Your favorite Broadway show based on a movie?- Page 2

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 3:59pm

Do YOU? This poster said nothing wrong other than pointing out you erred. 

[Dom P]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 5:56pm

Nine based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Not the film musical Nine, the musical at the 46th Street (Richard Rodgers with that amazing original cast of Raul Julia, Karen Akers ,Lilliane Montevecchi, and more.

Really superb and transporting in every way.

 

 

[Dom P]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 5:58pm

Dom P said: "Nine based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Not the film musical Nine, the musical at the 46th Street (Richard Rodgers with that amazing original cast of Raul Julia, Karen Akers ,Lilliane Montevecchi, and more.

Really superb and transporting in every way.

 

There's a little bit of Guido, Luisa, Liliane LeFleur, Carla, Saraghina and Claudia in everyone.


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Updated On: 8/7/23 at 05:58 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 10:10pm

I have a soft spot for the musical The Wedding Singer, which I think improves on the film version.

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 10:24pm

I still love KING OF HEARTS. 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 11:37pm

MichelleCraig said: "I still love KING OF HEARTS."

I remember enjoying that show as well…I imagine that we were among the maybe 15,000 people who saw it, based on the number of performances and how empty the theatre was on the night I saw it.

I particularly remember the scene where all the inmates were on the side of the cathedral roof…great set and staging.  Several really excellent songs as well.  The one whose melody I still remember after hearing it once 40 years ago  was titled something like ‘Close Upon the Hour.’

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 8/7/23 at 11:55pm

There’s a cast recording of KING OF HEARTS that’s available to stream on Apple, Amazon, etc. It was recorded a few years after the show closed…but most of the OBC is on the recording.

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 8/8/23 at 11:25am

From the less than enthusiastic responses to this question I would say that Broadway needs to start looking elsewhere for original sources to adapt than movies, particularly big popular movies that audiences just want to see mindlessly repeated point for point in a Broadway book.

Most movie adaptations on Broadway are short term and not long term investments. And once the fan base of the original movie has been satisfied you're left with a property that has never really been successfully transformed into its own unique Broadway musical. To do that the adapters need to take liberties that would offend literalist fans of the movie. 

So, another American short term money making scheme that piles up a bunch of garbage for future generations. 

Updated On: 8/8/23 at 11:25 AM

[Jarethan]

Posted: 8/8/23 at 12:55pm

MichelleCraig said: "There’s a cast recording of KING OF HEARTS that’s available to stream on Apple, Amazon, etc. It was recorded a few years after the show closed…but most of the OBC is on the recording."

Thanks...I did not know that.

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/8/23 at 1:16pm

sinister teashop said: "From the less than enthusiastic responses to this question I would say that Broadway needs to start looking elsewhere for original sources to adapt than movies, particularly big popular movies that audiences just want to see mindlessly repeated point for point in a Broadway book.

Most movie adaptations on Broadway are short term and not long term investments. And once the fan base of the original movie has been satisfied you're left with a property that has never really been successfully transformed into its own unique Broadway musical. To do that the adapters need to take liberties that would offend literalist fans of the movie.

So, another American short term money making scheme that piles up a bunch of garbage for future generations."

This is an interesting compare and contrast. The writers of The Wedding Singer took everything good about the film and jettisoned everything iffy about it or dependent on Adam Sandler himself. Then they made a leaner, tighter and more character driven musical out of it. 
 

Their next big show was Elf, which was a much more literal translation to the stage. Probably because the show sells itself on the strength of the title.

[Patty3]

Posted: 8/8/23 at 2:55pm

Billy Elliot

[Dom P]

Posted: 8/10/23 at 11:46am

ggersten said: "Is Cabaret based on "I Am A Camera" the play or the film or both? (as well as the original Isherwood stories) Wikipedia says the play.

And it appears 110 In The Shade says it is from the play The Rainmaker and not the film version.

Is Carnival based on the film, Lili, or the Gallico short story - or both?

The Full Monty, Dogfight are two favorite shows - and those are clear musical adaptations of films!"

The Full Monty was fun. Loved seeing Patrick Wilson, and Andre DeShields in the Original Cast. But Kathleen Freeman was out the day I saw it. But I can still hear her on the OBCR.   

 

Updated On: 8/10/23 at 11:46 AM

[TarHeelAlan]

Posted: 8/10/23 at 11:56am

The Producers. Loved the original film, and the Broadway production with Lane and Broderick was hands down the best non-stop, laugh-out-loud show I've seen. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 8/10/23 at 9:57pm

Dom P said: "Dom P said: "Nine based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Not the film musical Nine, the musical at the 46th Street (Richard Rodgers with that amazing original cast of Raul Julia, Karen Akers ,Lilliane Montevecchi, and more.

Really superb and transporting in every way.



There's a little bit of Guido, Luisa, Liliane LeFleur, Carla, Saraghina and Claudia in everyone.


"

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100% Nine and Grand Hotel! Wish I saw the original Tune production '89 but I was only 11. Really enjoyed the City Center -Encores production '18! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88IBWwCtoI

[round2]

Posted: 8/11/23 at 9:26am

The Band's Visit, A Little Night Music, and Once (only saw it at the NYTW, though)...

Didn't see, but wish I had: Nine, Waitress, Sweet Charity.

Updated On: 8/11/23 at 09:26 AM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 8/11/23 at 6:51pm

sinister teashop said: "Most movie adaptations on Broadway are short term and not long term investments. And once the fan base of the original movie has been satisfied you're left with a property that has never really been successfully transformed into its own unique Broadway musical. To do that the adapters need to take liberties that would offend literalist fans of the movie.

So, another American short term money making scheme that piles up a bunch of garbage for future generations."

You're describing most Broadway theatre...