Beetlejuice musical on the cards from Warner Brothers and director Alex Timbers.
A Beetlejuice musical has been announced for the 2018/ 2019 season.
Over the weekend new about a forthcoming Beetlejuice musical hit the web. Well, this is very real and said Beetlejuice musical is set to hit the stage on New York City’s Broadway during the 2018 – 2019 season.
Information is a little vague at the moment but Alex Timbers (Rocky: The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher) is behind the project, which will be produced by Warner Brothers.
The New York Post reports most of the news.
Details are very vague, but we’re assuming that the wonderful version of Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song,” will make it into the musical, as well as many other golden moments from Tim Burton’s classic 1980s movie. If you unaware of the film, here’s the plot.
After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.
The film was released in the summer of 1988, just a year before Michael Keaton went on to star as Batman (also from Burton). It is widely regarded as a classic and a Beetlejuice sequel has been on the cards in Hollywood for many years.
We’re hoping that the Beetlejuice musical makes it on to the West End (if its a success on Broadway), and that it matches the quality of that awesome movie.
We’ll bring you more news on the Beetlejuice musical as it comes in. For the moment, let’s relive that Banana Boat Song moment from the original film.
