High Fidelity: The Musical?!

My Desert Island, all-time top five least favorite things:
5. Tom Cruise
4. Sitcoms with laugh-tracks
3. People who baby-talk their pets
2. Fundamentalsit religion
1. Musicals

That's right, musicals. And now, the Nick Hornby novel that became a John Cusack movie, "High Fidelity," is set to become the next big Broadway Musical. My only question: Who could possibly have thought that this would be a good idea?

"High Fidelity" is about the maturation of its lead character, Rob, from a self- and music-obsessed middle-aged man-boy to an actual real live grownup. The context of all this is a group of people who actually love music. Sure they are snobs, but they characterize each other and every stranger they meet by each person's musical taste. In this light, turning a novel about a brooding, depressed guy into a glitzy, up-beat Broadway Musical is just preposterous. The kitschy, campy, and melodramatic style of Broadway just doesn't fit the characters who revel in their intimate knowledge of The Smiths and The Pixies and Sonic Youth.

In a story on NPR's Weekend Edition, Nick Hornby says that he finds different adaptations of his book interesting and that the idea of the musical doesn't bother him. For the sake of his fans, he should have fought to prevent this ridiculous monstrosity from being produced.