Because it's Broadway and you just can't cast someone age appropriate because of how many years you need to put in to get the lead roles. They're almost always in their 30s, even if it's a musical set in highschool like grease or mean girls. People can't usually tell because they're hundreds of feet away.
Right, in a broadway show on stage, sure. But I'm specifically talking about the movie where you (a) have a lot more leeway because you're dealing with the finite production run not long-running shows and more significantly (b) the camera is right in the actresses' faces. I get what you're saying but you've maybe missed my point that I'm specifically talking about this movie. A 37 year old woman is not passing herself off as a first year university student.
I know that and you know that but literally every film adaptation of a Broadway musical fucks up like that. Dear Evan Hansen was completely mocked for it. Mean girls musical was too.
I've never had the misfortune of seeing that movie, though I have watched the entirety of Jenny Nicholson's disection of the movie which I quite enjoyed.
I think we're just violently agreeing with each other. You're saying "they always do this and it's stupid" and I'm saying "it's stupid that they always do this." The only difference being I have the pleasant fantasy that someday they may not do it.
Little Shop of Horrors actually improved on the stage version. I'd have brought it up as a counter-point to @Get the rope Macaulay! except he was canny enough to specify "Broadway" musicals so I couldn't.
Guys And Dolls and Rocky Horror worked
Should have cast Ariana Pequeño if you know what I'm saying...
Yeah but to be fair, having Rick Moranis is cheating.
the differences to the book and musical wicked are like the differences in the book and van halen album 1984. Outside of the name its as different as you could possibly make them.
You know, this is the first I time I really checked out Ariana Grande and man she looks like one of those Holocaust victims. Skin and bones.
At least she stopped trying to dye herself black. At one point she was darker than Nicki Minaj.
Nicki Minaj is an Oreo though, and one of the dumbest oreos.
The Phantom of the Opera movie musical has a Spanish dub that I adore - I don't even understand Spanish all that well but prefer it to having to listen to Gerard Butler. They just used the cast from a recent Stage production in Spain and the lip-syncing was at least good enough to not be distracting.
