Jason Robert Brown’s musical “13” came with a ready-made hook: It was the first (and so far, the only) Broadway musical to be performed entirely by teenagers — right down to the band. That juiced up its simple story of middle school drama with some endearing, energetic novelty value. Yet while Netflix’s new adaptation of the 2008 stage show keeps the talented tweens, it loses most of its magic in translation.
It’s an understandable, even admirable impulse. But the trouble is that instead of fully reworking the material around that new theme, Davis and Horn just sand off the show’s rough edges to the point where character motivations and dramatic stakes are practically non-existent, if not downright nonsensical.
Indeed, everyone in this middle school is so goshdarn nice, kind and equitable that it’s hard to buy any of these characters having any sort of conflict with one another. And with new but ultimately inconsequential roles for a handful of adult characters , the plot of "13: The Musical" floats away like cotton candy in water.
13 The Musical. Rhea Perlman as Ruth, Debra Messing as Jessica, Eli Golden as Evan in 13 The Musical. Cr. Alan Markfield/Netflix © 2022.Still, if there’s one thing "13: The Musical" has going for it, it’s that Jason Robert Brown can write one hell of a hook. The composer behind "The Last Five Years" and "Parade" turns in bop after bop, including several new songs written just for the film.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen four wildly talented middle school boys belt out a Motown-flavored ballad while dancing in full football uniforms. Indeed, "13: The Musical" would probably work better as a series of music videos than a feature-length film, which is perhaps why Netflix preemptively uploaded all the musical numbers to its kids YouTube channel ahead of the film’s debut.
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