Foreign musicals
Foreign musicals
#0Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:16pmI was wondering, if ever a musical, which wasn't written in English originally, made it to Broadway. Anyone knows?
Mr Roxy
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YessicaB
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#4re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:21pmit didnt and wont make it to broadway but i just have to share, in amsterdam they have rembrandt the musical
#5re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:21pmit didnt and wont make it to broadway but i just have to share, in amsterdam they have rembrandt the musical
MargoChanning
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#6re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:23pmLa Boheme
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#7re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:23pmLes Misérables, if that counts. :) (Since it was vastly different in 1980.)
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#8re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:28pm
The Three Penny Opera is an operetta, not a musical:) And La Boheme an opera, if I'm not mistaken.
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 06:28 PM
DWalk
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YessicaB
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Mr. TN
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#12re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:33pmAmour was originally written in French I believe, since it lists a translator in the credits.
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#13re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:35pmYou're welcome! But you're right. There I said it.
#14re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:36pmMany people don't realize Oklahoma was originally written in Sanskrit.
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#15re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:38pmIt wasn't about that, Yessica, but simply about the fact that I was wondering if any 'musical' made it. There are many succesful musicals written in German f.e. (Like Elisabeth or Ludwig II), which never were translated/made it to Braodway. Therefore, I was wondering, if only musicals written in English can have succes there aka will be staged.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#16re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:10am"Gone with the wind" London 1972 was originally written in Japanese. It had a national tour of the US but never made it to broadway.
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#17re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:14amEverything and everyone's considered a musical.
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#18re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/16/06 at 4:02pmAmour
Bring Disney's "Der Glockner Von Notre Dame" To Broadway!
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WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#19re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/16/06 at 4:42pm
Irma La Douce
La Plume de Ma Tante
Happy End (and the whole Brecht-Weill canon)
Metro ( a 5 performance flop from the 90s)
The Merry Widow
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#20re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:55pmThanks for those! Altough - again - the merry widow isn't a musical, but an opperetta. Same goes for Happy End.
#21re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:51amWasn't 'Cyrano - The musical' originally in Dutch before it came to (and flopped on) Broadway in the 90's? I think I have the cast album somewhere...
#22re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/24/06 at 7:45pm
To take this a bit "further" - anyone of you (native english speakers) ever saw a musical, which wasn't performed in English? Any non english muscial, you'd like to see on Broadway aka translated?
Updated On: 8/24/06 at 07:45 PM
#23re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:11pm
Kristina från Duvemåla!
Which, apparently, is happening. :)
http://icethesite1.hostinguk.com/kristinanews.htm
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Steph_DeVo
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/06
#24re: Foreign musicals
Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:50pmFor those of you who don't know, Kristina från Duvemåla is by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson from ABBA. Its based on the Immigrant novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg and is currently in workshops for an English production on Broadway....the music is phenomenal and the story is epic...Its going to be incredible.
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