TV to Stage
TV to Stage
#0TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 4:34pm
The big fad on Broadway lately is turning films into musicals. However, with "Jerry Springer The Musical," the upcomming "Apprentice: The Musical," and "The Happy Days Musical" which has been workshopped for the past few years, it looks like we'll be seeing some TV shows on stage in the future.
So, which ones deserve this treatment? Here are my picks....
Desperate Housewives
Sex and the City
Will and Grace
The Golden Girls
#1re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 4:38pm
Interesting game...
Good Times
The Jetsons
The Golden Girls (I second it)
Alice
#2re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 4:40pmThe Golden Girls and The Brady Bunch have already been done on stage... this wouldn't be anything new...
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:01pmHmmm...Nip/Tuck would be a bit of a challenge but could be very interesting.
#5re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:10pmIt's about making them musicals CATS...and The Golden Girls were shut down because they were performing scripts without permission, which is unfortunate, but hardly a full-fledged stage adaptation.
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#6re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:12pm3rd rock from the sun
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:13pmInteresting trivia: before Sondheim and Lapine hit on the idea of having different fairy tale characters interact in INTO THE WOODS, they toyed with the idea of different 1950's sitcom characters interacting in a musical: Lucy & Ricky meet Ward & June, Ozzie & Harriet, Ralph & Alice, etc.
#9re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:25pmHahaha Third Rock would be great. They should do that soon while John Lithgow could still pull it off. And if only "Family Guy" could be done, too. But who would play Stewie? (Cough, cough, Bea Arthur!) Damn my cold!
#10re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:27pmMAUDE:The Musical
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#11re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:32pmBuffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More With Feeling". I think it would make a great show.
#12re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:32pm
Here's another two: "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
And I hate to say it because I despise the TV Show, but "Full House" would make a very marketable family show.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#14re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 7:41pm
i really want to see THE NANNY take the stage
im sure it would be super funny
#15re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 7:44pmit would kick ass if family guy was turned into a show!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#16re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 9:16pm
I have no idea what brought this to mind. It wouldn't be as good on stage as it would be funny but:
7th Heaven
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#17re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/15/05 at 9:20pmthey did a musical of 7th heaven dunno when dunno where but i know they did
#18re: TV to Stage
Posted: 9/17/05 at 8:57amit was a Valentine's Day TV episode, and failed miserably. The most awkward, embarrassing thing to watch. Not one decent voice.
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