Usually, plays are turned into movies, e.g., My Fair Lady, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes, however, it's the other way around. That's the case with Twilight: The Musical an off-Broadway production that pokes fun at both the Twilight movies and the Harry Potter movies. The show's makers describe it as "a parody of the Twilight saga in the vein of Urinetown and The Rocky Horror Picture Show." [Photo: Jared Zirilli as Jacob Black kissing Meghann Fahy as Bella Swan in Twilight: The Musical.] Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley are the three villains in Twilight: The Musical. Tellingly, Hermione's theme song is "Die, Bella, Die." Written by Ashley Griffin, directed by Gabriel Barre, and featuring songs composed by Griffin, with lyrics by Jeremy Ezell, Ashley Griffin, Sean Mahoney, David Mallamud, and Michael Sutherland, Twilight: The Musical had a one-night-only presentation on Monday, Jan. 16, at the New World Stages. The eight-person show, staged as a "concert reading" (actors kept their scripts onstage...
- 1/18/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
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