From Cinescape this interesting piece of news for you to consider:
Lucy Lawless and her Xena: Warrior Princess cohorts intend to go out with a bang. The long-running Xena series ends this May, and Lawless and her colleagues seem determined to have fun with their last few months of work. Though you'd think the series' demise would have them down in the mouth, Lawless says they're singing and dancing their cares away.
"We're doing one of the last four episodes as a musical," she says. "I know musicals don't rate particularly well, but we don't care. We always made the show to express our ideas. And there is no stopping us now. Plus, I think what has made us so successful are the wild ideas. On Xena, you'll have heavy drama and then slapstick comedy. And then every now and then you'll do a musical. We're going to do a take-off of The Donkey Show, which is a disco version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. There are all sorts of relationship mix-ups and gender-bending. All kinds of crazy stuff."
But here's what fans will really think is crazy: They can't start looking forward to a Xena movie.
"If my husband and I owned the rights, we would do a movie. To be honest, in the second or third season, when we were with Universal, they wanted to do a movie. And I couldn't manage it," Lawless says. "I couldn't play Xena solidly without a break for 18 months. You need some recuperation time. USA is not in the movie business. And they own the rights."
Lucy Lawless and her Xena: Warrior Princess cohorts intend to go out with a bang. The long-running Xena series ends this May, and Lawless and her colleagues seem determined to have fun with their last few months of work. Though you'd think the series' demise would have them down in the mouth, Lawless says they're singing and dancing their cares away.
"We're doing one of the last four episodes as a musical," she says. "I know musicals don't rate particularly well, but we don't care. We always made the show to express our ideas. And there is no stopping us now. Plus, I think what has made us so successful are the wild ideas. On Xena, you'll have heavy drama and then slapstick comedy. And then every now and then you'll do a musical. We're going to do a take-off of The Donkey Show, which is a disco version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. There are all sorts of relationship mix-ups and gender-bending. All kinds of crazy stuff."
But here's what fans will really think is crazy: They can't start looking forward to a Xena movie.
"If my husband and I owned the rights, we would do a movie. To be honest, in the second or third season, when we were with Universal, they wanted to do a movie. And I couldn't manage it," Lawless says. "I couldn't play Xena solidly without a break for 18 months. You need some recuperation time. USA is not in the movie business. And they own the rights."
