Musicals that could be animated...

[Overkill]

Musicals that could be animated...#1

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:41pm

I always thought that Wicked and especially Bat Boy would be wonderful as animated features. What do you think?

[Unknown User]

Musicals that could be animated...#2

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:46pm

Lion King. MAYBE Beauty and the Beast. But that's about it.

[Donthatecongratulate]

Musicals that could be animated...#2

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:49pm

The scottsboro boys. Jk.....

Caroline or change

"Don't f*** a baby. I'll get rid of your AIDS. If you f*** this frog."

[Craig]

Musicals that could be animated...#3

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:53pm

Passion - but only if it was done with claymation

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[gvendo2005]

Musicals that could be animated...#4

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:53pm

Cats was supposed to have been done as an animated feature produced by Steven Spielberg at Universal back in the Nineties. Steve Margoshes was production music supervisor on the flick, and actually auditioned the score for Spielberg (funny story about it on his website). Nothing ever came of it, but I kind of wonder how it would have turned out. Felt the same about another Webber piece, Joseph, after seeing RUG put out "coloring book pages" based on the Donny Osmond video on its website several years ago.

On a more serious note, however, especially with the advent of Shrek and other animated "twists" on fairy tales, am I the only one who thinks animation may actually be the best fit for Into the Woods as a film?

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

[Orangesaretuesdays]

Musicals that could be animated...#5

Posted: 4/12/11 at 4:55pm

Lion King? LION KING? That would NEVER work... Geez people can be such idiots sometimes.

[HistoryBoy2]

Musicals that could be animated...#6

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:02pm

Ok guys I'm just kicking the tyres on this one and don't shoot me down straight away but maybe The Little Mermaid? idk.

[BDrischBDemented]

Musicals that could be animated...#7

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:07pm

Hair. I'm totally serious about this.

"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"

[Mark_E]

Musicals that could be animated...#8

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:12pm

Seussical
Aida
Little Shop of Horrors
Finians Rainbow
The Toxic Avenger
Spelling Bee.

[Mister Matt]

Musicals that could be animated...#9

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:19pm

Once on This Island
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"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[illuminate the night]

Musicals that could be animated...#10

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:21pm

Definitely Once On This Island.

[broadwaydevil]

Musicals that could be animated...#11

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:22pm

Avenue Q - that could be great.

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[Scarywarhol]

Musicals that could be animated...#12

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:23pm

Wicked would definitely work, and I don't even particularly like it.

[PennybankBill]

Musicals that could be animated...#13

Posted: 4/12/11 at 5:28pm

How about a looney tunes style urinetown with animals instead of people?

[Unknown User]

Musicals that could be animated...#14

Posted: 12/27/13 at 12:41am

How about ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, all in black and white? Maybe the medium can help make the plot absurdities seem more appealing. And Donna Murphy could be the voice of Cora.

I also think it would be magnificent as a live-action black and white film (although extremely unlikely to be made).

[FlowerChild67]

Musicals that could be animated...#15

Posted: 12/27/13 at 1:01am

Once on This Island, Wicked, and Aida could all be really cool.

[SNAFU]

Musicals that could be animated...#16

Posted: 12/27/13 at 1:23am

Naked Boys Singing.

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[tazber]

Musicals that could be animated...#17

Posted: 12/27/13 at 5:59am

Matilda

....but the world goes 'round

[MattDean]

Musicals that could be animated...#18

Posted: 12/27/13 at 7:26am

Starlight Express and Cats.

[Mattbrain]

Musicals that could be animated...#19

Posted: 12/27/13 at 10:00am

*deep breath*

Les Miserables. I'm dead serious.

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."

[theatregeek6]

Musicals that could be animated...#20

Posted: 12/27/13 at 11:09am

I was always surprised that Disney never made an animated Aida. Also suessical would work well.

[thirtythirtyninety]

Musicals that could be animated...#21

Posted: 12/27/13 at 11:19am

Book of Mormon

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Musicals that could be animated...#22

Posted: 12/27/13 at 11:32am

Aida was actually going to be animated in the 90s, but got shelved.

But, tazbear, yeah, I'm thinking that the Acrobat and Escapologist stories could be hand drawn in the movie since Matilda's imagination is huge and colorful!

[gleek4114]

Musicals that could be animated...#23

Posted: 12/27/13 at 12:22pm

I think in the 90s there was a kids TV show based on Little Shop. There is an episode on YouTube. It had almost no musical element except for the plant rapping. And they did a weird time thing with it where Seymour and Audrey were like little kids. And Mr. Mushnik was Audrey's dad. It was EXTREMlY odd and hard to watch, being a big fan of the show myself.

[Unknown User]

Musicals that could be animated...#24

Posted: 12/27/13 at 2:02pm

It would be wonderful to have Matilda's stories animated and the rest of the film live action! Now that I think about it I don't think it would work half as well any other way.

I once read that AIDA was originally going to be a Disney animated feature, but that never happened so they made it a stage musical instead.