Films That Should Be Stage Musicals- Page 2
Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
#25Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/10/14 at 9:07pmMISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
#26Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/10/14 at 10:52pmI have said for years that a David Yazbek "Mrs. Doubtfire" with Norbert Leo Butz in the lead role(s) would be a triple Tony.
JohnyBroadway
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/12
#27Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 12:14am
Miss Congeniality
Book Harvey Fierstien
Music: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Scott Whitman
Director: Jerry Mitchell
Stephanie J. block and Cheyenne Jackson as the leads.
#28Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 12:21amhenrikegerman, in regards to your "Lady Eve" suggestion would you want them to use the songs from "Birds & The Bees" or would you want a completely new score?
#29Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 12:27am
The 1999 movie, Blast from the Past.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#30Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 12:33amI think Four Weddings and a Funeral would make a great musical, although I'm not sure who I'd want to write it. On a related note, I watched The Hours again last night and thought it could make a great play if given a Brechtian treatment, perhaps with one actress playing all three of the main women.
#31Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 1:42am
Ugh, none. Can we please stop with this ridiculous notion that every film MUST be a commercial stage venture?
...However I would love if someone would come and fix up SHOCK TREATMENT for the stage. But not holding my breath on that one.
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#33Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 7:37am
Romney and Michele's High School Reunion
Hocus Pocus
Shakespeare In Love
The Sting
Now Voyager
#34Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 1:32pm
Once Upon a Time in America
Score by Sondheim or Ahrens/Flaherty
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#35Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 1:36pmDown with Love. One of my teacher friends turned me onto the film last year and said "This is our ticket out of public education." Not that we'd ever get the rights for a stage adaptation. The story already has clear beats where songs would fit. Plus, the story isn't that far removed from the kind of silly romances that made for good musical comedies for a long time onstage.
Jonwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/06
#36Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/11/14 at 11:54pm
Down with Love should be done by Shaiman and Wittman as they were involved with the film plus write the finale song Here's to Love.
#37Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/12/14 at 2:11amSutton Foster in Ms. Congeniality. It's just too easy.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#39Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 1/12/14 at 10:07am
Eris I don't know - is the score any good?
From the wikipedia article on the movie, it sounds like there were only town songs in The Birds and The Bees?
Updated On: 1/12/14 at 10:07 AM
matthewblack
Swing Joined: 5/17/16
#40Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 7:50pm
Florence Foster Jenkins
Fairy Tail Zero
La La Land
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#41Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 8:13pm
matthewblack said: "Florence Foster Jenkins
Fairy Tail Zero
La La Land
"
FFJ is already a play with music called Souvenir and LLL apparently is starting as a tour.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#42Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 8:18pm
Tootsie and Moonstruck, without question.
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#43Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 8:55pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "Tootsie and Moonstruck, without question.
Yes! Moonstruck with Laura Benanti and Andy Karl would be brilliant.
I think a Tootsie musical is in the works right now actually.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#44Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 8:58pm
I remember your brilliant casting suggestion for Moonstruck in another thread, GeorgeandDot! Totally down for that!
And yes, Tootsie indeed! Santino Fontana seems to be attached to the project, and I think he'd be sensational in the role.
bryan32
Stand-by Joined: 5/31/17
#45Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 9:16pm
what happen to that show it was going to be on broadway
#46Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 9:58pm
If a La La Land musical ever happens Laura Dreyfuss and Joshua Henry would be my dream Mia and Seb.
#47Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 10:03pm
I don't think any film "should be" a stage musical (I've never once thought this), but I do think some films should have been a (film) musical. The live-action Cinderella, for one. And The Warriors.
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#48Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 10:12pm
Someone on another thread mentioned a Great Gatsby musical written by Dave Malloy, who actually started as a jazz pianist. I still think that's the most brilliant idea ever. (Even though someone asked him about it on twitter and he apparently...already sorta did? https://twitter.com/dave_malloy/status/880823083036286976)
Otherwise, I think Black Swan could obviously translate very well into a stage show, even though I'm not a particular fan of the movie myself. Maybe also The Grand Budapest Hotel (though it'd need some rebranding as not to be confused with Grand Hotel). Shakespeare in Love could also be cool, but it might have to fight off a lot of Something Rotten! vibes.
Cfried
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
#49Films That Should Be Stage Musicals
Posted: 7/7/17 at 10:55pm
metropolis10111 said: "Romney and Michele's High School Reunion
Hocus Pocus
Shakespeare In Love
The Sting
Now Voyager "
The Sting is having its world premiere at Paper Mill next spring (written by Mark Hollmann/Greg Kotis) and Romy and Michelle just closed at the 5th Avenue Theatre.
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