It’s Broadway, baby! Yeeah!

Austin Powers, everyone’s favorite shagadelic super-spy is headed to the stage, more proof that Broadway producers will adapt anything into a musical (I’m talking to you, Spider-Man: Bring Out the Dark). According to the Hollywood Reporter, Casey Nicholaw (Book of Mormon, The Drowsy Chaperone) has been tapped to direct and the International Man of Mystery himself, Mike Myers, will write the book. I haven’t had the opportunity to see Book of Mormon yet, but I loved The Drowsy Chaperone so I guess there is the possibility that this could turn out to be a halfway decent show. I guess in retrospect it could be worse. Can you say Love Guru – The Musical?

- Akil

Twilight – The Musical?

Yeah, you read that right. Just when I thought I was rid of that incessant franchise, this gets announced. In the words of SNL’s Amy Poehler and Seth Myers, “REALLY?!” It’s bad enough that I’ve been forced to endure watching all four ridiculously melodramatic films (My wife has sat through every comic book movie that’s come out in the past 3 years. It’s the least I could do). Now the whole thing will be put to music? Well, if the powers that be insist on bringing Twilight to the stage, I would like to offer a few song title suggestions:

Jacob’s Lament (The Furrowed Brow)
Boys Love a Helpless Girl
Body Glitter Blues
Smells Like Wet Dog

Sometimes I am utterly amazed at my own genius. This would not be one of those times.

-Akil