Books or movies that would make great musicals.

#1

Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 6:48am

Books*Movies- Harry Potter, The Color Purple, The Outsiders, Lovely Bones, Go ask Alice, Pocahontas, Mulan, White Oleander, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

#2

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:01am

The Wanting Seed, by Anthony Burgess

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#3

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:32am

I always thought a modernized musical version of Romeo and Juliet would be cool.

#4

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:35am

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. It was my favorite book until I was maybe 14...its a really good story, with a lot of interesting characters.

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#5

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:42am

THE COLOR PURPLE is already a musical which was premiered last year.

#6

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:47am

Actually, I would rather see something completely original and new come to Broadway.

#7

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:53am

Sorry to have to disagree broadway_freak, but I think Harry Potter would make horrible musicals. I heard for years how much the movies cut out, then adding songs to it, it would either way to long for a musical, or be really unloyal to the books. Harry Potter would work alot better as a play then a musical. There are many theatrical elements that would be fun to use with it, but I don't think a musical would work very well.

#8

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 8:59am

I agree, don't bring Harry to Broadway. I think we should just stop commercializing Harry Potter, to be honest. No more gargoyle glue or quidditch pencil cases. Love the books, hate everything else they've done to it.

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#9

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:08am

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal

The Bitch by Joan Collins

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

The Shining by Stephen King

Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins

#10

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:19am

Queen of the Damned would be great!

#11

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 9:28am

I can't believe no one has made a musical of "The Princess Bride". It is perfect musical material.

#12

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:22am

I always thought Garrison Keillor's LAKE WOBEGONE DAYS would make a grea musical, movie or TV series, though as a musical it might play better in Middle America than in New York.

#13

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:27am

Isn't Elton John working on a "Vampire Lestat" Musical?

I'm surprised no one has ever attempted a musical based on "Moostruck." It seems to me to be perfect source material.

#14

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:44am

how about redwall by brian jacques

#15

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:48am

Is that the one about a churchmouse or something?

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#16

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:52am

I've posted on several threads like this, but I just thought of a new one.
Call me crazy, but wouldn't it be great if they made a musical based upon the movie CLUE (which was based upon the Parker Brothers game)?
Have an honest to goodness musical farce on Broadway for the first time in God knows how long? With iconic well-known characters?

Oh, hell, I'll write it myself! Now, what folder is Finale in.........

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#17

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 11:57am

Movie: "Moonstruck"...with the right team would be sensational...as long as you get Shanley to do the book.

...and I've said it before, but I will say it again: "The First Wives Club"...it'd be a hit!

Book: "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by Fay Weldon.

"The First Wives Club" fits here as well, it was written by Olivia Goldsmith.

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#18

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 12:13pm

There is a "Clue" musical. It premiered in Chicago.

Heart and Souls
Ruthless People
Blonde Venus
Misery

Moonstruck has been in the works for a while.
I thought there was a musical of First Wives Club produced somewhere in Europe already, but I could be wrong.

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#19

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 12:15pm

Really?!?
Do you know anything else about it? As in, did you see it?

Pardon me while I google.......heh heh.

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#20

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 12:40pm

That's very interesting. I hadn't heard anything about it. I DID hear somewhere that people have been talking to the Goldsmith estate about getting the rights...but other than that I don't think there has been a musical verson of "The First Wives Club"...yet!

And, how lond has "Moonstruck" been in the works? I certainly hope it comes to fruition. It would be such an amazing show...done right, that is.

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#21

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 2:46pm

Yeah, Elton is working on Lestat.

Hmm, how about To Kill A Mockingbird?

#22

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 4:18pm

Books

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by Gregory Maguire
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie

Movies

Pretty Woman (call me an ole softy)
Logan's Run
High Anxiety

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#23

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 4:22pm

I thought that Moonstruck was being done by Kreiger (though I could have heard wrong).

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#24

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Posted: 3/1/05 at 4:23pm

Books
"Memior of a Geisha"
"I am the cheese"
"I never promised you a rose garden"

#25

re: Books or movies that would make great musicals.

Posted: 3/1/05 at 4:25pm

I'd definitely have to second The Princess Bride. I was just wondering the other day why it wasn't a musical yet.

Does anyone think Dead Poets Society would work as a musical?