A Musical “Notebook” Is A Bad Idea
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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9:10AM, Thursday July 23rd 2009
Everyone’s favorite sappy chick flick, “The Notebook,” is being turned into a musical. This troubles me. For starters, I am a fan of the movie, not the book by Nicholas Sparks, and am only a fan of the movie because Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams made the characters’ romance so believable (because, duh, they fell in love while making it). If, say, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves had been playing Allie and Noah, I would have hated it—just like I hated that horrid movie “The Lake House”—because it would have just been another cheeseball romance with two doofuses tonguing each other in the rain. A musical version—without The Gos and McAdams—could be 10 times as bad because how do you choreograph a tap dance routine about Alzheimer’s? However, we know Gosling can sing and McAdams just looks like a gal who’s done some musical theater, so I would be first in line if these two signed up. But my dreams never come true. [NY Daily News]
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Coral
wrote on July 23 2009 @ 12:40 pm: [report]
I think the Notebook as a musical could be a success. I wasn’t too sure about Legally Blonde or Dirty Dancing making the transition too well, but I think they did okay, considering everyone is bound to like the movie better anyways. And I don’t think that the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams was the only reason that the Notebook was a good movie. I think the twist (with the older version of the couple and the Alzheimer’s) was a great variation on the classic love story. The somewhat sappy love movie shows how love can be eternal—it can conquer time, disease, separation. But sometimes believing in eternal love is a little overrated. However I do think that there is more substance to the movie that sometimes recognized. And I think that it would be an okay musical—a time to relive the Notebook in a different way, but people should know that musicals from movies are never the exact same thing and vice versa.