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[TheCharleston]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 12:25am

eh..

[sally1112]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 8:38am

bundy5...good list, Working Girl would really work and I can't believe it hasn't been done. I bet someone has a treatment somewhere.
Groundhog Day could be great musical comedy, someone needs to write that. Now!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 8:58am

The Crucible: The Musical!!!!! Featuring the world-famous, tap-dancin' Puritans!

I love it! It could be done in the vaudeville style of "Chicago!" The best part is that the Puritans had a strict ban on theatre, didn't they?

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:10am

Yep. And they had a ban on dancing, too.

[jasonf]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 10:31am

1984 will never be done - or at least not until it's in the public domain. For my college thesis paper I actually wrote an entire libretto for a treatment of 1984 as a musical. While that came out fairly well, I found out from my research (this was ten years ago now) that many many people (if I remember right including Sondheim and Kander and Ebb) had tried to get the rights to do the book as a musical, but the Orwell estate will not allow it to be done.
So, my work was done purely academically, but hey, I got an A on it :)

[Jon]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 2:00pm

There already is a Casper musical.

Sondheim was tinkering with a Groundhog Day musical, but he abandoned it.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 3:17pm

I was watching a film about 7-8 years ago, I really enjoyed it, got me thinking that this would work on stage well, had emotion about a child losing his mother, conflict with strikes and dancing, which always goes down well in theatre, the name of the film escapes me..............hang on, yeah that's right the film was called Billy Elliot, think it is fair to say the rest is history.

Always thought Moulin Rouge would kinda work though!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 5:48pm

My grandma's favourite movie is Legally Blonde, and she always thought it would make a fantastic musical. She was THRILLED when she found out they were making one-- she keeps saying, "Did you know that they're making a musical of Legally Blonde?" I don't quite have the heart to tell her that it closed on Broadway and the tour just left our town!

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:17pm

You should have bought her a ticket!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:19pm

My parents tried to buy our family tickets for Christmas (for the tour), but they were sold out. I'm not a huge fan of the show, but my brother's obsessed.

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:46pm

Toy Story
and Moulin Rouge

[beltingbaritone]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 6:53pm

Memoirs of a Geisha, if it had the right composer (Adam Guettel?).

And a musical based on Arthur Rimbaud's life, inluding his relationship with Paul Verlaine (Just NOT a Total Eclipse adaptation).

[willep]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 7:38pm

Death At A Funeral

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/27/09 at 8:40pm

THE SUN ALSO RISES

THE POWER AND THE GLORY

THE GREAT GATSBY

PEYTON PLACE

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 9:30am

You know, I was just thinking about a "Great Gatsby" musical last night. If anything fits the format of a musical, it's that-- the writing is so lyrical, too. But I'd worry that the musical would be terrible... there are SO many things they could do wrong with it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:33am

Moulin Rouge is currently touring in Germany under the title La Belle Bizarre du Moulin Rouge. The cast recording is now available.
La Belle Bizarre du Moulin Rouge

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:39am

When I was in Sweden, I saw a weird production put on by street performers, in broken English. I'm pretty sure it wasn't legal, but the singing was great, and there was a huge crowd.

[laura is broadway]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 4:21pm

Oh and Fight Club.