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#51

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 9:36am

Love it! Perfectly true.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#52

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 9:38am

Lifted it from the current Forbidden Broadway.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#53

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 9:42am

Oh, so THAT's why it's closing.

The 'burbs can't laugh at themselves... but NY used to be able to.

Yeah, they probably don't find that funny. They think Mary Poppins, Shrek and Legally Blonde are the pinnacle of the art form.

I think it's friggin' hilarious.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#54

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 11:04am

I'd also love to see Disney's next endeavor be "Hunchback of Notre Dame".

It was produced in Berlin. I saw it in 1999.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#55

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 3:57pm

I'm sure it will happen at some point but I would love to see Disney's "Enchanted" come to Broadway.

Goodbye

#56

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 4:06pm

The Big Lebowski would be pretty interesting in musical form.

I'd rather be reckless than rockless.

#57

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 9/18/08 at 4:59pm

I'm not sure Valley of the Dolls would make it as a musical on Broadway. Today's audiences are much too sophisticated to accept a trashy book and movie being turned into a stage musical...you know, the same audience that made such cerebral shows like "Xanadu" & "Legally Blonde" hits.

Seriously though, the Andre and Dory Previn songs for "Valley" and several other movies in the 1960's would at least be a giant step above much of what is passing for music on Broadway today.

My Avatar is the amazing young singer, James Anest

#58

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 5:43am

The Hours

Virginia Woolf ... Ana Gasteyer
Laura Brown ... Michelle Federer
Clarissa Vaughan ... Patti LuPone

Richard Brown ... David Hyde Pierce
Leonard Woolf ... Billy Zane
Dan Brown ... Jeff McCarthy

Kitty ... Leslie Krtizer
Sally Lester ... Jackie Hoffman
Julia Vaughan ... Beth Curry
Louis Waters ...
Vanessa Bell ...

I can just imagine a huge ballad at the end between the three leads (a la Look At Me from Witches of Eastwick)

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First Wives Club

Brenda Cushman ... Mary Testa
Elise Elliot ... Christine Ebersole or Melanie Griffiths
Annie Paradis ... Jackie Hoffman

Morton Cushman ... Tom Wopat
Bill Atchison ...
Aaron Paradis ... Steven Spinella

Gunilla Garson Goldberg ... Carole Shelley
Duarto Feliz ... Matt Risch or Mario Cantone
Chris Paradis ... Dani Spieler
Catherine MacDuggan (Annie's Mother) ... Doris Roberts

Shelly Stewart ... Lindsey Ridgeway
Phoebe LaVelle ... Krysta Rodriguez
Dr. Leslie Rosen ... Diedre Goodwin

#59

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 2:08pm

A Fish Called Wanda

The Blues Brothers

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood. " - Tom Robbins

#60

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 2:29pm

Monster-In-Law:

Patti LuPone as Viola Fields
Cheyenne Jackson as Kevin Fields
Karen Olivo as Charlie

Across the Universe:

Jim Sturgess as Jude
Evan Rachel Wood as Lucy
Joe Anderson as Max
Dana Fuchs as Sadie
Martin Luther McCoy as JoJo
T.V. Carpio as Prudence

(I actually ahd a lot of plans for this one, including cutting a couple songs, adding in "We Can Work It Out" at the Thanksgiving dinner, slimming down the character of Prudence a lot, and combining Jude's Dad, Dr. Robert, the Army Enlister, Mr. Kite, and the Crazy Man who sings "Come Together" into one actor, and using a lot of projections.)

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:

Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible
Cheyenne Jackson as Captain Hammer
Celia Keenan-Bolger as Penny
Hunter Bell as Moist
Norm Lewis as Bad Horse

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#61

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 2:35pm

Sunset Boulevard.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#62

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 2:38pm

ok i think since the movies of this franchise have gone downhill they should bring it to broadway...tell me this doesnt sound really good...

"SAW VI: A New Musical"

what if susan blackwell hung out with boq, trekkie monster, the SOL soloist#2, and the piragua guy on a daily basis?

#63

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 3:17pm

I say Labyrinth. There are already a few great songs to work with. What a great story, too! If they can do Shrek, they could surely do this one.

Also, The Nightmare Before Christmas would be awesome.

#64

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 3:23pm

Neverending Story... Falkor can be staged a la Shrek Dragon style.

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler

#65

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 3:40pm

star wars!

what if susan blackwell hung out with boq, trekkie monster, the SOL soloist#2, and the piragua guy on a daily basis?

#66

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 5:39pm

The Breakfast Club
Not necessarily a musical

"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson

#67

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 6:07pm

Tootsie

I could see Norbert Leo Butz pulling off the duel role in a snap

#68

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 6:21pm

Down with Love
Mean Girls
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (i actually asked Doug Carter Beane about this one)

#69

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 6:53pm

The Breakfast Club

Andy: Aaron Tveit (obvious and I cast that kid in everything)/Brian J. Smith/Van Hughes
Brian: Adam Chanler-Berat/Joey Dudding/Curt Hansen
Bender: Bryce Ryness?
Claire: Ari Graynor/Mary Faber/or Alli Mauzey
Allison: Phoebe Strole/Aya Cash/or the obvious, Morgan Weed
Principal Vernon: Keith Buterbaugh
Carl the Janitor: Christian Anderson

#70

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 7:51pm

Disney's FANTASIA

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#71

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 8:12pm

haha I totally agree that Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog would be funny, only if NPH did it though...

also, not a musical, but Death at a Funeral would make for a hilarious play

#72

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 8:13pm

It really should have been a play. That was a funny-ass movie.

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#73

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 8:57pm

Miss Congeniality with Stephanie J. Block

#74

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 11:38pm

"Miss Congeniality with Stephanie J. Block"

Wow, that's the best idea I've seen so far. That could actually work REALLY well. Stephanie may not be the perfect casting choice, but she'd definitely be worth a shot.

Shoshana Bean might be kind of funny. I think she could pull off the awkward tomboy a little better. But as far as someone who would actually do it...I have to think harder.

Cheyenne Jackson or Matt Morrison as Agent Matthews
Patti Lupone as the Mean Pageant Lady (name?)

#75

re: What Films Would You Like to See On Stage?

Posted: 11/9/08 at 11:43pm

mean girls is in the works with tina writing the book and her husband doing music!

also, moulin rouge needs to be on state ASAP! (with laura benanti as satine)

Updated On: 11/9/08 at 11:43 PM

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