Movies that would make good shows...... — Page 2

#26

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:48pm

I second the Big Fish nomination . . .

or basically anything Tim Burton.

(side note- anyone else psyched for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?)

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#27

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:58pm

I think The Hours could make a nice play


Just a stab....but I think a Gangs of New York Musical would kinda be like Les Miserables

Updated On: 2/11/05 at 09:58 PM

#28

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/12/05 at 1:22am

My top two movie to musical picks would have to be:

- Pirates of the Carribean

- The Pianist

See Ya!

Phantom05

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#29

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:08am

two words.

KILL BILL

#30

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:33am

Rushmore

#31

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/12/05 at 9:57am

anaconda..

i would kill to see that snake sing on stage.

#32

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/12/05 at 11:05pm

Down With Love practically is a musical w/o songs! It needs to be a Birdie/Hairspray type of thing - the movie soundtrack is excellent!

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#33

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/13/05 at 1:07am

Dances with Wolves could be a good musical.

#34

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 2/13/05 at 1:14am

"Oklahoma Annie!" would be interesting... story of a woman who cleans up the violence in her small western community...

Updated On: 2/13/05 at 01:14 AM

#35

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 10:00am

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

#36

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 10:12am

Legally Blonde
Hairspray
Cry-Baby
Spamalot
Wedding Singer
Lion King
Little Mermaid
BATB
Young Frankenstein
Mary Poppins
The Producers
Shrek


Any of these could potentially be adapted for the stage, IMHO

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#37

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 10:20am

Nice. Very clever.

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I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

#38

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 10:23am

Clueless IS being adapted by the composer of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, being produced by the Weislers. Fo' real, yo.

Akiva

#39

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 10:56am

"Inch by Inch"
"The Pizza Boy Delivers"
"The Bigger the Better"
Well, you get the idea .........

#40

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 11:14am

Now, as someone who thinks that the lack of originality on Broadway is disgusting, It's hard to imagine an adaptation that I would actually enjoy.
Revivals like South Pacific and Sunday in the Park making comments on art and politics seem to foil a lack of commentary and indeed "daring" in modern musicals. We're in a climate of fantasy and escapism - perhaps it's a product of our current administration. I guess I've never been a fan of escapism. I want theater - even musical theater - to challenge me...not just make me forget.

Anyway, here goes nothing:

- Pan's Labyrinth
- Road to Perdition
- Hudsucker Proxy

I'll do some more thinking.

#41

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 12:32pm

I've said it once, I'll say it again: Labyrinth, based on the movie with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

Also, The Princess Bride, 9 to 5 (which is being made!).

#42

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 1:49pm

Under the Tuscan Sun
Matilda


And for tazber we could do:
All about Eve
Miracle on 34th St
Gone with the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
8 1/2
Ninotchka
The Captain's Paradise
Smiles of a Summer Night
La Femme du Boulanger
The Apartment
42nd Street
The Quiet Man
The Shop around the Corner
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Updated On: 3/6/08 at 01:49 PM

#43

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:32pm

BIG FISH and HUDSUCKER PROXY are both great ideas and would be fun for designers too...I worry that a stage version of MOULIN ROUGE (at least the Baz version) wouldn't be able to capture the technical wizardy of the film and would disappoint.

My choice would be THE LOVE GOD, an old Don Knotts movie.

#44

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 2:34pm

Add Rebecca to tazber's list...

<----How about "What A Way To Go"

Mean Girls would be so much fun but it would have to have a crazy mad terrific ending.

#45

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:23pm

I have always thought HeartBreakers would be great fun onstage. I know it's on MGM's to-do list, but I just thought I'd say I agree!

#46

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:25pm

Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II

#47

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:40pm

Zoolander.

It's built like a musical, there are certain moments that practically sing in and of themselves.

-Obviously the gasoline fight.
-A funny ballad of loss after his friends die.
-Miners doing an ensemble number when he goes to find his parents.
-Dance fighting.
-Mugatu could sing a bunch of queeny power ballads.
-The orgy could be a hilarious intepretive dance.

ZOOLANDER THE MUSICAL!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!

#48

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 3:45pm

Fried green tomatoes is in developement with jeffrey finn productions

#49

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 4:30pm

YES! Zoolander the Zoosical! I wholeheartedly endorse this. lol

Seriously though, Nightmare Before Christmas... PLEASE?

#50

re: Movies that would make good shows......

Posted: 3/6/08 at 4:46pm

Yes! I have so many friends who would kill to be involved in a production of N.B.C. - me included.
I am really surpised it hasn't been done.
I'm sure Elfman could buff up the score easily enough - and if edward gorey's dracula found its way to the stage, then it's about time Burton did, as well.