Books you feel could be made into a musical... — Page 2

I am all about a musical of The Great Gatsby!
And anything Jane Austen would make a nice musical. Pride and Prejudice the most though.

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Well the most obvious choice is of course Ulysses.

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I'd like to see A Walk to Remember as a musical as well.

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SilentShadow, for some reason I think there's a foreign language musical based on Rebecca.

it'd be interesting to see an Amy Tan novel turned into a musical. The Bonesetter's Daughter is a favorite of mine, but I think The Joy Luck Club could be an interesting choice.

some other children's books I'd consider would be Bridge to Terabithia or Number the Stars.

and I definitely agree with jpbran's suggestion of Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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"The Outsiders" would be cool. I loved that book when I read it in 8th grade.

"The Turn of the Screw" is already an opera by Benjamin Britten. I don't think it can be approved upon.

I'd like to see A Walk to Remember as a musical as well.
Ditto.

Even thought it's been (crappily) done, Anne of Green Gables. It could be GREAT if done right.

The Devil Wears Prada.

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Don Juan Tenorio by Zorilla.

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I agree with The Great Gatsby! When I read it last year, I kept thinking to myself "Wow, why has no one made this into a musical yet?" It would work really well, I think!

Also, I can picture The Catcher in the Rye as a good musical, but apparently it's IMPOSSIBLE to get the rights to it, which is why no movies or plays have ever been made of it. Still, after reading it, I wrote down a few song ideas for it.

1984 could be a good dramatic musical, but ONLY if it was done right, in a Les Mis style, maybe. If it was done wrong, it would be at risk for becoming a huge campy joke! But someday I'd love to work on something like that!

And I think the Princess Diaries would be adorable as a musical, especially if it followed the storyline of the book series more than the Disney movies. The books were better, and way funnier.

There needs to be a Great Gatsby musical.......


Also Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman...

Updated On: 2/11/08 at 07:45 PM

I'm in COMPLETE agreement with Pippin with "The Devil in the White City." When I read that I'm honestly not too sure why, but I felt like it could be a great Sweeny Todd / JEKYLL & HYDE type musical (whatever similarities you want to take from those two AHAHHA). I really think they could expand and do great things.

I really do not see "Catcher in the Rye." Well, I do and It would be great, but the book is too good to have someone fiddle around with it...and I would think J.D. Salinger wants to keep his book the way it is first of all, and secondly continue having people READ the book rather than claim they read the book after listeing to a musical or watching the movie (THE WOMAN IN WHITE is a great example of this!)

Speaking of Wilkie Collins, I think that "THE MOONSTONE" would also be great, but probably with some cuts & tweaks. But still, I think it'd be pretty good.