There’s Something About Mary musical in the works from the Farrelly Brothers
The administrators behind the iconic 1998 Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz rom-com are adapting the movie for the Broadway stage.
One of Hollywood’s most iconic romantic comedies – There’s Something About Mary – is formally heading to the stage.
Filmmaking duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly (the Farrelly brothers) have revealed that they’re actively engaged on a brand new stage musical adaptation of their smash-hit 1998 film, There’s Something About Mary.
Speaking to ScreenRantco-director Bobby Farrelly confirmed that the pair have been quietly growing the challenge for a couple of years, with hopes that the present may debut on Broadway (or the West End?) as early as subsequent 12 months.
Like The Book of Mormon
The authentic movie grew to become a world field workplace hit again in 1998, due to its boundary-pushing slapstick humor. The movie grossed $369 million worldwide towards a modest $23 million funds.
According to Farrelly, the brothers plan to convey that very same high-energy, unfiltered comedy spirit to the stage, evaluating their imaginative and prescient to one among the West End and Broadway’s largest blockbuster hits.
“We’ve taken our story, There’s Something About Mary, and we’re working together trying to adapt it as a Broadway musical,” Farrelly revealed. “We just feel like we have a lot of ideas about songs and things like that… maybe like The Book of Mormon or something like that.”
However, translating a significant movie comedy right into a full-scale stage theater manufacturing is a prolonged course of. “Broadway musicals take a long time,” Farrelly acknowledged. “So we’re in the middle of a couple-year project, and we will hopefully have it maybe by next year.”
A career-launching basic
There’s Something About Mary stands as one among the Farrelly brothers’ early greats, following their success with Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin. The brothers later went on to direct hits like Me, Myself & Irene, Shallow Hal, and the hit comedy sequence Loudermilk.
The film starred Ben Stiller as Ted Stroehmann, a person who turns into hopelessly and hilariously obsessed along with his highschool crush, a surgeon named Mary Jensen, performed by Cameron Diaz. The movie boasts a starry solid that included Matt Dillon, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Sarah Silverman, and British comic Lee Evans.
From display to stage
The transfer into musical theater comes as the Farrelly brothers be aware a altering panorama in Hollywood, the place main studios have considerably diminished their funding in big-budget film comedies.
“The comedies, there’s not as much of them being made, and they’re usually smaller-budgeted things,” Farrelly defined. “You’re lucky to get enough money to even make a comedy, because the studios really don’t support them like they used to.”
A future West End switch?
While There’s Something About Mary The Musical is at the moment aiming for a Broadway premiere, plenty of American movie-to-musicals have originated in London forward of Broadway, primarily as a consequence of the decrease prices of mounting an enormous musical in the West End.
A current instance contains Back to the Future The Musicalwhich premiered in Manchester after which London, earlier than heading to Broadway.
Further particulars concerning the present’s artistic crew, composer, and preliminary casting are but to be introduced, however extra particulars are anticipated to be launched in the coming months if the manufacturing’s intention of opening subsequent 12 months involves fruition.
News of There’s Something About Mary The Musical comes the day after it was introduced that current hit film The Housemaid is getting a stage adaptation.
Ben Stiller, star of There’s Something About Mary, has additionally been connected to plenty of London stage tasks. Chief amongst them is a stage adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shiningwhich Ben Stiller was rumored to be starring in.
Check out more TV and films adapted for the stage.
📷 Main photograph: There’s Something About Mary set for a brand new stage musical
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