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Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#25
Posted: 11/30/15 at 7:55am
Big Business
Thumbelina
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#26
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:03pm
AEA AGMA SM said: "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. "
Oh wow, I didn't even realize!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#28
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:20pm
To be really snooty
2001 A Space Odyssey. Imagine dancing apes around a black monolith
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#29
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:39pm
Speaking of apes:
STEVEN PASQUALE
NATHAN LANE
KELLI O'HARA
in
PLANET OF THE APES
Co-starring
Courtney Reed as 'Nova'
Music and Lyrics by Frank Wildhorn
Book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle and the 20th Century-Fox screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling
Directed by Julie Taymor
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#30
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:43pm
CarlosAlberto said: "Speaking of apes:
STEVEN PASQUALE
NATHAN LANE
KELLI O'HARA
in
PLANET OF THE APES
Co-starring
Courtney Reed as 'Nova'
Music and Lyrics by Frank Wildhorn
Book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle and the 20th Century-Fox screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling
Directed by Julie Taymor
"OMG I would go see that!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#31
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:48pm
Think of the head ape Cornelius belting out a Wildhorn power ballad. Would see it in a heartbeat.
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#32
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:55pm
Mr Roxy said: "Think of the head ape Cornelius belting out a Wildhorn power ballad. Would see it in a heartbeat."
Good God, yes!!!
"
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#33
Posted: 11/30/15 at 1:58pm
Nathan could play Dr Zaius
Mr Wildhorn If you are reading this, please consider this. The theater going community is waiting for this with baited breath.
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#34
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:11pm
That's exactly who Nathan would be playing.
Steven Paquale is of course playing George Taylor
Kelli O'Hara is Zira
and
Courtney Reed is Nova
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#35
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:15pm
CarlosAlberto said: "That's exactly who Nathan would be playing.
Steven Paquale is of course playing George Taylor
Kelli O'Hara is Zira
and
Courtney Reed is Nova
" I see Nova belting out a powerful and tearful climax
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#36
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:17pm
All inspired casting choices. This is all starting to come together & it is getting scary.
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#37
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:20pm
Petralicious said: "CarlosAlberto said: "That's exactly who Nathan would be playing.
Steven Paquale is of course playing George Taylor
Kelli O'Hara is Zira
and
Courtney Reed is Nova
" I see Nova belting out a powerful and tearful climax
Nova is mute.... 
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#38
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:26pm
CarlosAlberto said: "Petralicious said: "CarlosAlberto said: "That's exactly who Nathan would be playing.
Steven Paquale is of course playing George Taylor
Kelli O'Hara is Zira
and
Courtney Reed is Nova
" I see Nova belting out a powerful and tearful climax
Nova is mute....
" I know she is mute, but you dont hire Courtney Reed to be MUTE. They can let her speak, or at least sing to us, in her head, in her world!
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#39
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:28pm
Has anyone ever tried to make a Chocolat musical? That seems like a natural to me.
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#40
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:51pm
CarlosAlberto said: "Speaking of apes:
STEVEN PASQUALE
NATHAN LANE
KELLI O'HARA
in
PLANET OF THE APES
Co-starring
Courtney Reed as 'Nova'
Music and Lyrics by Frank Wildhorn
Book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle and the 20th Century-Fox screenplay by Michael Wilson & Rod Serling
Directed by Julie Taymor"
I will never support a Planet of the Apes musical if it does not include this:
Updated On: 11/30/15 at 02:51 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#41
Posted: 11/30/15 at 2:57pm
Don't forget about the Simpsons' Streetcar Named Desire musical.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#42
Posted: 11/30/15 at 3:08pm
Do not let her near it.
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#43
Posted: 11/30/15 at 3:20pm
My first two answers will always be Heart and Souls and Too Many Crooks (or perhaps its remake, Ruthless People).
Also:
Wings of Desire (not the awful American remake)
All About My Mother (Tesori, perhaps?)
La Comunidad
The Devil's Backbone
Les Choristes
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#44
Posted: 12/1/15 at 1:35pm
Bedazzled (Laura Benanti as The Devil, Santino Fontana as Elliot, Elizabeth Stanley as Alison)
Haunted Honeymoon
Practical Magic
The Warriors
Weird Science
Defending Your Life
Ruthless People
Mrs. Doubtfire (Norbert Leo Butz!)
Moonstruck (Stephanie J Block, Josh Segura?)
Death Becomes Her
High Anxiety (Mel Brooks REALLY needs to do this before he goes)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Troop Beverley Hills (Sherie Rene Scott or Rachel York)
The Prince of Egypt
Hercules
Hocus Pocus (Everyday Rapture Reunion w/ Sherie Rene & the Mennonettes?)
More in the vein of Crazy for You/An American in Paris w/ 1 or 2 composers music
Summerstock (add to the films soundtrack with songs from Arlen and Warren's library)
There's No Business Like Show Business (Berlin)
It's Always Fair Weather (Comden and Green)
For the Boys (I don't know who to use. I'd say write an original score but the set piece of the comedy bit leading into Stuff Like That There and the blackout with Dixie singing PS I Love You right into finishing StuffLTT and all of the scene work that precedes, intermingles, and follows it is perfection and encapsulates the characters, period, and story so perfectly it's hard to imagine finding better music. Perhaps it's best to leave it alone)
From TV Rather Than Film
Soap
Pushing Daisies
Plays w/ Music
I Could Go On Singing
Valley of the Dolls
Postcards From the Edge
Operas
Watchmen
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Carrie
The Shining
There Will Be Blood
Inception
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#45
Posted: 12/1/15 at 4:35pm
A musical of "For the Boys," adapted by Aaron Thielen and Terry James, was done several years ago in Chicago but never went anywhere. Although both "Tootsie" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" seem like good ideas, they share the technical problem of the lead having to get into and out of drag all night that's extravagant enough that you believe they're unrecognizable to family and friends. Very tricky. I think "Pocketful of Miracles" would make a good musical.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#46
Posted: 12/1/15 at 5:20pm
Just watched A Matter of Life and Death again last night. It would make a spectacular musical. I think Carter Burwell would compose a gorgeous score for it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#47
Posted: 12/2/15 at 11:58am
Schindler's List
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#48
Posted: 12/2/15 at 12:00pm
Dollypop said: "Schindler's List"
Starring Loretta Swit?
Movies That Should Be Adapted Into Musicals#49
Posted: 12/2/15 at 2:24pm
I also think a great musical could be made out of the apocalyptic - yet funny and romantic - film Last Night.
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