The "Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread
The "Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread
The "Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#1
Posted: 7/11/10 at 4:59pmTitle speaks for itself:
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 5:14pmDeep Throar starring Mary Testa.
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The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#2
Posted: 7/11/10 at 5:20pm
Inherit the Wind
Grapes of Wrath
Angel Street (Gaslight)
You Can't Take it With You
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#3
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!
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#4
Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:10pmUn Chien Andalou
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:13pmA Face in the Crowd.
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#6
Posted: 7/11/10 at 6:15pmJurassic Park or any of the Godzilla movies.
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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.
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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);
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#11
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
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:06pmhocus pocus would be AWESOME!!!
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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.
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:35pmif 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
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#15
Posted: 7/11/10 at 7:45pmThere 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!
The 'Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread#16
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.
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:11pmThe Great White Way Report already did a segment on this months ago, with the same title and everything: http://tinyurl.com/2defh23
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:27pmMoulin Rouge.....it'll be the next Wicked
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:34pmI'm with Taz
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 9:40pmSex and the City
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Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:25pmI think Beetlejuice has tons of potential.
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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.
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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).
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