Lin-Manuel Miranda’s April Fool’s Joke Is The Room Broadway Musical
He almost pulled one over on us. In what was quickly found to be an April’s Fool joke, Lin-Manuel Miranda announced on Sunday that he would be adapting Tommy Wiseau’s so-bad-it’s-still-very-bad-but-still-so-fun-to-watch cult classic The Room into a Broadway musical—but fans were quick to spot the gag.
“This is all VERY premature, we’ll try it out of town in San Francisco,” Miranda tweeted, with a link to Theater Mania’s “report” on the budding stage show.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tommy Wiseau’s The Room: The Broadway Musical would star Mark Rylance as Wiseau’s character Johnny, “an everyman,” American Idol alum Justin Guarini as Johnny’s best friend Mark, as well as Patti LuPone, Billy Magnussen, and Annaleigh Ashford. The prospective track list has almost as many songs as Hamilton, with titles like “Where's My F---ing Money,” “Down on Guerrero Street,” and “Oh Hai, Mark.” A key art poster for the show has Rynalce’s face superimposed on Wiseau’s from the original poster for The Room.
The report ends with a cheeky “Happy April Fool’s Day” and Miranda himself confirmed it was a joke by responding to an angry tweet ordering him to “go back to being off the grid and stop with the disappointment.”
We are a little disappointed this isn’t real. Hypothetically, would the show provide plastic spoons for the audience to throw, or would we have to bring our own?
