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movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#50re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/6/08 at 11:55pmIt's A Wonderful Life" has at least two musical versions that are available for productions and neither work. It just does not translate to the stage.
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FIERCEY516
Featured Actor Joined: 3/25/08
#51re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/6/08 at 11:59pmThe Count of Monte Cristo and It's A Wonderful Life are both musicals already.
#52re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 12:35amAn American in Paris was adapted by Ken Ludwig, and is premiering with Harry Groener, Erin Dilly, Jeffry Denman, and others in Houston.
#53re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 12:46amHow about Pulp Fiction? Haha! I'm halfway kidding. I only thought about it because of the Uma Thurman and John Travolta dance at the bar. And it was the theme for my college's marching band show last season too. Other than that, it would probably not work at all. Plus, I really don't know how they would use the theme song, which is totally important to the movie.
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TOTCSF1
Chorus Member Joined: 3/29/08
#54re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:59am
Who is doing "Count of Monte Cristo"...? I didn't know they had it up already. It's a Wonderful Life was just a shot, din't know they had it, too. I've yet to hear of it.
I suppose, though, that if the right script and music was undertaken by someone very inspired and talented to do it, it might just work...maybe.
Is American in Paris any good for Broadway?
#55re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:07am
Requiem for a Dream with a LaChiusa score
Ferris Bueller's Day Off with a David Yazbek score
Enchanted is in the work right?
#56re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:35amRosemary's Baby... With the great 11th hour song "His Father's Eyes!"
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#57re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:37am
I don't believe anyone is working on recreating Enchanted for the stage. I think so many people have mentioned wanting to see it on stage in various threads throughout the board that posters start to think that they "seem to remember hearing something about Enchanted being brought to Broadway". But, in actuality, it was just wishful thinking on the board.
And Casablanca as a musical? That one I really can't see. For starters I don't know if anyone but Bogart could play Rick. And so much of the greatness of the film is the way it's shot. I just don't think it'll transfer well.
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Updated On: 4/7/08 at 02:37 AM
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#59re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 3:03amI think The Sorrow and the Pity would make a swell musical.
#60re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 3:14am
"Dogville". in the style of "legally Blonde".
#61re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 3:34am
Heavyweights
Airplane!
Revenge of the Nerds
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
School of Rock
Peker (I eman c'mon-there would have to be a number about tea bagging and a song called "Pubic Hair Causes Crime!"
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commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#62re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 3:35am
btw...has anyone actually seen "Blood Drips Heavily on Newsies Square"? I've seen screen caps but never the "film".
"Blood Drips..." is hysterical. It's so random and silly.
I think most of what I've thought of has been said, but I'm surprised no one has said Moulin Rouge yet. That's usually one of the first ones to get thrown out there in these discussions. The licensing would probably be an absolute nightmare, though.
Updated On: 4/7/08 at 03:35 AM
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#64re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 7:58am
First of all
We’ve had this thread before
but going on
In the previous thread I mentioned Pleasantville and I still think it’s a brilliant idea for a musical. I’d also really like to see a musical version of An Affair To Remember, possibly with a Guettel score, I think he has the right combination of classic romanticism combined with a modern sound to really make the show work. The role of the Aunt would be great for Angela Lansbury. As far as The Princess Bride goes if I remember correctly I don’t think they could get the rights or they could only get the rights if William Goldman co-wrote it with Guettel or something like that. Anyway an agreement couldn’t be reached and the project got shelved.
AStack752
Chorus Member Joined: 5/15/07
#66re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:01am
Too Many Crooks (the 1959 film which inspired Ruthless People)
Heart and Souls
Clueless
Newsies
Send Me No Flowers
Love Me or Leave Me
Imitation of Life
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FIERCEY516
Featured Actor Joined: 3/25/08
#67re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:43am
TOT, a few guys sent me a script and demo recording of their "Monte Cristo" musical last year.
According to them, there was a reading of it at a local arts center in California somewhere.
It reminded me of some old baroque piece with gothic chants. Just all very very weird. And they spoke in "old York" language... it just came off as a drunk Shakespeare writing the script.
fairygodmother
Featured Actor Joined: 4/30/06
#68re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:48pm
first of all;
"Connie and Carla
Waiting for Guffman
August Rush
Superstar "
you are a genius. i love those movies, and Connie and Carla would be onderful, although maybe a bit too like priscilla. waiting for guffman would be lovely.
for me;
yes to newsies, mean girls and/or clueless, princess bride suggestions.
as for me, i always thought mel brooks next one after producers should have been Robin Hood- Men in Tights. already some great songs, and it already feels like a lovely musical right there.
still waiting for a great 'its a wonderful life' musical
life of brian - i know, i know, its spamalot 2, but there is so much potential to be a great JCS parody
what do we think about little miss sunshine? a kind of anti-annie/ruthless.
wouldn't it be just beyond fabulous if you could have a kind of his dark materials/julie taymor- esque Labyrinth? i lurve this movie!!!!
#69re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:08pm
Everytime this comes up I always recall this great made for tv movie that I fell totally in love with ~~
It was version of Pollyanna called POLLY
it starred Keisha Knight Pullam and Phylicia Rashad. It was so great! I loved that Movie. It was really well done too.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#70re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:14pmI remember Polly and the sequel Polly Comes Home
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#71re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:25pm
RESERVOIR DOGS
complete with Mr. Blonde's show-stopping number: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
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philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#72re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:29pm
I had always dreamed of a musical version of THE GLASS MENAGERIE to be called MENAGERIE!
Ethel Merman as a Amanda, Carol Channing as Laura, Robert Preston as Tom, Alfred Drake as the Gentleman Caller.
During the Act Two Dream Ballet, twenty girls in leg braces would come out singing "Clump Your Troubles Away."
Oh, what I just posted is SOOOOOOOO wrong.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#73re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:30pm
Far From Heaven. This could be done campy in the vein of Did Mommie Die, or it could be done straight focusing on the drama. Someone could write some great ballads for this show. I'm thinking something like Grey gardens, with less laughs.
#74re: movies you'd LIKE to see musical-ized?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 2:51pmI've always wanted to see Drop Dead Gorgeous.
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