Movie Musicals You Wish They Would Do Again & Right This Time

On A Clear Day
A Funny Thing .....
A Chorus Line

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As much as I loved The Producers, I actually wish I could see a less stagy version and also a remake of Rent that DOESN'T have the original cast. And I liked these movies.

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You know it was gonna bite it when you had two non singers in the 2 top roles.

O"Toole singing Impossible Dream was like Jessie Ventura doing opera.

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Man of La Mancha has potential to be a great movie that stands alone from its stage counterpart, much like Sweeney Todd or Cabaret.

The Man of La Mancha movie was not that movie.

WSS - This is a shock

Annie

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I'd love to see a better adaptation of A Chorus Line but I think it's a hard show to capture on film. The power is in the intimacy of the theater.

I totally disagree with West Side Story. That film is perfect and actually made great improvements to the stage production, in my opinion.

Mame

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Rent, with more songs.The movie makes me hate the show.

With MORE songs? They do the majority of the songs from the show. The problem isn't with what songs they do, it's with everything else about the film.

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I would love to see a definitive faithful film adaptation of the granddaddy of great musicals, SHOW BOAT, especially since its 3 hour running time would not be a problem today when the average superhero movie approaches and sometime exceeds that length. The previous film versions all had good and bad points: The 1929 version was largely a silent film with only one song; the 1936 film was like a Cliff Notes version of the show and changed the ending. The 1951 version concentrated only on a portion of the stage story, leaving out key characters and songs, but was visually stunning in Technicolor but even this version was made over 50 years ago.

SHOW BOAT still has a far superior score and story than 90 per cent of today's musicals and the only obstacle might be that, with very few exceptions, we don't have any singers on stage or in films good enough to do justice to the score.

My dream cast for a remake within say the next couple of years is:
Julie: LAURA BENTANI or TAMMY BLANCHARD
Magnolia: NADIA BJORLIN or KELLY O'HARA
Ravenal: JAMES ANEST
Queenie: AUDRA McDONALD
Joe: BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL
Ellie: KRISTIN CHENOWETH
Frank: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Cap'n Andy: CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
Parthy: KATHLEEN TURNER
Steven Baker: TOM WELLING
Kim: ANNE HATHAWAY

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Updated On: 5/15/09 at 08:39 PM

Rent and Producers were the first to come to mind. I enjoyed Hairspray, but I wish it was more faithful to the stage version.

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Updated On: 6/18/20 at 09:18 PM

Camelot, Camelot, Camelot. I've been dying for a good film version of it for years.

I wouldn't mind if they went ahead with the rumored Carousel remake. The original wasn't bad, but it could be better.

I liked Funny Thing. Of course I'm crazy about Michael Crawford. But I liked the other performances too.