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What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#25re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 6:45am
How about:
SOMETHING OF THIS MASQUERADE MAY FOLLOW
Music: Jim Steinman
Lyrics: Ray Errol Fox
You'll never get away from me then!
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
#26re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 6:50amI was actually just laughing last night at the thought of somebody trying to turn a movie about Hannibal Lector into a movie. I could just imagine some of the funny songs about eating parts of the body.
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#27re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 6:58am
I have written a musical of The Terminator
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#28re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 7:47am
CITIZEN KANE? COOL!!!
But I think it would best as an an "Opera" [with sung dialogue like in DREAMGIRLS]
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#29re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 7:51am
STEEL MAGNOLIAS would make a WONDERFUL musical.
Its depection of female bonding in a southern setting would lend itself BEAUTIFULLY to the musical stage.
The first LANDMARK musical in Broadway history took place in the South as well. (SHOW BOAT, 1927).
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#30re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 7:55am
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS as a MUSICAL?
Why, you would be about as unsuccessful as the folks who wrote LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!!! 
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#31re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:27am
1) HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (Yes, I know of the two 1940s musical versions of THREE BLIND MICE.....but I'd like to see the story updated to the present and with an entirely new score)
2) RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Yes, I know there was a Styne TV version with 'I'm In Pusuit of Happiness' that wound up in GYPSY as 'You'll Never Get Away From Me'...but the story is so good it could stand another musical treatment)
3) KLONDIKE ANNIE (Just saw this Mae West classic a few nights ago, and it could be a hoot as a full-fledged musical)
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#32re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:44am
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE would make a terrific musical!!!
Who doo you see as the musical's "Lauren," "Marilyn," and "Betty"?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
PennyLou
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
#33re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:46amok this is a little different but i have been thinking about it for a while as a show and like how I would have the show look and staging and such.. I think 'A League Of There Own' would make a good musical.
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#34re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:57am
Talented Mr. Ripley (Have Sondheim write the score... Creepy!)
Pulp Fiction
Ferris Bueller...
I'll post more when I think of them...
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#35re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:57am
Great idea, but would you simulate ballgame scenes like they did in DAMN YANKEES?
(Announcer's voice gave play-by-play accounting--no actual scene was shown.)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#36re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 8:59am
Citizen Kane: The Musical.
NY Times: "It's The 'Citizen Kane' of Musicals."
PennyLou
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
#37re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 9:10am
no, in the movie there is a scene that kind of shows a lot of the games at one time set to music.. I would have that scene as a big dance number and have the stage be the out felid.. with the announcer (or maybe even newies selling papers keeping in the times) announcing the scores and such talking over the music at points so you the audience and get who wining but be entertained at the same time.
but for the other scenes I would have home plate up stage center and the dugouts set up so you can see and here what is going on in the 'Rockford Peaches' dugout while the 'game' is going on.. while at the same time still using the announcer for the out field part of the game. but still see people batting and running out to 1st (where they would run off stage right) and them back to home (running in form stage left)
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
Updated On: 10/7/04 at 09:10 AM
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#38re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 9:20am
VERY IMAGINATIVE, PennyLou!
"You've Got Possibilities" [from IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN. . .] :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
sharon1
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/03
#39re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 9:35am"A Star Is Born" After the original Judy Garland/James Mason film. Not that Streisand/Kristofferson version
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#40re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 9:41am
Hi sharon1, :)
GREAT IDEA!!!
Who do you see as Vicki Lester in stage version?
Also, film had only about 8 numbers in it--hardly enough for a Broadway Show.
Arlen and Gershwin are both deceased. How would you go about getting NEW songs for show?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
PennyLou
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
#41re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 9:57amthanks Mary Ethel! this is what I do when I am bored I think hmm... thast would be a cool show!
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#42re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 10:57amCasablanca is BASED on a play. And I think we have enough broadway shows based on movies.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#43re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:10am
Hey Scarywarhol! :)
OKLAHOMA! is based on a movie (GREEN GROW THE LILACS) which was ALSO based on a play.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#44re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:24am
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
ST. ELMO'S FIRE
AMERICAN SWEETHEARTS
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#45re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:28am
Hey Sant! :)
So we agree on BABY JANE as a musical!
But who could fill Bette's and Joan's shoes?
(Please don't even MENTION horrible TV-remake with Redgrave Sisters!)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#46re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 12:04pm
Hi Mary Ethel
How about Betty Buckley and Bernadette Peters?
#47re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 12:05pmWhat about Star Wars? I am talking about episodes IV,V and VI
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#48re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 12:10pm
Mary_Ethel - "Baby Jane" is a musical already. (Jrb_actor was in it)
Everytime this thread comes up, I always say the same thing....THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#49re: What Famous Movies Should Be Made Into Musicals?
Posted: 10/7/04 at 12:18pm
Hi Sant, :)
Betty Buckley as Jane?
I LIKE IT!!!
I can see a whole musical number "But, Blanche, you ARE stuck in a wheelchair!"
And Bernadette has the right innocence/hidden creepiness for Blanche.
Well, what do you say? Do we call their agents?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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