Good ideas for musicals
Good ideas for musicals
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#0Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:55pmSince everyone is so distraught over the latest movie/book-to-musicals, (a la LOTR, Spiderman and Legally Blonde) I thought I'd ask; what would you like to see on stage? I think Alice and Wonderland would be good, personally. (Is that a play already, though? It might be, now that I think about it)
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#1re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:59pm
it was a musical briefly in the 80's i believe- Mary Stuart Masterson mentioned being in the ensemble of it in a nine interview
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#2re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 8:06pm
Meryl Streep starred in "Alice In Concert" by Elizabeth Swados at the Public in the early 80's. I have the video (it's available from the Broadway Theatre Archive) -- interesting take on the show.
Incidentally, there are SEVERAL "Alice In Wonderland" plays out there, incuding a great one written by the legendary Eva Le Gallienne that went to Broadway in the early 80's (I think that was the one Masterson was in).
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#3re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 8:38pm"Somewhere In Time". Also, "Dirty Dancing" - although I think that's being done.
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Broadwaygirl4life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/04
#4re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:00pmThe Notebook just like Matt_G said. right starlyricist?
#5re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:02pmWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?.......but isn't there a remake of the movie coming out? WAIT!.......scratch that You'd never find people who'd wanna be Ooompa Loompa's or how ever you spell it! How about an adaption of the Drew Barrymoore film EVER AFTER: A Cinderella Story. Updated On: 7/16/04 at 10:02 PM
Broadwaygirl4life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/04
#6re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:06pmyeah i think so.
mikelg80
Understudy Joined: 7/12/04
#7re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:08pm
Id like to see a musical version of the 80's film mannequin, could have some great chorus numbers with the mannequins coming alive.
I love that film!
Broadwaygirl4life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/04
#8re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:19pmTTL- lol i wouldn't mind being an Oummpa Lummpa. Why not, I'm kinda to tall though.
#9re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:23amI've always wished that Sondheim would write the score for a musical based on Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'
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CK2
Understudy Joined: 10/29/03
#10re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:26am
....."written by the legendary Eva Le Gallienne that went to Broadway in the early 80's (I think that was the one Masterson was in)."
That's correct. MSM played the Four of Hearts and the Small White Rabbit. She understudied Kate Burton's Alice but she never had to go on.
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#11re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:30amdang right Broadwaygirl. when we open, we'll hand out boxes of kleenex to the audience members!
#12re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:54amThe Breakfast Club
#13re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:59amHere's my idea... Two whores. One stupid. One... green. One of them is a sl*ut. The other can't get laid. One uses a "sex toy" the other uses a broom stick. One has an annoying voice. The other can't sing without hyperventalating and they both get nominated for Tonys. THATS the kind of musical, I'd like to see.... oh, wait....
#14re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 1:07amGASP!
#15re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 1:27amHey - that's a good idea concerning "Somewhere in Time" - the right team might be able to do something special with that. How about a bad idea for a musical? In the same vein as "Springtime for Hitler" - how about a musical about Cardinal Law entitled "Don't ask Don't Tell" - Rip Taylor might be available....we'd need some damn good lawyers...
#16re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 2:08amEdward Scissorhands!!!
#17re: Good ideas for musicals
Posted: 7/17/04 at 2:09am(random tangent: My father proposed to my mother after they watched "Somewhere in Time" together.)
#18For the love.....
Posted: 7/17/04 at 2:34am
For the love of all things holy - WHY, when there is talk of SOOOO many movies being turned into musicals, has SOMEONE, ANYONE, not written a musical of THE PRINCESS BRIDE?!?!?!. Sondheim. Shaiman. JRB. Tesori. Hell, ELTON JOHN!! Somebody DO IT!
Discuss.
jefflang007
Understudy Joined: 6/13/04
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#21For the love.....
Posted: 7/17/04 at 11:03am
The Mouse That Roared, a short novel by Leonard Wibberly (made into an appalling movie - dont waste your time on it), about the smallest country in Europe, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, that declares war on the US over wine (the country's only export and now threatened by a winery in California bottling something called "Grand Enwick"). The Duchy knows it will lose, but that's the idea: if they lose, the US will send millions in "reconstruction funds".
So the Grand Fenwick army is sent to NY to invade the US (they get there by hiring a Portughese fishing boat), and instead of losing (like they're supposed to), they capture a scientist and his work in process, a bomb capable of destroying at a far greater degree than anything nuclear ever could. To great hosannas, the army returns, presents their captive and the bomb to the horrified royalty, who suddenly realize that, with this one munition, Grand Fenwick is now the most powerful country on earth.
The US responds by trying to buy the bomb back, by sending the country's ruler (an 18-year-old blond bombshell herself) a dozen full length mink coats, a whole raft of other bribes -- none of which works: Grand Fenwick decides to keep the bomb, for the moment.
Madness ensues. It's a charming little book, and has enormous potential for a musical. I worked with a friend on one version of it about ten years ago, and we both realized that, while the possibility is there, we simply weren't up to the task. But in the right hands...
#22For the love.....
Posted: 7/17/04 at 12:07pm
Flowery - I envisioned Breakfast Club as a musical the first time I saw it. Great minds really do think alike.
Another musical adaptation I would like to see is the James Stewart movie, The Shop Around the Corner. I think it would translate very well.
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#23For the love.....
Posted: 7/17/04 at 2:45pm
>> Another musical adaptation I would like to see is the James Stewart movie, The Shop Around the Corner
Already done: She Loves Me. Fabulous little show, one I'd kill to design.
#24For the love.....
Posted: 7/17/04 at 3:08pmI didn't realize that She Loves Me was an adaptation of that. I should get a recording. I've only heard the title song performed in some voice recitals.
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