Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

#1

Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 6:27pm

You know it is coming:

Cast:

Delysia-Amy Adams (duh) or Kerry Butler if Amy can't do it.Or Laura Bell Bundy (if Kerry or Amy can't do it) or Kristen Chennowith if they hurry.
Miss Pettigrew-Victoria Clark or Patti Lupone or Harvey! (yes, in drag!)
Nick-Kevin Kline or Victor Garber
Phillip-Michael Arden or Jonathan Groff
Joe-Tim Curry or Nathan Lane
Michael-Christian Borle or Max Von Essen
Edythe-Idina Menzel (double DUH!)

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Updated On: 3/11/08 at 06:27 PM

#2

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 6:42pm

You may be right! It was a cute movie; I can see some Broadway minds looking at it and getting the bug . . .

#3

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 7:15pm

Maybe I could see it, I loved the movie

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#4

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 7:17pm

And can't you just picture the amazing Art Deco "flat" on stage -- that flat in the movie is what my wildest fantasy of an apartment would look like...

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#5

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 7:40pm

I have to say, I do agree that it would be a great little musical.

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#6

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 8:14pm

When I saw this thread, it just made me smile. I haven't seen the film yet (it is on my radar for this weekend), but I remember seeing the trailer for the first time and leaning over to my friend and saying it looks like it is just screaming out to be a musical! Can't wait to see the movie, since it seems like you all agree (and you've actually seen it!).

#7

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 8:25pm

Grrr... haven't seen it yet.

#8

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:36pm

I think I can see Jonathan Freeman as Joe. No Harvey in drag, IMO -- going over-the-top would ruin the whole thing, I think. I've never seen Victoria Clark in anything so I don't know about her.

I think they should go a bit younger than Kline or Garber for Nick. In the film he wasn't much older than Delysia and Michael and the rest of the youngsters, was he?

#9

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:41pm

The movie will never be a hit and Broadway Musicals based on movies are aimed at becoming cash cows, so they base them of big hit movies. Most people are not going to pay top dollar to see a musical based on a movie they didn't see in the first place. It just doesn't happen.

#10

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:52pm

Uhm...
XANADU?
LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA?

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#11

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/11/08 at 11:37pm

Xanadu is a cult classic in ways that Pettigrew never will be
and
Light in the Piazza is based more on the novella then the movie. (Kind of the way Phantom of the Opera is based on the novel and not the 1920s movie version)

#12

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:57am

Way to spread Christ like positivity, Fishy.

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#13

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:37am

christhefish, I understand your reasoning, but y'never know!

I mean, hey, let's say an aspiring composer/lyricist such as, oh, I dunno, myself comes along and says, "Hey, I wanna musicalize this one!" -- Get the rights (just sayin') and says, "Well, I would have 2 options: 1 being the motion picture, the 2nd is using the original novel as my scource material. Just tossing it out there, really... Wishful thinking on my part? Perhaps. Hey, let this kid dream big and achieve just the same!

#14

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:14am

Actually I'm the aspiring composer/lyricist who's going to adapt it.

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re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:35am

I saw it this evening and found it thoroughly enchanting, and I actually said to my friend "I wonder who I have to talk to to get the rights to develop it as an Off-Broadway musical?"

#16

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 4:00am

Well I am always open to collaboration... :P

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#17

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 4:19am

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was never a huge motion picture

#18

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 7:29am

Well its clear that all of you hold enough positivism for me, but I just don't see it happening. But if you all are so passionate about it I hope it happens for your sake (but I won't be holding my breath)

#19

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 7:46am

It's a good not great film.

Tom Payne's fine ass is the most memorable visual in the film.

If Amy Adams ever does a musical it must be Promises, Promises.

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#20

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:40am

This is great a movie and I could see it on stage as much as ENCHANTED itself.

Amy for Ariel in LITTLE MERMAID, too

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#21

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:54am

While the movie is very charming and fun it is not a great movie. BUT I LOVED IT AND HAD A GREAT TIME.

The story just cried out for music. I think the plot and characters would be enhanced by a stage production. While I was watching the movie my musical theatre mind clicked off every time a song could be placed into he film and what style of song it should be.

Because the movie is not going to be a hit, the smartest thing to do would be to make it into a stage show but change the title.

#22

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:57am

Au contraire, fflagg, Lee Pace is WAY more gorgeous than any part of Tom Payne's anatomy!

#23

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:19pm

True dat' MCFan2

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#24

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:22pm

Isn't this film getting bad reviews?

#25

re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical

Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:25pm

No, actually, they've been pretty good on the whole.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_pettigrew_lives_for_a_day/