Riding the wave of 'Bridesmaids,' 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Girls Trip,' Susan Conn's female-empowered ode to gal-pal bonding opens off-Broadway.
Megan Sikora, left, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Carla Duren and Sharon Catherine Brown in"Chick Flick the Musical."
“All of this grew out of the fact that my husband and I and our two daughters are huge fans of the genre,” Conn says. “We constantly pepper our conversations with quotes from these films, like some people do with ‘The Godfather,’ and at some point it just became part of our language, a shared back and forth. We couldn’t be the only people who do this, and I decided to make it into a musical.”
After five tough years of writing and rewriting “Chick Flick the Musical,” losing funding, regaining funding, and hiring and firing directors, Conn scored a breakthrough when she got professional representation with Frankel-Green, one of New York’s most elite theatrical managing agencies.
“This was the lowest point you can imagine, this was devastating,” she recalled. “But Grad said, ‘OK, let’s deal with the pain of this and then move on. We keep moving. We never quit.’ And he was so right.”BEHIND THE SCENES: For the cult of Sondheim, 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and on, and on, and ... »
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