MOMMY DEAREST as a Musical ?

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MOMMY DEAREST as a Musical ?

Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:15pm

What if this movie was turned into a musical???

I would go see it.

Bernedette Peters would be GREAT for the main role.

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#2

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:20pm

I would be ALL OVER THIS. And given the typical length of stage productions, they could even add some scenes from the book... such as when Joan tries to make Christina go to school in nothing but a coat and panties, when she forces her to wear a stinky dress with holes in it for a week, and when she smacks her on the Andrea Doria for trying to steal her husband!

Updated On: 4/24/05 at 12:20 PM

#3

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:22pm

Donna Murphy has to play the title role!

#4

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:24pm

YES, YES Donna Murphy would be AMAZING.......think of the GREAT music that would be sung for that role.

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:27pm

Yes it's not great quality. I don't have photoshop. But this is my best rendering of my vision of what the production would be like. I would give my arm to be in that audience. LOL

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#6

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:30pm

This would be a fun off-off broadway or late night cabaret thing.

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:56pm

That would be cool if Wildhorn did the music.

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#8

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:56pm

It would be interesting to hear a rendition of the soon to be popular song, "No Wire Hangers!"

#9

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:58pm

Frank Wildhourn write a Mommie Dearest musical? Hehe, wow.

I'd love to see what Wittman/Shaiman would do with it.

#10

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:02pm

"I'd love to see what Wittman/Shaiman would do with it."

Maybe you will. Marc better be reading this thread.

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:28pm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/menupage.htm

I've been doing the research for 30 years

#12

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:28pm

I told you so! hehe

#13

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:31pm

Amen - let Marc do it - please (amazing idea!) - but god forbid Wildhorn gets his hands on another project!

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:55pm

Hmmmm, this could have some GREAT song titles....

ChristiNA!

Christopher......


Damn it

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:56pm

"How many times do I have to tell you? If you're going to polish the floor you have to move that plant?"

"I'm not mad at you, I'm Mad at the Dirt!"

and I can imagine the choreography for the "Boys and the Booze" number.

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:57pm

It wouid absolutely have to be satirical. Fabulous idea.

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#17

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:03pm

A musical of TROG would be more fun.

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#18

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:04pm

Wait, it can't be a musical that's fair to Joan. It has to be Mommie Dearest... Joan the villain we root for, Christina the hero whose hair we love to see sheared off...

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:04pm

It would definetly have to be satirical, but the actors would have to fully commit to what they were doing to make it work. This could be a fun Rocky Horror type show.

#20

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:51pm

I actually did a one wo-man version of Mommie Dearest combined with Sunset Blvd. I called it SUNSET BLVD DEAREST. Faye Dunaway, playing Joan Crawford, playing Norma Desmond.

Example:
"Does this floor look clean to you? I had tiles put in because Valentino said, 'It takes tiles to tango'. Well, we're just going to scrub the floor together!"

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#21

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:54pm

Brilliant. hehe

#22

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:56pm

It was popular back when Faye was actually up for the role.

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#23

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 3:00pm

I bet. I love both movies to death (though Sunset is actually good, and Dearest is so bad its good), I think putting the 2 together in a parody is great!

#24

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Posted: 4/24/05 at 4:08pm

Love Mommie Dearest ...definitely a (campy) cult classic. They have made far many worse cross over movies-into-musicals. Marc and Scott would have to write it. They have their fingers on the pulse of intelligent, dark, and satyrical humor. I would buy a ticket!

#25

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Posted: 4/25/05 at 12:44am

I would be so cool if someone saw this and decided to actually try to get this turned into a musical which I would most definately see.

Who would you cast in the roles?

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