Great news. He's got so many projects on the go, he must never sleep!
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Post by justfran on Sept 4, 2019 18:42:37 GMT
Ooh this sounds great. I agree that I think they will use backstories of the performers to fill out the episodes. This can fill the “Smash” shaped hole in our lives 😊
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 4, 2019 20:17:42 GMT
Who am I any? Is that my resume. This is a picture of a person I don't know.
What should I try to be? What does he want from me? There so many people all around and here we go. I need this job. Oh, God I need this show.
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Post by Dr Tom on Sept 6, 2019 6:48:40 GMT
Is this a story of how the musical was developed and made?
Or is it simply the musical spread over a longer time period with more filler?
Just curious as I think people here are talking at cross-purposes. The Variety new story suggests the latter to me.
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Post by viserys on Sept 6, 2019 7:19:03 GMT
My guess is that each episode will have an extensive flashback of one of the performers, based on the respective solo number they sing on the show.
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Post by freckles on Sept 6, 2019 13:04:04 GMT
I think this sounds a bit dreary; stretched over so long there could potentially be far too much introspective dialogue and not enough musical numbers to balance it all out. But I hope I'm wrong, I like the show.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 6, 2019 14:18:45 GMT
What's very interesting about A Chorus Line is not just its making, but the attempt from the original cast to get percentage of the box office/claim ownership on the material since much of what happens on stage are their own stories. I'm sure we'll see a lot of backstage post-opening night drama in this.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 27, 2021 15:56:44 GMT
Interesting. Considering the show takes place over one casting session, there's going to be a lot of filling going on to cover a whole season!
I would guess it'll be the story of the show's development, from the late-night taped sessions that set the ball rolling (and from which several of the show's characters and a lot of the script were drawn) through the workshop process to the Broadway opening and maybe beyond. There's plenty of material there to fill ten episodes of a TV series.
Found this in a WoS article from November 20: www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/ryan-murphy-a-chorus-line-netflix-film_52828.html |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 9, 2022 15:59:34 GMT
Anyone heard anything about this? Is it even still happening?
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Post by nick on Dec 9, 2022 17:25:35 GMT
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Post by alicechallice on Dec 9, 2022 17:32:02 GMT
Anyone heard anything about this? Is it even still happening? It definitely will be because Ryan Murphy's output for Netflix has been very successful this year though he's got a mountain of things he's planning to make with them. We've probably just got to wait until he's got the time. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 9, 2022 17:36:52 GMT
Cheers! The description of what they’re doing with it is pretty much what our member sf predicted upthread 3 years ago! |
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Post by marob on Dec 9, 2022 19:58:03 GMT
He has a history of announcing things prematurely.
Season 2 of American Crime Story was to be about Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath, with a third season to follow about Gianni Versace. Then they swapped it so Versace was season 2, and announced a fourth about Lewinsky and the Clintons. Katrina was cast before being scrapped altogether. The Clinton one was also scrapped but then did eventually get made a few years later as season 3. There’s now supposed to be a fourth season about Studio 54.
Feud season 2 was supposed to star Matthew Goode and Rosamunde Pike as Charles and Diana but was never made. 5 years on and the second season is apparently going star Tom Hollander as Truman Capote instead.
From a quick look at google news he doesn’t seem to have mentioned it in over 2 years, and Netflix cancelled a lot of shows earlier this year. It doesn’t look good, but then everything being up in the air and a bit chaotic seems to be normal.
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