Musicals that could have live adaptations- Page 2

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 5:09am

There could be so many different aproaches if it did become a yearly thing. 1776 around Independence Day, Damn Yankees during baseball season, Finnian's Rainbow on St. Paty's Day lol.

Some I think may work that I don't remember being mentioned:

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
Hello, Dolly! (With Bette Midler please!)
The Wiz
Showboat
Gentleman Prefer Blondes
42 Street
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Anything Goes
Kiss Me, Kate
Rent
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Pajama Game
A Chorus Line (would this one work offstage?)



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[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 8:58am

Fiddler on the Roof:
Tevye-Mandy Patinkin
Golde-Andrea Martin
Yente-Angela Lansbury
Lazar Wolf-Tom Wopat
Motel-Eddie Redmayne
Perchik-Matthew James Thomas
Grandma Tzeitel-Patti LuPone
Fruma-Sarah-Bernadette Peters
Mordcha-Ron Rifkin
Rabbi-Colm Wilkinson
Constable-John Schuck

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 5:47pm

ANY show could be filmed live...since we SEE them live, it would work for television. It just takes impeccable planning and rehearsal.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 7:08pm

That has to be the most WASP-y cast for Fiddler (with the exception of Martin and Rifkin) since David Leveaux got his hands on it.

[The Josh]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 7:15pm

I'd like to see The Music Man. Seth McFarlane as Harold Hill?

[Tink2]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 7:30pm

I would love to see..

Camelot
My Fair Lady
Hello Dolly
Mame
Fiddler on the Roof

I also think shows with kids would go over well...

Oliver
The King and I

And teenagers...

Bye, Bye, Birdie
Grease

[RW3]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 8:06pm

If NBC or ABC wanted to be really ambitious, this would be my cast for Miss Saigon.
Kim-Jessica Sanchez
The Engineer-Lou Diamond Philips
Chris-Josh Bowman
John-Jeremy Jordan
Ellen-Patina Miller(Changing it up!)
Gigi-Rachelle Ann Go

[justincharacter]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 8:38pm

Sweeney Todd with Hugh Jackman

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 1:23pm

The Wiz and 42nd Street are great ideas too! Millie isn't my favorite musical, but it is very well done and has lots of potential. Anyone know if Ginnifer Goodwin can sing?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 3:17pm

I'd like to see the Mendes/Marshall Cabaret "live on film" for TV, as long as we're throwing out suggestions.

[jonahke]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 3:25pm

I would love to see 'Singin' In The Rain' live on television, or.... maybe they can do Bombshell and/or Hit List (with the original cast of SMASH please)!

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[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 5:52pm

I think the Wiz is a great idea. I can already imagine what the promos would look like. I think any classic title like those already mentioned (Oklahoma, Camelot, My Fair Lady) would work really well. The best titles would be those that they could market for family audiences. I can't see a network ever taking a risk with something like Rent or Cabaret. And god forbid anyone attempt to put Kinky Boots on network television again.

[Tink2]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 6:08pm

Oh! I really like the idea of 1776!

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[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 6:16pm

Is Finian's rainbow to outdated?

[justincharacter]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 6:29pm

The Wizard of Oz?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 6:37pm

I can't see a network ever taking a risk with something like Rent or Cabaret.

That's funny. Really, it is. Because I recall this little item from the April 18, 2003 issue of Entertainment Weekly:

'Rent' Control
NBC hopes to jump on the musical bandwagon with a Broadway adaptation

Is a RENT sign about to go up at NBC? The network is in early talks with Miramax about developing the Broadway musical Rent as a TV movie. The studio behind Chicago has owned the rights to the La Boheme-inspired musical since 1996 but has yet to make hay out of the Tony-winning tale. (There were brief discussions with director Spike Lee about adapting it into a feature.) NBC is certainly up for playing landlord to Rent: It's never produced a musical and has watched ABC garner critical acclaim (and ratings) for The Music Man, Annie, and Cinderella.

But no one can start singing "525,600 minutes" on TV without first obtaining approval from the estate of late Rent composer Jonathan Larson. Broadway producer Allan S. Gordon, who owns the rights to Rent, worries whether some of the play's controversial topics like AIDS and homosexuality will translate to the small screen. "It would lose some edge," cautions Gordon. "It happened at a certain time and certain place, but it is still cutting edge."

The only objector was the owner of the stage rights. And why? The public reason is given above, and squares with your assumption. But the Post around the same time says:

The producers want to milk the cash cow for as long as possible before having to compete with a Rent movie, complains Larson family lawyer Jay Harris.

Proof. 'Cause I twist the knife in the wound, like a good producer.

Updated On: 11/29/13 at 06:37 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 10:38pm

Finian's Rainbow would be a hard sell. Not a well-known show, and the broad strokes of Irishness and leprechauns and race-changing mesh a little less seamlessly than they did in the Fifties and Sixties.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/29/13 at 11:45pm

I think filming Megan Hilty in Bombshell for one night in a Broadway theatre would be a great TV musical.

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 11/30/13 at 3:06am

So I'm a giant nerd (SHOCKER seeing as I'm on broadwayworld message boards at 2 AM) and I have a Pinterest board dedicated to my casting/adaptation/ideas. I got bored after Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and this was the result. Thank you to whomever I stole the Megan Hilty bit from :)


Maybe a Halloween telecast of Little Shop of Horrors next year? No worries! Already have it cast! Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Seymour. Megan Hilty as Audrey. Jack White as Orin. Kelsey Grammer as Mr. Mushnik. Syesha Mercado as Chiffon. Amber Riley as Crystal. Uzo Aduba as Ronette. Cee Lo as The Voice of Audrey II.

Little Shop of Horrors LIVE Updated On: 11/30/13 at 03:06 AM

[gleek4114]

Posted: 11/30/13 at 3:46am

^ HELL YES!!!!!!

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Posted: 12/1/13 at 3:02am

I think an "after hours" approach somewhere like Comedy Central or Showtime could be fun to. Late night, unedited broadcasts of shows like Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Hair, Etc.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 12/1/13 at 7:08pm

^ Now that would be a good fit for the Mendes/Marshall Cabaret. And Showtime is the prime spot for it.

As for network TV, here's an idea no one has thrown out there...

The current revival of Pippin. Something tells me it would be really fascinating provided they didn't cut anything.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 12/1/13 at 7:27pm

A Halloween broadcast of Rocky Horror starring Ricky Martin as Frank, Adam Lambert as Riff Raff, Lady Gaga as Magenta, Sutton as Columbia, Megan Hilty as Janet and Zac Efron as Brad.

Miley Cyrus could also work as Magenta.