Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#1Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 1:44pm
Just posing some lazy saturday "dream casting" suggestions. I know it's a great movie and there will be plenty of naysayers to crap all over this thread. It's not happening, but I'd love to see this story SING.
Fried Green Tomatoes
a new musical
Evelyn Couch Delta Burke
Mrs. Threadgoode Angela Lansbury
Idgie Threadgoode Kelly O’Hara
Ruth Jamison Tammy Blanchard
Frank Bennett Marc Kudisch
Buddy Derek Keeling
Ed Couch Ernie Sabella
*I should point out, I DID do a search on this and found a couple of related threads. They're old and I'm not going to revive them. Problem? Tough. *
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
Updated On: 9/27/08 at 01:44 PM
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#2re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 1:50pmKelli O'Hara is entirely too feminine to play Idgie.
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#2re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 1:55pmIt's called ACTING dear.
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#3re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 2:08pmYes, darling, but sometimes people just don't come off a certain way, sweetie pie. For instance, Kelli O'Hara simply was not convincing as a street urchin in My Fair Lady, while she made a lovely Act 2 Eliza, sugar lips lumpkin babykins.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#4re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 2:15pm
I LOVE LOVE Fried Green Tomatoes as a movie, but I just don't see it as a musical. A PLAY? perhaps. That might actually be pretty darn awesome, but musical, nah. I think adding musical numbers would take away from the beauty of the piece itself :)
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killertofu333
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/08
#5re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 3:59pm
Yeah I don't know about putting music to certain scenes of the movie:
Song titles from "Fried Green Tomatoes, The Musical"
*When Buddy Jr. loses his arm: "It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an arm"
*When Sipsey hits Frank Bennett over the head with a skillet: "My name is Sipsey BITCH!"
*When Goerge is outside "grilling": "Slap another RIB on them coals"
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#6re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 4:13pm
Old article...but it was in the works to come to Broadway as a play at one point.
Stage Version of Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes" Is Broadway-Bound; Producer Seeks Playwright
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#7re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/27/08 at 10:36pm
killertofu333, the composers of THE COLOR PURPLE turned tragic moments into memorable, affecting music.
I'm sure the same could be done for FRIED GREEN TOMATOES.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8re: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Musical?
Posted: 9/28/08 at 6:32am
I think it would be excellent material for a musical, but why do it as a play?
There is a certain amount of frustration on the West End board at the moment that the current stage adaption of the Calendar Girls film is a play rather than a musical, when it is such good source material for a musical.
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