The "Why the F@#% are You Not a Musical? thread- Page 2

[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).

[EponineAmneris]

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

YENTLE... Starring Stephanie J Block...

MOULIN ROUGE and WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY...

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 10:51pm

I'm going to agree with "Moulin Rouge"

And Willy Wonka is already a stage musical. Its just a translation of the film.

[legally_popular]

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

Yes to Moulin Rouge as well!

I also remember someone mentioning that Mrs. Doubtfire should be a musical on bwaydaily awhile ago. And I believe they said how "I am Job" could be the show-stopping number, LMAO!

[bwayphreak234]

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

I second Moulin Rouge! and Sex and the City

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 11:19pm

somewhere in time

[HBP]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 11:21pm

Un chien andalou would be nuts. I'd like to third Hocus Pocus. I'd also love to see Hunchback in NYC.

[Muhlethaler]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 11:26pm

Updated On: 6/18/20 at 11:26 PM

[myshikobit]

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

YES to 'DEATH'! I love that movie.

I think as far as technically 'unoriginal' sources go, I always want people to take stories with a little bit of dust on them. Not that 'DEATH' is necessarily the best material (though I do think that with casting ^ them and a brilliant writer and a less money-hungry Julie Taymor, it could do WONDERS), but it's been only lightly remembered for twenty years and it's (IMO) hilarious and music could give the piece more of a soul (or a pulse (; ).

So, fellow writers, stop flinging franchises at us and take some moderately successful plays and movies that have aged in quiet dignity and make good ('Women/Verge" sounds promising). :)

[myshikobit]

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

Oh, never mind, hold the Shai. He hasn't won me over yet.

Whoever writes 'Death' will have to probe the characters really well (it got mixed reviews because it got so lost in special effects it wasn't able to showcase and give dimension to the characters), but also have that dark sense of humor.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 11:50pm

Mean Girls
Moulin Rouge

[Muhlethaler]

Posted: 7/11/10 at 11:57pm

Updated On: 6/18/20 at 11:57 PM

[myshikobit]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 12:18am

We're kindred spirits, me boy! This calls for a Jack and Karen ('Will and Grace') inspired belly rub! Hahaha :).

I'd also want to see a musical adaptation of 'The Birds'- I love Guignol inspired musicals. And all of the cool dramatic devices you could employ!

And then how about a musical of Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros'?.... something with me and animals tonight...

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 12:59am

Jack and Karen the musical with Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 1:38am

Death Becomes Her could be great with some reworking as mentioned above.

I'd still love to see a musical of The Princess Bride - if only Guettel hadn't given up on it...

I also think a great musical could be done of Orwell's 1984. I read somewhere that the estate has forbidden it and writers like Sondheim and Kander/Ebb have actually tried for the rights and been denied.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 2:13am

"I also think a great musical could be done of Orwell's 1984. I read somewhere that the estate has forbidden it and writers like Sondheim and Kander/Ebb have actually tried for the rights and been denied."

It seems to me very unlikely that Sondheim would have tried to get the rights to that. I think that's exactly the kind of thing he tries to avoid (adapting anything too famous). Of course, there was West Side Story, but that was long ago and it was his chance to work with major people when he was unknown. Sweeney Todd was famous in England but little known in the United States, and even in England, the Bond version was new.

In any case, there was an opera based on 1984 several years ago.

[onedaymore]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 3:36am

Star Wars: The Musical. Enough said. LOL

[tazber]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 4:17am

The Willy Wonka musical in the works is not actually based on the film. It's based on the original book with songs by Shaiman and Whitman. The source for this was on Playbill.com a few months ago.

I believe there is however another version around that is based on the 70s movie version.

I love Death Becomes Her also. Always thought it would make a great musical. Now if we could just get proper dvd or BD release of the film in anamorphic widescreen I'd be really happy.

As far other sources go, I have had a passion to see A Confederacy Of Dunces as a musical. If done right, Ignatious Reilly could become one of the classic characters in the musical theater canon.

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 9:44am

I love that every time a thread like this comes up, Hocus Pocus takes up half the thread. lol
On the topic, I think that Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day would make a great musical. I'd love to see it done.
Also, a proper Wicked adaptation. The book is so much better in my opinion. They just took it and turned it into something completely different. Not that it will happen, though.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 10:00am

THE MATRIX

[andi1235]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 10:10am

Re: Star Wars: the Musical - http://www.infauxmedia.com/

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 11:25am

Heart and Souls
Too Many Crooks (aka the remake "Ruthless People")
The Kitchen God's Wife
Snow Falling on Cedars
Memoirs of a Geisha
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
Emma
Miss Potter
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Send Me No Flowers

PS - Moulin Rouge received a full stage production that toured Germany in 2009.

The Star Wars musical linked above is mostly just a camp spoof for cheeky small theatre productions. The typical ha-ha-we're-so-clever-adding-"the musical"-to-a-popular-property-and-writing-an-extended-SNL-skit-with-faux-Adam Sandler-tunes. There are some demos out there for the full-scale production Charles Strouse was tinkering with in the late 70s.

[Renart]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 12:35pm

I'm confused. Aren't I supposed to hate musicals based on Hollywood movies on principle? Something about the lack of original ideas on Broadway or something like that...

Just kidding. I've never had a problem with films being source material. I'm not anti-musicals-based-on-movies. I'm anti-musicals-that-suck.

Personally I think that the charming Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico would be wonderful as a musical. I wish I had the talent to write it myself.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 12:39pm

The Star Wars the Musical is sort of a sendup of Les Miserables as well, as many songs (and a few of the demo vocalists) seem to be poking fun at Les Mis's sweeping classical-rock-opera style and the OBC's idiosyncratic voices.

[2ndBalcony]

Posted: 7/12/10 at 3:06pm

Down With Love

It's kinda almost half-way there already, and it would be in the vein of Legally Blonde, I'm thinking.