The "Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread

[suttonfoster]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 4:59pm

Title speaks for itself:

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 5:14pm

Deep Throar starring Mary Testa.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 5:20pm

Inherit the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Angel Street (Gaslight)
You Can't Take it With You

[TheKandyLife]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 5:33pm

Something by Tim Burton/Danny Elfman should be on Broadway i think. Like The Nightmare Before Christmas, it'll need added songs of course, but i think it could be done very well! off the top of my head, the use of fluresant glow in the dark costumes could help people with the Tradmark "thin" Tim burton characters.

and as a play i think "The Bucket List" would be a great play!

[tazber]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:10pm

Un Chien Andalou

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:13pm

A Face in the Crowd.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:15pm

Jurassic Park or any of the Godzilla movies.

[dg22894]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:17pm

Anastasia

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:20pm

HOCUS POCUS! HOCUS POCUS!!

Starring Mary Testa as Winnie, Laura Benanti as Sarah & Jackie Hoffman as Mary. If they can change around a few fat jokes.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:48pm

The Nightmare Before Christmas would be great, if they played if for a short period of time through October to early January.

Disney bought URL addresses for Nightmare Before Christmas so maybe.

Nightmare Before Christmas (?) (NightmareOnBroadway.com, NightmareOnTour.com, NightmareTheMusical.com);

[TheKandyLife]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:00pm

omg Hocus Pocus! that would make an epic musical i think! and what casting you done!! Laura and Jackie for me are DEFFINATE! lol but Mary Testa, as known as she is and extremely talented, i can't help but feel there's someone else out there,...maybe Patti Lupone? Alice Ripley? Bebe Neuwirth? Beth Leavel? someone with age, but making it graceful! haha

and thinking of the other 2 witches, for Sarah i could see, Julia Murney, Sutton Foster, Sara Ramirez, Kerry Butler, Laura Bell Bundy. and Mary, the only other, apart from jackie Hoffman would be Kathy Fitzgerald?

...clearly i've given this way too much thought, but it's a film i've always wanted to be a musical, so much so, wrote 7 songs for it myself haha

[WannaBeAPartOfThat]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:06pm

hocus pocus would be AWESOME!!!

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:07pm

Hercules. My favorite animated Disney musical deserves a stage adaptation. I loved watching it when I was little, and I still love it, many years later.

Besides that, I'd rather see more original musicals.

I guess we have a lot of fans of The Great White Way Report on here.

[TheKandyLife]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:35pm

if ur interested in Hercules as a musical, youtube (last time i checked) had some footage of a disney cruise (i think) with a version called "Hercules: The Muse-Ical" and its funny! with the same songs, dont know if they added any though

[castlestreet]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:45pm

There is an 80's movie called "Kiss Me Goodbye" with Sally Field and James Cahn- he plays a Director/Choreographer who dies in a fall and comes back as a ghost as Sally Field is preparing to remarry- watch the movie- there are whole scenes and lines that scream out to be musicalized!

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 8:36pm

"There is an 80's movie called 'Kiss Me Goodbye' with Sally Field and James Cahn- he plays a Director/Choreographer who dies in a fall and comes back as a ghost as Sally Field is preparing to remarry- watch the movie- there are whole scenes and lines that scream out to be musicalized!"

That movie was sort of a remake of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, based on Jorge Amado's novel of the same name. I think Kiss Me Goodbye credited Amado's novel as source material. The novel has already been musicalized as Saravà. (In fact, it had been musicalized even before Kiss Me Goodbye.)

Jeff Bridges plays the not-sexy, nerdy second husband in Kiss Me Goodbye. Never seen it, but I've always had trouble thinking I'd find that casting very believable.
Updated On: 7/11/10 at 08:36 PM

[DramaQueen700]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:11pm

The Great White Way Report already did a segment on this months ago, with the same title and everything: http://tinyurl.com/2defh23

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:27pm

Moulin Rouge.....it'll be the next Wicked

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:34pm

I'm with Taz

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:40pm

Sex and the City

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:13pm

Chocolat

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:14pm

Oh, and BOOTY CALL.

[brackett111]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:25pm

I think Beetlejuice has tons of potential.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:25pm

I agree with Hocus Pocus!

I think I remember someone suggesting Mary Testa as Mary, Laura Benanti as Sarah and Christine Ebersole as Winnie. I like the thought of Mary Testa as Winnie too.

I would also like to see Mean Girls the musical starring:
Regina: Leigh Ann Larkin
Cady: Sierra Boggess
Gretchen: Tracy Jai Edwards
Karen: Annaleigh Ashford
Janice: Haven Burton
The principal: Norm Lewis

And I'm sure there are plenty of other good casting ideas for the many other characters, I just can't think right now.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:35pm

I have said that if I knew how to write music I would be working on musical adaptations of Kindergarten Cop and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Kindergarten Cop could give us such showstoppers as "It's Not a Tum-ah," "Who Is My Daddy, and What Does He Do?" and "Stranger Danger."

Bill and Ted's presentation of all their "historical dudes" is totally screaming for a huge, no holds-barred production number, of the type that Stroman loves to give us (think of her work on "I've Got Rhythm" and "Springtime for Hitler" and apply that here).