Poll: Best and Worst Hollywood-Broadway-Hollywood show?

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 6:51pm

Nine "intellectual properties" - most recently, The Color Purple and Mean Girls -- have gone from Hollywood movies to Broadway musicals to movie musicals.  Take the poll: Which of these journeys was most successful? Which least? 

Best and Worst Hollywood Movie to Broadway Musical to Hollywood Musical?

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 8:59pm

And then there’s A Little Night Music…

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 9:02pm

Or "Nine", but I guess these two were not based on Hollywood movies.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 9:05pm

Or "Grand Hotel", or "Passion"... moral of the story, stick to European movies?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 9:10pm

Oops, I missed the point. Movie... stage musical... movie musical. In which case, Hairspray is a notable omission.

[The Other One]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 9:27pm

n/m

Updated On: 1/14/24 at 09:27 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 1/14/24 at 9:32pm

Charley Kringas Inc said: "And then there’s A Little Night Music…"


We don’t talk about that.

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 7:24am

Jay,

The poll is at the link. There you'll see most of the shows you say are omitted.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 8:56am

There's a semantic question of whether Matilda counts, since the musical is based on the book rather than the first film. Whereas Color Purple, also based on a book, additionally cites the movie as source material. It's sort of like there being a film based on the play Pygmalion, then the stage musical My Fair Lady, then the movie MFL. (Although....actually, MFL pulls from Shaw's Pygmalion screenplay, so maybe it counts?)

Typically the second film is the worst part of the arc. If we're going for plain consistency across the three iterations in one of the given choices, I think Hairspray clearly has it but I'd call Little Shop my favorite. 

[inception]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 9:29am

I like the Sweet Charity film.

I wonder if Mean Girls does well, if we might see a Legally Blonde musical film?

[Kad]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 9:52am

Little Shop is my pick here, as the musical improved the original film in virtually every conceivable way and the movie adaptation maintained that while still translating it back to film extremely well. But the musical also had the advantage of really having nowhere to go from up from the original film, which was hardly a piece of serious filmmaking to begin with. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 10:20am

I wish there was a La Cage Aux Folles movie musical. Maybe one day.

P.S. Sorry NYTheater, I was going by the photos in the OP, my mistake!

[itsshowtime2]

Posted: 1/15/24 at 10:33am

The Sweet Charity film stars Shirley MacClaine, not Gwen Verdon.