I'd love to see a smart Spamalot-approach to a musical of Absolutely Fabulous. Have any of you seen the French/Saunders Mamma Mia! parody video? That's what started me thinking of it. I'd love it if the story was that Saffron's play about her life is being adapted into a musical. Edina and Patsy would have a strong reaction to that.
Actually, in response to 1984, Jonathan Larson tried and was denied the rights to adapt it, so he created his own pseudo-1984 with Superbia, that was never seen, but I have heard rumblings that there are those who are taking that material and trying to turn into something ala "tick".
Hunchback (in English lol) Pocahontas The Crucible: The Musical! Featuring the World-Famous, Tap-Dancin' Puritans! (seriously, it would be so campy it would be good)
The Crucible has already been adapted into an opera without a whiff of camp (or tapping Puritans). Should it ever be adapted into a musical I see no need not to do it as a straightforward musical drama.
How about Disney's The Princess Diaries? I can see it working.
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MONSTER-IN-LAW, that super-campy 2005 tale of an overbearing mother scheming to sabotage her coddled son's marraige starring Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez.
Viola Fields: Patti LuPone Charlie: Karen Olivo Kevin Fields: Cheyenne Jackson Ruby: Natalie Venetia Belcon
Willy Wonka is already a musical like they said. It's done at high schools all over the country and it's wonderful. The music is spectacular. It doesn't need a new version, it just needs to be expanded a bit and put on Broadway.
Star Wars the musical is FABULOUS - it's totally a spoof of Les Mis and Star Wars... saw it years ago and loved it.
The Crucible, the opera by Robert Ward is FAMAZING one of my favorite stage pieces of all time. It really doesn't need a new version either. It just needs to be produced by the Met or NYC opera. It's really a dark and scary piece. Think of Poulenc and that's the mood of this dark horse.
I hadn't heard Guettel had given up on Princess Bride that is really too bad, I have been looking forward to it.
Mean Girls the musical got a reading earlier this year in NYC - so I'm sure we'll hear more of it soon.
My friends and I have talked for years about making Death Becomes Her a musical it would be fabulous.
How about STEAL MAGNOLIAS, AMERICAN BEAUTY, BROKEN HEART'S CLUB, LATTER DAYS, SOAP DISH, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
MULAN starring Lea Salonga
I would love to see Sondheim bring DICK TRACY to the stage as a full piece of work
I know there's a Disney World version of Aladdin but I would love a full fledged Broadway version.... hopefully it wouldn't end up a production design disaster like Little Mermaid
You know I'm of the mindset that anything can be made into a musical if it's done right. Not everything can be happy jolly songs and tap dancing. Some things have to be really dark and sound like Verdi or Poulenc in order to keep the mood of the piece. If it turns out more like a Romantic or Modern Era opera then so be it, if it comes out right.
Les Miserables would never have worked had it been written by David Yazbek. Likewise Women on the Verge WOULD probably have worked better if it was written by Daniel Catan, whose IL POSTINO was a hit last week at LA opera.
JUST SAYING!
- My treatre friends and I always play this game in the dressing room where we have to come up with a good musical adaption and an equally bad musical adaption idea. BUT we have to include the name of the composer.
Good Ideas: SPANGLISH by Adam Guettel LEGENDS OF THE FALL by Boubil and Schoeberg
Bad Idea: STARSHIP TROOPERS by Andrew Lloyd Webber TERMINATOR 2 by Elton John
For the boys. I can't believe there hasn't been a "uso musical before& the movie screams musical to me. I think it would be so great to see Dixie and Eddies careers over the span of 50 years. If the creative team were talented enough they could cover a lot of different styles of music to capture the different"feeling" of each war and cut that stupid steel guitar during the vietnam attack scene. Also it would take 2 top notch performers to capture the dynamic between dixie and eddie. They need the romance but you need to feel that their always trying to top each other. Every performance every conversation is about who gets the last laugh so much so that it keeps them apart
I've been saying this for years. Why in God's name is BEWITCHED not a musical starring Kelli O'Hara, Brian D'Arcy James, Elaine Stritch and Gary Beach?
