Nightmare Before Christmas or Moulin Rouge Musical

[Night Life Love]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:07am

While we are throwing out ideas for musicals, i thought I would suggest Nightmare Before Christmas or Moulin Rouge on Broadway? Just two ideas, you can tell me what you guys think because I'm simply curious.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:10am

I would love to see MR on bway, but only if Baz directs.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:10am

Nightmare Before Christmas

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:21am

The Nightmare Before Christmas would be too difficult to do visually, I think. Even with puppets. How would Sally fall apart and sew herself back together again? How would the doctor itch his brain? It would require a gigantic budget that only Disney has, and I don't think there's enough family appeal in the show for them to put in the money.

As for Moulin Rouge, I would think getting the rights for all those songs to do them again on Broadway would be very difficult.

[TinyDancer2]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:26am

Thats true about MR, but I think Nightmare Before Christmas could happen. We've seen people tap dance on the ceiling in Mary Poppins and people swinging from the walls in Tarzan.

Anything possible :)

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:41am

moulin rouge would work better although i don't see it happening anytime soon.

[Kgshrauder]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:42am

Remember those people tap dancing and swinging were funded by Disney.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:56am

A group of us in High School actually worked out how to do "Nightmare Before Christmas." The Doctor's Brain was basically a hat that when you lifted the top had a brain pattern under it...(and it hinged...it's hard to explain without use of your hands). Sally always does her missing limbs partially off-camera, aside from the big one, but it's basically like in "Wizard of Oz" if Scarecrow gets unstuffed, you keep her head and an arm solid, but the rest behind something, and have her piece together that way. The small ghosts and Zero were puppets. And we used a lot of treadmills and flight. (No we never performed, we just figured out how to do it.)

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 12:17pm

My old college did a production of The Nightmare Before Christmas (Quite Ilegally) but it worked out fairly well. Sometimes zero was a puppet and sometimes he was just a small circle of light.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 12:19pm

I vote for Nightmare Before Christmas ONLY IF Ryan Ward gets to play Jack Skellington because he said he wanted to and that would be fantastic.

Moulin Rouge doesn't need to be a stage show.

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 12:59pm

Nightmare Before Christmas onstage is going to be amazing... I have already designed the complete set and lighting, and a friend of mine has designed the costumes... we are looking to universal to produce it(because of the big success with wicked.) Set is going to be amazing, i guarentee it. As far as costumes, we are doing a mix between susan hilferty esque emerald city costumes, and julie taymor esque puppetry (but alot darker) Gonna be SIIICKKKK!

Oh, and no treadmills... we are using a turntable that also moves up and down on hydro (similar to LORD OF THE RINGS for anyone who saw the musical)

cant wait!

[showbiz287]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 2:42pm

I think Nightmare Before Christmas would be a good seasonal thing to do, like The Grinch. It could start around Halloween, and finish up after Christmas.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:38pm

Good luck lightguy...however it's a Disney property...so good luck on the Universal front.

[mateo]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:39pm

NBC for sure. It would be a feast for the eyes.

I dont know who runs disneys broadway department but they pick the wrong movies to transfer.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:57pm

I have been saying for a while that the only disney musical that should ever have been produced is Nightmare, and it hasn't been done yet! As for Moulin Rouge,though it is among my favorite movies, I am really opposed to the entire Movie becoming a Musical thing (except for Mel Brooks, because he is just cool that way) and I feel that I don't want the movie ruined for me by a sub-par musical...

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 4:10pm

I'd like to see NBC being done.

Oh, and I have to say this on every "movie being made into a musical" thread. A League of Their Own NEEDS to be musicalized.

[SuzyQzy]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 4:34pm

I would love Nightmare Before Christmas. Especially if some of the new rockier versions transfered in. Like Fall Out Boy's "What's This"

[Gelfling]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:10am

NBC would definitely be interesting... Moulin Rouge... I dunno... I thought the movie was bleh (don't shoot me please!) and I think it probably wouldn't work as well without all the screen gimmicks but I have to agree that NBC would be a tough one to stage.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:30am

I've said in previous threads that I'd prefer to see Nightmare as a ballet similar to Movin' Out, with an orchestra and singers separate from the action on the stage. The film is so fluid and movement of the puppets so balletic (where do they find someone thin enough for Jack?!) that it would be a tough one to approach as a straight musical.

[TinyDancer2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 11:00am

I agree, I can imagine NBC being amazing. The opening scene with all these eyes shining in the dark and the set would be gorgeous. I agree, very balletic. I think the songs would have to be amazing too.

Plus it would be SUCH a different musical for Disney to do. Mary Poppins, the Little Mermaid, Tarzan...finally something DIFFERENT.

[Josephine2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 11:18am

Just out of curiosity...

For those of you who envision Moulin Rouge as possible stage production, do you see it with music from the film or do you see new songs being created?

[TinyDancer2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 12:18pm

They'd have to have come what may in there, it makes the show.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 12:54pm

Even back when "Nightmare" first came out back in the early '90's I thought it would make a good stage musical.

However, with that said -- I would love to see Elfman write the score for a totally new musical theatre project.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 1:01pm

^Me too. Though I didn't like "Corpse Bride" as much but he's a very talented composer and I would love to see what he might do with something like...the novel "Wicked."


:S

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 1:01pm

MOULIN ROUGE hands down