Your opinion on Movies Turned Musicals...

[philly03]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 9:45pm

Sunset Boulevard is one of my favourite musicals of all time, and I really enjoyed the movie and saw it before actually listening to it. I don't usually mind it happening, but I have yet to see Legally Blonde in Entirety and I'm guessing that's what this somewhat refers to.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 9:48pm

As long as it' s done right, I have no problem. But what do I know, I'm a fan of The Wedding Singer.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 9:57pm

I don't care what the source material is as long as the show created from it is good.

[Tkt2Ride]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:18pm

I think some Movies were always Musicals in disguise so those were meant to be on a Stage. Others, maybe because of the place they hold in our Culture or History, serve as good backdrops for any type of medium.

Others are like strangling a cat that just won't die. Not every story is good enough or safe enough to be told well on a Stage. Some people really can do just about anything, anywhere but not everything will translate well enough to entice enough people to pay more than $10 bucks to see it. It has to appeal to enough people to recoup their initial production fees.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:50pm

Some movies translate into musicals very well because they're full of moments that lend themselves to song (Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). Without such moments, the results usually feel forced (Saturday Night Fever).

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 11:02pm

I don't mind really. It just seems constant that a musical is being made from a movie and then if it's a movie you like you worry about it becoming a stage show. Then you have to read or hear people bashing about it before and after it comes to the stage. It's getting old, making movies into musicals, but it wont stop anytime soon.

[tazber]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 2:28am

I agree with Wiz that the source material doesn't matter as long as the show is well written.
I would like to see more ambitious choices however instead of so many rom-coms and Disney flicks.

[FinalDestination]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 2:47am

My opinion on movies made into musicals is this:

If they are done right and it's a decent movie, that can be SEEN without hearing the music beforehand as a musical, it'll work.

If it's a movie like freakin When a Stranger Calls or something, then no. Cause honestly, I can't picture that being a musical. An hour and a half-two hour musical on some creepy guy calling this chick? Nooo thank you, Broadway!

[westcoast_wannabe]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 9:25am

Some of the best and most original musicals ever written were adapted from movies, but in recent years the adaptations have simply become stage versions of a movie. Shows like Nine (based on Federico Fellini’s 81/2), A Little Night Music (based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night), and Sweet Charity (based on Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria) are completely original shows written specifically for the theater. The stories are based on the films but they have completely original books and scores writen specifically for that show. Whereas shows like Legally Blonde, The Producers, and Footloose almost follow their movie conterparts, if not word for word then at least scene for scene, differentiating themselves only where a song has been pluged in. I doubt movie addaptaions are going anywhere anytime soon I just think the addaptations need to be more original.


Sorry this was more of a rant than a quote, but I hope it's useful

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 9:29am

ever since the 40s prob earlier movies have been put on stage and turned in to musicals

Yes for every Legally Blonde, Sunset Blvd, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels there is a Saturday Night Fever etc but thats musicals for you

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 9:31am

I'm a big fan of the fun, energetic musicals that have you leaving the theatre feeling happy and it seems to me that screen to stage adaptations go well with that (ex: The Wedding Singer and Legally Blonde).

*Not that I don't enjoy a heavy musical as well. Two of my favorites are SA and RENT.

[sondhead]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 10:58am

"I don't care what the source material is as long as the show created from it is good."

Yup. We often forget that "A Little Night Music," "Little Shop of Horrors," and "Sweet Charity" are all based on movies too. It's not the source, it's the quality of the adaptation.