potential "movies into musicals"

I was thinking of a few movies that would maybe good B'way musicals... I dont know...maybe someone else had these ideas...some of them might have even tried to be musicals at one point: (all ideas copywrited)
Boys Town, Bells of St Mary
Bowery Boys/Dead End KIds
Sabrina (aka Sabrina Fair)
Here Comes Mr Jordan (boomers know it as "Heaven Can Wait" & kids know it as the Chris Rock movie "Down to Earth"
Marty
Scarface
Batman (only because the flying effects for "Superman" would have to be unbelievable)
Six Degrees of Separation
Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhand
Married To The Mob
The Princess Bride
Ghostbusters

A Few of My Candidates:

Happy, Texas
Ruthless People
Who Am I This Time?
A Midwinters Tale
The Purple Rose of Cairo

Um... Psycho Beach Party was a play first.

Another movie that was actualy a play first, but would make a great musical, is DEAD END - the show that introduced the "Dead End Kids" - AKA The Bowery Boys.

The Manchurian Candidate ("Do not retch-up, Pass the ketchup...")

Brian's Song ("We've all heard the rumor, You've got a tumor, Say it ain't so Bri', Please do not go die")

Andy Warhol's Empire ("...")

The Piano ("I really envy excellent singers, I can't play piano without my fingers")

Schindler's List ("The Holocaust was sad and gory, But let's call this A Goy's Own Story")

Memento ("Let's start at the very weird ending, A very weird place to start...")

Citizen Kane ("Susan Alexander's voice inflicted pain, and then she up and married Charles Foster Kane...")

Taxi Driver ("Love was fickle for Travis Bickle and a teenage hooker named Iris... When Travis was bad he was very very bad and it escalated into crisis...")

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre

There is at least one incarnation of Sleepy Hollow out there. Last I knew two different producers were looking at it. I haven't checked up on it in a while though. I think it was Bri69 who loved it? I could be wrong though... I haven't seen him around for a while either. Maybe he just came to the board to talk about it. Of course, I have no room to talk. https://www.sleepyhollowthemusical.com/https://www.sleepyhollowthemusical.com/>https://www.sleepyhollowthemusical.com/ I wish I had more time to actively search out fledling musicals and see them. There is something about finding a show before it hits it big and following it. I know it happens for very few musicals, but it adds variety, I can only stand to see a show so many times, especially when I know how many musicals therwe really are out there.

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Updated On: 5/14/04 at 07:51 PM

Isn't Charles Strouse working on Marty with Richard Kind? Or was it Jason Alexander? There were also rumors of Batman floating around for a while.

Heart and Souls
Too Many Crooks (the original version of Ruthless People)
A Room With a View

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I'm pretty sure Marty by Charles Strouse premiered in Boston last year with John C. Reilly. It was supposed to come to Broadway this season, but I haven't heard anything in a long time. Anyone else?

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THE MAN I LOVE would be a cool play. As for a musical... I dunno about that.

"The Bigger the Better"

with
Patrick Wilson and Hugh Jackman

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THE LAST DRAGON!!!!

feel the beat of the rythym of the night.....!

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