What book would you like to see made into a Broadway show?- Page 2

[WOSQ]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 2:06pm

Native New Yorker,
Anne of Green Gables was musicalized in the 60s and first done at the Charlottestown (PEI) Festival in Canada. It was remounted for a quite successful West End run in the late 60s. I think there were revivals of it in both cities as well.

American character actor and 2 time Tony winner Hiram Sherman was in the cast. I saw this show. Watchable and entertaining and not particularly taxing on the intellect as I recall. This was 35 years ago.

The only NY production was at City Center for a couple of weeks in the early 70s at some point, probably as a Christmas or Easter attraction.

There was a cast album which I still have somewhere. Don't know whether it was put on CD or not.

It might be published since it is perfect for community theatre. Check with the Drama Book Shop or French or other houses.

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:10pm

ahhh!! please not IT!! i saw that movie (and read the book when i was older) when i was in second grade and is the sole reason for my phobia about clowns!! but if i wasnt deathly afraid of Pennywise - or any clown for that matter - it would be great. *shivers* i get the chills everytime i hear his voice says "we all float down here .. poor georgey!!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:18pm

War & Peace

[Lavieboheme26]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:22pm

The Odyssey would be cool on stage.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:30pm

I agree with Anne of Green Gables.

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:30pm

Believe the Odyssey was tried onstage as a musical with Yul Brynner. It was a bomb called "Home Sweet Homer" . Have the Playbill of this signed by him

[Lavieboheme26]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 6:38pm

Home Sweet Homer!?!?!?!?

[Wicked_Elphie]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 7:15pm

OHh i agree with The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe!

Posted: 2/13/04 at 7:24pm

The Odysssey and The Illiad were both the basis for the sophisticated, witty and intelligent musical THE GOLDEN APPLE which opened in 1954 (immediately after THE THREEPENNY OPERA).

GOLDEN APPLE has music by Jerome Moross and lyrics by John Latouche.

Broadway Bulldog

[DonnaMurphyRocks]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 7:25pm

I would love to see "Brideshead Revisited" made into a musical. It's my favorite book / TV series and it has everything you could possibly want in a show - flappers, soldiers, lavish sets and costumes, two men in love, a man and a woman in love, lots of great, intersesting characters, and lots of comedy and tragedy. I've already written a few songs in my head. Please someone make this into a show! I think Michelle Federer would be perfect as Julia, and then all we need is two good-looking guys to play Charles and Sebastian.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 2/13/04 at 8:30pm

Why's it funnier when SumOfAllThings says it?

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 2/14/04 at 12:37am

I was also thinking The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Do you think they could turn Shakespeare into a musical, excluding Kiss Me Kate with that one.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 2/14/04 at 12:51am

"Do you think they could turn Shakespeare into a musical"

Nope.. I've never heard of west Side Story

[Right Said Rick]

Posted: 2/14/04 at 11:20am

I would love to see them take a stab at that "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Now that's what I call a book. While it don't have no pictures, its got lots of words, pretty words that mean somethin' to me. If you can't make a pretty song outta that book then you ain't nothin but a chump.

[on1ystarinthesky]

Posted: 2/14/04 at 12:54pm

I'd LOVE to see IT on stage. Horror is something we have to bring more of to Broadway.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 2/14/04 at 4:50pm

I'm sorry MyName, didn't even see that post, I feel so used...

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:25pm

I don't mean a remake of a Shakespeare play. I mean actually set it in the same time, same place, use iambic pintameter, or however you spell that. West Side Story isn't Romeo and Juliet, and if you hadn't noticed, the ending is different. Is it just me, or doesn't Juliet die??

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:31pm

What!!!! Thanks for ruining it for me brdwaybaby I was going to go see it next week! jk

Updated On: 2/16/04 at 04:31 PM

[BroadwayPer4mer03]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:34pm

1. The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. No More Dead Dogs ( anyone read it?)
3. Witness
4. The Thief Lord

[secret-soul]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 5:10pm

The DID turn Shakespeare into a musical in the 70's. There were 2 rock-operas: Cressida (based on Troilus and Cressida) and Two Gentlemen of Verona which won the Tony for best musical. These were produced by Joseph Papp.

I would love to see The Great Gatsby turned into a musical. But Persuasion (by Jane Austen)would also be fantastic.

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 5:20pm

Oh, thank you secret-soul. I had no idea. Probably because I wasn't alive then. lol

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 5:24pm

In the fall i saw a acting troop do a performance of a bunch of Poe's stories woven into one story line and it was excellent, it wasnt a musical - i dont kno if we are just talking about musicals now - but i still enjoyed it. There were some quirks about it that i would have liked to change but i am sure with the right person doing it, it could be great! I am pretty sure the name of it was "Murder by Poe"

Updated On: 2/16/04 at 05:24 PM

[Ellet]

Posted: 4/30/04 at 11:32pm

Anne of Green Gables (the musical) has been a staple of the Charlotteown Festival on Prince Edward Island for several decades (I believe it was even commissioned by them.) There is an entire industry built around the book there, since that is in fact where it is set. It's quite a good musical.

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 4/30/04 at 11:39pm

well of course theres always the phone book, and then War of the Worlds. Both wonderful choices

[Juliette Capulet]

Posted: 5/1/04 at 3:29am

Ella Enchanted

Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet