Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

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Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 7:58pm

Yes, I know there have been many threads talking about how just because a movie is good, doesn't mean it will be a good musical, but, hey, you never know what these crazy musical producers are up to these days. Did anyone suspect Shrek the Musical?
So, of the five nominees,
ATONEMENT
JUNO
MICHAEL CLAYTON
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Which do you think would best translate to the musical stage?

I say "Blood."

If you want to bash me, go ahead..

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re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:07pm

I could kind of see Atonement more as a play, but there have been worse ideas for musicals.

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:20pm

For some bizarre reasons I think No Country would make a creepy, but highly interesting musical. Hey, it worked for Sweeney Todd!

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:35pm

THERE WILL BE BLOOD, definitely. "I Drink Your Milkshake" could be a fun number.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 9:56pm

There Will Be Blood would make an excellent play.

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:42pm

If ATONEMENT were to be a musical, I'd cringe at the inevitable number titled: "Come Back to Me."
Having said that--and this is merely from watching the film as I've yet to read the novel--I think it MIGHT make an interesting musical if someone like Adam Guettel or Michael Korie and Scott Frankel were to re-invent it for the stage.

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re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:22am

I agree with ray, that if Atonement were to be made a musical, it could be great if someone like Adam Guettel wrote the music.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:25am

I'm with ray and IdinaBell, Atonement would only work as a musical if it was the kind of epic tragic love story it should be. Along the lines of Light in the Piazza in terms of score, almost operatic and soaring music.

It could be beautiful.

re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/27/08 at 2:49am

Juno

....but the world goes 'round

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re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?

Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:50am

I second Juno!

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