Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#1Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 1:28am
I know there's a thread on this, but I cannot find it for the life of me!
Books/movies I'd love to see on stage someday:
-Beetlejuice
-The Stepford Wives
-Rosemarys Baby (ironically, Stepford and Rosemary are written by the same guy, who also wrote Deathtrap. I could actually see Rosemary working in a very abstract sort-of way)
-A Corner of the Universe (I freaking love this book! But Ann Martin's agent didn't like the idea... sigh)
-Rage (if anyone has read this book...it is truly creeptastic...the original Bang, Bang, You're Dead...and one of Stephen King/Richard Bachman's best)
-Garden State (I don't know how well it would translate...but I just love the idea)
-Humbolt County
-The Sixth Sense
-The Nanny Diaries (the book. Not the movie. I think it could work. Only with an adult actor playing Grayer though...)
-something based on the Stanford Prison Experiment
...That's all I got.
Again, I know this has been posted, but find me the thread, I'll post this on there.
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#2Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 2:16am
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Mean Girls
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#2Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 2:30am
Movies -
The Nightmare Before Christmas,
The Bucket List (perhaps could add more characters, or keep it as intimate as it is)
T.V. shows -
Gavin & Stacey (UK comedy/drama)
Books -
The Historian,
A Series Of Unfortunate Events (not sure how it would work, but would love to see it!)
#3Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 2:36am
A play version of Revolutionary Road
and a musical of Ocean's Eleven.
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#5Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 7:24amA musical comedy made out of TV's "The Big Bang Theory".
#6Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 10:00amI wrote book and lyrics for a musical of Beetlejuice, but early into the composition process, my composer quit, so the project is lingering in development hell. I don't want to apply for the rights until I have songs to show them on spec.
rorschach37
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/10
#7Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 10:18am
I would actually like to see the film, Clerks made into a play.
And as many have said before, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
#8Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 12:47pmThe Secret Life Of Bees and Cadillac Records with Patina Miller as Etta James
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 1:00pmIt would be very difficult, but I think a musical of the Joe Dante film MATINEE would be interesting musical material.
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#10Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 1:59pm
I'd love to see a stage adaptation of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but one of the things I love so much about that movie is the use of Tchaikovsky's music, so I don't know how well I think that'd work.
I'd also love to see a stage adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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#11Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 3:39pm
Noooo!
Because it wouldn't have Angela Lansbury! :3
#12Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 5:09pm
For the Boys- I think this could be a better musical than it was a movie and I'm a huge fan of the movie.
Rear Window as a play.
An Affair to Remember as a musical.
Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell as a musical.
#13Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 5:24pm
7 FACES OF DR. LAO
WHAT ABOUT BOB?
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#14Books/Movies/Events you'd love to see on stage
Posted: 10/18/10 at 7:01pm
darquegk, **** getting rights!! Do it anyway.
givesmevoice, I agree on Bedknobs!! Sleeping Beauty is horrific though... I actually watched it the yesterday, and wondered how I was able to suffer through it as a kid.
Add to list:
The Craft (if it was done SUPER carefully)
American History X (alright...that's like three Fairuza Balk films now, but seriously...I think this one would be epic)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Social Network (weird concept, I know...but I think it'd be such a cool play)
Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
Updated On: 10/18/10 at 07:01 PM
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