Musicals that could have live adaptations

[RW3]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:02pm

With the live adaptation of The Sound of Music happening next week, what other musicals could have a live adaptation?

[degrassifan]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:04pm

I won't be surprised if Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is done live again, but the Broadway version.

[audramcdonaldfan]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:19pm

In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Neil Meron reveals that NBC originally wanted to air a live broadcast of Oklahoma! It was Meron's idea to do SOM instead. Updated On: 11/27/13 at 09:19 PM

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:24pm

It would be cool to see Reba return to Annie Get Your Gun for a live broadcast. It probably wouldn't bring THAT much attention like Sound of Music is getting, though. Bye Bye Birdie would be good, I think.

[thebeautyis3]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:26pm

I would have much preferred to see Carrie Underwood in Oklahoma than The Sound of Music.

What about Guys and Dolls? Meron and Zadan have the rights to it, right? I know they wanted to make a movie with Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Maybe it could be done live.

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:29pm

Well if you are missing a 'recoded for tv' adaptation of Oklahoma the National Theatre version with Hugh Jackman was filmed by Sky after the conclusion of run and is on youTube.




RNT Oklahoma pt1/18 Updated On: 11/27/13 at 09:29 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:29pm

To me it seems like a no-brainer:

Little Shop Of Horrors with Kevin McHale and Megan Hilty. With Richard Kind as Mushnick.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:33pm

Hmmm I wonder why Oklahoma!?

[Kad]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:38pm

...gosh, Megan Hilty would be an amazing Audrey.

[justincharacter]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 9:48pm

I would love it if NBC decides to do one every year, making it a "tradition". I think any well known musical could have a live adaption on TV with the right celebrities & Broadway stars. I wouldn't be surprised if they air Phantom, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, or Wicked in the future.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 10:02pm

The anti-Sound Of Music: Cabaret (not the pornographic Mendes version)

Sally - Lady Gaga
Emcee - Johnny Depp
Cliff - Daniel Radcliffe
Fraulein Schneider - Patti LuPone
Herr Schultz - Mandy Patinkin

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 10:33pm

Camelot
Guenevere - Carrie Underwood (natch)
Arthur - Hugh Jackman
Lancelot - Patrick Wilson

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 10:40pm

If we're talking TV ratings ...

Grease
West Side Story

... stuff with young people.

In a decade:

Chicago
Hairspray


EDIT: What I would like to see?

Ragtime
Big River
Brigadoon
Edwin Drood (with a live voting)

Updated On: 11/27/13 at 10:40 PM

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:00pm

I'd love to see a television production of The King and I.

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:01pm

Would have been the perfect week to have done Assassins. Especially as it is unlikely to be filmed otherwise.

John Wilkes Booth - Daniel Day Lewis
Charles Guiteau - Nathan Lane
John Hinkley jr - Aaron Tveit
Squeaky Fromme - Zooey Deschanel
Lee Harvey Oswald - Joseph Gordon Levitt

Updated On: 11/27/13 at 11:01 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:04pm

If any network were to have aired Assassins during the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, it would have gotten them boycotted by sponsors and viewers alike. And mountains of hate mail.

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:10pm

Interesting that a dramatised musical of vignettes absolutely on topic is offensive and off bounds yet endless repeats of the actual footage of a man having his brains vapourised over his wife is acceptable. I know which I'd rather see.

Granted about the hate mail. But presumably from the same Julie Andrews die hard fans. (Is it just me or is the idea of Julie Andrews fans sending hate mail a little - ???!!) Updated On: 11/27/13 at 11:10 PM

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:19pm

I think My Fair Lady, Oliver, and Hairspray would fit this style really well. Edwin Drood would be cool with voting via social media and telephones, too. Little Shop has basically a unit set, which would be great for a setup like this. Sweet Charity with Emma Stone would be a dream.

ABC should get in the action and do Mary Poppins or Beauty and the Beast.

[Chowsie]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:25pm

If Oklahoma! happens: Reba as Aunt Eller!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:33pm

Is it just me or is the idea of Julie Andrews fans sending hate mail a little - ???!!

I was laughing about that the other day. Who knew her fans were so mean and nasty!?

[LMcC95]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:38pm

I wonder how many people will watch it? Outside of theatre fans and Carrie Underwoods fans, will they get a big audition?

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:38pm

"Who knew her fans were so mean and nasty!?"

One assumes most of the Tony voting panel met with mysterious accidents after "Victor Victoria -gate"..
Updated On: 11/27/13 at 11:38 PM

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:44pm

I would think PETER PAN would be a natural for a new television broadcast, given that the original telecast was also on NBC and Zaden/Meron announced (a few years ago) plans for a new film of version of the Mary Martin version...

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:51pm

West Side Story is an interesting idea. But the three main roles would be difficult to cast if they're going for "names."

Updated On: 11/27/13 at 11:51 PM

[degrassifan]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 2:21am

"I wonder how many people will watch it? Outside of theatre fans and Carrie Underwoods fans, will they get a big audition?"

I think a lot of people will watch it. I sometimes think we theater fans underestimate the general public (rightly so though). 1997 R&H's Cinderella, 1999 Annie, and 2003 Music Man all got big numbers. Then, there's Glee, Smash, musical episodes of TV shows, High School Musical, etc.