What disney film would make a good musical
What disney film would make a good musical
Broadwaydancer2
Chorus Member Joined: 1/14/17
#1What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/26/17 at 3:20am
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/26/17 at 4:32am
If you search on DISNEY, you'll get gads of similar threads. Especially if you limit your search to subject only.
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#3What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/26/17 at 1:06pm
The one where you keep coming back under different user names asking the same old stupid questions.
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ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#4What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/26/17 at 3:19pm
If done right, Beauty and the Beast could run a while. Newsies might succeed - but I don't see it running too long. And, I know this sounds, crazy, but I really think there cold a stage version of The Lion King if put in the hands of a creative and imaginative director.
#5What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/26/17 at 4:04pm
Hercules. It'll never happen, but I DREAM of Hercules. That score is so damn great.
#6What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/27/17 at 1:39am
Hercules is kind of a mess, but I love it. With a little retooling I would love to see it onstage!
#7What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/27/17 at 1:59am
The Parent Trap would be a lot of fun. Comical duets, funny throw-back 60s-style music, lots of vibrant locations and farce. Freaky Friday, as well.
Slightly more off-beat, but a small, funky (chamber?) musical of The Black Hole would be weird and good in the right hands. If you treated it with operatic sincerity it might even become transcendent.
Also, obviously, Hocus Pocus.
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#8What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/27/17 at 9:43am
Hercules is AWESOME, whatcha all talking about??! Menken has said more than once when asked about which of his own Disney works he'd like to see staged next, that it would be Hercules and/or Enchanted. Hercules as a film is pretty well sctructured and flows well, and with some retooling it totally can work! And come on...THE MUSES! We all know for fact that they will be the raise-the-roof-off-the theater crowd pleasers!! Zero to Hero is absolutely the act break and every actor is gonna want to be a muse, whether they're right for it or not!
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#9What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/27/17 at 5:00pm
Pollyanna
Swiss Family Robinson
The Moon-Spiners
#10What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/28/17 at 3:49am
Hercules is next and i would be shocked if it isn't a hit amongst audiences and critics, that score is fantastic
#11What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/28/17 at 4:20am
i'm also of the opinion that, though i love it, the movie Hercules is a hodgepodge mess. They kind of just threw everything they could think of in there.
The songs are terrific though and I would love to hear new songs for the characters and a kickass villain song for Hades. I hope it happens.
Enchanted would be a lot harder to do. I can't think of how they would convey what they did so perfectly with the movie's transitions between animated and live-action sequences.
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yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#12What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/28/17 at 9:32am
Actually, I wish they would stop now.
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#13What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/28/17 at 9:26pm
gypsy101 said: "i'm also of the opinion that, though i love it, the movie Hercules is a hodgepodge mess. They kind of just threw everything they could think of in there.
The songs are terrific though and I would love to hear new songs for the characters and a kickass villain song for Hades. I hope it happens.
Enchanted would be a lot harder to do. I can't think of how they would convey what they did so perfectly with the movie's transitions between animated and live-action sequences.
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Oh I agree with Enchanted, I was just quoting Menken, but what is it about Hercules that people think it's a bit messy?? Sure it's a wacky, zany, Disney take on Greek mythology, but there's hardly a Disney film where you find a more relatable protagonist that you know exactly what he wants, with a pretty classic and memorable villain. Characters are pretty well fleshed out, and certainly flows well with a better sctructure than almost all the recent Revival era films. It's all cohesive. And I feel there's anything I'm a stickler for, it's cohesiveness. Menken sought to write a motown and gospel type piece when they decided to turn this into a comedic, way less traditional versions of Greek mythology. And he did and it all mixes and flows in and out well. That's why I adore that man so much. Once he knows what the vision and direction of the whole thing is, he picks a musical style that would fit it and keeps to it unless he absolutely has to write outside of it for a very specific reason. Hunchback is an even better example of this.
The whole piece must work as a cohesive unit and Disney lost that lately.
#14What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/28/17 at 9:36pm
Lindsay Ellis' video on Hercules is a perfect explanation of what is wrong with the film. Hercules' goal is not synonymous with what he achieves (or at least what he's working towards). It's tonally all over the place as well. I like the movie and have since I was a child but it's not perfect (i think many recent Disney movies are better, Tangled and even Frozen among them).
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JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#15What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/30/17 at 12:17pm
gypsy101 said: "Lindsay Ellis' video on Hercules is a perfect explanation of what is wrong with the film. Hercules' goal is not synonymous with what he achieves (or at least what he's working towards). It's tonally all over the place as well. I like the movie and have since I was a child but it's not perfect (i think many recent Disney movies are better, Tangled and even Frozen among them).
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That was quite informative actually. I totally get the tone problem. However, who I totally get the goal and and achievement aren't synonymous, I always viewed as he has to learn his goal is just the wrong one and he's going about it the wrong way. The "you learn something is more important than the goal you initially had" deal, but I totally see the problem now! I still enjoy the hell out of it, I adore Herc, he's just so loveable and Meg is my gurl through and through.
#16What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/31/17 at 9:08am
What about a live musical production of BABES IN TOYLAND with Neil Patrick Harris as Barnaby and Alan Tudyk as the Toymaker?
Updated On: 1/31/17 at 09:08 AM
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#17What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/31/17 at 12:50pm
BEDNOBS & BROOMSTICKS. Incorporated the animation via LED screens.
#18What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/31/17 at 1:30pm
I think Into The Woods could make a pretty decent stage musical.
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#19What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 1/31/17 at 6:43pm
I agree with "Hercules" wholeheartedly. I think Kyle Dean Massey and Caroline Bowman would be great as Hercules and Megara with Norbert Leo Butz as Hades.
But I also think, with a few minor changes to the story, that "Sleeping Beauty" could work as a stage musical. I just have a vision in my head of Taylor Louderman as Aurora, Derek Klena as Prince Phillip and Rachel York as Maleficent. And I can totally see some very imaginative puppetry for the Dragon.
#20What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 2/1/17 at 1:11am
This thread expresses why most of you are not actually in show business.
whatacharacter
Leading Actor Joined: 8/19/05
#21What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 2/1/17 at 3:17pm
i would love to see Polly on stage... Debbie Allen could Choreograph again... Alan Menken contributed a song to it, so he could flesh out the score a bit.
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#22What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 2/1/17 at 4:15pm
Also I would love "Hocus Pocus" onstage as well. Although my dream casting for the Sanderson Sisters would probably never happen. So here's my realistic casting
Winnifred - Donna Murphy
Mary - Kathy Fitzgerald
Sarah - Emily Padgett
davidbrian81
Chorus Member Joined: 8/29/13
#23What disney film would make a good musical
Posted: 2/1/17 at 5:23pm
Mr. Boogedy, and Bride of Boogedy. Please someone make it happen. :) Combined could be a pretty cool musical.
