![]() It's set to open in New York this spring. Now the show is on the stage of the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, in a multi-million dollar production starring The West Wing's Allison Janney. "I mean, we got this CD with all these songs on it, and I stuck it in the car CD player, and my kids in two minutes were immediately singing half of them. "She did that first run of songs, which were a lot," the script writer says. Parton retreated to her lake house and began to write songs - a couple of dozen in a couple of weeks, says Resnick. But I will give it a whirl."Ī whirl is exactly what she gave it. "I said, 'I will not be offended, though, if it don't turn out, because it's new to me.' So I said, 'Don't feel bad if it don't work - and I won't either.'. ![]() "I said, 'But I'll give it a try,'" Parton says. But she didn't let that stand in the way. Oh, the country star has seen the occasional Broadway tuner, and she's watched a few movie musicals, she says. ![]() "And I jumped at the chance," Parton says. Together, the two of them flew to Nashville to ask Parton if she'd like to write the score. Greenblatt enlisted the writer of the movie's screenplay, Patricia Resnick, to work on the show. ![]() And I thought, if we could take that feeling and translate it to other moments in the show and other characters, then it might turn into a musical." "You know, the theme song, which is so identified with the movie. "It just struck me that that could make a good musical, primarily because it has this musical signature," Greenblatt says. Five years ago, producer Robert Greenblatt decided he wanted to put the story on stage. The comedy, about three secretaries who take elaborate revenge on their sexist boss, has become a perennial on cable TV and something of a cultural touchstone, too. The songs are by country superstar Dolly Parton, who starred in the smash-hit 1980 movie - and was the writer-performer of the film's title song. It's Broadway bound, and its out-of-town tryout opens tonight in Los Angeles - and it's got a not-so-secret weapon going for it. Some have vanished without a trace - witness Urban Cowboy and Saturday Night Fever.Īnd now there's 9 to 5: The Musical. Some have become enormous hits, like The Producers and Hairspray. Over the past decade or so, Broadway has raided Hollywood to find material for new musicals.
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