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What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
#25re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 7:20pm
I hate Annie Get Your Gun
I thought Flower Drum Song was pretty bad too.
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#27re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:34pm
MAME
...and this is coming from someone who LOVES Lucy, but not singing and definitely not in this...
Updated On: 12/1/04 at 09:34 PM
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#28re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:35pmdollypop, not only did they make a movie out of "Hello, Dolly!" it was also a piece of sh!t.
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#29re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:36pmI think I have to say MAME, also because if you get REALLY high and watch THE WIZ, you can have a good time.
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#30re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:38pmTHE WIZ's saving grace is Lena Horne singing "Believe in Yourself". I have to say, "THANK GOD" for DVDs and the Scene Selections feature because that song is all the way at the end of the movie. Updated On: 12/1/04 at 09:38 PM
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#31re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:54pm"Evita". Maybe I wouldn't say the very worst but still would have liked to have seen it made 20 years ago with Patti and the rest of the original cast.
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#32re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:43pmLADY IN THE DARK is another stinker (despite Ginger Rogers in Technicolor) because Paramount cut the centerpiece of the entire show : "My Ship"! Why? Studio head Buddy DeSylva hated the song.
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#33re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:47pm
Master, that is great!!!
I NEVER could figure out why "My Ship" was cut from the film!
How do you come to know that about Buddy deSylva?
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#34re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:50pm
"My Ship":
My ship has sails that are made of silk
The decks are trimmed with gold
And of jam and spice
There's a paradise in the hold
My ship's aglow with a million pearls
And rubies fill each bin
The sun sits high in a sapphire sky
When my ship comes in
I can wait the years till it appears
One fine day one spring
But the pearls and such
They don't mean much
If there's missing just one thing
I do not care if that day arrives
That dream need never be
If the ship I sing
Doesn't also bring
My own true love to me
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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#35re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:57pmJesus Christ Superstar
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#36re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/1/04 at 11:35pm
I know a lot of people don't like ANNIE - maybe because it's basically a completely different storyling, but I still adore that movie.
The worst in my opinion would have to be:
Guys and Dolls
Bye Bye Birdie (original)
A Chorus Line
Man of LaMancha
Gypsy (Rosiland Russell - NASTY!)
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#37re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/2/04 at 2:36amHello Dolly & Mame.
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Do you think my costume looked all right for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed.
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#38re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/2/04 at 11:55pmYes, Munkustrap, "Nasty" sums the 1st film version of GYPSY quite accurately and succitently.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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#39re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:37am
Gypsy
Man of La Mancha
A Chorus Line
On the Town
Pajama Game (no "A New Town is a Blue Town"? Screw off)
Annie
Hello Dolly
and Guys and Dolls isn't THAT bad, but Brando singing "I'll Know" was high-larious!
Ones that have been mentioned that I LIKE:
Evita (I don't care what ANYONE says about Madonna's performance, I thought it was great.)
Jesus Christ Superstar (WAY better than that AWFUL revival a few years back, and it's charming and effective, IMHO. Spec. Judas and Caiaphas.)
Godspell (same as JCS. How can you not like how '70's it is?!?)
Word. Word, indeed.
#40re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:11am
A Chorus Line
Mame
Man of La Mancha
oh yeah and that most dreadful of horrors - Evita (but only because Madonna was in it)
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
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#41re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 7:53pm
Broadway / Hollywood Bump! 
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#42re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 8:02pmawww. i like The wiz. i think its creative fluff (though Diana Ross? WTF!?)
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#43re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 8:16pmI really liked Barbara in Hello Dolly, I thought she was very funny. I thought the cartoon version of the King and I was pretty gag-worthy.
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#44re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 8:18pmA Chorus Line is SO shameful.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#45re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 8:21pm
Godspell - In theatre, you can have a bunch of adult acting like kids, and it works. In the streets of New York City, these same adult acting like kids look like they just escaped from the Looney Bin.
Annie - Why did they change the story? The remake (with Audra and Victor) was ten times better.
Zoot Suit - It seemed like a non musical musical...
Sweet Charity - The lip-synching is so off, it's laughable.
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#46re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 9:57pm
Hit the Deck--mutilated a nice (not great but nice) show
Chorus Line--Blech...so bad..so bad..***twitches***
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#47re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:38pm
MY FAIR LADY
ANNIE
A CHORUS LINE
CAMELOT
ON THE TOWN
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS...
BRIGADOON
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Updated On: 2/27/05 at 10:38 PM
#48re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/26/05 at 10:57pmanother vote for hello dolly.
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#49re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:28am
A Chorus Line
South Pacific and its lighting during songs
'82 Annie is how I was introduced to the musical and I like Punjab. I know its not the actual musical so i guess id say that its a bad adaptation of the musical
need to defrag my brain.
#50re: What's THE WORST Hollywood Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 2/27/05 at 12:31am
I agree with almost all of the other posts. I do, however, like the film of On The Town - it's different, but still fun. Pity that Sinatra couldn't have ONE good song though. "Lonely Town" perhaps.
Kangaroo, yes! Annie Get Your Gun makes my stomach turn.
But, to add to the list -- BRIGADOON. The film just lays there. Take a "singers" show and cast the movie with dancers particularly Cyd Charisse who can't act (and was dubbed), throw in some uninspired direction, cut the comedy numbers because of the censors and you have M-G-M's Brigadoon - one big bore!
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Updated On: 2/27/05 at 12:31 AM
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