Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
#0Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 9:07am
Caught this again over the weekend - hadn't seen it in a long time and there are some classic scenes.
I definitely think this film could work as a musical. Not that I'm advocating its adaptation, but the plot and characters do lend themselves to song.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Updated On: 9/5/06 at 09:07 AM
#1re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 9:14amOh please Craig NO!! Do not give them any more ideas for bad movie into musical ideas.
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#2re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:50am
Working Girl is one of my all-time favorite films. I never get tired of it. However, I don't think I want to see it as a musical. I don't think the cast could be improved on and I'm not sure musicalizing the story would add much.
Heart and Souls, however, I think is just begging to be a musical.
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peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#3re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:05am
I'm going to agree with Craig here...while I'm not necessarily advocating it, I do think the story and the characters lend themselves well to musical numbers.
If it were made into a musical, I just might see it...
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#4re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:10am
Adore the movie. Not sure it would translate to the stage, but it's fun to think about the songs...
Bod for Sin
Coffee? Tea? Me?
Get Your Bony Ass Outta My Face
#5re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:10am
well for fun, I'll cast the musical
Sherie Renee Scott as Tess
Peter Gallagher as Jack
Norbert Leo Butz as the Baldwin part
Ana Gasteyer as Sigourney Weaver part
Mary Birdsong or Amy Spanger as the Joan Cusack part
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#6re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:11am
Well if I were going to do it, I would insist on leaving the finale as "Let The Rivers Run"
What an amazing song to end a show on with the entire company singing
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#7re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:13am
"Let the River Run" is already one of the greatest film songs ever. It propels the film throughout and pays off at the end.
Love this film, but without that song, not sure...is Carly into musicals?
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#8re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:27amLove that song, still hate that movie. (No idea why, just do. sorry)
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Conan O'Brien
#9re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:33amLet the River Run is one of the greatest songs ever written for a film. I love that shot at the end where you see Joan Cusack jump up for joy while on the phone with Griffith. Gives me goose bumps every time. For me, Working Girl is sheer joy. I saw the film three times the week it opened.
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#10re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:01pmLets have the musical start on the ferry. Everyone is kind of milling around and then a bag lady (played by Melissa Errico or maybe Laura Benanti) sort of emerges from the shadows and sings (screams?) the classic song from the movie - LET THE RIVER RUN.
Millie Lammoreaux
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#11re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:34pm
Other potential songs:
"You Want Another Answer, Ask Another Girl"
"I've Got Something in My Belly (But I Think It's Nervous Knots)"
"I Am Not Steak"
"Jack...Help Me Out Here"
"Hey, Cyn (Guess Where I Am)"
It's too early for noches.
Updated On: 9/5/06 at 06:34 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#12re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:37pm
"It's Not Even Leather!"
Strangely, this was on last night.
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#13re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 8:00pm"A Head For Business (And A Body For Sin)"
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#14re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 8:37pm"two way street"
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#15re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/5/06 at 9:34pm
"I Am, After All, Me"
"Who Makes It Happen?"
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 9/5/06 at 09:34 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#16re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:50am"Serious Hair"
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#17re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/10/06 at 2:05pm
"dim sum, have some"
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#18re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 9/10/06 at 2:10pm
Working Girl-OBC, containing the Tony winning songs...
"You Can't Busy The Quarterback With Passing Out The Gatorade"
"Doesn't Make Me Madonna-Never Will." (Sometimes I dance around the living room in my underwear...)
"SNAKE!(Popping Doreen Di Mucci In Our Bed)"
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#20re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:27pmI'd totally go see Working Girl if it was made into a musical.
#21re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:30pm
Ha ha ha. Thanks and welcome back from Nicaragua Millie!
I love so many of the song title suggestions.
What about -
"Today's Jr. Prick, Tomorrow's Sr. Partner"
"I Just Love Those Little Dumplings"
"I'd Rethink The Hair"
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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#22re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:34pm"Hard Copy on This From the Home Computer (Do Not Go Through Tess)"
It's too early for noches.
#23re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 7:35pm"Trask/Radio Trask/Radio Trask/Radio"
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#24re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 8:49pm
I loved this film. It deserves all the attention it got. Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson are already done with the filming of "Blonde Ambition", that it has been said, it is some kind of remake of "Working Girl".
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQfQmn-o4ks
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Updated On: 5/14/07 at 08:49 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#25re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical?
Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:33pm
'Mary Birdsong or Amy Spanger as the Joan Cusack part'
Funny you should say that. In the last shot of the movie, when Griffith calls Cusack and Cusack does that arms up victory move and the camera pans back, Mary Birdsong is, in fact, one of the secretaries that turns to look at Cusack. Lower left corner of the screen, I believe.*
*I'm not a creepy stalker...Pocket-sized boyfriend and Mary have been friends since NYU days.
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