What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?

What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show??

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Has anyone read possession? its a new movie with gweneth...but it doesn't come close to the book. I have actually started writing songs for it. I know it won't go anywhere..but my classes are boring and musicals make the time go by

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There's been talk of TALES OF THE CITY.

The WPA Theatre (woe that it is no longer) was orininally thinking of doing it and having Henry Krieger write the score. I think that would be sensational.

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I would like to see The Book of Job turned into a musical starring Nathan Lane as Job because only he could find the humanity and hope in the relentless suffering. Of course, at 42 chapters, it would be hard to adapt.

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I agree with Catcher in the Rye, but definitely as a play. I can't see that as a musical.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, also as a play.

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Actually, Salinger won't give up the rights to "Catcher" for anything, not even Elia Kazan, who wanted to make a movie of it back in the sixties. Good for him, it wouldn't work as anything but a novel.

"The Slaves of New York"? Maybe, its too much like "Rent"
"Restoration" (later made into a movie with Robert Downey Jr.)...definately would work, although its too much like "Candide".
Steve Martin's "Shopgirl"???

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Mister Matt: It's sure not mainstream or anything, but Wheelock (in Boston) had a production of the Phantom Tollbooth last spring..I didn't get to see it though. I'd like to see it onstage sometime!

A take on Stephen King's 'IT':Pennywise, The Musical.

Opening song: 'WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!'

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What's that one book by Victor Hugo? Les Miserables, or something like that. That might make a pretty good musical.

Okay, sorry that was bad. Hah!

I agree with Catcher in the Rye as a play, and The Phantom Tollbooth as a musical.

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I bloody hate Faulkner. For shame, Dolly.

My own wish-list in this regard is:
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. An Australian classic novel and film

Elphie:
The Turn of the Screw has been dramatized as a play and called The Innocents. Done originally in the 50s I think, and revived unsuccessfully in the 70s with Claire Bloom and directed by Pinter. I cannot remember the adaptor.

Benjamin Britten made it into a very workable (and short) opera under its original title. NY City Opera has done two separate productions of late, one in the 80s and a very potent one in the 90s with Lauren Flanagan.

Britten's setting is strong enough to be done as a stand-alone production although if you did it on consecutive days, you'd need to use alternate casts. It is only a cast of five.

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Anne of Green Gables. I know that they did a workshop for it last year...even if it only comes to some little children's theatre, I would absolutely love to see that book in musical form.

How about The Thorn Birds? Imagine the drama in that one...

And I know there was a musical based on Anne Frank...never saw it and there doesn't seem to be an album for it, but I'd be very interested in seeing that.

Oooohh I agree with Anne of Green Gables...it's one of my favorites! They need to make a really good musical version of it!

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