Movies into musicals
Movies into musicals
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#0Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:42pm
Which one's worked?
Kiss Of The Spiderwoman.
Which others
#1re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:42pmThe Light in The Piazza
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Cruel_Sandwich
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#3re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:46pm
Chicago had a tricky conceit (All musical numbers are imagined) but they pulled it off.
By the way, chita, your avatar freaks the hell out of me. Spector doesn't still have that ungainly follicular beast resting upon his scalp anymore, does he?
#4re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:38pm
Piazza was a book first, then a movie. I believe the movie gets some kind of credit in the musical so I guess it half counts.
I think A Little Night Music, Passion, Hairspray and Producers all solidly fall into the "works" column. And Full Monty and Little Shop too.
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mizzie
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#6re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:03pm
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is almost better on stage than in film. When I saw the movie after seeing the show, I was waiting for Steve Martin to break into song. The books are nearly identical, with things added to the show to give the songs more clarity.
Overall, it was a good film - stage adaption.
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#7re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:22pm
Passion
Promises, Promises
On The Twentieth Century
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#10re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:00amFOOTLOOSE! (which in my opinion, is much better onstage rather than onscreen)
#11re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 2:27amFootloose worked alot better on stage I also believe.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#12re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:26amRAGTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#13re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:47amId love to see Ragtime as a movie but they have to use the original cast on the most part. I would demand Brian and Audra.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#14re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:48pm
"FOOTLOOSE! (which in my opinion, is much better onstage rather than onscreen)" ~ wicked4good2
"Footloose worked alot better on stage I also believe." ~ Theatreboy49
Oh my God! This just made me vomit in my own mouth a little! Surely you jest?
#15re: Movies into musicals
Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:21pm
Margo- Didn't the play Twentieth Century (the one that the Roundabout revived last year) come before the movie? The play premiered in 1932 and the movie came out in 1934.
Ragtime was a (quite well-known) book before it was a movie.
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