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#26

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:28am

I saw a production of "Dorian" out here in L.A. A friend of mine designed the sets and lighting. Some of it was great and some of it didn't work so well. The cast was very good, including Robert Cuccioli, Armelia McQueen and Josie de Guzman, among others.

There were plans to develop it further, but I have no idea what happened to it.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 8/8/06 at 10:28 AM

#27

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:42am

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#29

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:01am

The 40 Year Old Virgin

One of the songs has to be called "I Can't Get Laid."
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#30

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:31pm

Keeping Them Coming:

Coming To America

Sparkle

Lady Sings The Blues

Mahogany

Love Jones

The Wood

Sixteen Candles

The Breakfast Club

IT

Fatal Attraction

Practical Magic

The Stepford Wives...the most recent movie

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The Princess and The Goblins

The Labryinth

Gangs of New York
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#31

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:22pm

the incredibly true adventures of two girls in love. i never thought as a straight girl, i would love that movie so much.
#32

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:24pm

Being Julia....that would be amazing.

Far from Heaven.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#33

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:33pm

BEING JULIA, yes definitely! A great movie!

Also:

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS

TRANSAMERICA , that great Felicity Huffman -movie.

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS

MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING

SLEEPY HOLLOW, would be great but very challenging to pull off.

CORPSE BRIDE Tim Burton's great film!

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

HEARTBREAKERS that Sigourney Weaver/Gene Hackman film.
#35

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:36pm

Ooo I second My Best Friend's Wedding.. that's my favorite movie next to Titanic (yeah I know I'm a loser...) and Ferris Bueller.
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#36

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:26pm

When Harry Met Sally has already been done as a musical in the West End with Allyson Hannigan as Sally. It was by most accounts pretty boring, but having not seen it myself I cannot say for sure.
#37

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:46pm

We were discussing this, and my cousin, who doesn't know too much about theater, said that they sould turn "Grease" into a musical. What a great idea! *end sarcasm*
#38

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:24pm

Years ago, a friend started the ideas to turn "Arsenic and Old Lace" into a musical! I thought it was clever and would've been a hit . . .

Otherwise, I loved the film "Portrait of Jenny". It would be incredible as a musical along the lines of "Wuthering Heights".
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#39

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:47pm

Hitch. It already has dancing in it. (ok lousy dancing but still dancing) and the opening sequence lends itself to a song
#40

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:54pm

I am bitter, now, with movie-musicals gone to broadway. I have nearly busted 7 veins in my left region when I found out the "Legally Blonde: The Musical" was replacing "The Light on the Piazza". Now, they are maknig a "High School Musical" for Broadway. Terrible. Though if they changed a lot of it, the HSM one could be semi-decent.

As for ones that COULD make it. I ADORE the idea of all of the action movie ideas that you've suggested. And I absolutely agree with "The Newsies", and the suggested ideas with the Origional Bratpack.
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Updated On: 8/9/06 at 11:54 PM

#41

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:14am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=off&thread=903158

they need to get original ideas
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#45

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:25am

Here's one:
Young Frankenstein
Music by Mel Brooks Book by Thomas Meehan
Directed by Susan Stroman
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#46

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:41am

I would love to see one of Kevin Smith's movies turned into a musical. Either Clerks or Chasing Amy would be perfect.
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#48

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:41am

eh i don't like movie's being made into musicals.

but i would like to see big fish and maybe the dead poet society!

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe
#49

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:54am

Newsies had an off-broadway run a while back and Disney is still working on the script of it. Making changes and stuff. So Newsies does have a stage script,it is not released to anyone since it's still and seems like it will always be under development.

Drtheater
"Now the best way to learn the theater, always, is to be a stage manager" -Stephen Sondheim
#50

re: What movie would make a GREAT musical?

Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:52am

Okay, I've long since been harboring a desire to bring Mommie Dearest to off-broadway. Actually, it would be Mommie Dearest: The Interactive Off-Broadway Musical Extravaganza! A dramatic pop/opera ala "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" where audience members would be encouraged to bring specialty items used throughout the show: wire hangers, of course; powdered floor cleaner; raw meat; etc. (you get the idea). I can just picture Joan Crawford (she's most likely played by a man) stopping the show dead with her big aria "No Wire Hangers EVER!!!!".

If I had any ability to write music I would so unleash this on the world.

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