Beetlejuice made the challenging transition from screen to stage so successfully in Broadway.
Broadway. Adapting a beloved movie into a Broadway musical is an intimidating enough creative endeavor on its own -- never mind tackling one that's achieved cult favorite status. That's just the challenge the creative team behind the new Beetlejuice faced, taking Tim Burton's visually spectacular, twisted comedy to the stage.
But thanks to a great deal of eye-popping stagecraft, an incredibly game cast and a tonally on-point score by composer and lyricist Eddie Perfect, the show has won wide acclaim - and, now, eight Tony nominations, including for best original score for Perfect and best musical.
Actors Sophia-Anne Caruso (Lydia) and Kerry Butler (Barbara) discuss how Beetlejuice made the challenging transition from screen to stage so successfully. "You're always juggling serving the film and people's memory of it and its iconic imagery, and trying to make it work onstage in a two act structure," says Perfect, who spent most of his career thus far in Australia and started out largely writing solo comedy shows with original songs.
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A JAW-DROPPING FUN HOUSE"
- The New York Times
It’s showtime, folks! The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in this edgy and irreverent musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film. BEETLEJUICE tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium, and the biggest sandworm Broadway has ever seen.
