What book/movie would make a great musical?
What book/movie would make a great musical?
MadViolist
Chorus Member Joined: 7/23/15
#1What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 12:33pm
Is there any book, movie or simply an idea you've always wanted to see on stage done as a musical?
In my opinion, The Great Beauty and Her could work and it would be original.
#2What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 12:41pm
This can't happen, but a musical about the actual book Wicked would be so beautiful.
#3What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 12:54pm
a musical about the book? not based on it, but about it?
BroadwayMan5
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/15
#5What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 1:34pm
Brooklyn, Hugo, Sabrina, etc.
#6What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 1:55pm
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!
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#7What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 2:04pm
I've said it many times Moonstruck.
I don't think it will ever happen as JPS has a rep for being difficult esp w his words being changed.
TrChSpHa
Understudy Joined: 7/15/09
#8What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 2:17pm
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
#9What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 3:26pm
Enchanted April
While You Were Sleeping
I don't think it could be done but "Lion in Winter" would be an interesting choice.
#10What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 3:40pm
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.
#12What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 5:47pm
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.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 6:28pm
We do have to realize not every movie can or should be made into a musical.
Fan123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
#14What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 9:51pm
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.
#15What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 10:24pm
Brooklyn, Hugo, Sabrina, etc.
I agree "etc." would make a wonderful musical.
Any source material could conceivably be turned into a musical in the right hands, as American Psycho, Fun Home or Hamilton attest, so picking a personal favorite - perhaps Yann Martel's "Self", about a guy who wakes up one morning to find he has somehow magically transformed into a woman.
#16What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 10:42pm
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."
#18What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 10:50pm
Jack and Louisa, Fargo, Dead Poets Society, marley and me
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#19What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 11:09pm
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.
#20What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 11:11pm
Philadelphia, I remember watching this movie with my brothers, before I came out(or even I knew I was gay). We were sold on watching the movie plainly, because of tom hanks and Denzel Washington. It was such an awkward experience yet an amazing one. The movie still gives me chills. We were also stoked to see Antonio in it!
Back Row
Leading Actor Joined: 4/14/12
#21What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 11:12pm
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.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#22What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 11:29pm
As I Lay Dying
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#23What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/23/16 at 11:46pm
That is a real toe trapper Dolly.
#24What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/24/16 at 12:54am
the thing about Series of Unfortunate Events is that I think it could work, and since the plot of every book is essentially the same they really wouldn't need to do multiple books. Change the title obviously cause it's not a series. Go from the beginning to the end (although I read the whole series I actually can't recall how it all ended...) it could be fun.
#25What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/24/16 at 3:43am
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.
¿Macavity?
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/16
#26What book/movie would make a great musical?
Posted: 4/24/16 at 3:58am
JoseLee_ said: "Precious
"
That would be a tough 2 hours and 30 minutes... What a sad story!
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