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"You have new young voices who grew up seeing the world in a certain way, and hearing the world in a certain way. "It's part of the evolution of the art," said Platt.
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Platt and Moore, of La La Land, also point to the younger creative voices injecting life into musicals in various forms Chazelle is 32, and Miranda is 37. "It's just an explosion of musicals."įILE - Lin-Manuel Miranda arrives at the 2016 Governors Awards, Nov. "Look at the box office," he said in a recent interview, listing Hamilton and a slew of other Broadway shows, by him and others. To Menken, who composed the music for Beauty and the Beast and many other musicals, the moment for musicals has been happening "for quite a while." People throw it away for a while and then come back to it and remember, 'Oh, that was really cool, and why don't we reinvent it?' " "I think it went away for a while, that style of storytelling, and that style of music, and it's like anything - bell bottoms were cool, and then they were not cool, and then they were cool again. "I don't think it's a coincidence," said Mandy Moore, the choreographer of La La Land, who's also worked extensively in television. And on TV, there's been the trend of live musicals like Grease, Peter Pan and Hairspray. Is the musical undergoing a renaissance, or at least a major moment? Or is it all just a happy coincidence? Certainly, it's been a great time for musicals on Broadway, where Miranda's Hamilton has been breaking all kinds of records since it opened in July 2015.
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"So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made."įILE - People line up to see the Broadway play "Hamilton," Nov. "Good movies beget other good movies," said Marc Platt, a producer of La La Land, not to mention the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns and Wicked films. A musical version of the Broadway megahit Wicked is also coming down the pike. A year later will come the high-profile Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Meryl Streep, among others.Īlso reportedly on tap: a Will Ferrell-Kristen Wiig original musical about the little-known world of corporate musicals, and a Josh Gad musical with songs by Broadway luminaries Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, with music by La La Land lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. This Christmas, we'll have Hugh Jackman as P.T.
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Barnum in "The Greatest Showman," with music by "La La Land" lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.Īnd there's a slew of other live-action musicals in the works, a combination of originals, sequels and remakes. It's enough to make a musical fan break into sudden, joyful song, perhaps on the way to the multiplex, where this weekend Emma Watson's Beauty and the Beast is expected to have a huge, $120 million-style opening.Īctor Hugh Jackman signs autographs after a press conference for the movie "Logan" in Beijing, March 1, 2017. "At times, the musical genre has been marginalized or not taken seriously. "That's big-time money," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at comScore.
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Damien Chazelle's eye-popping, toe-tapping creation ranks third in all live-action film musicals, behind Mamma Mia! (2008) and Les Miserables (2012), neither of them original. So, perhaps you've heard: La La Land didn't win best picture at the Oscars.īut if every cloud has a silver lining, this one might be called golden: The Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling musical, which did win six Oscars, has been racking up box office numbers remarkable for a musical - nearly $417 million globally so far, according to comScore, a marketing analytics firm - and even more for an original one with no previously known songs or story.