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Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
#50re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:23am
"The Grapes of Wrath" is one of my favorite books, so I wouldn't mind seeing an interpretation of that.
Also, to further prove the speculation that Holden Caufield is gay, a musical version of "The Catcher in the Rye." Though that is most unlikely since nobody can even get the rights to adapt it into a dramtic movie.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#51re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:28am
I have no idea if it's ever been tried, but I think Richard Adams' "Watership Down" would make a neat musical. I'd also love to see something by Trollope, such as "Barchester Towers."
What fun that would be!
"And the postman sighed as he scratched his head, you really rather thought she ought to be dead..."
Bdwyguy30
Understudy Joined: 3/9/04
#52re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 2:17pm
Re: Dorian Gray
It is actually being done as a musical for the New york Music Theatre Festival. Not the version you saw though. This one is called Dorian Gray The musical and Dorian Gray is a Rock singer, although it is not a "rock" musical. Apparantely the bulk of the play takes place in 1965 during the civil rights movement and it opens and closes in 1999. Dorian is white and Sybil Vane is a black girl. I saw a reading of this version two years ago in New york and it blew me away. The book was great and the score was amazing, it really was. I am looking forward to seeing this incarnation in a staged production. I think the one you saw took place in new orleans or something like that. This is apparantely alot better. We'll see.
Updated On: 9/1/05 at 02:17 PM
#53re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 2:25pmI'm afraid that I would do a desperate outrage if someone produced Pride & Prejudice as a musical. That book is PERFECT as it is and I won't stand for anyone messing with it.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#54re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 2:54pmRed and Black
#55re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 5:58pmI have always thought Tale of Two Cities would make a great musical--and it seems like I am not alone! I always envisioned it being a Boublil-Schonberg project. I am glad that it is being made, hopefully it will be well-done. Has The Turn of the Screw been done? That might be an idea...sort of in the vein of The Woman in White.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#56re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 6:07pm
i would like to see:
-Wuthering Heights
-Catcher in the Rye
-and maybe Animal Farm???(not sure about being actually dressed as pigs and all)???
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
Lome2
Stand-by Joined: 1/23/05
#57re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 6:59pm
- War and Peace (Tolstoi)
- Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#58re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 8:28pmTHE GREAT GATSBYYYYY <3
#59re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:18pmWar and Peace
#60re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:57pmWuthering Heights definitely! I also loved Mansfield Park and think that could make a great musical, and a Frankenstein that actually resembled the novel would be amazing. I heard that was in teh works with Kristin Chenoweth to star as Elizabeth. is that still being planned?
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#61re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:16pm
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE was adapted into a Broadway musical called FIRST IMPRESSIONS, starring Hermione Gingold and Polly Bergen, in 1959. It died after three months.
Mayella Ewell
Maycomb, Alabama
#62re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:27pm"Our Town" should be adapted to a musical, I believe Kander & Ebb were working on one at some point. Another novel that might be adapted to a musical is "The House of the Spirits."
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#63re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:41pm
Count of Monte Cristo would make an awesome operatic musical, but a pretty long one.
I've loved this book since I was 8 years old. And yes, it's almost as long as Les Miserables and with much more action to sing about.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#64re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:52pm
i third pride and prejudice. heck, if austen were alive, i'm sure she'd feel the same way. the plotline is very broadway, i think.
i'd love it if somebody stole and re-adapted taming of the shrew á la kiss me kate. should havve quite a different plotline tho.
i think dracula as a novel had hopes, but after the last fiasco under that title, i may be close to giving up.
i think it may be possible to make a musical out of 100 years of solitude or house of the spirits. lots of special effects. but they havent been able to make so much as a movie out of the 1st and the second did have a film made out of it but it sucked.
they should do the raven or something equally goth by poe.
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
#65re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 9/2/05 at 12:10amI'm not sure One Hundred Years could ever be adapted for a musical because it is too dense and non-linear to be adapted successfully for a Broadway show. If the material from The House of the Spirits was condensed, then it would make a really good show. Wickedkiwi, I had never read the lyrics to "Take Me or Leave Me" in Spanish, I don't like them...
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#66re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:57pmI'm all for a musicalization of War and Peace. With the right amount of nipping and tucking, it would make a great musical.
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#67re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:03pm
The Great Gatsby would make a perfect musical if done correctly. There are so many perfect places for songs in the story. In fact, when I was reading it, I pictured songs in my head to go along with the plot. 
Salad_Fingers85
Stand-by Joined: 8/30/05
#68re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:35pmI personally think "To Kill A Mockingbird" could be a good show, provided it had a solid score and book. There is a lot of places you can go wrong with that story. Also Lome2, "The Neverending Story" I think would be awesome as a musical! Just my thoughts though!
#69re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:40pmTo Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite novel, and I'd love to see a musical of it, but the themes are so deep that I feel like it won't convey everything it has too. Harper Lee's syntax is simply breathtaking and having the story without it is so frightening. I'm a huge Lit Buff, but I'd love to see this show on Broadway, even as a play.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#70re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 3:36pmGreat Gatsby and Macbeth.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#71re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 4:14pmMacbeth already sings without music.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#72re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 5:07pmI just started reading The Great Gatsby today and I really like it. It does have some musicality to it. I can see someone winning a Tony for his insightful performance as Nick. :)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#73re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 5:58pm
"Macbeth already sings without music."
Yes, but can you imagine those spectacular tap-dancing witches?
(I'm kidding. KIDDING.)
Hear the words I sing: war's a horrid thing. So, I sing sing sing... Ding a ling a ling.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#74re: Literature Classic You'd Like To See Done As A Musical
Posted: 7/21/06 at 6:29pm
Too late, Macbeth! The Tap Dancing Spectacular. Has now been produced and is rumored for a Broadway opening in a few months .
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
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