Sick of Movie Adaptations?

I'm not sick of them. I mean, I would love to see some original ideas for plots...but as long as the music is new and the staging is good...to me it's a fresh new musical. Honestly, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" was not a good choice to adapt to a musical, in my opinion. "Legally Blonde," if done right, could be a great musical. And everyone here knows I would LOVE to see a musical adaptadion of "The First Wives Club."

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I don't necessarily have a problem with them. DRS is a movie adaptation as well. I just don't really like the idea of something like Legally Blonde. I would love to see original stuff too though.

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Some day Broadway will be a big collection of theatres with movie adaptations. But thats okay, because everything is practically an adaptation of something, be it a book or a play or someones life...

Les Mis, Phantom, Cats, Miss Saigon, Wicked, Hello Dolly, West Side, Fiddler, Oklahoma, Carousel, Rent, Hairspray, Ragtime, Seussical, Mame, Gypsy, All Shook Up, Oliver, My Fair Lady, Evita, Sunset Boulevard, Superstar, Joseph, Funny Girl....the list goes on and on. Even Mamma Mia's central plot is taken from some obscure movie, I think.

Movies are our new media of choice - of course tons of adaptations are going to spring up. The good ones will last and the bad ones will die horribly, most of the time at least.:)

I, too, feel weird about the Legally Blonde idea. Whats next, American Pie?

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I've said it before/I'll say it again --> LOTR is either the best idea ever or the worst idea ever. No in betweens.

That said, I'd give a leg to be cast in that show.

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I understand everything that is being said, and I don't think it is a bad thing that there are movie adaptaions out there, it's just that there are some movies that shouldn't be maid into musicals and for some reason or another are.

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I agree with FOA and Kelrel... Princess Bride and 1st Wifes Club are written in such a way that it needs to be sung.

First Wives Club COULD be a great stage musical...

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hmm...i like most movie adaptations, that is, if they are good and well made. but something like LOTR scares me because it's a lot of material and i can't really see how it can be worked into a musical.

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The only original musicals I can think of right now are THE MUSIC MAN, HAIR and (I THINK) BELLS ARE RINGING.

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stuff like legally blonde and shrek arg theyre tryin to invade broadwya and omg so stupid! and thoughts of such things as thinking harry potter would make a good musical are jsut like blasfimus(sp?)

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Try seeing Auntie Mame or Pygmalian or Anna and the King of Siam or The Matchmaker. As good as these are, the songs are missing! Many great musicals have improved on their originals, so I say: Keep on adapting, provided that you do it well.

i like Lithgow's point on BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTS yesterday on A&E...a lot of successful musical theatre has been adaptations, from many sources. If you want to say that it's a shame that the primary medium for writing these days is the screenplay, i guess you can. But what matters most is the execution of the adaptation, not the source. There were plenty of bad ideas for musicals, always. We just don't remember them because they flopped and didn't make the canon. Not all of them, of course, will end up the subject of future Encore- or Reprise- like "restitutions"; we're just accurately aware of them right now because they seem to be outnumbering the critical/commercial successes. But that's true in every medium---TV (lotsa bad cable and smaller network fare out there), movies (plenty of straight-to-video stuff), novels (genre writing by the truckload), music (horrible albums and terrible easy listening or commercial soundtrack covers), what have you.

It's just a cycle. WICKED and AVENUE Q and LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (though that has a film source too, just not a well-known one) and CAROLINE OR CHANGE and URINETOWN all happened too.

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