Miss Saigon The Movie

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:15pm

It's never been done and I want it done. Well. Not like the Les Mis movie (I heard it was crap), but I really think Miss Saigon would make a great movie. Not sure whether it would be musical or just straight cinema, but I want it done!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:15pm

learn to search.......already threads about this....

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:18pm

Really? Where?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:22pm

on the Broadway board under what musicals would you want to be movies, or somehing like that

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:24pm

Oh is that still there? Haven't seen it for weeks. Sorry.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:32pm

they actually never disappear........it's there somewhere, I was too lazy to find it ;o)

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 5:34pm

Well I rarely bother to go past the first 50 on the boards. But if it's gone off the top of the boards, there's no harm in this thread. Any comments on the Miss Saigon bit now, after six useless posts between me and elphy?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:07pm

vmlinnie, I think MISS SAIGON could work if it wasn't entirely sung. (The same could be said of LES MIZ, if ever it becomes a movie.) I would take out the recitative (sung dialog) and replace it with actual spoken dialog but leave in the arias (songs). This way they could also add more scenes. Just a suggestion.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/4/06 at 7:22pm

Yeah, I like it. Oh, and they made a film of Les Mis in 1998, no songs, just Liam Neeson and Uma Thurman.

There have been many attempts at Les Mis for the screen. Here they are:
Les Mis Films

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:27am

Those films of LES MISERABLES you listed were based on the novel and not the stage musical. There have been rumors of turning LES MIZ (the musical) into a movie ever since its debut. I was suggesting that if ever it gets made they should include spoken dialog.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:28am

As long as they don't just speak the lyrics, like they did for the RENT movie. Am I the only one who thought that was a bad idea?

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:32am

I can't even read this thread. I'm too busy laughing at your av pictures going back and forth, like some freaky-nerdy zoo!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:40am

Those lying bastards.



I'm still bitter.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:49am

Whoa! Why did that fall through?

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:56am

Couldn't tell you, but that ad was in the souvenir program when I saw the national tour in high school. The idea must have been pretty far along for them to make an ad for it.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:14am

I concur, Rose. Reciting lyrics is a bad idea.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:24am

I thought that was the weakest point of the RENT movie. It sounded awkward and just plain weird.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 3:09am

In the PHANTOM movie they also spoke some of the lyrics. It was odd because the characters were sometimes speaking in rhyme.

Updated On: 8/5/06 at 03:09 AM

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:51am

Never heard about that Les Mis 'going to the cinema' thing.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 7:01am

I like how she's holding tickets.
It's like she's saying "HAHA! I've got tickets and you don't!"

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:13am

They use that same trick all the time. For the school edition it shows her holding books, and so on. Better than holding her broom, like she usually does.

[James885]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 10:05am

I agree, I think Miss Saigon could work as a movie as long as they took out sung dialogue ( Backstage Dreamland, The Transaction, The Revelation etc...) and kept the real songs (The Heat is On, Bui Doi, I Sill Belive...etc). They might also need to add some more dialogue, but I think with the right screenwriter and director, it could work as a movie.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:04pm

I forgot about POTO. But it had far fewer spoken lyrics.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:25pm

By the way, Rose, I saw your photos and I love your Bomballurina costume. (I could never tell which cat was which, except for the ones referenced in the songs.) Did you make it yourself? It looks very professional. Same for the ruby slippers. It must have been painstaking sewing all those red sequins.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:33pm

Well, you certainly know the way to my heart!
Yes, I made Bombalurina. Well, not the leotard and pants--those were bought. But I dyed and painted them, as well as the wig (which started out as a hideous shoulder-length hood with rubber ears).
The ruby slippers were tedious, but not difficult. I'll let you in on a secret: Those sequins are actually hot-glued on to the shoe. And there's about 8 yards of sequins per shoe. Thank God they're cheap...