What would make a good musical?
What would make a good musical?
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#0What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 7:02pmThey've been written about everything from trains to hippies. What story/current issue/lifestyle/circumstance do you think would translate well to the broadway stage?
#1re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 7:07pm
Hunchback of Notre Dame- take Schwartz's music and make it a full scale musical
Murder on the Orient Express
Rumplestiltskin
What About Bob- I am currently writing the musical....
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#2re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 7:10pmBridget Jones.
Real men are tenors.
Bal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#3re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 7:29pmThe Nightmare Before Christmas.
"Well, obviously Company is about the Kennedy family. Bobby is played by Raul, and JFK is played by Harvey Fierstein."
-vfd88
#4re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:15pmgherbert and I have discussed this. We both believe that "Sabrina fair" which is the inspiration for the classic film "Sabrina" would be a great musical. I think Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick should do it. Preferably in a style like She Loves Me, just not as long.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:18pm
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (starring Carol Channing and Angela Lansbury---with Eric McCormack as Mortimer)
LADY FOR A DAY
FOOD 911...wait a minute....I'm confused.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#6re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:25pmthe life of aretha franklin. i'm working on the libretto right now. =)
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
Mr. Tuttle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#7re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:25pm
Blood Brothers.
Waiting for a good musical to come out of that.
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever.
Watch out BWW...
HE'S BACK.
#8re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:26pmThe Surreal Life.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#9re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:30pm
I am my own wife.
lol
Updated On: 10/19/04 at 08:30 PM
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#10re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:35pm
Anastasia
MAYBE Pleasantville
It's been said before but..ugh cant remember the title...Zellweger and McGregor?
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 10/21/04 at 08:35 PM
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#11re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:21pm
A co-worker and I were talking about this very thing today:
The movie Heathers.
Would that not be genius? With the big Act I-ending showstopper, "I love my dead gay son"?
#12re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:21pmI think the time is right for an anorexia/bulemia musical. Don't know why I think this, but I do.
HROK?
#13re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:24pmA musical version of "In & Out"
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#14re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:26pmHarry Potter and the never ending musical
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#15re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:52pm
Wickedfan:
I think that is a great idea: In & Out the musical - especially if they changed it to the tonys and things i like that - that would make a good musical.
I am currently writing a musical now (not In & Out)
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#16re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 1:36amI always thought a loose adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing would sing nicely.
Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
#17re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 8:03am"Holiday Inn".... I love that movie!!!
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 9:37am
With all the crazy high-tech, defying gravity stuff that's going on I'm surprised the evil empire (Disney) hasn't staged The Little Mermaid yet.
#19re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:05am
Prince of Egypt
Anastasia
Big Business (lol - my friends are currently working on the musical of it)
If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?
#20re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 10:44am
I second Anastasia...that movie is one of my guiltiest pleasures!
Ok so not as a musical but I always wanted to see a staged production of The Odyssey. It would be really difficult if done well I think it would be phenomenal. I just adore the story.
#21re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 12:27pm
Disney's Hunchback was staged in Germany already. I saw it in Berling in 1999.
Home Sweet Homer was a musical version of The Odyssey that ran for one performance on Broadway starring Yul Brynner and Joan Diener.
I think the movie Heart and Souls would make an excellent musical as well as Ruthless People (or possibly from the original film version from the 50s entitled Too Many Crooks). And the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond has definite possibilities.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
StraightToHeaven
Featured Actor Joined: 10/19/03
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#23re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 5:49pm
Nightmare Before Christmas and Moulin Rouge.
Prince of Egypt would also be a good one.
Spiderman and Batman... oh, wait, those would make terrible musicals... what? these are in the works? ugh
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#24re: What would make a good musical?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 5:58pm
SCHOOL OF ROCK!!!
*waits to be yelled at*
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
