#1
Posted: 11/29/15 at 9:56pm
I know there probably already many threads for this but I was curious about what movies you think would work well on stage? Any ideas for composers?
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals
#2
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:05pm
Indeed, you are correct!
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#3
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:10pm
I think Perks of being a Wallflower would be an interesting adaptation. Not sure how they would incorporate the Rocky Horror Show stuff into it though, they would probably have to get the licence to use the songs etc.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#5
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:23pm
I've always had a mini-vision for a HOLES musical in my mind. Kind of a modern sound for the camp scenes and a sweeping gorgeous musical theatre one for extended flashbacks to the Teacher and Ezra stories.
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#6
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:26pm
Dead poets society, Mrs.doubtfire, Dave, 12 years a slave, tangled, Pocahontas. I have a lot more
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#7
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:28pm
The Serbian Movie.
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#8
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:36pm
Requiem for a Dream.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#9
Posted: 11/29/15 at 10:48pm
Tootsie as a musical, 7 Days In May as a straight play. Both great "Idea" stories and brilliantly written to boot.
#10
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:00pm
A fun game is thinking of random movies that don't usually come to mind re: musical adaptions and imagining how, in the right hands, they could be terrific onstage. Take a random number generator and apply it to the Criterion Collection, for instance, and we get Dreyer's "Master of the House", a satirical comedy about a tyrannical husband whose housemaid, once his nursemaid, cows him into submission through a game of psychological cat-and-mouse. Feminist dark comedy chamber one-act, easy peasy.
Or Ophuls's "La Ronde", in which we see a series of vignettes via a linked circle of people, hosted by a winking, reality-altering emcee. There's a linking theme of the carousel, of regret, of "ronde" music and dancing, I mean it seems so apparent I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. Or Satyajit Ray's "Charulata", about a lonely housewife whose placid life, suffocated by her ignorant but wealthy husband, is turned upside-down when her husband's cousin, a poet, visits and helps her open herself up to new feelings, emotions, and ways of thinking. Or Babette's Feast, in which a housekeeper upsets the careful balance of a tiny, piously religious island in the Jutlands when she wins a lottery and puts on a lavish feast that dares its occupants to feel in a way that they've spent their lives denying. All stories of feeling and beauty that lend themselves naturally to music.
#11
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:15pm
Fight Club, but that's already happening...ish.
#12
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:17pm
Pineapple Express and/or The Interview
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Tommy Wiseau's The Room
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Updated On: 11/29/15 at 11:17 PM
#13
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:22pm
"Precious". Love the book and the movie. Oprah can produce it. It will be a Best Actress & Supporting Actress Tony winning role.
#14
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:52pm
Charley Kringas Inc said: "Or Ophuls's "La Ronde", in which we see a series of vignettes via a linked circle of people, hosted by a winking, reality-altering emcee. There's a linking theme of the carousel, of regret, of "ronde" music and dancing, I mean it seems so apparent I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet."
It has been done. LaChiusa adapted the Schnitzler play (which the film is based on) into Hello Again in 1994. It was also adapted by David Hare as The Blue Room which ran on Broadway in the late 90s starring Nicole Kidman. These are just two of numerous adaptations of the piece.
#15
Posted: 11/29/15 at 11:54pm
I'm surprised Disney hasn't attempted Hercules yet!
I'd also love to see The Social Network adapted as a straight play.
#16
Posted: 11/30/15 at 12:04am
HOCUS POCUS. WHY HASNT IT HAPPENED YET? WHY?
#17
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:19am
I would love to see a great adaptation of Pleasantville as a musical. The moments in the film where characters switch to being in colour would make natural places for songs, and a good combination of costuming/lighting could pull off the colour moments, kind of like they managed to simulate black and white in City of Angels. The film is so emotionally touching that i think it would lend itself well to some soaring music.
#19
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:20am
adam.peterson44 said: "I would love to see a great adaptation of Pleasantville as a musical. The moments in the film where characters switch to being in colour would make natural places for songs, and a good combination of costuming/lighting could pull off the colour moments, kind of like they managed to simulate black and white in City of Angels. The film is so emotionally touching that i think it would lend itself well to some soaring music.
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Y.E.S.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#20
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:44am
sparklemotion said: "HOCUS POCUS. WHY HASNT IT HAPPENED YET? WHY?
I know! I want another musical about witches! I LOVE Hocus Pocus!
#21
Posted: 11/30/15 at 4:24am
Classic movies have always been the ones that have adapted the best, so here are some suggestions:
Brief Encounter
Only Angels Have Wings
A Matter of Life and Death
The Palm Beach Story
All That Heaven Allows
#22
Posted: 11/30/15 at 5:58am
Kneehigh have already done a stunning production of Brief Encounter in London. Incidently there was a wonderful adaptation of Strangers on a Train too.
The way Reservoir Dogs is written, it feels perfect for the stage as a straight play but I doubt Tarantino would ever let it happen.
#24
Posted: 11/30/15 at 7:27am
I wrote and submitted a pitch for a musical based on 90s quasi-adult cartoon Johnny Bravo.
#25
Posted: 11/30/15 at 7:55am
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Thumbelina
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