Musicals You Do Not Want A Movie On
#2
Posted: 7/10/09 at 8:21pm
Why wouldn't we want everything?
#3
Posted: 7/10/09 at 8:22pm
Cats was bad & this is coming from someone who likes cats
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#4
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:18pm
Definitely "The Phantom of the Opera". That show is a tuneless, clumsy wreck of a....oh, wait a minute....
Never mind.
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#5
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:27pm
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#6
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:31pm
Are you talking like having a movie fall on it like the house in Wizard of Oz? If so, I'd hate for a movie to fall on Wicked...oh wait...nevermind.
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#7
Posted: 7/10/09 at 10:16pm
Take your blood pressure medicine Roxy. I don't think you have to worry about a film of Cats.
#8
Posted: 7/10/09 at 10:20pm
As far as shows I don't want filmed on stage, In the Heights. Every promotional performance, such as the Tonys, just came off...bad, I guess. It doesn't look good on camera as a stage show. As a film, it will work great, though.
As far as shows I don't want being made into a motion picture, Young Frankenstein. Please. Spare us another attempt at making a Mel Brooks show work on film in its musical form. The Producers was a great show (at least IMO), but a bad film. YF was a bad show, and would probably make an even more horrible movie.
As far as shows I don't want being made into a motion picture, Young Frankenstein. Please. Spare us another attempt at making a Mel Brooks show work on film in its musical form. The Producers was a great show (at least IMO), but a bad film. YF was a bad show, and would probably make an even more horrible movie.
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#9
Posted: 7/10/09 at 10:21pm
Don't knock In the Heights here. You're likely to get cut.
#10
Posted: 7/10/09 at 11:12pm
CATS already has a DVD so a film is unnecessary.
I'd hate to think of a film of AVE Q as it would probably be animated and the charm of the show is the puppets.
I'd hate to think of a film of AVE Q as it would probably be animated and the charm of the show is the puppets.
#11
Posted: 7/10/09 at 11:20pm
I think an Avenue Q movie done Muppets style could be good
#12
Posted: 7/10/09 at 11:22pm
why on earth would they make an animated Avenue Q? There are plenty of puppet/human movies that were highly successful.
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#13
Posted: 7/11/09 at 12:19am
I would love to see an Avenue Q movie.
And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to knock ITH...I love the show, and would love to see a motion picture version, but was just commenting on how lackluster tv performances of that show come across. Maybe it's just in the way it's staged that you have to view the whole stage picture yourself instead of seeing what the tv focuses on, idk.
But if you go back and watch the Spring Awakening Tony perf, the moment where Lea Michele looks at the camera during Mama Who Bore Me is just stunning. THAT could be a movie moment if I ever saw one.
And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to knock ITH...I love the show, and would love to see a motion picture version, but was just commenting on how lackluster tv performances of that show come across. Maybe it's just in the way it's staged that you have to view the whole stage picture yourself instead of seeing what the tv focuses on, idk.
But if you go back and watch the Spring Awakening Tony perf, the moment where Lea Michele looks at the camera during Mama Who Bore Me is just stunning. THAT could be a movie moment if I ever saw one.
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#14
Posted: 7/11/09 at 1:57am
All musicals previously written and put on a stage ever.
Though I'm kind of excited for "Nine"...except Fergie...
Though I'm kind of excited for "Nine"...except Fergie...
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#15
Posted: 7/11/09 at 9:38am
Hmm I think certain shows just lend themselves better to the stage and just wouldn't work on film ala Chorus Line but others work really well.
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#16
Posted: 7/11/09 at 9:51am
I know Wicked isn't the most popular musical on this board, but I love it. I'm excited to see the movie version of it, but I'm worried at the same time. I don't think it will lend itself too well to a movie.
I really wish they'd just record the stage versions of these shows...
I really wish they'd just record the stage versions of these shows...
#18
Posted: 7/11/09 at 10:44am
The Drowsy Chaperone. Possibly my favourite stage show but would never want a movie. Same goes for Avenue Q.
#19
Posted: 7/11/09 at 11:15am
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This thread was meant to be facetious if you have not guessed.
This thread was meant to be facetious if you have not guessed.
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#20
Posted: 7/11/09 at 11:23am
Aida. Because they're gonna get someone like Beyonce or Alicia Keyes to play Aida and JT to play Radames and it will piss me off and suck.
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#21
Posted: 7/11/09 at 11:46am
Not a lot of people like Legally Blonde here, but I'd hate to see a movie musical version of it...eek.
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#22
Posted: 7/11/09 at 12:09pm
I'm afraid for Wicked. I don't see it having the same effect as the stage version. If they have to do something, they should film the stage version.
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#23
Posted: 7/11/09 at 12:44pm
Maybe a movie of Wicked with some cut songs, new ones & an all star cast might help. It could not hurt.
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#24
Posted: 7/11/09 at 1:06pm
I actually thought Legally Blonde and Drowsy would work great as films, mostly becuase it would be able to do something you can't do on a stage- make people appear and disappear in a moment's notice. Both shows rely, in spots, on the idea that the people you are seeing in front of you aren't actually there (the actors in Man in Chair's living room/the Greek Chorus), so film could make clearer the things that stage couldn't.
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#25
Posted: 7/11/09 at 1:09pm
I don't know what you're smoking but Drowsy would be a TERRIBLE movie.
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