henrikegerman, in regards to your "Lady Eve" suggestion would you want them to use the songs from "Birds & The Bees" or would you want a completely new score?
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I think Four Weddings and a Funeral would make a great musical, although I'm not sure who I'd want to write it. On a related note, I watched The Hours again last night and thought it could make a great play if given a Brechtian treatment, perhaps with one actress playing all three of the main women.
Down with Love. One of my teacher friends turned me onto the film last year and said "This is our ticket out of public education." Not that we'd ever get the rights for a stage adaptation. The story already has clear beats where songs would fit. Plus, the story isn't that far removed from the kind of silly romances that made for good musical comedies for a long time onstage.
Eris I don't know - is the score any good? From the wikipedia article on the movie, it sounds like there were only town songs in The Birds and The Bees?
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If a La La Land musical ever happens Laura Dreyfuss and Joshua Henry would be my dream Mia and Seb.
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I don't think any film "should be" a stage musical (I've never once thought this), but I do think some films should have been a (film) musical. The live-action Cinderella, for one. And The Warriors.
Someone on another thread mentioned a Great Gatsby musical written by Dave Malloy, who actually started as a jazz pianist. I still think that's the most brilliant idea ever. (Even though someone asked him about it on twitter and he apparently...already sorta did? https://twitter.com/dave_malloy/status/880823083036286976)
Otherwise, I think Black Swan could obviously translate very well into a stage show, even though I'm not a particular fan of the movie myself. Maybe also The Grand Budapest Hotel (though it'd need some rebranding as not to be confused with Grand Hotel). Shakespeare in Love could also be cool, but it might have to fight off a lot of Something Rotten! vibes.
metropolis10111 said: "Romney and Michele's High School Reunion
Hocus Pocus
Shakespeare In Love
The Sting
Now Voyager "
The Sting is having its world premiere at Paper Mill next spring (written by Mark Hollmann/Greg Kotis) and Romy and Michelle just closed at the 5th Avenue Theatre.