Musicals that Could've been plays
#3
Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:06pm
'They're Playing Our Song' by Neil Simon
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#4
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:07am
Glory Days, with a rewrite, could work better as a play
#8
Posted: 6/24/08 at 10:15am
1776, especially as it has several long non-musical moments.
#9
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:20pm
Rent, Wicked, Les Misérables, Avenue Q, The Phantom of the Opera, Gypsy, Passing Strange, Curtains, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple
#10
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:25pm
I think that Avenue Q and Curtains would both loose a lot if they didn't have music
#11
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:30pm
VICTOR/VICTORIA (with the club musical numbers intact)
WICKED
SUNSET BLVD
WICKED
SUNSET BLVD
#12
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:43pm
I'm going to assume My Fair Lady was a joke.
#13
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:46pm
A lot of these started out as straight plays or movies.
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#14
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:51pm
The Broadway version of Chess.
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#15
Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:58pm
Of course My Fair Lady was a joke. It would never work as a play.
#16
Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:09pm
Oh yes.
"Pygmalion" was a real bomb.
"Pygmalion" was a real bomb.
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#17
Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:11pm
Well, their first mistake was in getting that no-talent Shaw to write it.
#18
Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:05pm
I think the only way that Wicked would have worked as a play would be if they stuck to the book plot a lot more closely. I also have a very hard time picturing Rent as a play.
The music in Company is absolutely brilliant, one of my favorite scores, but I think it would also make a very clever play.
The music in Company is absolutely brilliant, one of my favorite scores, but I think it would also make a very clever play.
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#19
Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:07pm
Dance of the Vampires.
The Best Thing Right Now: Hair Revival!
#20
Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:07pm
Blood Brothers.
Oh wait...
Oh wait...
Everything in life...is only for now.
#21
Posted: 6/29/08 at 10:41pm
AvenueQResident, I love it!
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#22
Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:18pm
I think Sunset Blvd would work better as a movie, tbh.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#23
Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:21pm
Sometimes I end up a little confused here. Are some of you serious about My Fair Lady (Pygmalion) NOT working as a play?
#24
Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:26pm
I don't have a hard time at all picturing Wicked as a play.
It would have worked much better as a straight play, sticking much closer to the book.
It would have been brilliant. The book has much better and more interesting dialogue.
It would have worked much better as a straight play, sticking much closer to the book.
It would have been brilliant. The book has much better and more interesting dialogue.
#25
Posted: 6/30/08 at 8:16am
"Sometimes I end up a little confused here. Are some of you serious about My Fair Lady (Pygmalion) NOT working as a play?"
No, they aren't.
No, they aren't.
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