Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
#1Miss 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!)
#2re: 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 . . .
#2re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/11/08 at 7:15pmMaybe I could see it, I loved the movie
#3re: 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...
#4re: 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.
#5re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/11/08 at 8:14pmWhen 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!).
#7re: 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?
#8re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:41pmThe 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.
#9re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/11/08 at 10:52pm
Uhm...
XANADU?
LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA?
#10re: 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)
#11re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:57amWay to spread Christ like positivity, Fishy.
#12re: 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!
#13re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:14amActually I'm the aspiring composer/lyricist who's going to adapt it.
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#14re: 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?"
#15re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 4:00amWell I am always open to collaboration... :P
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bwayguy22089
Broadway Star Joined: 12/16/06
#16re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 4:19amDirty Rotten Scoundrels was never a huge motion picture
#17re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 7:29amWell 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)
#18re: 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.
#19re: 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
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#20re: 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.
#21re: 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!
#22re: Miss Pettigrew:The Musical
Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:19pm
True dat' MCFan2
#24re: 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/
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