Are there any musicals that flopped on broadway where it worked/would work better on screen?
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
The reception to the filmed version of BANDSTAND very much more positive on here than the reviews were for the show. I wonder if it would have been better as a movie with a few less book scene songs.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Would work better: Do Re Mi Zorba Follies Mack and Mabel On the Twentieth Century Merrily We Roll Along The Secret Garden Kiss of the Spider Woman Parade Taboo Grey Gardens Violet Great Comet Bandstand
And personally, I always thought Once On This Island would make a terrific animated film.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
I s2g I have an entire Merrily film blocked out in my head.
Carrie would work quite well on film, I think, particularly if you harken back to the glitzy 80s version and the semi-giallo camp of DePalma’s film (see also Phantom of the Paradise).
LaChiusa’s Wild Party would also be exceptional in the right hands (ie, daring and creative).