Academy Award Winning Film ONCE Comes to Broadway in 2010/2011 Season

[broadwaybaby086]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:49pm

What? Porque?

I mean, I love the music, I love The Swell Season, but a musical?

Interesting.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=34380

[WOSQ]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:50pm

Wasn't the movie just fine?

[barcelona20]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:54pm

This thing will never happen.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:54pm

Am I the only one who's PUCKING FUMPED for this?

[jenna2]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:00pm

Please no. Oh, dear lord, I don't ask for favours very often, and I know we're not always on the some page, but please don't let this happen.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:06pm

Errr...I love the movie, I love their album, I love love love them, but my first instinct is uuuugggghhh. "Once" is such a small piece, and it's just so perfect as a film...this is just not something I want to see on Broadway.

Unless they shy away from literal translation and do a "Passing Strange"-type show, I feel like I'd rather have the chance to see these two only once in concert than I would to see them over and over again in a Broadway production. But who knows, this could also be great.

Then again, this is all assuming that anything new will make it to Broadway ever again...

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:18pm

I think this could be a good idea. I look forward to seeing what the artists come up with.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:19pm

I absolutely LOVE the movie. I'm super looking forward to this!!

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:20pm

This is such a great film but I'm not sure if it can work on stage..

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:23pm

NOOOOOO! leave well enough alone!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:32pm

And that's the attitude that would have prevented

The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Hairspray
The Producers
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Maybe we should leave well enough alone and stop making books into musicals

Wicked
South Pacific
Les Miserables

Or plays/opera into musicals

Rent
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma!

And we should definitely stop taking musicals and making them into film! Leave well enough alone!

Chicago
West Side Story
Hairspray
My Fair Lady
Gigi
Oliver
Evita
Mamma Mia

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:37pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 05:37 PM

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:41pm

That's a fair enough point--but in all of the screen-to-stage transfers you mention, the original movie had something BIG about it, something suitable for Broadway. "Once", on the other hand, is very intimate movie...I'm just saying they need to be really, really careful in bringing it to the Broadway stage, more so than with those other films.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:43pm

i've been listening to the soundtrack non stop in my car for the past few days now... i absolutely love the music... i'm mixed on this idea for a musical... i don't know... it just feels like this intimate and personal movie that it would be weird to kind of translate that to the stage with different actors in the role of guy and girl... let's hope they know what they are doing.... i'll give anything a chance...

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:43pm

Of course. And, of course, everyone's allowed to have their opinion.

This is a message board where we discuss those opinions.

I just think more people would learn to think outside of the box instead of having snap judgements.


You don't have to be BIG to be a great piece of theatre.

[title of show]
Falsettos
Last 5 Years
A Catered Affair (imho)
tons of plays

Everyone jumps to musicals having to be BIG and splashy. No.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:44pm

Loved the music, and to a certain degree the movie.
But as a musical: BORING

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:46pm

I am skeptical about this as I found the movie to be good but underwhelming and I don't see how it will translate to the stage...and who their target audience is. But it should be interesting to see this develop.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:02pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 06:02 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:06pm

No, I believe I absolute get it.

But this discussion is becoming the same as one held about A Catered Affair, where I felt that musicals can be just as intimate and "small" as plays that have done the same. I don't believe that whether or not you have songs decides what a piece can or can't be.

I would guess that Once will not be a Billy Elliot. It will likely be intimate and "small" and need to play in a smaller house. That's fine.

[barcelona20]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:08pm

If by some miraculous chance this happens, Broadway is absolutely the wrong venue for this. An off-bway theatre would make a lot more sense, as it can better capture the intimacy of the work. It's still ridiculous to think that the producers or creative team can recreate the magic of the film, as well as the performers.

Title of Show: failed
Last 5 years: off-bway
falsettos: off-bway
A Catered Affair: failed

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:10pm

Falsettos was on Broadway.

While potential success is one thing a person has to consider, I don't believe it's a deal breaker just because recent similar shows didn't.

How often have we wished Broadway would take more risks instead of playing it safe?

Caroline, Or Change was a flop. But, thank God, they took that risk.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:12pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 06:12 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:14pm

So then what's the problem? If it can be done, why has the idea been pooped on?

I was defending the idea of it being attempted.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:17pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 06:17 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:18pm

Ok. Well that's a part of what's been discussed in this thread.