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

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


........just kidding

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

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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!

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

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]

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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