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Hamilton is the biggest Broadway phenomenon since ever. Personally, I think you’re a looney tune if you wait in grocery-store-before-a-snowstorm type lines just for a chance to drop several hundred dollars on tickets for a musical, no matter how dope Hamilton is supposed to be. But kudos to Lin-Manuel Miranda, dude came up with a pure heat concept and now he’s got millions and millions of bingo dingos in the bank. He’s just rolling in it.
But I honestly hope he’s been fiscally responsible with his cash, maybe set up an IRA, did some investing in some strong indexes (am I using these buzzwords correctly?) because there’s a new show coming to NYC that – if I were a gambling man, which I am – I’d bet dethrones Hamilton. It’s Friends! The Musical!, and it sounds awesome.
Per The Independent:
Since Friends finished almost 13 years ago, fans of the series have been pining for more stories concerning Rachel, Monica, Joey, Chandler, Phoebe, and Ross.
Fear not, New Yorkers, as a musical based on the TV show is moving from Chicago to the Big Apple later this year. While the project is officially linked to the series, there’s been a huge amount of media interest since the move to New York was announced thanks to the acclaimed writers behind it.
Bob and Tobly McSmith — who have previously written off-broadway hits 90210! The Musical!, Kardashian: The Musical!, Full House! The Musical!, and Bayside! The Musical! — have penned the production, titled Friends! The Musical!.
Songs that will feature include ‘The One Where We Make A Million Dollars An Episode’, ‘The Only Coffee Shop in New York’, ‘Oh. My God. It’s Janice!’, and, of course ‘We’ll Always Be There For You.’
How is this thing only going to be off-Broadway? That’s utterly bamboozling. I mean, this idea is gold Jerry gold. It’s destined for greatness. Do these people even know how much money New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s (I believe we call them ‘millennials’) will shell out to see a Friends musical? We spend crazy amounts of time watching re-runs on Netflix, you’re telling me we wouldn’t sell out the New Amsterdam Theatre for three consecutive years?
Meanwhile, how many Tony Awards is this thing going to win? 100? 200? They ran out of Emmy’s to give the show; again, I don’t condone gambling but as a degenerate gambler myself, I’d say this show is destined to sweep the Tony’s.
In the end, it appears that it won’t be Aaron Burr responsible for Hamilton‘s undoing, but rather Chandler, Ross, Joey, Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe. .
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Seinfeld: The Musical! It’s a song about nothing!
Going to commit some “90’s kid blasphemy” here. I hate Friends.
Same. Friends isn’t THAT good. Especially now we’re in the golden age of TV and the bar has been raised, there’s just so many shows of higher quality out there to devote my time and attention to rather than rewatching Friends or a Broadway spinoff for nostalgia.
Friends hasn’t aged well. At all. Every year, it looks worse and worse compared to Seinfield.
Friends is gold. You all are animals.
Nah it’s a 90s sitcom that, like some have said, hasn’t aged as well as Seinfeld. There are much better shows that are gold standard.
Thank you for saying this. I don’t think I’ve ever watched more than 5 minutes of Friends in my whole life
For a sitcom, it’s a pretty good show. But it definitely can’t compete with the TV shows of this decade.
Holy shit, I bet this is awful.
With the director’s track record of producing musicals like Bayside and Kardashian: the Musical, I see absolutely no way this Friends musical can go wrong. Either that, or he’s just pulling a move from the Producers.
Reminder, dinner tonight in the upper room! Heads up, one of you is gonna hand me over to sinners to die. But after three days, I will rise again. After dinner, we’ll go pray in the garden.
Friends may be the most overrated television show of all time.
“Overrated” style takes are garbage
Your take is overrated
This is gonna be the next Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
the only commercial remakes that really have success are the Disney type, Frozen will make a disgusting amount of money when it opens, Lion King and Aladin top the bway grosses each week, Anastasia is having a very strong oepning. Legally blonde, which was hilarious, didn’t last 2 years, Charlie and the Chocolate factory is currently bombing. Heathers never made it to Broadway, and Mean Girls will be a novelty.
Do all those musical(!) titles actually have multiple(!) exclamation points?!
Nobody gives a shit about the TV or Movie remake musicals. American Psycho was on broadway for a second last year and it totally flopped – I’m a big fan of the movie but it would have been a waste of money to even check out. This will be equally bad. Hamilton is in a league of its own.
Tbh, I really liked the music for the American Psycho musical. I have no idea why it was made, but it’s really cool why simultaneously having no reason to exist.