gregory maguire

[broadwaynut20]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 7:59pm

I was just in a bookstore looking at his other books Mirror Mirror and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. Would these make good musicals like Wicked? Would a lot have to be changed for the stage?

[Madame X2]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 8:21pm

I think so. Look how much they had to change for "Wicked" to become a stage show. His books are very deep and his themes are hard for musicals to convey the way they're written. So yeah, they probably would. I'd like to see his books (including Wicked) turned into plays that are true to his writing (though they probably wouldn't be musicals).

[little_sally]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 8:28pm

agreed Madame X

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 8:48pm

They would make wonderful msuicals.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 9:44pm

Mirror Mirror would make a great show, but only in the right hands. i think theater wise the vivian beumont would be the best and it needs a very engaging set and very charming and dark music. i think mirror mirror would only make a good musical with an allstar creative team and cast. because the book doesnt scream musical it needs some people who can find the 'musical' vein in it and extract from it. for instance there would be no 'defying gravity-esque' number. i hope. i mean the only reason theyd put on in is because that its a garunteed show stopper. ok, ill stop babbling...

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 9:44pm

I think could make really good movies out of his books. I know Wicked was supposed to be a movie before Stephen Schwartz wrote the musical. I think if they got someone like Natalie Portman as Elphaba it would be really good.

I loved the book and was so upset when almost all of the deeper themes of the book were cut out of the show.

[TGIF]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 10:05pm

"Confessions..." was my favorite, but I don't see it being turned into a musical.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 4/16/05 at 10:07pm

They took out so much for the musical! When I read the book, then saw the show, I would have never thought it was even the same story. I almost thought it was two completely different things with some of the same characters.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 12:08am

lives right down the road from me.

[WillParker]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 4:44am

i think the books, particularly Mirror Mirror, would make better operas than musicals, being that the themes are so dark, the characters so much larger than life & the themes on such a grand scale....or maybe if not an opera, a "chamber musical" along the lines of "Passion," perhaps.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 10:57am

I agree with you WillParker Mirror Mirror would be presented as an opera. And I cant comment about Confessions of and Ugly Stepsister cause I still have to read it. Oh Gregory Maguires sequal to Wicked Son of a Witch Is coming out sept 27 i cant wait!

[me101]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 11:05am

Did anyone ever see that TV movie they made of "Confessions.."?

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 11:06am

They made a TV movie of it!!!!???

[me101]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 11:08am

Yup, and it starred Stockard Channing. I think it was one of those Wonderful World of Disney specials

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 11:09am

I just started reading Mirror Mirror a few days ago and it seems like good material but on;y if the right people discover it's potential.