We have a mix of people, and metaphorically they all represent all the people in the world. “We have a gay character we have a Black character, we have white characters, we have Asian characters. ![]() “I always try to make the play or the film adaptation relate to audiences who are sitting in their seats or in their living rooms today,” said Leon. Life lessons in the musical “Trading Places”: If you saw the film, I think it will take nothing away from your enjoyment of this.” And when Kenny came into the project and brought in a lot of new ideas … that’s when it started to seem like, ‘Oh, this is ‘Trading Places’ as a musical that does not need to stand in the shadow of the movie. “To write a musical based on a film, you’re always going to stand in the long shadow of a popular film. ![]() “Number one thing: Kenny Leon,” said Lennon. How Thomas Lennon knew it would work as a musical: “So it took a very clever guy who lives on the street, Eddie Murphy the Duke brothers … make a bet to see if they could take two people and basically throw them into each other’s lives, and would they survive or thrive? What would happen to these two people?” “The original film, which was really a mega-hit of that era, and … turned Eddie into a household name really, the premise was sort of a ‘prince and the pauper.’ You know, if the prince were also a real sort of dimwitted mean-spirited character in the original film, the Dan Aykroyd character,” explained Lennon.
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