Books you read as a kid and teenager that would make AWESOME musicals- Page 3

[zzannahk]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:06am

Tuck Everlasting, yeah the movie SUCKED but i loved the book

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:11am

The Westing Game it would be amazing - nuff said.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:13am

Memoirs of a Geisha. (I know a lot of 14-year-olds who read this.)

[BroadwayBettini2]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:19am

Memoirs of a Geisha is being made into a movie, with two really famous chinese stars. If I could spell thier names I would.

I agree with some of you. Jane Austen books would be great. So would Weathering Heights, I love that book.

Mathilda would be utterly fantastic.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:26am

Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi.

[musicallover2008]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:20am

I also agree with "Number the Stars." It already has been done as a play by Dr. Douglas W. Larche. I enjoyed reading it, but I am partial because we use to act together in my hometown. We also did a production of it. I wasn't in it though.

[musicallover2008]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:22am

I was just looking around and found out that there is a musical of Number the Stars also.


Dramatic Publishing Company

Number the Stars (Musical)

Book, music, and lyrics by Sean Hartley. Based on the book by Lois Lowry.
Cast: 13m., 6w. [Doubling possible, chorus optional.] A tender and intense adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel about one of the most inspiring episodes in human history: the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II. Annemarie Johansen is surprised when her best friend Ellen Rosen arrives in her apartment to spend the night. When two Nazi soldiers appear at the door looking for the Rosen family, Annemarie's parents pretend that Ellen is their own daughter. Annemarie comes to realize that all of the Jewish Danes are in terrible danger, and that it is up to their Christian neighbors to help them escape to neutral Sweden. Annemarie is to take the Rosens to Sweden in her boat. Minimal set.

Also Available:
Full-Length Play


Catalog Code:N03
Number of Act(s): 1
Pages of Dialogue: 33
Royalty: Submit Application.
Cost:$7.50


This title can be licensed/sold throughout the world.
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Please note that royalties quoted in our catalog are intended for K-12 schools with a standard curriculum only. All other producing groups must submit a completed application .

[YessicaB]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 1:38am

I agree with Mathilda.
What about Momo, or The Neverending Story? I'd love that.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:11am

There is a Hans Brinker musical. A small professional theatre in Chicago developed it about 15 years ago, and did it every year at holidy time for about five years in a row. I don't know if it's in any of the catalogs.

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 12:54pm

The Neverending Story would be AWESOME......like no LIE...I could see it...man that would be amazing to see on stage.

[Grommetik]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 1:18pm

This ins't really the sort of book a kid (or possibly a teen) should be reading but I love Tales of the City by Amistead Maupin. I'm pretty sure it was a tv show a while back but does anyone know if it has been made into a play?
I could see it as an awesome musical.

[QuiteSo]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 1:22pm

On Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: the rights are available, I've known of a few productions of it done by high schools (mine included).