Story you've always wanted to see become a musical?- Page 2

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 7:01am

Call_me_jorge said: "Down with love, princess diaries, milk and I'll echo the princess bride. I've also always imagined a play adaption of the boy in striped pajamas. 

 

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A play version of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas already exists. 

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 9:48am

There's a legend that Freddy Mercury once dressed Princess Diana up in drag and snuck her into a gay bar in London. I've always wanted to see that as a musical! 

[newintown]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:13am

Two mentioned separately above were already adapted to musicals (and flopped): The Prisoner of Zenda (1925's Princess Flavia [actually a mild success] and 1963's Zenda), and The Quiet Man (1961's Donnybrook!).

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:36am

Yeah, I listened to "Zenda" and it misses all the things that make the novel and the film popular, throwing out the humor and drama and swashbuckling to craft a middlebrow "romantic comedy of manners" of the kind so prevalent in the 1950s but somewhat out of its time in the 1960s. Serious misfire.

It's almost like making a musical of, say, Star Wars, then cutting all the lightsabers, removing every major character but Luke, Han and Leia, and making Darth Vader a jealous lover with a sassy mistress.

[Esther Blodgett]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:41am

The film of the novel "My Brilliant Career" is shaped like a musical. And it has a dynamite lead role for a woman.

[little_sally]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:51am

I've always wanted a Mrs. Doubtfire musical. I heard about it being in development a few years back (with Nobert Leo Butz attached?) but nothing came from it.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 1:27pm

Not sure how many people will agree with me, but I personally think Animal House would make a really good musical.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 1:29pm

little_sally said: "I've always wanted a Mrs. Doubtfire musical. I heard about it being in development a few years back (with Nobert Leo Butz attached?) but nothing came from it."

i think Menken was working on an adaptation, i haven't heard anything in a long time though.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 6:26pm

I've said it before, but i'll keep putting this out there until someone with musical talent picks it up:

 

Pleasantville, with songs at all of the moments when there are colour changes in the movie (which could also be accompanied by lighting changes and quick costume changes to indicate colour vs black and white on stage. 

I'd love to see Kelli O'Hara as the mom, singing a Bridges-style melodic score for this.

[gcal]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 6:51pm

The Trouble With Angels

[Valentina3]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 7:25pm

I think a play/musical version of Brooklyn could be great. They teased it for Smash season 3 which never happened, but The Great Gatsby has great potential as a stage musical. Would love to see Lin's take in it, actually.

 

 

[Fan123]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 5:01am

This is another one that always comes up on these threads, but for some reason I'm convinced Sabrina needs to be a musical. (Although we do have the original stage play, Sabrina Fair, so there's that.)

I'm sort of curious about a Princess Bride adaptation now. To be honest I'm pretty indifferent to the film and book, so that might be why I'm having trouble picturing it as a musical. It's been ages since I've seen the film, but to my memory many of the funnier moments had an offhand/deadpan tone which I can't imagine being enhanced by singing. Would be happy to be proven wrong by Adam Guettel or similar though.

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 8:55am

Broadway seems to be obsessed with small town living, so I would like to think "Fried Green Tomatoes" (More based on the novel instead of the film) and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" 

[whatacharacter]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 9:40am

I would love to see a musicalization of Catcher in the Rye.  Or maybe even as a play with music like Curious incident.  

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 10:56am

The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey. A beautiful story and a great chance for imaginative staging and great special effects!

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 11:03am

Gatsby is stuck in rights hell, because in America (unlike most of the world) it is under copyright for a few more years, and the stage adaptation rights already belong to a relatively minor, workmanlike play version. In a few years I wouldn't be surprised to see dueling high-quality adaptations, like "The Wild Party" all over again.

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 11:32am

I've said it in another thread but Carol starring Kelli O'Hara with score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie or Sondheim. It would be so good.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 11:46am

There's a great Japanese graphic novel by Inio Asano titled Solanin that would be perfect for a musical treatment as much of the story is about one character trying to redirect his post-collegiate life back to his earlier dreams of being a musician.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 12:58am

1) A serious musical about Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass showing Lincoln's growing respect for and friendship with Douglass, with the Civil War in the background.

2) A Wicked-style humorous musical with serious elements, told from Shylock's POV. The pound of flesh would either be a mistranslation of  Shylock's Yiddish, or a vicious attempt to smear him. There would have to be a happy ending for everyone, including Shylock.

3) A serious musical about how FDR broke the "America First" campaign, in large part by pointing out that Lindbergh wanted to accept a medal from Hitler, and arguing that Lindbergh was pro-Nazi.

4) "Bush v. Gore," telling the bizarre story of the 2000 campaign.

Audrey Liebross

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 12:15pm

Adam's Rib