Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical — Page 2

Gone With the Wind has already been done. Found some success in Japan and London, but the pre-Broadway tour collapsed on the road in 1974.

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There's a Tom Jones operetta from the early 20th century, as well as a recent musical adaptation that was staged, I think last year at North Shore Music Theatre.

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I second Pride and Prejudice! And maybe Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights has been done as a Broadway play at the Longacre in 1939 and as a musical in a couple of small, unsuccessful incarnations.

A Confederacy of Dunces could be done. The nature of the novel is so many little stories and characters, though, that I think it's tricky. I know there have been attempts at small productions in the New Orleans area numerous times. Repeated ventures into a film version have stalled after attempts at getting a script less than 10 hours long have failed, over and over again. Still, I think Ignatius is a character that just cries out to be musicalized. Perhaps Dan Fogler could do him justice, and "with this hair, and in this body." He'd just the mustache and hat. Yazbek might be a good choice to write the score.

Updated On: 8/7/05 at 04:34 PM

The French Leuitenants (sp?) woman... that would be superb!!!!

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Cold Sassy Tree. It was already done as an opera, so a musical adaptation is not that far-fetched.

Best12bars, that's awesome! I had a feeling it had been attempted before. I think I'd pay to see them try

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How about Little Women?

Oops, sorry, double post.

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Updated On: 8/7/05 at 11:41 PM

i would personally like to see some Poirot done, or another form of Agatha Christie. However, I also agree Count of Monte Christo could be really good as well as Sherlock Holmes, and maybe some Ayn Rand because she has such awesome characters.

Faulkner. LOL.

I can just imagine the child singing the "Fish" song from As I Lay Dying.