What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?

[PReeves2]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:24am

Are there any books that would make sense to turn into a musical for you? Harry Poter, The Lovely Bones, etc. It currently seems to be a trend that good books become a movie first then maybe a musical. why not a book into a musical?

[actionjaxson91]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:25am

Carrie proved that this was a bad idea. Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:25 AM

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:47am

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
Lanford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain
Robert James Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County

And, as long as it has beautiful music.

Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:47 AM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:06am

Widow of the South

[chewy5000]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:36am

Catch 22.

It would be so hard to follow on stage, yet oh so hilarious.

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:26am

a castle in the attic

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:39am

Jason Robert Brown would do the most phenomenal The Green Mile.

[newintown]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:48am

Tony by Patrick Dennis. Could be the male Mame.

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:12am

The Giver

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:36am

^ I was just thinking of The Giver!

[mybigsplash]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:46am

Tuck Everlasting
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:21am

I agree with Tuck Everlasting, as long as Adam Guettel does the music and lyrics!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:48am

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice

It's called First Impressions. Lovely overture.

Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
Misery - Stephen King (based on the novel, not the screenplay, incorporating the scenes from the Misery novel Paul is writing)
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

[WOSQ]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:53am

My Brilliant Career

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:58am

Thomson and Mann are already working on a musical for Tuck Everlasting.

http://www.thomsonandmann.com/projects.htm

The link to the project is towards the bottom of the page and includes 5 demo songs. "All The Time In The World" was recorded by Jonathan Groff & Phoebe Strole.

OT: Does anybody here have any idea why "The Baker's Wife" hasn't been staged on Broadway?

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 11:58 AM

[aja]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 6:52pm

ive always thought that 'Confederacy of Dunces' would make a great English opera. To me, its central character sees himself on such an unrealistically grand scale that only an opera would suffice. I think it could have the same type of comic potential as Jerry Springer: The Opera, which could really be regarded as a piece of opera OR musical theatre come to think of it. But def. agree with some sort of stage adaptation of C.O.D.

[James885]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:54pm

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

[jpbran]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:56pm

I've always thought "Something Wicked This Way Comes" would stage-adapt well.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:21pm

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies

Ordinary People

[MusicalLover6]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:44pm

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Emma - Jane Austen
(and for some weird reason, do not ask)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

[mariusmyhomeboy]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:49pm

The Great Gatsby.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:49pm

Things Fall Apart would be AMAZING.

My suggestion is "Middlesex".

[tellybox]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:59pm

Gimme a creepy Flowers in the Attic play, with incidental music.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:19pm

There is also a charming book entitled "c*nt", subsequently banned in several countries.

It would be marvellous on stage.

[gcontini2]

Posted: 4/17/10 at 1:28am

The Alienist, by Caleb Carr