When will we see a musical version of THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS?!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:19pm

If any film is screaming to be adapted into a musical (Marc Shaiman?!) is the 1966 gem THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, which starred Rosalind Russell (as Mother Superior) along with Hayley Mill and June Harding. Gypsy Rose Lee played a modern ballet instructor.





Here's a quick synopsis:

Two juvenile pranksters act up at the St. Francis Academy for Girls. It is up to the patient and understanding Mother Superior to show them the right path.

St. Francis Academy for Girls used to be a quiet sedate convent school - quiet and sedate, that is, until it was invaded by its newest pupil, Mary Clancy. Mary is a hellion who's youthful spirits keep Mother Superior in a constant state of panic as she and her friend, Rachel Devery, substitute bubble bath for the nun's sugar, smoke cigars in the boiler room, and attempt to make a life-mask of the face of a fellow student with quick-hardening plaster. Through it all, Mother Superior is determined to salvage something of worth from the youthful clay.


Updated On: 8/12/07 at 04:19 PM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:24pm

Why don't you write one?

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:26pm

Haha, thank you Brody!

I've always thought this would be a great idea- a couple things might be a little hard to translate to the stage, but its definitely do-able. And almost the whole thing takes place within the school so thats pretty simple. Yeah, I'd love to see a musical of it.
Ah, I love that movie.

WOMAN ON TRAIN: "A child your age smoking!"
MARY: "No madam, I am not a child- I am a midget with bad habits."

:)

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:35pm

I wish they would release the widescreen version on DVD. There is only a pan and scan version out there

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 4:45pm

I always thought I was the only one with a deep and abiding love for these two films ("Where Angels Go..." wsa the sequel)
but this board is FULL of Angels fetishists.

[nybearhugz]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 9:00pm

I thought I was all alone as well:) Just me and my autographed picture of Stella Stevens riding the donkey in WAG:)

This would be a fun musical. I had heard a while back that Spielberg had wanted to re make the film but guess nothign ever came of it.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 10:02pm

jimnysf -- TCM shows it widescreen, alas not 'anamorphic', but widescreen no less. I put it on DVD, so at least I have a widescreen print on DVD.

TCM is airing the widescreen version again on Tuesday August 21, 2007 at 12:30am EST (Monday night/Tuesday morning).

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 10:03pm

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I highly recommend this show to everybody as it is the Best Revival of any show in YEARS!

If you see one show in New York- see Grease.

It is the best show on Broadway in years!

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 10:13pm

Now that's a GREAT idea! Rosiland Russell's habit would be hard to fill, however. This is a little gem of a film that has plenty of moments that would lend themselves to song.

I agree Marc Shaiman would be the right person for the project. Marc - please put this on your things-to-do list after Catch Me If You Can.

But who would play Marvel-Ann?

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 10:15pm

Thanks for the tip Fosse. I'll have to set up my DVD recorder for the next broadcast.