Will Ferrell is bringing his Eurovision Netflix movie to Broadway
A hit on the Great White Way can eventually bring in as much money as some of the biggest films in history.
If you like Broadway musical adaptations of movie musicals based on musical competitions, you’re in luck! Will Ferrell and Harper Steele are bringing the 2020 Netflix film “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” which also starred Rachel McAdams, to the New York stage.
No timeline has been announced yet, but Ferrell said that the stage musical will be “a perfect place to continue our celebration of all the things we love about this amazing and unifying song competition” — the latest annual installment of which was won by Austria last month.
The new project will give the “Step Brothers” star another chance at cracking the Great White Way, more than 15 years on from his debut. And, unlike the diminishing returns of being a comic actor in a broadly humorless box office landscape, if you can land a hit on Broadway there’s money to be made for a long, long time.
Non-Stop
At this Sunday’s Tony Awards ceremony, the original cast of “Hamilton,” the Pulitzer-winning musical about the life of the eponymous American Founding Father, will reunite to mark the 10th anniversary of the production that’s had Broadway in a vice grip since its early summer 2015 performances.
Across almost 10 years, there have been more than 3,450 performances of “Hamilton” on Broadway, almost all of which have been at capacity, per figures from the Internet Broadway Database. And, though the average ticket isn’t quite as pricey as it was at late 2010s peaks, the musical is still raking it in.
With eight shows a week almost always sold-out and an average ticket price of about $180, Hamilton is taking nearly $1.9 million a week on average this year. All told, Lin Manuel Miranda’s magnum opus has racked up more than $1 billion on Broadway — a milestone it cracked in January. No wonder Ferrell and co. want to have another go at treading the boards.
