Jazz Hands And Chainsaws

There’s no easy way to say this, but here goes: American Psycho could be coming to broadway.

Producers are betting Bret Easton Ellis’ novel and screen adaptation will translate to a stage musical, with original 1980s-inspired songs and familiar covers of hits from the era. I'm betting it won't. No director, book writer or songwriters have yet been brought on board the project, but producers say they’re in early talks with some potential dramatists and hope to stage it by 2010, with an eye towards Broadway.

Musical killers have had mixed success onstage, from the acclaimed “Sweeney Todd” and tepidly received “Assassins” to the disastrous “Carrie.”

Producer David Johnson said that, aside from a love of the controversial bestseller and a clear desire to destroy the legacy of one of my favoirte films, his main inspiration for staging the project is “the great economic divide in this country.” Citing his years as a Wall Street lawyer in the ’80s, he said he’s aiming for a tone that’s “very real, (though) obviously exaggerated.”

And after all, what more effective way to satirize the death of the middle class than 30 gay dudes doing cartwheels and singing “I like to execute girls”? Still, I confess a guy in a giant ATM costume demanding to be fed a stray cat sounds a lot cooler than "Legally Blonde".

would Scarlett want to see a musical version of a movie she won't see? is there a Bale factor?