A novel idea?
A novel idea?
actor/director
Swing Joined: 2/19/05
#0A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 3:26am
Musicals have been based on novels and novellas since the modern musical was established. Based on recent novels, what do you think would make a good musical...or better yet...what do you think will be made into a musical that sucks?
To answer my own question, I think anythign by Nick Hornby would be amazing. On the contrary, I bet money that Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. will be made into musicals that will most likely ruin their source material.
Oppinions?
Jwaa
Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
#1re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 3:38am
I think most novels could make great musicals,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
would be cool, lots of oppurtunities for great male solos and some great duets/chorus numbers with the father and neighbours and public etc
methinks the drama aspect of the boys Austistic circumstances would make a great monologues and interesting visual arrangement of set, designed to suit the way he viewed the world.
:)
x
#2re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 4:03amLord of the Rings, the musical? Ha Ha
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actor/director
Swing Joined: 2/19/05
#3re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 12:40pmLOTR the Musical is coming out in 2006. 7 million dollars in tickets has already been sold. A Broadway run has yet to be announced.
#4re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 12:52pmi know...and its opening in canada....that makes us look REEEAAAALLL good.....*hides in shame*
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
#5re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:23pmHarry Potter the musical? that would definetly ruin the material. I think they should leave that alone.
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
#6re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:27pmPersonally, I can't wait for "The Apprentice, the musical". It just sounds so awesome! Please note, I am being sarcastic.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#7re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:27pm
Novels that would make good musicals:
"The First Wives Club" by Olivia Goldsmith
"The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by Fay Weldon
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#8re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:29pmI think "Memoirs of a Geisha" could be amazing in the right hands.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#9re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 5:26pm
Obviously, "The Zombie Survival Guide" would be a horrid musical:) Though I'd like to see them try.
MY secret desire is to see "Party Monster" the musical...it WAS a book -"Disco Bloodbaath"- before it was a movie.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#10re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 5:38pmit would be cool to have like a show and like have many different eppisodes and every couple of months/ year they put a different one out
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Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#11re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 6:21pmMy favorite novel, I have always thought would make for a good musical and/or play. It's called Fifth Business by RObertson Davies. Anyone else heard of it/read it?
PleaseChangeMe
Featured Actor Joined: 8/24/04
#13re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 6:44pmking tut the musical would be kinda cool
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DefyGravity23
Stand-by Joined: 3/28/05
#14re: A novel idea?
Posted: 6/14/05 at 7:10pm
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe has already been made into a musical. I don't think it was ever on broadway...but it is a musical. I know because I saw a local middle school do it. It was scary.
Yeah I'm just so excited for the Apprentice musical too. *also sarcasm* Will people actually go to that?
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