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'Copa' starts something big.
Hollywood and Broadway may be a continent apart, but they share an affinity for cannibalizing their own successes.
If one sci-fi special effects epic makes a few hundred million dollars, you can count on seeing many more next summer, just as sure as one successful Broadway stage musical genre revival will inbreed others before the next Tony season.
So don't be surprised if the Jackie Gleason Theater's "Barry Manilow's Copacabane" (running through Sunday, April 15) is just the start of a new trend -- building whole musicals out of incidental characters in minor hit pop songs. If Manilow can wring a play out of Lola the showgirl and her doomed paramour Rico, how long will it be before we see:
* "John Cougar's Jack and Diane": This stage musical will follow the story of "two American kids still doin' the best that they can" 20 years after the original song. Jack is an ex-college football player whose methadone addiction kept him out of the NFL. Diane is a former jeans model working at the Dairy Queen and raising Jack's three kids. Songs include "Suckle' on Chili Dogs (Heart Attack Blues)," "Notch in the Bible Belt" and "Life Goes On (Even After the Thrill of Living is Gone)."
* "Billy Joel's Bottle of Red, Bottle of White": Based on Brenda and Eddie from Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," this musical follows a couple that manages to survive the turmoil of the 1970s without really learning anything or becoming better at their craft. Autobiographical.
* "Herman's Hermits' Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter": A soaring romantic-musical recasting of the Judi Dench film about Queen Victoria. melding historical fact with sunny tunes so light that theater patrons will have to be strapped into their seats. Songs include "Something Good (Widow Finds Love)" and "I'm Henry the IX, I Am."
* "Walt Disney Presents Roxanne": In the full-length Disney musical based on The Police's put-on-the-red-light ...
- Good grief, Charlie Brown: It's been 40 years and the Peanuts gallery is still...
- News wire article from: Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX) October 27, 2006 700+ words
...It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown came on TV. Once ol' Chuck...It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown makes its annual prime...had caught lightning in a bottle." Thompson says much of...It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown at the Charles M. Schulz...
- Minnesota Life Sells Sunburned Charlie Brown For $14,000.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 12, 2001 700+ words
...Minn. -- "Sunburned Charlie Brown," the round-headed...one hand he holds a bottle of suntan lotion labeled...statue was part of the "Charlie Brown Around Town" event...Dozens of statues of Charlie Brown were decorated in as...
- Charlie Brown's To Acquire Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse.
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 27, 2007 700+ words
...LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Charlie Brown's Acquisition Corp., has entered...subject to customary closing conditions. Charlie Brown's Acquisition Corp. is owned by...based private asset management firm. Charlie Brown's Acquisition Corp. owns and operates...
- `A Charlie Brown Valentine' is good-hearted but lacking.(The Dallas Morning...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bark, Ed February 4, 2002 700+ words
Charlie Brown's sustained depression era, fueled...repeating the golden oldies. "A Charlie Brown Valentine" is the first newcomer...s "It's Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown." It's also the first such work...
- `A Charlie Brown Valentine' is good-hearted but lacking.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 31, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Ed Bark Charlie Brown's sustained depression era...repeating the golden oldies. "A Charlie Brown Valentine" is the first newcomer...It's Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown." It's also the first such...
- Good grief! Tree farmers say customers are pining for `Charlie Brown...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Milkovits, Amanda December 8, 2000 700+ words
...it for nest-building. These trees are known as "Charlie Brown trees," based on the ugly little tree that Peanuts character Charlie Brown chose in the holiday TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. Since it premiered on Dec. 9, 1965...
- Paramount Home Entertainment Presents ``It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown'';...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 13, 2000 700+ words
...Snoopy stars in IT'S THE PIED PIPER, CHARLIE BROWN, premiering on VHS and DVD on September...Schulz, IT'S THE PIED PIPER, CHARLIE BROWN explores the age-old fairytale with...PEANUTS(TM) favorites, including Charlie Brown, Sally, Schroeder and Lucy. Priced...
- Sotheby's to Auction Original Charlie Brown Statues.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 24, 2001 700+ words
...Minn., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Charlie Brown, the PEANUTS character brought to...auction house, 63 original and unique Charlie Brown five-foot statues will be sold to...their favorite statue by calling the "Charlie Brown Around Town" Auction Hotline at 651...
- All-new Charlie Brown Valentine's Day Special to Premiere On ABC.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 9, 2001 700+ words
...special based on Schulz's famed strip and longtime stalwarts "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" will air on ABC beginning this October United Media, one of the...
- The smartest person in the world: Charlie Brown is the ultimate...
- Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record Stright, Kenneth February 1, 2006 700+ words
...merely flip through the pages to ... Charlie Brown: "Snoopy looks kind of cold doesn...Be of good cheer, Snoopy." Charlie Brown: "Yes, be of good cheer." Snoopy...or two). Have you ever thought of Charlie Brown as the personification of a Presbyterian...
