What’s Trending: Pappa Mia?

0:00It is time now for what's trending brought to you by dynamic electric locally owned with experienced electricians providing safe and reliable repairs installation in trouble shooting online at dynamic-electric.com. And once again, just like yesterday, we've got two special guests in the studio for Trends, Victor Lewis and Michael Koch. Good morning. Hello. And also good morning. Yeah. I was camping out outside the door for this. I had explained clearly that explains why I walked in and there was like a sleeping bag in a cot. Yeah. Old-fashioned oil lantern. It was all out there. Yeah. You know what? Can't fire in a trash can. Yeah. I got some whale oil. I just got back from Dan Tuckett, you know. The 1800s are back. Yes. Yes. A weird slow back. In a big way. Yeah. So speaking of things being back, I'm going to segue that real nice in today's Trends, which is kind of about Broadway shows, mostly about Broadway shows, because even after a show Peter's out on Broadway, it can have a long, productive, money-making life and secondary licensing being trimmed, adjusted, and squeezed into junior versions of the show, which I

1:04didn't know existed. Oh, yeah. I always sort of assumed that the shows were just things that were available in the ether and your local youth director would sort of adapt them themselves, but there's standardized versions. Yeah. I was in Beauty and the Beast Junior in middle school. What did they cut out of an already junior show? Was it just for length, or was it? I think so, but I mean, like Gaston doesn't die and this one he just runs away. Okay, that's fair. That's fair for you. Yeah. Also, spoiler alert. I know. Spoiler alert for Beauty and the Beast. If I do say so myself, Cogsworth was very good in Beauty and the Beast Junior. That's fair. That's fair. I'm sure it was a standout. Yeah. Also, I guess I'll see you as either Cogsworth or Lumiere. There's two completely different performances. I kind of want to Gaston, honestly, anyway, I'm sorry, we're interrupting Victor. Yeah. Yeah. You are actually. I don't feel the need to talk about how much NPR focused on the rate that is paid for these plays.

2:05I don't care about that at all. What I do care about is stuff like the Adams family, which closed on Broadway in 2011 after about a year and a half, but it's had a huge afterlife on the high school stage. I think that's pretty cool. But more important than the Adams family, a strange sentence to say, is Britney Spears. Oh. By 2019, once upon a one more time. Oh, yes. Okay. So you said, oh, yes, so you are familiar with once upon a one more time? Yeah. Because it's, yeah. I had no idea this existed. And I haven't seen it. So it's Britney Spears G-Box musical. It is a Britney Spears G-Box musical. Is it a bio-pick? I, I spend most of my time deep in the NPR data trenches about this because once upon a one more. Yeah. Yeah. Yo, this is fun stuff, though. Not for anybody else, but for me, once upon a one more time, the Britney Spears G-Box musical has been doing incredible numbers on the junior circuit.

3:05Because the girl to boy ratio and once upon a one more time can be very high. And for a lot of youth in high school programs, you really need to consider the demographics that you are appealing to and the people that are going to come in for your tryouts and are interested in your play. Right. And you need to have productions that are going to suit those ratios. Of course. Once upon a one more time, it's that target right on the head, which brings us to a fun thing I've been thinking about in terms of adaptations of I feel like if you're swapping things for the junior circuit, perhaps there's a little more money, a little more sales, a little more appeal to be made. If you intentionally gender swaps some rules, I mean, you're certain, and I do, I assume you have ideas in mind, Victor Lewis. Hear me out. I'm waiting to hear you out. Let's be in Phantom. Let's be in Phantom. Okay. That's like my number one pitch. You want a, you want like an all female fan of the opera, all female Phantom of the opera? I mean, sure.

4:05That can work. Like I, I think that has huge potential where it would, it would really horse you. Like it would come all the way back and then we would start to see that being produced at the Broadway level. It would get so popular so quickly. I mean, you certainly could. I mean, this is what happened with, with ballet, with swan lake, when like one guy decided to do like an all male swan lake. And now that's just how it's done so often. Yeah. There's plenty of potential to be had here. Do you guys have any potential pitches that you would like to see swapped gender swapped Broadway shows? Are we talking specifically like the junior version? Or are you just saying like, I want me and gender swap for the beast on the brain. Girl Gaston sounds awesome. Girl stan, girl stan, girl stan, but the fool is still a dude, but he's still a dude like 100%. Yeah. Oh man, that's interesting. What gender swap the roles would be cool? Mama Mia. Mama Mia. Mama Mia. Papa Mia. Papa Mia. Papa Mia. Papa Mia. Which one of you three is the mother?

5:08Nobody knows. Papa Mia was a three-segmenting slam dunk. That was absolutely crazy. I mean, I had dream boys as my dream boys. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Actually, gender swapped grease would be fun. Yeah. I could see that. Gender swapped grease would be fun. I'm sure these have been done like by various people at various times. I mean, there's always like Broadway backwards and Broadway twisted. I mean, there's definitely a year of raise money for charity in New York. Wasn't there a recent production of Jesus Christ, Superstar, where Jesus was played by Cynthia Eriva? Oh, sit there. Eriva. Eriva. Eriva, thank you. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to say it. I didn't even take a run. I'm glad we had going here to help us out.