What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
#0What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 10:43pm
Sorry if this has already been dicussed but here are my top 2
1. My Cousin Vinny
2. Goodfellas
Also try to think of a cast.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 10:55pm
The Business of Strangers
Presumed Innocent
#2re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:00pm
Truly, Madly, Deeply
The Breakfast Club
Phone Booth
O Lucky Man
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#3re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:18pmI believe the Breakfast Club has since been turned into a play. Actually, I think I read somewhere that the film was originally rehearsed as if it were a play. It definitely feels like it could be on stage.
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#4re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:39pmMurder By Death
#5re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/23/06 at 11:44pmLove Actually
Ghosthost999
Understudy Joined: 4/5/06
#7re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 2:40amAmerican Beauty, The Hours.
#8re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 2:49am
Brokeback Mountain
Breakfast at Tiffany's
compaddict
Swing Joined: 6/2/06
#9re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 3:58am
Ellen Foster... also a good book
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#10re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:05am
Hard Candy
Would be very effective on stage, for sure.
#11re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:21am
Philadelphia
28 Days
#12re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 4:45amI second Love Actually.
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#14re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 11:51am
Down with Love
EDIT: actually, that could possibly be a good musical, so im not sure
Updated On: 9/24/06 at 11:51 AM
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#15re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 12:09pm
DWL should be a musical.
Casablanca (i know it is based on a play but they need a film to stage interpretation)
Mean Girls
Final Destination
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#17re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 1:30pm
While watching Hard Candy, I thought about it as a play. I don't think it would work. The thing is so intense that you would probably have to double cast it. I don't think you could make two people go through that twice a day.
The Breakfast Club is a play. I saw a high school production of it, bad language and drugs intact, last year.
faithanytwo
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/05
#18re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 5:56pmI third Love Actually, and lets add in Family Stone for similar reasons.
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#19re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 6:02pm
Dial M for Murder
Murder on the Orient Express
And Then There Were None
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#20re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 7:30pmThe Big Chill
#21re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 7:54pm
Dial M for Murder is a play that they turned into a movie - And then There Were None started out as book, then became a play and then a movie under the title "Ten Little Indians".
Updated On: 9/24/06 at 07:54 PM
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#22re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:19pmShawshank Redemption. I would *love* to see that done on stage.
think_of_me2007
Understudy Joined: 3/26/06
#23re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:24pmi fourth Love Actually.
sweeneytodd2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/28/04
#24re: What movies would make good plays NOT musicals
Posted: 9/24/06 at 8:26pmI've actually thought Saw would be an intense play.
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