Call me by your name. (Cast and composer)

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 3/11/22 at 11:41pm

I’m curious who you think would do best with the music/lyrics/book and who you’d cast as Oliver and Elios Father. (I’m assuming by the time this takes shape. elio will be a relatively new comer)
 

 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 3/11/22 at 11:43pm

Did I miss something? Are they making this a musical? 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 12:04am

GreasedLightning said: "Did I miss something? Are they making this a musical?"

Another fan fiction nonsense.  CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is not being adapted into a musical.  

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 12:18am

This was an intimate, lovely, low budget movie shot on 33mm film in Italy. That is probably lost on someone like you but it was a perfect movie. It will never be and should never be touched. 

[UrNotAMachine]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 2:07am

I don't think CMBYN is a story that lends itself to being turned into a musical, but I would like to see Sufjan Stevens take a stab at one.

[SharksVsJets]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 9:52am

Who's going to play the peach?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 11:30am

SharksVsJets said: "Who's going to play the peach?"

Fuzzy La Tour

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 1:08pm

Well I’m not saying that it will be made into a musical.  But I do like the intimacy and honesty by which it comes by.  Who knows maybe it’s just the casting chemistry.   But I will say that there has been some talks with producers and creatives on Developing it.  How far it will ever go. I don’t know. But very very early discussions yes. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 1:13pm

JRB or Adam Guettel are the first who come to mind. But there will probably be outrage if it’s not written by LGBT people. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 1:32pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber obviously, with Chloe Fineman as Elio. 

[pmensky]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 1:54pm

It would probably work well as a ballet. Like The Nutcracker.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 1:55pm

I can't really understand the idea that the story is too lowkey and intimate to be adapted into a musical tbh. Lisa Kron would be my first choice. 

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 3:09pm

CMBYN should not and could not be turned into a musical, even if it got the Band's Visit treatment. Its sequel, Fine Me, however, can very well be adapted into a straight play given how the book is structured. 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 7:23pm

Dancingthrulife2 said: "CMBYN should not and could not be turned into a musical, even if it got the Band's Visit treatment. Its sequel, Fine Me, however, can very well be adapted into a straight play given how the book is structured."

Should not? Sure. Could not? Mmm, crazier things have happened. 

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 11:05pm

Sutton Ross said: "This was an intimate, lovely, low budget movie shot on 33mm film in Italy. That is probably lost on someone like you but it was a perfect movie. It will never be and should never be touched."

It was a book before it was a film and honestly the book would work extremely well as a musical in the right hands.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 11:10pm

I'm very aware of what it was before it was a film, thanks so much. Doesn't make one word of my statement less true or relevant. It will never happen. Period. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/12/22 at 11:10pm

Will they musicalize the “erotic pooping assist” scene too?

[denali.fire]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 11:52am

pmensky said: "It would probably work well as a ballet. Like The Nutcracker."

Perhaps the same out be done with 

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[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 12:13pm

I think it would actually make a lovely opera, particularly if it embraced the erotic element. Opera can be so overwhelming in terms of pure atmosphere, which is one of the film's biggest assets (I'm pretty sure I came out of the theatre with a tan). On top of that, the source material is so richly literary that there are plenty of ways to use it as a springboard for a libretto. 

[Bwaygurl2]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 12:22pm

Sutton Ross said: "This was an intimate, lovely, low budget movie shot on 33mm film in Italy. That is probably lost on someone like you but it was a perfect movie. It will never be and should never be touched."

There's no such thing as 33mm film. Try to educate yourself before commenting next time. Thanks so much. 

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 12:41pm

I agree that it would work very well as an opera and, particularly, as a ballet.

A couple of years ago Marcelino Sambé – Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet – suggested a CMBYN ballet with Matthew Bourne as a choreographer and it sounds like a brilliant idea. Who knows!

[JasonC3]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 12:48pm

It was shot with one 35 mm camera according to this article.

And Bwaygurl2, pointing this out doesn't require such a rude response to the person who originally posted 33 mm.  Could easily have been a typo.

Updated On: 3/13/22 at 12:48 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 2:05pm

It was a typo, thanks Jason. And not to worry, I would never care about a bitchy response from someone who has been here for literally five days and can't spell girl correctly. Haha. Be well. 

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 3/13/22 at 6:28pm

JasonC3 said: "It was shot with one 35 mm camera according to this article.

And Bwaygurl2, pointing this out doesn't require such a rude response to the person who originally posted 33 mm. Could easily have been a typo."

Actually, Sutton's original response was snide and nasty. They deserved that rude response. "That is probably lost on someone like you."

I stand by the book being good source material for a musical or an opera. It would have to be a very intimate chamber piece.  The writing of the book is rather flowery and poetic from what I remember which would probably make for good lyrics.