Musicals that Could've been plays

[alfgiotir]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#2

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:04pm

Gypsy

[SirNotAppearing]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#2

Posted: 6/23/08 at 9:05pm

A Catered Affair

[WickedBoy2]

re: 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'!'

[verynewyorkcurious]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#4

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:07am

Glory Days, with a rewrite, could work better as a play

[mr.scribble]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#5

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:24am

grey gardens

[Patash]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#6

Posted: 6/24/08 at 9:15am

My Fair Lady

[musicalmaster703]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#7

Posted: 6/24/08 at 9:58am

Fiddler on the Roof

[ggersten]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#8

Posted: 6/24/08 at 10:15am

1776, especially as it has several long non-musical moments.

[musicaltheatrefan3]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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

[mr.scribble]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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

[BrodyFosse123]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#11

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:30pm

VICTOR/VICTORIA (with the club musical numbers intact)
WICKED
SUNSET BLVD

[Jon]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#12

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:43pm

I'm going to assume My Fair Lady was a joke.

[Mamie]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#13

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:46pm

A lot of these started out as straight plays or movies.

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[Mattbrain]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#14

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:51pm

The Broadway version of Chess.

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."

[Mekroth]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#15

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:58pm

Of course My Fair Lady was a joke. It would never work as a play.

[Mamie]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#16

Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:09pm

Oh yes.

"Pygmalion" was a real bomb.

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[Mekroth]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#17

Posted: 6/24/08 at 1:11pm

Well, their first mistake was in getting that no-talent Shaw to write it.

[into_the_woods2]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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 good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch

[SgtDonut]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#19

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:07pm

Dance of the Vampires.

The Best Thing Right Now: Hair Revival!

[AvenueQResident]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#20

Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:07pm

Blood Brothers.

Oh wait...

Everything in life...is only for now.

[Mattbrain]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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."

[givesmevoice]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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

[Patash]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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?

[rewritemystory]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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.

[SahDu]

re: Musicals that Could've been plays#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.

Updated On: 2/15/14 at 08:16 AM