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#26

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:13pm

"Private Benjerman" lots of great roles! Big wedding scenes!
"Stir Crazy" it takes place in jail big funny numbers!
Whatever happened to Andrew Lloyd Webber adaption of the 1954 version "a star is born"

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#27

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:18pm

Something serious!

Enough fluff, already!

I would love to see Sondheim, La Chiusa, or Guettel write THE HOURS.

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#28

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:23pm

Bullets over Broadway is already in development, and has been for a few years...

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/80729.html

#29

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:25pm

Oh, and it's "Private Benjamin," not "Benjerman..."

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#30

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:28pm

I think THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY would warrant a fun musical...get Yazbeck to do the muisc/lyrics

#31

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:29pm

THE ENGLISH PATIENT: THE OPERA

An opera in 13 acts, lasting 4 hours each, where nothing happens.

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#32

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:34pm

Sounds like something up Webber's alley

#33

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:35pm

Yes it does!

But he would call it something unnecessarily dramatic and pointless.

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#34

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:36pm

Totally agree about the "Breakfast Club" !!

#35

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:37pm

I'd also like to see Guettel/Sondheim/La Chiusa musicalize THE GREAT GATSBY - it would atleast be interesting.

Or La Chiusa/Ahrens-Flaherty do MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.

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#36

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:37pm

Hmmm this is just for fun.

1.) Goodfellas
2.) Imitation of Life
3.) Witches...the movie where the boy finds out Witches are staying in the hotel and planning to kill children.

4.) The Notebook
5.) The Joy Luck Club
6.) Pride and Prejudice
7.) Vanity Fair
8.) American Pie
9.) Ferris Buller's Day Off
10.) The Breakfast Club

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#37

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:53pm

Forrest Gump

#38

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:57pm

I would only see "Goodfellas" if Pesci reprises his role from the movie AND sings the 11 o'clock number !!!

#39

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 9:28pm

I agree about Imitation of Life and The Witches.

Driving Miss Daisy is a movie I enjoy, but it has such questionable politics. I don't think the story should be told again unless it's with major revisions or new insights into the relationship between the caustic white woman and her kindly black chauffeur.


Other suggestions:
- Mommie Dearest
- The Addams Family (based on the film's characterizations)
- The Brady Bunch (combination of film and TV)
- Charlotte's Web
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Babe
- The Exorcist
- Spirited Away
- Serial Mom
- Matilda
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- The War of the Roses
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- KIDS (to shake things up)

#40

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 9:37pm

I fully believe that Breakfast Club belongs on stage, just in the form of a straight play. I somehow can't see it as a musical.

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#41

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 9:45pm

i saw a highschool put on a stage play of the breakfast club- i'm not sure if it was their own or if they got rights to it. Either way, it wasn't too bad!

'the witches' is a good one- i totally agree with that (it IS based on a book but who cares!)

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#42

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 9:47pm

Vanity Fair and Pride & Prejudice are novels and their respective movies were straightforward translations from novel-movie and neither movie overshadows the books. Having said that, Pride & Prejudice was already adapted into a musical called First Impressions in 1959 that ran for only 92 performances and starred Polly Bergen (Tony nominee for the 2001 Follies revival) as Elizabeth Bennett, and Hermione Gingold (Original Mme. Armfeldt in A Little Night Music) as Mrs.Bennett. There's also a play called Becky Sharp based on the novel Vanity Fair.

If someone passes on "The Hours," I'd love to see Guettel work with this material. Perhaps Victoria Clark might be willing to play Clarissa Vaughn.

#43

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:26pm

Tangent off of what Thesbijean said...Yasbeck always seems to do funny/light hearted shows. I would love to see him tackle something serious. Am I wrong in thinking this?

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#44

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:28pm

I dunno...his style of music doesn't warrant serious.

Sometimes his songs in comedies are serious, but if I were producing a dramatic or even semi-serious musical, Yazbeck would be on the bottom of my list.

#45

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:31pm

- Charlotte's Web

A musical of this has been made. It hasnt gone to broadway, and as I recall isnt that good. It was one of those that are written more for kids theater companys.

#46

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:33pm

Thesbijean, I see what you mean.

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#47

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:23am

Well here's more that come to my mind

1.) Clueless
2.) Loser
3.) Mrs. Doubtfire....with RObin Williams of course.
4.) Aladdin
5.) Mean Girls
10.) An American Tale
11.) Beaches
12.) Rigoletto
13.) Sleeping Beauty
14.) Thumbalina....I use to like this movie.
15.) The Princess and The Goblins
16.) The Neverending Story...with more on the second movie.

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#48

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:33am

"The Witches" is indeed a book - written by Roald Dahl of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and BFG fame, I think he contributed to the script for the film of Chitty as well (and he was Sophie Dahl's (the model) Grandfather).

#49

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/16/06 at 10:52am

Mine are the following:
1.Brief Encounter
2.Memoirs of a Geisha
3.Litle Voice
4.Before Sunrise
5.Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Though it's a film, I think that The Catcher in The Rye would make a good musical. I mean, if they make Les Miserables work as a musical, they can make anything work.

#50

re: Movie that would make great musical adaptation

Posted: 3/16/06 at 12:30pm

Could Work

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