Broadway Shows You'd Love to See as a Movie- Page 2

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:58pm

No No Nanette..............


........just kidding

Wicked
Piazza
and, (given it doesnt happen onstage) a remake of FUNNY GIRL starring Stephanie J. Block!!!

[MoonOnAstring]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 7:59pm

Agreed, best12bars. I think that if the Rent movie does well, we will be seeing a Wicked movie very very soon.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 8:03pm

If the RENT movie does well, and Idina makes a name for herself in films as a result... I think a lot of people around here will get their wish and see her in a movie of "Wicked."

I'm hopeful.

EDIT: Hey! I thought of another one that would work SO WELL on film... Big River. Wow, would that make a great movie!

Updated On: 11/3/05 at 08:03 PM

[QMAN03]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 8:05pm

For anyone who has said Sweeny Todd, I think you all know this, but Sam Mendes (director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition, and Jarhead) has always wanted to do this. If Jarhead does well, then maybe they'll let him.

As for my picks, I gotta go with:

The Pillowman.

One of the best things I have seen in years.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 9:14pm

PIAZZA
of course, with the OBC


and Miss Saigon
and Wicked could be interesting
and I wonder how Spamalot would be as a movie... [of course as a musical version of Monty Python, if it would bode over well]

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 9:28pm

The Last 5 Years

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 9:48pm

I would love to see Aida with the original cast
and Once on this Island, although I don't know if it would transfer to film well

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 10:08pm

Hmm...I wonder how DOUBT would work as a movie?

[greenegirl87]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 11:07pm

ahh id LOVE to see a new funny girl!!!!

[jimmirae]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 11:20pm

"Grand Hotel"
"The Full Monty"
"Kiss of the Spiderwoman"
"The Rink"
"Master Class" (though not a musical, a damned spectacular script)
"Lettice & Lovage" (Ditto!)
"Hairspray" (On the way with Travolta, Crystal & Latifah I hear!)
also, A new film version of "The Little Foxes" would be nice.

[roquat]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:15am

Please, God, SWEENEY!!!

The sensuality of AIDA might work well on the big screen, but it might also end up looking ridiculous (and I hope Disney won't try to animate it!!!)

I would absolutely love to see CITY OF ANGELS and MACK AND MABEL onscreen. Both are about the world of movies and would automatically work better than they do onstage, and both contain some of the best Broadway music ever written. Their books need a little work (okay, MACK AND MABEL needs a LOT of work) but movies spend so long in development anyway, there'd be ample time to work out the kinks.

Jason Alexander has been trying to get financing for a ONCE ON THIS ISLAND musical for years (don't ask why, I know there isn't a part for him.) He says that potential investors hear the score and love it, but they all get nervous about it being a musical. Hopefully RENT and THE PRODUCERS and DREAMGIRLS will start to change that.

Oh, yes, the LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC movie. Pauline Kael again:

"This thing is directed as if Harold Prince had never SEEN a movie."

[SirLiir]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:31am

Norbert told me that a Last Five Years movie MAY be in the works. If you think about it, L5Y would be a great movie. Its about 90 minutes, only has 2 principal characters, and would be relatively cheap to make. Plus, can you imagine seeing Goodbye Till Tomorrow- I Could Never Rescue You in movie form? Wow. I am hoping but I hate to see them do it w/o Norbert and Sherie.
Updated On: 11/4/05 at 02:31 AM

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:34am

SirLiir, that would be fantastic and just wow...
with Norbert...
Make them do it!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:31am

jimmirae---How could I forget Lettice & Lovage???

You're absolutely right. And make it with Maggie, PLEASE! Film it in some crazy old estate in England on location.

Actually I'd love to see Maggie Smith and Judi Dench in the two leads.

[Victoria Grant]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:32am

The Boy From OZ
Urban Cowboy
A New Fiddler on the Roof
Starlight Express

[LightMyCandle]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:40am

As previously voted for, 'The Wild Party.' Must, must, must include Julia though. There's no exception to that. She's incredible!

[jasobres]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:24am

Wicked, Wicked, Wicked, Wicked, Wicked! ('Nuff said.)

[whatacharacter]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:50am

Avenue Q!!!! Think of the potential. Those characters could take off like the muppets. I see great marketing potential...even sequals!! And while I love the show, it would be a nice change to see it without having to watch the puppet and the puppeteer.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:58am

I think that if Ave. Q were made into a movie, it wouldn't succeed with the puppets. IT's something that has to be seen live.

But so much of the shows absurd hilarity come from them holding these sesame street like puppet...it wouldn't work.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:24pm

For theatrical release:

Les Miserables
Sweeney Todd
City of Angels
The Secret Garden
Once on This Island (I think it would be a terrific animated film)
Grand Hotel
Violet
Parade
Jekyll and Hyde
Mack and Mabel
Blood Brothers

For television:

Do Re Mi
Wildcat
Little Me
The Witches of Eastwick
Redhead
Nick and Nora
Rags

Remakes:

Hello Dolly
Mame
How to Succeed
Man of La Mancha
Hair (directed by Oliver Stone and choreographed by David Parsons)

[jasobres]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:28pm

Whatever happened to the "Avenue Q" television show that was being talked about? Did that not get out of the development stage?

[joanlegorreta]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 1:58pm

SUNSET BOULEVARD!!!!!

Wicked, Aida, Jekyll & Hyde and a new version of Little shop of horrors (With the original musical ending)

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:04pm

I think they need to do "A Chorus Line" like it's a documentary. Very rough camera techniques, dingy theatre setting, lots of NYC location shots, almost like a Discovery Channel look to it.

[Creative Lunatic]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:35pm

There is a movie of Chorus Line with Michael Douglas--but not done like a documentary
Spelling Bee!!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 2:53pm

Ugh. Don't get me started on the Michael Douglas movie of ACL. Ugh, again!

I'm still not sure that a film version of Chorus Line would ever work, but I agree that a "stark" and realistic approach to it would probably be the only way it would succeed (artistically).

You have to keep it feeling immediate and "live," no matter what. I almost think that a single camera with "no editing" would work. (Obviously you have to hide edits here and there, but it should have that look.) Hitchcock tried it with "Rope," and it had a very theatrical feel to it.