Anyone Else Think "Working Girl" Could Work As A Musical?

Then they'll get Carly Simon to write the score, and it will be shades of "Nine to Five" all over again.

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I think it's a fantastic idea- and you can just see whoever got to play the Joan Cusack role would be running away with the show.

I have to say that it sounds like a good idea, but the writer would have to be phenomenal. Working Girl is probably the only contemporary film- alongside concidentally, another Melanie Griffith movie, Something Wild- that truly evokes the old Hollywood screwball films that revolved around blonde "bimbos" ala Judy Holliday. The script to Working Girl is so smart and has so many layers, that any adaptation would face a very uphill climb to stay true to its sharpness and intelligence. And yes, whomever played the Joan Cusack role would most likely have the show's biggest showstopper.

It definitely could work. But I am of the mind that almost anything could work with the right cast and creative team. And I can see Katie Finneran as Cyn and probably getting another Tony for it.

And it marked a hell of a departure for Harrison Ford, who had been working mainly in serious dramatic roles but with this one film, became the McDreamy of the 1980s.

I recently decided to revisit Regarding Henry. What a film. Without Working Girl it might have been someone else in that role.

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I'd rather see a musical version of BORN YESTERSDAY.

"The hairspray bill alone would be enough to eat up all the profits from the Tilt-A-Whirl."

It would have to be done completely opposite from 9 to 5 in every way. A very sophisticated score, no big "In The Heights" style dance numbers, no bubble gum at all. It would be risky but I think it could be pulled off.