{"id":658,"date":"2007-03-28T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=658"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:00:18","slug":"the-goonies-good-enough-for-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/28\/the-goonies-good-enough-for-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GOONIES: Good Enough For Broadway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201210073642\/http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20016233,00.html\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em> is reporting that while director Richard Donner never really had a solid script for a sequel to his 1985 film <strong>The Goonies<\/strong>, he may be revisiting the story of a group of kids who go on an adventure to find fabled pirate gold to save their land developer-imperiled neighborhood in another form- as a musical! The magazine\u2019s website is reporting that Donner states that there is an active attempt to mount an adaptation of the film onto the Broadway stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Steven [Spielberg, the film\u2019s producer] and I have discussed it, and it&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m fairly passionate about right now,&#8221; <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> quotes Donner.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the chances of actually seeing this movie hit the boards? Better than average, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, both <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/05\/evil-dead-the-musical-groovy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evil Dead: The Musical<\/a><\/em> and <em>The Wedding Singer<\/em> have closed in the past few months, but Broadway producers haven\u2019t given up on adapting movies for the stage. Currently a production of the 1980 disco movie musical <strong>Xanadu<\/strong> is rehearsals for a May opening while last month saw casting notices circulating for an adaptation of Mel Brooks\u2019 comedy <strong>Young Frankenstein<\/strong>. As long as <em>The Producers<\/em>, <em>The Color Purple<\/em> and <em>Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot<\/em> continue to rake in the cash, there will be financial backers willing to pony up cash to mount a stage adaptation of any film they think will draw an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, you know you want to see what kind of production number they turn the \u201cTruffle Shuffle\u201d into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Entertainment Weekly is reporting that while director Richard Donner never really had a solid script for a sequel to his 1985 film The Goonies, he may be revisiting the story of a group of kids <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/28\/the-goonies-good-enough-for-broadway\/\" title=\"THE GOONIES: Good Enough For Broadway?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7865,83,185,34,7863,186,24,187],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-adaptations","8":"tag-classic-films","9":"tag-goonies","10":"tag-musical","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-richard-donner","13":"tag-sequel","14":"tag-truffle-shuffle"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}