A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
ok... as much as everyone will probably be jumping all over me, but i think Boy From Oz should be made into a movie. with original cast of course. along with not neccesarily a movie but more on the lines of what PBS did with Les Mis back in the day and do a concert version of Taboo. even though it was short lived, i think it could be done concert version (so people like me, who haven't seen it but own the cd. can watch it)
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avatar: me and jason gillman... in the pouring rain.
"Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog? Dodo." That's my favorite line in the whole show (Wicked). My next favorite line is "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed."
i agree wicked the novel would be great. i just finished it and i loved it
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
Yes Wicked film based on the novel awesome! It would be liek the new Harry Potter! Hair had and Jesus Christ Superstar had great musical movies as well as Gypsy and Little Shop of Horror's with the adorable Ellen Green!
not a WICKED movie from the novel! The musical is TEN TIMES better than the novel in my oppinion
"Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog? Dodo." That's my favorite line in the whole show (Wicked). My next favorite line is "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed."
I personally could not make it all the way through the novel (though I did make a second attempt to finish it). The whole first section is just so weird. I enjoyed the section when they were at Shiz, that was cool too. But then after that it got way weird again. And then I stopped. LOL. I just don't understand what's so great about it. I just don't *get* it. I mean, yeah the idea's good, but... it just didn't do anything for me. I haven't actually seen the musical yet, but I've read a spoiler-filled plot summary, and I personally thought it was much better. That's just me... maybe they could adapt the novel for a movie in a way that would appeal more to me? I really do want Wicked to get on screen in some form or another before Bush is out of office, lol...
But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.
When a film is made of WICKED, it will be of the musical. Trust me on this one.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
City of Angels would be a GREAT movie musical, considering the concept of the plot - turning a book into a movie.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Godspell was already a movie...but if u mean remake it then yeah, that'd be cool. I cry whenever I watch that movie. I just did the show and played Judas, I cried during every finale lol
Ellen Greene is one of the only people who could ever pull off the role of Audrey, as painfully evidenced by Kerry Butler.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Going back to Guys & Dolls, I would be interested to see what come of it. But did we know that the people behind the remake want to update it to current day and there's been talk of Vin Diesel starring as Nathan Detroit?
I actually think The Last Five Years would transfer well to film too.
Matt, is Sweeny really in the works? I would love this one too!
Into the Woods Les Miz!!!!!!
Yes, Millie IS a movie (not a very good one in my opinion), the new musical is so incredibly different with so much more new music, it would hardly even be a remake...I think it would make a GREAT movie. of course...imo, we should make movies of ALL musicals!!
ok, this probably sounds crazy and no one will agree with me, but I think it would be really cool if they made a live action film of The Lion King (uh...and Cats, for that matter) using people and the Bway costumes and everything, but using outdoor sets, I guess...I don't know, almost like a tribal African ceremony. Don't hate me!
Oh, and The Wiz.... get it right this time....gosh! the movie makes me mad because they changed every song just a little bit to make it suck...every time Diana Ross sings, she sounds like she is about to cry, and they make upbeat songs slow and depressing, and they made Slide Some Oil sound like a honky tonk country song...ggrrr!!!!!!
okay, if you are going back as far as the wiz and evita, then this isn't a movie musical 'comeback'. Those were random, and were not followed by more movie musicals. Now that we have several, it is a comeback.
Thoroughly Modern Millie was origianlly an answer to making a movie of The Boy Friend for Julie Andrews without doing The Boy Friend.
Ron Hunter saw The Boy Friend in London and in the United States with Julie Andrews and was charmed by the silly sendup of the musicals of the 1920's. Yet he was unable to secure the rights to the show for film, so he created his own piece.
The difference between the stage and film versions is that the film is a spoof of the 1920s. We never get emotional for our main character because she is a silly flapper who shenanigans leave us with little more than laughs. And when that falpper is as divine a creature as Julie Andrews it is great fun. That is all that the film aims to do: fun.
For the show it is no longer a sendup of the 20's, we are supposed to care about our mawin character and suffer with her as we laugh at her shenanigans and root for her to do the right thing while on top of all that looking at the silly characters and laughing and it just wasn't a good mix. Trying to have your cake and eat it too.
So a new movie that would add that sentimentality that in my opinion sort of ruined the silly 1920's feel of the story is not a good idea to me.
I also am livid at the possibility of the punk-rock Bye Bye Birdie movie that was proposed. Ugh! Where's the exit!
But a movie version of Dreamgirls could be delightful.
I ABHOR Guys and Dolls as well. Perfectly written or not, Nathan Lane killed it for me and the score haunts me in my sleep.
I would love to see an amazing movie made of INTO THE WOODS. It would be so amazing to actually see it in a real, creepy forest and castle, etc. I think it would be fantastic, as long as they keep it "creepy," and don't try to make it for children, who don't really understand it anyway. I would love for Sam Mendes to direct it.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
