Movie that would make great musical adaptation- Page 4

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 12:48am

Updated On: 3/25/06 at 12:48 AM

[jv92]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 7:28am

Margo, about "Applause"-
No, it isn't as good as Bye Bye Birdie or Golden Boy, but it still has a pretty good score. That one song Bacall sings at the end of Act I is superb.

Anyway...
Goodfellas would make an interesting dark musical. If Scorcesse isn't involved and they retained the title of the original book, it'd be even better.

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:02am

I know it's already been done and from what I heard, not successfully but I would still love to see a musical of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? This time with Patti Lupone as Jane and Glenn Close as Blanche!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:41am

Being a HUGE Tim Burton fan, if anyone was to even make a live stage version of it I would have to kill them myself. There is a reason Tim chose to make it in stop-motion. Corpse Bride is more doable but I would still be very, very nervous.

Updated On: 3/25/06 at 11:41 AM

[Doogie]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 12:26am

Sabrina (the one with Audrey Hepburn)

Posted: 4/1/06 at 2:51am

ooooooooooooooooooo....Sabrina....i think that would be a GREAT musical!! i love the old and new versions.
Who would be a great Sabrina?

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 2:52am

Patti LuPone. Who else?

[MrBundles]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 3:34am

AIRPLANE!!!

[Sant]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:04pm

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS - that Catherine Zeta-Jones-Julia Roberts movie.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

TOOTSIE

A FISH CALLED WANDA

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

[faithanytwo]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 3:44pm

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd prefer to see musical adaptations of smaller independent movies rather than big movie hits.. granted the name might not resonate with a lot of people but it could bring about a lot of great material.

[knows_too_much]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 4:16pm

I think if Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas were to be turned into stage shows the should be directed and designd by Julie Taymore and produced by Tim Burton.

[Yero]

Posted: 5/23/06 at 9:34pm

I know I'm doing a major bump here, but I was watching "Breakfast at Tiffany's" the other day on the bus ride back home from NYC, and I thought, hmm... why not?
I know it's been done before (didn't make it to Bway though) and flopped, but I still think it could work well.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:02am

One thing you have to keep in mind regarding adaptations of movies is whether or not the film is dependent on a star performer or locale.

Which are reasons why "My Favorite Year" (Tim Curry isn't Peter O'Toole) and "Ilya, Darling" (The Mark Hellinger isn't Greece) both failed despite good scores.

I think that a musical version of "Tootsie" would fail for the same reason. Unless you got Martin Short to play it, anyone else would come up short (no pun intended) when compared to Dustin Hoffman.

And to toss in my two cents worth, I thought that "Citizen Kane" and "The Right Stuff" would make wonderful operas. And I've kicked around the idea of putting the Maurice Chevallier/Jeanette McDonald movie "Teach Me Tonight" on stage and adding other Rodgers and Hart songs from the era to fill the score out.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:07am

How about some "Back to the Future" action over here? :)

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 12:19am

I was watching What About Bob? and couldn't help but think it would make a really good musical.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 3:20am

What about BONNIE AND CLYDE? It's got some great characters, action sequences, a love story, and a tragic finale. Also, TITANIC (the James Cameron version). No, I'm not kidding. I know there's already been a Titanic musical, but I think the blockbuster movie would translate well as an epic musical. Anyone else agree?

[tophertilson]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:31am

There are many BONNIE AND CLYDE musicals in the works, I believe. I second the vote for TOOTSIE. That could just work, if they had the right leading man!

TT

[bschneid76]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 9:49am

I love whoever said Psycho the Musical. I have often (jokingly of course) pictured a chorus of singing and dancing mothers coming down the stage rocking back and forth with knives held in their hands. Of course it is only a joke. Though i am sure someone would try it someday!

Seriously though, Pillow Talk would be a good choice (it may have been done or tired already).

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 2:08am

Bumpity bump bump!!!

Carol 

A Single Man

Fried Green Tomatoes 

Moonrise Kingdom 

Cinema Paradiso 

Bernie 

[gleek4114]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 3:03am

Miss Congeniality 

The Stepford Wives 

Hocus Pocus

Plesentville

 

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[gypsy101]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 3:07am

wow this is an old thread! I agree with posters from 10 years ago that said a new adaptation of All About Eve could be great. I just listened to Applause earlier tonight and it's pretty mediocre, especially for a Best Musical.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 3:07am

delete

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[BroadwayPeasent]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 3:22am

Pocahontas but I know I am in fast minority 

[jo]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 3:43am

How about the whimsical/fantasy romantic comedy KATE AND LEOPOLD?  It has a time travel element in a story set in modern-day and an earlier New York, with a number of very interesting characters.  A number of Broadway actors were actually cast as characters in this 2001 movie ( Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Bradley Whitford,  and Philip Bosco).

 

Sting wrote the beautiful theme song for the movie called UNTIL -- maybe he can adapt the film for the stage as a musical?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 5/29/16 at 03:43 AM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/29/16 at 10:01pm

Spaceballs and History of the World part 2