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[ABitOnTheSide]

Movie musicals surprised dont have stage addptions#25

Posted: 10/13/18 at 3:03pm

THE PIRATE (not because it's a great movie; but there is something there well worth exploring further)

They tried. It failed. I saw it at the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia a few years ago.

[CarlosAlberto]

Movie musicals surprised dont have stage addptions#26

Posted: 10/14/18 at 10:15am

I know it was done in Europe - but I would love to see an American production of “The Young Girls of Rochefort”.

[atuomala]

Movie musicals surprised dont have stage addptions#27

Posted: 10/14/18 at 11:47am

Mrs Santa Claus with Angela Lansbury featuring music from Jerry Herman was always one of my favorite movie musicals. Since it has a holiday theme, I’m sure that’s what has prevented it from getting up on the stage. It would be a hard sell outside of the holiday season.

"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur