What movies should be made into shows?

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 9:29pm

Alright, I think that there ARE many movies out there that could be converted into plays or shows. For some reason I always thoguht that 'The Breakfast Club' would make a good show. Music and singing included. But besides my crazy fantasies, what movies do you think would work as shows?

I just repeated my self. *Shrug*

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 9:35pm

this topic surfaces every two seconds, but anywayz......


ALADDIN.

moving on.


next person who wants to start this topic can sign up below.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 9:38pm

Let's see, my choices would be:

DEAD MAN WALKING
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
HUD
BEN HUR
E.T.
KITTY FOYLE
THE TOWERING INFERNO
THE MUPPET MOVIE
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
THE COLLECTOR
PSYCHO
THE BIRDS
MOVE OVER, DARLING
PILLOW TALK
THE SUN ALSO RISES
THE PEARL
THE GOOD EARTH
PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION
THE CALL OF THE WILD
GIDGET
WHERE THE BOYS ARE

and Walt Disney's BAMBI

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:02pm

I remember seeing a very good stage production of ONE FLEW OVER THE COCKOOS NEST. Was that originally a play?

I think there are very good movies that could be turned into shows but one has to make sure they were not books first or stage shows to begin with....

The Pilots Wife (but that was a book and then a TV Movie) could be turned into a pretty good two woman play/musical

Maybe Moonstruck? That would be neat.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:06pm

Kansas City Trucking Co.

Fritz the Cat

Deep Throat

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:24pm

No one's mentioned one of my top choices " Princess Bride".

("Deep Throat"? Namho!...tsk.tsk.tsk. Imagine Linda Lovelace must look like "Baby Jane" by now! Not that I saw this disgusting movie!)

Updated On: 10/26/03 at 10:24 PM

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:27pm

KCT co would be interesting. Now that whatzhisname jeff styker or something has released a country album.

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:28pm

PBT, alas Linda Lovelace is no longer with us, you might say she bit the big one.

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:29pm

Did she choke on something?

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 10:51pm

For The Boys
Moulin Rouge
Mr Hollands Opus
Forest Gump

[Songsstresss]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 11:33pm

Dollypop,they made Dead Man Walking into an opera a couple years ago. I'm pretty sure it was performed somewhere around here in Southern California.

Posted: 10/26/03 at 11:36pm

Mr Holland's would be cool!
I also love the For The Boys Idea,.....

What about Beaches then?

[King Stevos]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:09am

2 words: DIRTY DANCING

other than that:

Newsies
Salems Lot (actually the novel)
Deliverance
CRY BABY
and a final wish:

THE TOXIC AVENGER!!!!!

STEVOS

PS if TV shows can be added here:
AMERICAN IDOL!!!
and
Three's Company

Updated On: 10/27/03 at 03:09 AM

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:23am

For the Boys is *kind of* a stage show...HAHA. This touring company tried to make it into one. It sucked. I was one of the Andrews Sisters and we did a tour Jan-May 2002 and it was horrifying. I'm sure if they worked on it, and took out the eight thousand drummers, it would've been ten times better.

They turned it into a big percussion show, and they actually did more of a revue than based on the movie. Actually, it wasn't much like the movie at all, I don't think...I never saw the movie...it was based on the Andrews Sisters and one of them was like, the lead, who fell in love with this guy in the army who she sang to. She sang "Every Road Leads Back to You" which I know Bette Midler sang in the movie...we did "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and stuff like that. Oh gosh, it was horrible.

There were nine actors playing drummers/soldiers...HAHAHA. Oh my gosh, I don't even want to know what the creator of this show was thinking. They would drum around and then there were nine dancers as well, and at one part they did a dance together. LOL. It was so ridiculous. Bad memories. Go away. The only characters in the show were the 3 Andrews Sisters, Tim (the army guy), and the Bob Hope type of host character...then the 18 Ensemble dancers/drummers.

Hopefully if they ever make a stage show, they'll steer far away from the production I did. One of our venues was a big arena and surprisingly enough, it sold out...the Nutter Center in Dayton Ohio. Hahaha, Nutter Center. They were all crazy, that's why they all saw it. Seriously, if any of you saw this show, you'd be crapping your pants and posting mean things about it on this message board. It was God-awful crap...although the talent was good and the drum numbers WERE pretty cool...they just didn't fit to well in this "musical."

I've always thought Aladdin would make an awesome stage show. Someone do it, NOW. That and maybe Center Stage? Ehh, I just love that movie. I keep getting good ideas, then I remember they're books and not movies. Hmm. Sixteen Candles!!! HAHA that would be the funniest musical ever. Long Duck Dong should get a solo.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:34am

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE.

Although the story has been made into several films (including two musicals) it could be easily adapted for Broadway. Though some might want it left in the 1950s Monroe-Grable-Bacall era, it might work far better if updated to the present. With an all-new score.

And might be even MORE intersting if you made the three leads golddigging "boiz" - maybe a corn-fed blond, a hot latino, and an Asian twink.

Updated On: 10/27/03 at 03:34 AM

[Melissa]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 8:36am

I agree with the Princess Bride. That movie is hilarious. I also want to add Christy (which was only a made for TV movie). I don't think it would go over very well, but it is one of my favorite books.

Posted: 10/27/03 at 11:28am

Christy was actually a musical.
I knew the co-creator of the show.
It has not been able to be perfromed for a while now due to some issues with the original author.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 12:10pm

About a year ago I was invited to a read/sing thru of a work in progress based on "Boys Don't Cry", it was the closest I've ever come to a "Springtime for Hitler" moment in all my years in the business.

[BC]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 12:22pm

CRY BABY is actually in the "talking stages" of heading for Broadway by the same creative team from HAIRSPRAY.

Also, interesting possibilities would be:

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE (TV Movie)

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (TV Movie)

YENTL

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 12:30pm

I have always wondered why Yentl hadn't been a show yet. It is amazing. Love that movie. Nightmare Before Christmas would be very very very cool.

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 2:13pm

newyorkuniq, Streisand's Yentl is based on the play Yentl. It was on Broadway in 1976 and starred Tovah Feldshuh. It was great.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 2:14pm

Ohhhh....before my time. lol I thought it had come from a book.

[DoubleDown11]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:27pm

Super Troopers!!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:28pm

Jaws.

Earthquake.

Deliverance.

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 10/27/03 at 3:31pm

THE HOURS...starring Nicole Kidman! Hey, if she could do it in Moulin Rouge, why not Bway? She won't have to worry cuz Virginia Woolf has less screen time than the other gals.