If I remember correctly, Baz Luhrmann wanted to bring STRICTLY BALLROOM to stage first and then work on MOULIN ROUGE.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Helen Keller the musical! ***to the tune of Maria from Sound of Music*** How do solve a problem like Helen Keller?--- and how do make her stay, when she can't hear all you say? and she can't see to read your lips anyway"
lol...i'm going to hell
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Along the lines of Batman, Zorro could be a great stage character. Live swordplay is very appealing (puts butts in seats), and is much better on stage than it is in movies. Zorro is an excellent, deep character that hasn't yet been fully exploited by the repackagers of Hollywood, Disney or Broadway (Well, OK, Hollywood made a stab a few years ago). And the character is moved by love, chivalry, and righting wrongs, while he inspires lust in his female costars and hate from the sinisters. What great material for a composer and lyricist!
Thenardier I so agree but I heard it just a rock version of some old opera. And you know that they would have to cast the pople from the movie cause there famous now. gaw
ha ha ha love it
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I have written a musical version of Zorro: ZORRO THE FOX. It's pretty damn good if I say so myself.
LEGEND was an excellent suggestion. One of the main reasons one should musicalize a source is to IMPROVE it by the addition of songs. LEGEND is a beautiful, fascinating muddle of a movie, and if it were musicalized it might actually begin to make sense!
PLUS, Darkness MUST be played by Tim Curry, even if the character is a giant puppet ala LION KING and Tim just does a vioce-over.
"In The Good Old Summertime" is the same book as "She Loves Me". It was just announced last week that Dolly Parton is writing a Broadway bound score for "9 to 5" and I just saw "Topper" on the Turner Movie channel and want to see that as a musical. "High Spirits" had no problem portraying ghosts on stage so it shouldn't be a problem.
I was just thinking Practical Magic would make a really good musical.... more leading women as witches!!!
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Here's a few "don't"s that come to mind for the list... but I'll bet someone out there in a remote corner of the universe is trying already...
Schindler's List Armageddon Saving Private Ryan It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The Exorcist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Agnes of God Erin Brokovich Monster
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
"Now I may not have much, but I have more determination than any man you're likely to meet." - Big Fish
"Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes." - Swordfish
I'm not really a huge fan of the movie musical, but I always kind of thought that Where the Heart Is would make a good musical. It's a novel, of course, as well.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
i think the princess bride would make a great musical
i'm not sure about mean girls and clueless though(but i do LOVE those movies)
and i think plesantville could be good, but i'm not sure how they'd do it(the whole changing to color thing and the getting in to the tv) though it probably could be done)