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revisiting this thread almost 10 years later and its pretty amazing to see how many people were right with the ones that eventually came to be musicals LOL mean girls, Anastasia, moulin rouge, elf, devil wears Prada.
Posted: 6/4/18 at 6:46pm
Well a YouTube user and I are developing ideas for an adaptation of the 1995 Don Bluth animated film Pebble and the Penguin. Again we are not profesdionals. Just drawing ideas
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Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:17pm
Wow, it is definitely fun to see just how many of these came true (including those still in development)!
Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:28pm
The recent Love Simon would work well on stage. The book and film follow a closeted gay teen corresponding with an anonymous pen pal while playing matchmaker for a school bully. It could easily appeal to the Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill crowd.
Even better would be the Brazilian film The Way He Looks (aka Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho). It starts from a similar place, with a blind teen ditching his lovesick female friend to pursue a male classmate. It goes in different directions though and is as much about the leads quest for independence as it is his pursuit of romance.
Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:38pm
MrsSallyAdams said: "The recentLove Simonwould work well on stage. The book and film follow a closeted gay teen corresponding with an anonymous pen pal while playing matchmaker for a school bully. It could easily appeal to theDear Evan Hansen, Be More Chillcrowd.
Even better would be the Brazilian filmThe Way He Looks(akaHoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho). It starts from a similar place, with a blind teen ditching his lovesick female friend to pursue a male classmate. It goes in different directions though and is as much about the leads quest for independence as it is his pursuit of romance."
Love Simon was so good
Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:40pm
Love, Simon would end up being as contrived as the movie. Pass.
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Posted: 6/5/18 at 12:31am
Girls Just Want to Have Fun writes itself. Someone please make that!! Casting would be challenging - it would require some serious triple threats. But there’s just so much opportunity there.
Also, I know it’s been said ad nauseam in these boards, but for the love of god someone please make Hercules. I feel like the more it’s written the more we can will it into existance? Maybe? Zero to Hero would bring down the house!
Posted: 6/6/18 at 7:14pm
Judy Garland's last movie, "I Could Go On Singing", has a great plot and there are a number of Adele tunes that fit well. As much as I loathe all the jukebox musicals, I think there's enough theatricality in her music and juicy enough of a plot.
Posted: 6/6/18 at 7:16pm
I've always wanted to write a darker musical based on the documentary Jesus Camp.
Posted: 6/6/18 at 10:06pm
jbp1232 said: "I also think Love Simon has the potential to be a great musical.
And for some unknown reason, I have this weird feeling that Room could transition into a really gripping Fun Home-esque musical"
I'll pass on the trite Love Simon, but as for Room, that already happened, kind of. https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/room/
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Posted: 6/7/18 at 9:09am
Although it was first a play and then a motion picture I wonder why they haven't made ARSENIC AND OLD LACE into a musical. Can you image Patti Lupone and Christine Ebersole as the two old aunts and Nathan Lane as Teddy?
Posted: 6/7/18 at 10:39am
I would love to see a serious musical based on A Fantastic Woman- the movie that won the Best Foreign Film Award. Sondheim is probably not going to do it at this point- but another serious composer- or team- could make this a really serious and timely piece of musical theater- in the same vein as Light In The Piazza, Parade, Kiss Of The Spiderwpman or Passion.
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