TV musicals take to the stage

Melissa Gilbert will star in a US stage musical of Little House on the Prairie in July. The musical is based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s stories about her homesteading family.

The actress who portrayed the daughter ‘Laura’ in the ’70s TV series will now star as ‘Ma Ingills’. Gilbert is also a previous president of the Screen Actors Guild of America.

This news follows talk of a rumours of an Ugly Betty musical.

Actor Michael Urie (Marc) told British radio, “They do want to do an Ugly Betty musical, a full-on Broadway-style musical, but it’s all hush-hush. I think it would be great, and they should use the cast from the show. I think we would all do it, although we maybe don’t dance and sing as well as professional singers and dancers. I think it would be fun for us to do it for a while, and then they could get real people in. They definitely want to do an episode that is a musical one, but then they want to do a full stage show. I think it’s a great idea. It would definitely work.”

Meanwhile Seven has the ‘Wicked’ version of Ugly Betty due on June 11. Great fun for fans of the musical!

Source: Yahoo, uglybettynews.com