Foreign musicals

[Pemily]

Foreign musicals#0

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:16pm

I was wondering, if ever a musical, which wasn't written in English originally, made it to Broadway. Anyone knows?

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[Mr Roxy]

re: Foreign musicals#1

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:17pm

Rugantino springs to mind

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[YessicaB]

re: Foreign musicals#2

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:18pm

The Threepenny Opera

[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#3

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:19pm

I've never heard of it, what is it about?

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[StephenSondheimWHOO]

re: Foreign musicals#4

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:21pm

it didnt and wont make it to broadway but i just have to share, in amsterdam they have rembrandt the musical

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

re: Foreign musicals#5

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:21pm

it didnt and wont make it to broadway but i just have to share, in amsterdam they have rembrandt the musical

[MargoChanning]

re: Foreign musicals#6

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:23pm

La Boheme

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[LizzieCurry]

re: Foreign musicals#7

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:23pm

Les Misérables, if that counts. :) (Since it was vastly different in 1980.)

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[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#8

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.

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Updated On: 8/15/06 at 06:28 PM

[DWalk]

re: Foreign musicals#9

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:28pm

How about Dance of the Vampires?

[YessicaB]

re: Foreign musicals#10

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:31pm

Smartass...

[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#11

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:33pm

Why thank you *G*

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[Mr. TN]

re: Foreign musicals#12

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:33pm

Amour was originally written in French I believe, since it lists a translator in the credits.

[YessicaB]

re: Foreign musicals#13

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:35pm

You're welcome! But you're right. There I said it.

[LizzieCurry]

re: Foreign musicals#14

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:36pm

Many people don't realize Oklahoma was originally written in Sanskrit.

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[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#15

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:38pm

It 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.

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[ErinDillyFan]

re: Foreign musicals#16

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]

re: Foreign musicals#17

Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:14am

Everything and everyone's considered a musical.

How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

[musicalkid]

re: Foreign musicals#18

Posted: 8/16/06 at 4:02pm

Amour

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[WOSQ]

re: Foreign musicals#19

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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[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#20

Posted: 8/16/06 at 6:55pm

Thanks for those! Altough - again - the merry widow isn't a musical, but an opperetta. Same goes for Happy End.

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[Eastwickian]

re: Foreign musicals#21

Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:51am

Wasn'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...

[Pemily]

re: Foreign musicals#22

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?

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Updated On: 8/24/06 at 07:45 PM

[LizzieCurry]

re: Foreign musicals#23

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]

re: Foreign musicals#24

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:50pm

For 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.