From Movie to Musical

Over the weekend I saw the musical production of 9 to 5.  I hadn't ever heard of it before, but my mom had - she had seen the movie.  It was what launched Dolly Parton into mainstream fame back in 1980 and also starred Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.  In 2009, Dolly Parton turned it into a Broadway musical.  It didn't last long on Broadway even though it got good reviews, so the musical is not very well known.

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This is a synopsis of the movie and the musical follows pretty closely:

Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs her on the perils and procedures of office life -- and of working for Franklin Hart Jr. (Dabney Coleman), their chauvinistic, sleazy boss, and his right-hand woman, the crisp, nosy Roz (Elizabeth Wilson). Meanwhile, Hart's endless attempts to seduce his happily married secretary, Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton), lead the entire office to think she's a trollop. When Hart unfairly passes Violet over for a promotion, she drowns her sorrows at a local bar with Judy and Doralee, who regales the others with tales of Hart's epic advances. Later, at Doralee's house, the women smoke pot, eat barbecue, and concoct hilarious revenge fantasies -- a rodeo hog-tie, a Wild West shootout, and a gothic Snow White scenario -- about killing their boss. When a mix-up leads the women to think they have accidentally poisoned Hart's coffee, they hatch a scheme to protect themselves by stealing Hart's body from the morgue. When he turns up alive, never having drunk the coffee, they must kidnap him to prevent him from blackmailing them or calling the police. The women then use the occasion of their boss' absence to effect some changes around the office. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

I have to say that it does have some show-stopping music, and it has a couple of really loveable and funny characters, so it was a pleasant evening.  It's not a must-see, but it was good.