‘Bull Durham’ Review: This Musical Version Is a Bunt
Of all movies to not need a musical version, I feel like this was near the top of the list
Waiting For Godot?
Schindler’s List
He’s making a list
Checking it twice
“It’s Hebrew, from the Talmud. It says ‘he who saves one live saves the world entire.’”
*trumpet sting, Itzhak Stern starts tap dancing*
Chorus: The world entire, the world entire
A Quiet Place
“THE HILLS ARE ALIVEEEEE, WITH THE SOUND OF –” Horrible screeching, screams, and sounds of bones being crushed
Waiting for Godot, featuring a stirring rendition of John Cage’s 4:33
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Although Star Trek IV would be an absolute blast as a musical.
🎵dere be whales here🎵
At least that would be interesting to think about.
I’d love to watch this. Every time the music starts up as though they’re about to sing a sorrowful song, a monster comes from the side and snatches a flautist from the orchestra pit. Then everyone goes dead silent.
The list of movies that do not need a musical version is the list of all movies.
F that, I want a RoboCop musical
I’m almost morbidly curious but I won’t watch it.
Star Wars: A porn parody - The musical.
Pirates: the musical.
Ok but what if you’re a fan of bunting?
Yeah ‘this play is the most exciting play in baseball’ isn’t exactly negative criticism imo.
I know. It’s an underrated decoration.
I’m hearing this musical is a great at the fundamentals and gets the job done.
Coach Kent Murphy would be ashamed of you
It’s a real safety squeeze. The runner on third scores cutting the deficit down to 2. 2 outs, nobody on.
Bunting wins games!
Especially silly bunts.
Then you need the Mr.3000 musical
Hear me out: they adapted the wrong baseball movie into a stage musical. (Granted, I haven’t seen the Bull Durham movie yet, so maybe they just adapted it badly, but that’s not my point).
I just watched A League of Their Own for the first time about 2 weeks ago (yes, I’m woefully behind on baseball movies. I’m trying to catch up.), and all I could think was, “this would make such a good musical.” It’s already got the kick-ass dance scene with Madonna, but honestly, that’s not even why. It’s just a good, tightly-written story with clear emotional beats.
For example, Kit has a clear motive to make a good “I Want” song early in the show, between her ranting to Dottie about her dissatisfaction and jealousy of her sister and trying to convince the scout to pick her.
I think a “No Crying in Baseball” song is inevitable. I often hate when iconic movie quotes become entire songs, but at least this one is an actual monologue. Also, every time I’ve heard that quote when I grew up playing baseball and softball, it was meant seriously/literally. Like it’s good advice. Seemed clear to me in the movie that that’s not the intent of the writer. So having a song that depicted that quote in a more negative sense would subvert the usual trope of writing a whole song about a movie quote while not really saying anything about the quote or why it matters.
But I’m just a huge musicals and baseball fan, so I think we need more baseball musicals in general. Damn Yankees is just… fine. We need better.
Major league and you have like 18 refrains of wild things across the musical. Easy peazy.
Baseketball might work, too–as long as Trey Parker and Matt Stone write it.
Jake Taylor with a creepy “Uncle Ernie” song as he stalks a woman and just lets himself in to her place without her knowing.
🎵 “There’s no crying like show crying but no crying in baseball!” 🎶
Looks like it might need another trial somewhere before transferring. Although they might just try the straight transfer to broadway based on name recognition alone.
Maybe. This also the second major regional tryout after the one at Alliance in Atlanta pre-pandemic.
I would like to see maybe Arena Theatre in DC do another tryout.
I bet “Women Get Wooly” is a real showstopper
Take my angry upvote
You hayseed
“The Mike Shildt Version”
The movie vesrion of Bull Durham is more porno that baseball movie IMO
I saw it when it first ran in Durham and loved it, though I did come away from it thinking that somebody who isn’t into the movie probably won’t enjoy it.
As a baseball fan and a musical theater lover this movie doesn’t even make the top 10 in movies that should get a musical. Major League, Little Big League, Sandlot, Rookie of the Year and ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD. Those would be great.
this is defamation of bunting
I dunno, “The Balker’s Lament” was a real banger in Act 2.
the movie itself fell insanely flat for me. a lot of people call it their favorite baseball movie and i was really disappointed
It’s okay they’re ai anyways
They’ve learned rage bait
its a mediocre rom com that has a baseball setting
Valid opinion. I love the movie but I get it. Field of Dreams is that movie for me. I can’t even watch it and I know how important it is to most people.
It’s fine, it’s entertaining. As a baseball movie, it’s also fine. My favorite baseball movie is Major League just for the amount of quotable lines it produced.
You want a real head fuck? Read the book for Field of Dreams: Shoeless Joe. The movie is a gritty realistic drama compared to that acid trip.
You want a real, real head fuck? Read the book, The Natural. Dark shit man. Nothing like the movie.
I’ve read it. At least it has the same-ish plot and characters. There’s no weird evil twin subplot.
It’s a romance that uses baseball as a plot device. It’s not a “baseball movie” and is likely to disappoint those who expect such.
I’ve always found it pretty mediocre. Never really understood why people rank it as one of the best baseball movies.
People were obsessed with Kevin Costner in the late 80s and early 90s for some reason.
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lol not liking a movie where one of the main characters personality is having sex with minor league baseball players = ai
Literally nothing about this account looks like AI