“Beetlejuice” has not yet died. The production of the national tour of the favorite comedy musical of fans, which has had two previous seasons at Broadway in 2019-2020 and 2022-2023, will reach the stage of New York in this fall, announced the producers last Tuesday.
The show, which is adapted from Tim Burton’s 1988 film and tells the story of a gothic girl and an insistent poltergeist, is scheduled to be presented at the Palace Theater for 13 weeks, starting on October 8 and going until January 3, 2026. The cast will be announced on a later date.
In his critique of the original Broadway production, which had Alex Brightman as the starting ghost in a striped suit, Ben Brantley, from The New York Timespraised Brightman’s performance and the “incredibly well -elaborate gothic entertainment house scenario” by setographer David Korins (the same as “Hamilton”), although it has regretted that the show “overwhelms so much with jokes, effects of effect and visual distractions that you end up turning off by too much stimuli.”
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No matter: the musical became a favorite of fans, with people fantasizing, voice acting on Tiktok’s cast recording and filling the fan art cast.
With text by Scott Brown and Anthony King, music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, and directed by Alex Timbers (who won a Tony Award for driving “Moulin Rouge!”), Theatrical production was nominated for eight Tony awards, but did not win any.
“Beetlejuice” is experiencing a cultural moment: a popular sequence of the film, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, also directed by Burton, was released last year, more than three decades after the original, which had Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Alec Baldwin (Adam Maitland), Catherine O’Hara (Delia Deetz) and a young woman) Winona Ryder (Lydia Deetz).
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The production of the national tour, which began the performances in 2022, has undergone 88 cities in the last 2 and a half years. The musical also had productions in Tokyo; Seoul, in South Korea; and Melbourne, in Australia; And soon it will go to Sydney.
This article was originally published in The New York Times.
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