5 Book Adaptations That Shouldn’t Become Musicals

Okay, so for some reason a company has bought the stage rights to American Psycho and is planning to turn it into an ’80s musical. And we’ll be frank: we don’t understand this AT ALL.
Sure, some movies have worked on Broadway–Legally Blond, Shrek, The Producers–but those are all broad comedies. We’re talking about a movie that was adapted from an actual, no-pictures, BOOK. Two severed thumbs down, American Psycho: The Musical. And in case any of you would-be impresarios are considering adapting other books-that-became-movies into musicals, take our advice and don’t do it. Especially not these five book/movies…








NFL nerds know that Herschel Walker helped jumpstart the Dallas Cowboys mid-’90s dynasty when he was traded for damn near half the Minnesota Vikings’ draft picks in 1989. It turns out maybe that trade wasn’t so one-sided after all. Today, Walker releases his memoir Breaking Free, where he talks about coping with multiple-personality disorder (politically correct terminology: “dissociative identity disorder”). Check a sample passage of Walker talking about the members of his “team”: