Okay - so I have a school assignment to come up with an idea for a new musical Here are the limitations... 1. Must be based on a book or a play 2. Cannot be based on a t.v. show or movie 3. No Harry Potter 4. Cannot be based on a piece of childrens or teen literature 5. Should avoid making a musical specifically for children.
Guys, I need your help. Any and all comments or ideas are much appreciated!
If you followed the book rather than the movie I'd think it could work. I'm trying to think of other books...but the ones I love have all been made into movies. Or are being made into movies.
OOH! The Lovely Bones!!! I don't think that one's being made int a movie. Yet anyway.
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Look into the book MY FRENCH WHORE by Gene Wilder. That would be a wonderful musical if done right!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
This is a good project. First of all, let's hopefully keep in mind that we need more musical COMEDY. We don't need another drama. That's what opera is for, and frankly, some of the projects getting musical treatments don't really sing, do they?
There are some lovely renaissance and restoration comedies, some terrific 19th century plays and some good, early 20th century stuff that could be made into musicals. There are lots of great books to make into musicals as well. Why not Vanity Fair, to name a book? How about a theme like early days of 20th century theatre? I am so tired of musicals made from movies. That's why I thought Drowsy Chaperone was clever and original. Good luck with this project.
PLOT: It's 1918, and Paul Peachy, an unassuming train conductor and amateur actor in Milwaukee, finds his marriage has run out of steam, and decides to enlist as a dough boy. At nearly 30, Paul has seen little of the world, as his naïve and candid dispatches from the French trenches make clear. Paul, who speaks German, is brought in to interrogate notorious German spy Harry Stroller. Soon sent into the front line, Paul deserts and, in an extraordinary sequence, passes himself off as Harry Stroller. Taken to the local schloss and treated like royalty by the German officials, Paul is given a French whore, Annie Breton, for comfort, and he gradually comes to care for her once she reveals herself to him more than physically. Despite some ensuing heroism, the game's soon up for Peachy, and the novel takes the form of the final, eloquent notebook of a man still finding out who he is.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
How about David Lodge's Small World? Insanely overplotted, hilarious picaresque. Lots of broadly defined character types. It could be like Grand Hotel, set in academia.