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#1

Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 3:00pm

I know this thread was started a while back, but I thought it was time for a fresh start. Now while I'm more a fan of the stage... there are certain shows I think would be great movies. My vote definitely goes to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown- the more I think about it, the transition would be great. We've never had a live action peanuts movie, and what better than that?!
#3

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 4:08pm

I'd LOVE to see a really well made film of "Phantom of the Opera".


Oh well.
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#6

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 4:55pm

I'm still putting my vote in for Les Mis and Sweeney - those are just BEGGING to be made as movies!

I also think City of Angels has HUGE potential to be a great movie.
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#7

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 5:05pm

Sweeney Todd
Into the Woods
The Life
Caroline, or Change
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#8

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:00pm

Sweeney Todd (always a rumor)
Grand Hotel (with killer art direction)
Nine (on location in Venice)
(A faithful version of) Brigadoon (shot on location in Scotland)
Merrily We Roll Along
Wicked (with a full-on "Lord of the Rings"-scale production value)
Dreamgirls (yeah, I know it's happening)
City of Angels (using Pleasantville-type effects)
The Light in the Piazza (on location in Florence, naturally)
Sunday in the Park With George (shot in and around modern Paris, and re-creating Paris of the 1880s)
Les Miserables
Ragtime
Into the Woods
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Updated On: 11/3/05 at 06:00 PM

#9

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:02pm

Piazza
Les Miz
Wicked
Shockheaded Peter (OK, that was off-Broadway)
Sweeney Todd
Aida
Sunday in the Park with George

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Updated On: 11/3/05 at 06:02 PM

#10

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:10pm

I agree with all your picks, best12bars... I'd add (a good version of) A Little Night Music to the list.
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#11

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:23pm

-Into the Woods would be awesome!
-Les Mis
-Wicked (Don't shoot me but you know it would make a fabulous movie...)
-Sweeney!
-DRS (I know it's already a movie but I think a movie musical would be awesome)
-Bat Boy (I've heard some stuff about it...)
-Jekyll and Hyde
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#13

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:57pm

that's why moon on a string said "A GOOD VERSION OF," implying that one is already in existance...
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#14

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 6:58pm

Yes, a remake. I am still trying to forget the original. I still don't understand how they messed up such great material. But yes, a good version needs to happen soon.
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#15

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:05pm

MoonOnAstring---God, YES, please! I would love to see a decent Night Music movie.
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#18

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:19pm

I would love to see Assassins just because it is amazing material, but I cannot imagine how they would do it. This isn't a show that lends itself to a realistic setting. It would take an incredible director to do this well.

But if done right it could be brilliant.
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Updated On: 11/3/05 at 07:19 PM

#19

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:22pm

NIGHT MUSIC was filmed and shown on PBS in its first NYCO incarnation in 1990 as well, with Sally Ann Howes (Truly Scrumptious in the CCBB movie) as Desiree, George Lee Andrews (Phantom Of The Opera) as Fredrik, Regina Resnik as madame Armfeldt, Michael Maguire (Tony winner for Les Miz) as Count Carl Magnus, Maureen Moore (Bernadette Peters standby in Gypsy) as Charlotte, Beverly Lambert (OBC Nine) as Anne, Susan Terry (a replacement Oolie in city Of Angels) as Petra, and our beloved Original Little Red, Dannielle Ferland, as Fredrika.

I have seen a copy of it. If you can find it, WATCH IT! It is phenomenal!
#21

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:31pm

Cabaret (the 1998 revival version)
Wicked (must star Idina)
Aida
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#22

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:43pm

Passion with the original cast. Didn'y sondheim say in the commentary that it would be fun to make a movie of Passion and film it in central park? I think that would be pretty awesome, but maybe not central park, I was thinking more somewhere in Italy.
#23

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:51pm

Yes, I have the 1990 PBS "Great Performances" of Night Music as well. It is excellent all around, and puts the movie with Liz Taylor to shame. And to think Hal Prince directed it! This is why he stuck to the stage. But I would LOVE to see it set in Sweden and filmed there (and can't figure out for the life of me why they switched countries in the movie). The perpetual twilight would be great cinematically.

And they could bring back the Liedersingers and "The Millers Son" and everything else they took out of the movie (for all the wrong reasons).

As far as ASSASSINS, I would love to see a film as well.. but it would be very difficult to swallow. The Balladeer role, and the disjointed settings would have to be conceived in an unusual way to work on screen. You need someone crazy like Baz Luhrman to reimagine it for the movies.
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#24

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:52pm

I'd love to see movie of the 1998 revival versions of Cabaret.
Wicked. (But I think I would lean more toward seeing the screenplay based on the book.)
And, I'd also love to see a version of Little Shop where they didn't eff up the ending.
#25

re: Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:57pm

If I had my druthers as far as "Wicked" there would be a wildly expensive "Lord of the Rings"-scale movie of the musical, and a deeply intense television mini-series based on the book. You would need a mini-series (8-10 hours) to tell the novel's story successfully. I'll bet you this will come in the next 10-15 years or so. "Wicked"s going to be around in many forms for a long, long time to come.

God, can I wait that long?

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