ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...

yes

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I still think Jurassic Park should be turned into one. What could be better than singing and dancing dinosaurs wrecking havoc?

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Boogie Nights: the musical!



...I'm semiserious, I think in the right hands it would be good

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Still waiting for That Thing You Do to be turned into a musical.

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There's nothing wrong with wanting to make a movie into a musical. If musicals that are adapted from novels and plays and short stories and other people's lives can be called "original," than what right do we have to say that making a movie into a musical is a bad idea?

The problem isn't with the idea, it's with the making: Movie-Musicals have such bad reputations because they're lazy. And it's so easy to be lazy when you have a movie script you can throw on stage without changing too much, a film that you can slavishly recreate the look from, and so much more.

And why should a movie have to appeal equally to everyone in order to be made into a musical? What does that have to do with anything? That's the kind of thinking that leads to adaptations of LEGALLY BLONDE, and why should that thinking be followed when Elmer Rice's play, THE ADDING MACHINE (a play that would NEVER EVER appeal to everyone), can be turned into such a incredible, artistically worthy musical?

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Updated On: 5/28/09 at 10:32 PM

I'm waiting for Stephanie J. Block to do Grace Hart in Miss Congeniality the Musical

dblpst

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Updated On: 5/28/09 at 11:34 PM

Why do you call it "nonsense"? Would movie audiences object if producers kept taking successful original Bdwy musicals OR plays and turning them into motion pictures? Musicals can start life in many different ways. Motions pictures are one legitimate source of inspiration. I can think of original Bdwy musicals on the boards right now that I would not recommend. And I am not talking about Next To Normal, which I love.

Even in the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop they are taught that your best options when creating a new musical is to do an adapatation: novel, short story, play, or movie. They don't completely discourage completely original work, but it is definitely not where the focus is.

I know there have been approaches to John Hughes about Ferris Bueller- they met with a brick wall. Shame, it seems like a promising idea.

It's worth trying to count how many great musicals are not based on other source material. Even A Chorus Line was based on the stories told by dancers