Slumdog Heading For Broadway?
Thursday 7th May, 3.21pm
By Mike Shaw
It won Oscars, smashed box offices the world over, and created a couple of brand new movie stars; and now Slumdog Millionaire is heading for Broadway.
The adaptation is going to be fast-tracked for development for the stage, and the hope is to have the production ready for 2012.
Slumdog was full of catchy songs and high-energy dance scenes so it makes perfect sense for it to be transferred to the stage. Only it doesn’t, does it – because most of it was utterly miserable and the only catchy song/high-energy dance combo came at the very end of the film.
Building a whole show around one scene in a film (which wasn’t really in the film, it was the credits) could perhaps be considered slightly questionable but hey, let’s see what happens. Hopefully casting won’t end in children being for sale, this time…
When is casting? They can buy my child for £250,000.