The stage version of 'Pretty Woman,' coming to Tucson, takes its cues from the 1990 Julia Roberts movie, with an infectious pop music soundtrack.
Cathalena E. Burch Broadway in Tucson is bringing “Pretty Woman: The Musical” to Centennial Hall next week, but if you are expecting a musical version of the sexy 1990 Julia Roberts-Richard Gere movie, you will be disappointed.
Valli, the granddaughter of famed 1960s teen heartthrob and Four Seasons frontman Frankie Valli, said producers of the tour version took some of that criticism to heart when they retooled the show for a 32-city tour that was supposed to kick off in October 2020. The show was delayed a year courtesy of the pandemic.
But Valli said the musical version fleshes out Vivian’s character and the romance between her and Edward. “Who else can take an opera and turn it into a ballad?” Valli said. “The music is just fun. You sit there and you’re like, ‘Oh, this reminds me of listening to ’80s or ’90s rock tunes on the radio.’ It’s just so nostalgic and so you can’t help but bob your head and have a really good time enjoying this really well done music.”
She toured with “Wicked” for three years before taking a role as her own grandmother, Mary Delgado, in the off-Broadway version of “Jersey Boys,” the Tony-winning musical about her famous grandfather and his band. “When I got the callback, they handed me the packet for Vivian,” she recalled during a phone call from a tour stop in Seattle in late May. “They were like, ‘We think you would be able to handle this.’ So here I am playing Vivian, one of the most iconic roles ever created for a woman.”
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