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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?

PReeves2

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#1
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:24am

Are there any books that would make sense to turn into a musical for you? Harry Poter, The Lovely Bones, etc. It currently seems to be a trend that good books become a movie first then maybe a musical. why not a book into a musical?

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#2
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:25am

Carrie proved that this was a bad idea.

Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:25 AM

musicaltheater1

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#2
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:47am

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
Lanford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain
Robert James Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County

And, as long as it has beautiful music.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:47 AM

B3TA07
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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#3
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:06am

Widow of the South

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

chewy5000
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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#4
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:36am

Catch 22.

It would be so hard to follow on stage, yet oh so hilarious.

IMHO I see Queenie as being more of a brunette...

Bwaynerd

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#5
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:26am

a castle in the attic

"(in a sweedish accent) Oh! What a lovely T-shirt you are wearing!"- Catherine Zeta-Jones refering to my ALNM shirt at the CD signing. Say NO to drugs and YES to Jackie Hoffman Live At Joes Pub! "ITS THE DAY OF THE SHOW YA'LL!!"-Bwaynerd

darquegk

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#6
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:39am

Jason Robert Brown would do the most phenomenal The Green Mile.

newintown

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#7
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:48am

Tony by Patrick Dennis. Could be the male Mame.

mywonderwa11

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#8
Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:12am

The Giver

"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"

defyingravity11

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#9
Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:36am

^ I was just thinking of The Giver!

"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott

mybigsplash

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#10
Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:46am

Tuck Everlasting
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?" Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"

BroadwayBound115

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#11
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:21am

I agree with Tuck Everlasting, as long as Adam Guettel does the music and lyrics!

Mister Matt

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#12
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:48am

Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice

It's called First Impressions. Lovely overture.

Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
Misery - Stephen King (based on the novel, not the screenplay, incorporating the scenes from the Misery novel Paul is writing)
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#13
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:53am

My Brilliant Career

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

musicaltheater1

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#14
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:58am

Thomson and Mann are already working on a musical for Tuck Everlasting.

http://www.thomsonandmann.com/projects.htm

The link to the project is towards the bottom of the page and includes 5 demo songs. "All The Time In The World" was recorded by Jonathan Groff & Phoebe Strole.

OT: Does anybody here have any idea why "The Baker's Wife" hasn't been staged on Broadway?

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 11:58 AM

aja
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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#15
Posted: 4/16/10 at 6:52pm

ive always thought that 'Confederacy of Dunces' would make a great English opera. To me, its central character sees himself on such an unrealistically grand scale that only an opera would suffice. I think it could have the same type of comic potential as Jerry Springer: The Opera, which could really be regarded as a piece of opera OR musical theatre come to think of it. But def. agree with some sort of stage adaptation of C.O.D.

James885
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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#16
Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:54pm

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#17
Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:56pm

I've always thought "Something Wicked This Way Comes" would stage-adapt well.

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#18
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:21pm

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies

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MusicalLover6

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#19
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:44pm

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Emma - Jane Austen
(and for some weird reason, do not ask)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

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What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?#20
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:49pm

The Great Gatsby.

Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.