What book/movie would make a great musical?

This can't happen, but a musical about the actual book Wicked would be so beautiful.

Mr. Holland's Opus

There is a beautful French novel, Le Grand Meaulnes- about a young boy living in a school house in rural France before the Great War. He encounters an older boy who keeps running away; on one adventure he finds a "fete etrange"- a strange festival- and falls in love with a beautiful girl who he must find and marry. Nothing is quite what it seems. It is a hugely moving and (R)/romantic novel. It would be a beautiful but costly show!

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (if they can condense 13 books into one musical)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

I say this every time but I still want to see a Clue musical on Broadway. Maybe just based on the board game characters and not based on the movie. The movie is too perfect to tamper with.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest would make a great musical. I would like to see Joshua Schmidt or Dave Malloy adapt it.

I'd like to see the composers of Gentleman's Guide adapt Lemony Snicket. They could just do the first three books like the film.

I have to second Moonstruck as well. I think Jason Robert Brown could do a really great job with the material.

I second Sabrina as a musical. (I hear Takarazuka Revue did a version a few years ago, but I have no idea if it was any good.)



Momo or The Neverending Story (book, not film) by Michael Ende? Actually, musical theatre may not be the best medium for adapting these. I'd still be interested if anybody was trying it though. I hear there have been opera versions of both.

There's a Japanese anime and manga series called "One Pound Gospel" about the unlikely friendship bordering on romance between a young lightweight boxer trying to stay in his weight class despite a tendency to eat his feelings, and a young nun having doubts about her vows. When I heard of it, I immediately thought, "that sounds like an Ahrens and Flaherty show."

The Cider House Rules, The Quiet Man, Big Fat Greek Wedding. High Society was bad; I'd love to see someone good make a musical of Philadelphia Story.

Also think The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take it With You would be fantastic as musicals.

I'd also go for Sabrina and Moonstruck. And thank you for the The Lion in Winter mention. My favorite movie ever, but I can't see it as a musical.

There was a movie in 1979 called A Little Romance that I saw again recently, and it seems to have possibilities. It was Diane Lane's first movie and also starred Sir Laurence Olivier, and young French actor named Thelonious Bernard who pretty much stole the movie. I'd love to see someone take a shot at musicalizing it.

That is a real toe trapper Dolly.

gypsy101 you know you're right about how repetitive that series is. Especially the first few books.

If someone was going to adapt it into a more condensed medium it might be advisable to take the characters and style and create an entirely new story, chucking the specific aspects of each book in favor of a less episodic narrative. Even if they do act one based on book one and the second maybe the later book set in the hotel (#12 I think but can't recall the name offhand). The last book was set on an island or something and the ending was very ambiguous so they could really do whatever.

Oy I am ranting! I used to love those books though and stylistically I think they could make a fascinating movie or musical but what they did with the Jim Carrey adaptation was a bad route unless they were committed to a franchise of the entire saga.