What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
#0What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/11/04 at 12:50amWhat book would you like to see made into a Broadway show??
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Posted: 2/11/04 at 12:59amHow about "Catcher in the Rye?" Maybe as a play.
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Posted: 2/11/04 at 1:03am
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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Posted: 2/11/04 at 10:29am
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Good Earth
The Many Loves of Doby Gillis
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Posted: 2/11/04 at 10:35am
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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#5What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/11/04 at 11:40am
I think you could make
Valley Of The Dolls in to a sensational show if done right.
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#6re: What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/11/04 at 12:07pmI 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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#7re: re: What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/11/04 at 12:27pmChoke by Chuck Palahniuk, starring Raul Esparza!
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Posted: 2/11/04 at 3:54pm
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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Posted: 2/11/04 at 4:47pmWell since everyone seems to enjoy wicked, it might be interesting to see what is done with Maguire's other two novels: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Mirror, Mirror. I'm sure y'all can guess which fairy tales those are based on.
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Posted: 2/11/04 at 6:02pm
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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Posted: 2/11/04 at 11:43pmLike some of you, I'd love to see Valley of the Dolls as a musical, and A Time for Dancing would be amazing
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 4:24pmMister 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!
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 5:32pm
The Turn of the Screw-
Very Eeerie.
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 5:34pm
A take on Stephen King's 'IT':Pennywise, The Musical.
Opening song: 'WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!'
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 7:34pm
King is a great idea for Lyricist Book, I think he would write a great horror musical, a genre I havent found yet. my book suggestion:
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 8:25pm
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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Posted: 2/12/04 at 9:15pmAS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
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Posted: 2/12/04 at 9:30pmI bloody hate Faulkner. For shame, Dolly.
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Posted: 2/13/04 at 10:09amI don't know if it's been done or not but I always thought "The Great Gatsby" and "To Kill A Mockingbird" would make great plays.
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Posted: 2/13/04 at 11:47am
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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Posted: 2/13/04 at 11:48amA_Boy_From_Oz, i loved the Great Gatsby. That would make a great play.
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Posted: 2/13/04 at 1:39pm
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.
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Posted: 2/13/04 at 1:42pmAnything by Victor Hu....oh wait
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Posted: 2/13/04 at 2:00pmOooohh 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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