What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
PReeves2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/20/10
#1What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:24amAre 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?
#2What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 1:25amCarrie proved that this was a bad idea. Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:25 AM
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#2What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#3What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:06amWidow of the South
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#4What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 2:36am
Catch 22.
It would be so hard to follow on stage, yet oh so hilarious.
#5What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:26ama 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
#6What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:39amJason Robert Brown would do the most phenomenal The Green Mile.
#7What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:48amTony by Patrick Dennis. Could be the male Mame.
#8What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:12amThe Giver
"Somethin's comin', I don't know what it is but it is gonna be great!"
#9What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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
#10What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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?"
#11What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:21amI agree with Tuck Everlasting, as long as Adam Guettel does the music and lyrics!
#12What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 11:53amMy Brilliant Career
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#14What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
aja
Swing Joined: 2/4/10
#15What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 6:52pmive 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.
#16What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:54pmChinua 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
#17What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 7:56pmI've always thought "Something Wicked This Way Comes" would stage-adapt well.
#18What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 8:21pm
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies
Ordinary People
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
MusicalLover6
Swing Joined: 12/9/05
#19What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
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
#20What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:49pmThe Great Gatsby.
Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.
#21What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:49pm
Things Fall Apart would be AMAZING.
My suggestion is "Middlesex".
#22What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 9:59pmGimme a creepy Flowers in the Attic play, with incidental music.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#23What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/16/10 at 10:19pm
There is also a charming book entitled "c*nt", subsequently banned in several countries.
It would be marvellous on stage.
#24What BOOK turned MUSICAL would you like to see?
Posted: 4/17/10 at 1:28amThe Alienist, by Caleb Carr
