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Beach Boys Broadway Bound
Wouldn't it be nice to see a musical with a decent score?
The Beach Boys will make exactly that happen in early 2005. The legendary band (and its music publisher) has agreed to let a team of theater veterans use classic Beach Boys as the basis for a new Broadway musical called Good Vibrations.The production recently wrapped up a four-night workshop run at New York's Vassar College. The show is expected to make a more public splash on Broadway soon.
Former American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini played one of the characters in the Vassar edition, but producers of Good Vibrations (which is described as a "work in progress") and Guarini is expected to stay on beyond the workshop run. (Guarini was dropped from RCA late last year due to disappointing record sales.)Those behind the scenes at Vassar's summer stage festival have managed to keep the press out of Good Vibration's workshop phase, and no reviews from the workshop performances could be found online Monday--save a fan's personal Website with pictures from the play. But the page and the photos from Good Vibrations were removed by day's end.
According to a press release, the musical does not tell the story of the Beach Boys, rather, like current Broadway hits Movin' Out (based on Billy Joel's catalog) and Mamma Mia! (which takes its cue from ABBA tunes), Good Vibrations will use the Beach Boys songs as the foundation for the tale of small-town teenagers' "romantic misadventures" in Southern California. The show, written by veteran playwright Richard Dresser, is expected to feature around 30 Beach Boys songs, including "Surf City," "Surfer Girl" and "Good Vibrations." BMG music publishing is notoriously choosy when it comes to letting anyone use its coveted Beach Boys catalog, so for Dresser and director/choreographer John Carrafa, a go-ahead from the Beach Boys and BMG is good news indeed for Good Vibrations' impending Broadway debut. Richard Dresser is the author of several plays, including the widely performed Gun-Shy. He has also written for a few TV shows, most notably the short-lived critical favorite The Job. Carrafa received Tony Award nominations for Urinetown and Into the Woods. The current lineup of the Beach Boys is in the middle of a U.S. tour with stops scheduled in New York, New Hampshire and Connecticut this month.The Broadway opening of Good Vibrations is expected in January 2005, with previews starting as early as December at New York's Eugene O'Neil Theater.
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