Swing Joined: 7/13/05
Moulin Rouge!!! Except it would probably be hard to get an audience for it and to make the elephant. And would it be as good as the movie?
If I remember correctly, Baz Luhrmann wanted to bring STRICTLY BALLROOM to stage first and then work on MOULIN ROUGE.
Helen Keller the musical! ***to the tune of Maria from Sound of Music***
How do solve a problem like Helen Keller?---
and how do make her stay, when she can't hear all you say? and she can't see to read your lips anyway"
lol...i'm going to hell
And I'll be driving the bus.
Lol i still want Myra Beckinridge the musical..... lol i'd love to see the little old ladies sit through that one!
I would pay to see X-Men as a musical. With Hugh as Wolverine. I can't even imagine how funny that would be.
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We were just talking about this the other day - I think "9 to 5" would make a great musical - very juicy women parts, etc., etc.
Along the lines of Batman, Zorro could be a great stage character. Live swordplay is very appealing (puts butts in seats), and is much better on stage than it is in movies. Zorro is an excellent, deep character that hasn't yet been fully exploited by the repackagers of Hollywood, Disney or Broadway (Well, OK, Hollywood made a stab a few years ago). And the character is moved by love, chivalry, and righting wrongs, while he inspires lust in his female costars and hate from the sinisters. What great material for a composer and lyricist!
I hope they put that movie Rent on the stage!
Thenardier I so agree but I heard it just a rock version of some old opera. And you know that they would have to cast the pople from the movie cause there famous now. gaw
ha ha ha
love it
Jurassic Park.
American Psycho.
IT.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/03
I have written a musical version of Zorro: ZORRO THE FOX. It's pretty damn good if I say so myself.
LEGEND was an excellent suggestion. One of the main reasons one should musicalize a source is to IMPROVE it by the addition of songs. LEGEND is a beautiful, fascinating muddle of a movie, and if it were musicalized it might actually begin to make sense!
PLUS, Darkness MUST be played by Tim Curry, even if the character is a giant puppet ala LION KING and Tim just does a vioce-over.
SCOTLAND, PA!
One of my favorite movies of all time.
TOOTSIE could make a very funny show especially since LARRY GELBART could easily rework his original scrip for the stage.
"In The Good Old Summertime" is the same book as "She Loves Me". It was just announced last week that Dolly Parton is writing a Broadway bound score for "9 to 5" and I just saw "Topper" on the Turner Movie channel and want to see that as a musical. "High Spirits" had no problem portraying ghosts on stage so it shouldn't be a problem.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
I don't know why but I think Heathers would be a very interesting musical.
I was just thinking Practical Magic would make a really good musical....
more leading women as witches!!!
Here's a few "don't"s that come to mind for the list... but I'll bet someone out there in a remote corner of the universe is trying already...
Schindler's List
Armageddon
Saving Private Ryan
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Exorcist
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Agnes of God
Erin Brokovich
Monster
Earth Girls are Easy
Mulan, definately...
Or how about Drop Dead Gorgeous
Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe is my hero.
ETA: Nancy Wilson (Heart) his lovely wife could write the music with him. *Sigh* I love it.
*off topic* LightMyCandle, is that Clay Aiken in your avatar?
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
I'm not really a huge fan of the movie musical, but I always kind of thought that Where the Heart Is would make a good musical. It's a novel, of course, as well.
i think the princess bride would make a great musical
i'm not sure about mean girls and clueless though(but i do LOVE those movies)
and i think plesantville could be good, but i'm not sure how they'd do it(the whole changing to color thing and the getting in to the tv) though it probably could be done)
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