When it comes to jukebox musicals, and I would assume you would know that it is a musical that takes songs of an artist/singer/group and works a story into it. But do you prefer jukebox musicals that works a fictional story around the songs like Mamma Mia and All Shook Up or do you prefer when they tell you the story of that artist like Buddy: The Buddy Holly, Jersey Boys, and Beautiful: The Carole King musical. But which do you prefer and why?
shareI like them both. I just saw the Beautiful Broadway tour a week ago and it was wonderful, as is Jersey Boys - I'm fine with something like Mamma Mia!, too. At some point I think we would get tired of "jukebox" musicals just being one real-life success story after another - so it's fine with me to use the songs and a fictional story.
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I saw we all have our rights to our own opinions, I haven't seen Beautiful the Carole King musical, it has played near me but I chose not to see it, but I do see that it is coming back in more of a limited run then it was the first time. But I for sure have seen Jersey Boys. Would you be fine with seeing a film version of Beautiful the Carole King some day just like Jersey Boys did but I bet at this point there is no plans for a film version yet.
shareA good story is a good story. Doesn't change anything for me that I know the music going in. I have known dozens of the original scores by heart before I saw the show the first time and it didn't ruin it for me.
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Would you be fine with seeing a film version of Beautiful the Carole King some day just like Jersey Boys did but I bet at this point there is no plans for a film version yet.
They probably won't make a movie of Beautiful. Jersey Boys was a huge hit on stage - but the Jersey Boys movie was pretty much a box-office bomb.
Just a guy in Texas who loves movies.
They probably won't make a movie of Beautiful. Jersey Boys was a huge hit on stage - but the Jersey Boys movie was pretty much a box-office bomb.
Who knows it is hard to say, but even when they were making the movie version of Jersey Boys they didn't know how it would do in theaters until it opened and plus movies can't play In movie theaters forever cause sooner or later they have to leave the theaters and go on dvd and blu-ray.
I personally do not like most jukebox musicals and prefer original music specifically written for a show... Just me.
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