Jim Davis planning Garfield musical
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Garfield creator Jim Davis is working on a stage musical production to feature his signature cat. According to Playbill.com, 14 songs have been created so far and a director and choreographer is working on the national tour.
Jim described the show:
Davis has conjured up an elaborate escapade for Garfield’s stage debut. “Even though he’s lazy and loves his life at home, he harbors these fantasies of becoming an entertainer. He wonders, ‘What if I took my act on the road?’ So he falls out of his own comic strip and goes on an adventure though other comic strips. One’s a Disneyesque thing with cute characters. One’s an action strip, kind of a Fu western. Another one is kind of a West Side Story thing between cats and dogs.
“Garfield’s going to be knocking down the fourth wall, as he does in the comic strip, and he’s certainly going to be taking advantage of that in a theatrical presentation. I call it an old-fashioned family book musical – with technology.”
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