Shakespeare in Love Musical
Shakespeare in Love Musical
#1Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:52pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118904.html
Ok -- I'm very against movies being turned into musicals, but this idea excites me. I could see it being really horrible or really fantastic depending on the type of songs they come up with....
So, that was the Drowsy Chaperone. Oh, I love it so much. I know it's not a perfect show...but it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue. Ya know?
#2re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:02pm
Damn.
Mark Norman wrote Shakespeare in Love. Tom Stoppard re-wrote it. As usual, Norman is completely missing from the credit, despite winning the Academy Award and creating the concept and every character and all the situations.
But it could make a great musical.
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#2re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:18pmThis is one of my FAVORITE movies. I still can't decide how I feel about this idea though.
::bust a move::
#3re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:20pmStoppard ripped off others, too. The initial idea of a musical about how Shakespeare was inspired to write Romeo and Juliet was already done years ago. It was called "Star Crossed Lovers." Talk to Richard Haase for that whole story.
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amalou
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#4re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:24pmI adore this movie. I don't think it needs to be turned into a musical, but I'm curious.
"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."
#5re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/20/08 at 10:43pmI wonder who will write it.
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#6re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:24pm
Mark Norman wrote Shakespeare in Love. Tom Stoppard re-wrote it. As usual, Norman is completely missing from the credit, despite winning the Academy Award and creating the concept and every character and all the situations.
Having read the script with only Marc Norman's name on it, I'd say he can thank his lucky stars that the Writers Guild required his name to remain on the project. As I recall, Norman gave his son credit for the concept, so even that wasn't his. The final product, the one that won the Oscar, was a Stoppard work. Other than some character names, little of Norman's original script was filmed. Thank goodness!
All you have to do is look at Marc Norman's filmography over at the IMDB to see what he's capable of and that he hasn't done anything since.
The film's Oscar was due entirely to the way Stoppard completely elevated the concept, plus Miramax's aggressive campaigning.
Stoppard's recurring line: "It's a mystery" sums it up.
Marc Norman's filmography
Updated On: 6/21/08 at 04:24 PM
#7re: Shakespeare in Love Musical
Posted: 6/21/08 at 8:29pmlove the movie but i hate the trend of churning out movies to musicals.
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