08:55 am
Damn Yanquis
Who needs singing cats when you can have dancing caudillos? Via Cuban Colada:
New York producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza are lining up… a [new] Broadway show… Havana… “a new musical about the days leading up to Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba” and that it will cost “between $12 million to $15 million” to produce. No details as to who will write the script or compose the music.
Wasn’t that a bad Robert Redford/Sydney Pollack movie? Why would you want to base it on something so ponderously dull? Of course someone once did a musical based on James Joyce’s The Dead, so I guess there’s worse source material out there.
But if they do go forward, I know what they should call it:
The devil agrees to let Fidelito rule Cuba, imprison and torture opponents, destroy the economy, and drive America bananas — all in return for Castro’s soul.
Hilarity ensues, especially when Antonio Banderas, reprising his role as Che from Evita, sings “What Guevara Wants.” With Harvey Fierstein as Fidel, Neil Patrick Harris as the devil, and featuring Nathan Lane as that wacky, wacky Dwight D. Eisenhower!
If Sprecher and Forlenza are interested, I have some other ideas for them:
- Stop the Gulag I Want to Get Out
- Springtime for Hitler
- Schindler’s List of Guys and Dolls
- Oh Kampuchea!
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cultural Revolution
- Hello Idi
- The Sound of Screaming
- Sunday in the Detention Camp with Pol Pot
- The Commissars (”Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are arresting!” — New York Post)
- Surveillance Camera on the Roof (the plot’s from 1984 and the music is from Fiddler!!)
- La Cage á Guantanamo
- Maim
- Rent Limb-from-Limb
Hat tip: Cuban Colada
Images and photo courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.