‘Beetlejuice’ Musical Team Hopes to Attract New Audiences to Broadway

In the new Broadway adaptation of Tim Burton’s 1988 cult classic film “Beetlejuice,” teenager Lydia takes center-stage alongside the titular gut-busting demon (Alex Brightman) to reflect the famed goth girl’s journey through Beetlejuice’s funhouse of death and disaster.“I think so many people connect to “Beetlejuice” because it’s a story of outsiders, Lydia being the center of that,” said Alex Timbers, director of the new musical comedy.

“You want to make the musical as emotional as possible and Lydia felt like she had that heft and that ability.”At “Beetlejuice’s” opening-night red carpet on Thursday night at the Winter Garden Theatre, Sophia Anne Caruso, who plays Lydia on Broadway, wished longtime fans of the movie might again be uplifted by Lydia’s emotional journey.“You never see a strong, young female like Lydia in a leading-lady role on Broadway, and I hope that she inspires young

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