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How The Grinch Stole Broadway

June 27, 2006

Only five years ago—although it feels like only yesterday, the scars are still fresh, our ears still ringing—“Seussical” the musical screeched across the musical theater landscape.

Now, the Dr. Seuss is back from the dead to horrify theater queens this holiday season. “Grinch,” the musical will make its Broadway debut in November. Previews of the show begin Oct. 25.

Theodore Geisel, the creator of all things Seuss, died in 1991. His widow has given her blessing to the new show. Doesn’t she—or anyone—remember how off-kilter “Seussical” was? Doesn’t anyone remember how not even Rosie O’Donnel as a crass, butch “Cat in the Hat” could save it? And for heavens sake, the movie with Jim Carrey was a disaster.

Please, everyone: leave the Dr. Seuss books as books!

 

Comments

Chris Holden wrote:

While you'll get no argument from me on your spot-on points, all that these Broadway backers of the new Dr. Seuss show have to know about the Jim Carrey "Grinch" film -- disaster or not -- is that it pulled in more than $250,000,000 ...

Visions of $$$ dancing in their heads ...

posted at June 27, 2006 04:57 PM

AaronSwit wrote:

Seussical The Musical was not as big a disaster as everyone makes it out to be. That musical combined over 20 Dr. Seuss books to creativly follow a very heartwarming tale. Aslo, for everyone's information, "Seussical" is one of the most popular musicals in America's High Schools. For those of us who grew up on Dr. Seuss, I say keep the Seuss comming!

posted at June 29, 2006 11:29 AM

joe c wrote:

I grew up with Seuss, too (bigtime), and this recent Hollywood crap is all one big fat disgusting commercial mess. His widow and the rest of the family are no more than a group of money grubbing whores disgracing the man's memory. I was hoping that the Cat in the Hat would completely sour everyone from touching any more of his work, but now there's a Grinch musical?

Did ANYone get the lesson from the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

posted at July 4, 2006 06:37 AM

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