25 MGM Films in the works for the stage?!- Page 2

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 7:08pm

Highly original- not!

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 10:10pm

Thomas Crown affair?. Weekend at bernies? Somebody kill me.....

[AnotherDay46]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 10:14pm

I wouldn't mind Man in the Iron Mask to be truthful... =]

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 10:20pm

It was under MGM **On Stage** So I'm assuming they would only be talking about their **On Stage** productions. Like Disney on Broadway, they list upcoming theatrical productions. They don't mention upcoming films.

[i.heart.link]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 10:30pm

I think heartbreakers could actually work. It might be pretty good.

[Joelbeans]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 10:35pm

DIdn't we just have a musical about a traveling dead corpse? Lucky Stiff anyone?

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 11:16pm

DSS is a classic movie in my family for some reason.
Can't wait to see it onstage.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 11:39pm

They are already producing Catch Me If You Can, which could be a possible hit.

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:15am

Marc Shaiman will make it a hit!

As for the list, Moonstruck and the Pink Panther I can see...but The Man in the Iron Mask?!

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:15am

Edit: Double post!
Updated On: 7/3/07 at 12:15 AM

[rgaywrites]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:20am

I think Moonstruck would be interesting.

I don't think its that there's a lack of original musical ideas. I know more than a couple writers, myself included, with decent original musicals kicking around.

Rather, its a lack of financial support for original musicals. Investing in theatre is a losing proposition and as such, investors are more likely to put their money into known quantities.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:20am

fnyboi88, I don't see a link on the Disney on Broadway site for upcomming shows... but maybe I missed it?

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:26am

"The Thomas Crown Affair? That wasn't even a good/popular movie."

The 68 and 99 versions were both popular and good.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:53am

Oh no, I was referring to their Who's Who in the Playbills.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:09am

Okay, I thought in my old age I was starting to go blind.

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:45am

Updated On: 7/3/07 at 04:45 AM

[Wicked63]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:47am

Joel i dont know if you knew but Lucky stiff is already a musical-2 cds available. If did know forgive me. Great show. Closed in London prematurely the week of Princess Dianas funeral- wasnt seen as appropriate.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 7:24am

Bear in ind that for every movie or play that acatually makes it, there are hundreds of projects that never get past the talking point. I agree, some of those ideas are absurd, but they're more "let's put it up the flagpole and see who salutes".

[Joelbeans]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 10:24am

I know Lucky Stiff is a musical (I played piano for it in a production here in St. Louis in May), I was just stating how close it is to Weekend at Bernies

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:23pm

By the they make it sound, there are going to be 25 stage adoptations of the films. But it's a good thing they aren't all opening on Broadway. That would just be too much!

[Ftworthguy]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 12:57pm

I agree -- Heartbreakers could be a terrific musical and Moonstruck strikes me as a pretty good idea too.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 8:16pm

Just posting to keep my first thread alive

[DirtyRottenGirl]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 10:59pm

There are actually some good possibilities. Who knew that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels would be so good.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 11:24pm

In answer to the person who asked the question, it's Charles Strousse who is writing the music for "The Night They Raided Minsky's". He and Lee Adams wrote some songs for the movie. But, Adams wasn't working on the musical version. I think he was writing the new songs with Susan Birkenhead, or someone like that.

"Moonstruck" seems like a good idea for a musical, until you watch it and see that it practically is one already. And, are you going to use all of the opera arias that are in the movie? Or are you going to write new ones that sound like the old ones? Who do you think you are, Andrew Lloyd-Webber?

The most of the others don't sound too, too, too hideous. I could only see "Midnight Cowboy" working as a modern opera. As for "Rain Man"...well, we all know just how well "road trip" stories work onstage.

But, if any of them sounds like a total clunker, I would say that it would be "Thomas Crown Affair." I mean, how are you going to do the heist ONSTAGE?

It seems that for musical theater, to paraphrase Fran Leibowitz, an original idea is like original sin. Both happened a long time ago to people you couldn't possibly have met.

[violet72]

Posted: 7/3/07 at 11:33pm

seriously weekend at bernie's????? It has been 2 says and this still cracks me up when i think about it