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movies you wish they would make into musicals
moonstruck1225
Swing Joined: 7/13/05
#75re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 1:17pmMoulin Rouge!!! Except it would probably be hard to get an audience for it and to make the elephant. And would it be as good as the movie?
#76re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 1:22pmIf I remember correctly, Baz Luhrmann wanted to bring STRICTLY BALLROOM to stage first and then work on MOULIN ROUGE.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
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#77re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 1:34pm
Helen Keller the musical! ***to the tune of Maria from Sound of Music***
How do solve a problem like Helen Keller?---
and how do make her stay, when she can't hear all you say? and she can't see to read your lips anyway"
lol...i'm going to hell
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#78re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 1:37pmAnd I'll be driving the bus.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#79re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 1:37pmLol i still want Myra Beckinridge the musical..... lol i'd love to see the little old ladies sit through that one!
#80re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 3:06pm
I would pay to see X-Men as a musical. With Hugh as Wolverine. I can't even imagine how funny that would be.
jera
"It's not a problem, it's just a challenge, it's a challenge, to resist temptation."
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#81re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 3:53pmWe were just talking about this the other day - I think "9 to 5" would make a great musical - very juicy women parts, etc., etc.
"Not a day goes by..."
#82re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 4:07pm
Along the lines of Batman, Zorro could be a great stage character. Live swordplay is very appealing (puts butts in seats), and is much better on stage than it is in movies. Zorro is an excellent, deep character that hasn't yet been fully exploited by the repackagers of Hollywood, Disney or Broadway (Well, OK, Hollywood made a stab a few years ago). And the character is moved by love, chivalry, and righting wrongs, while he inspires lust in his female costars and hate from the sinisters. What great material for a composer and lyricist!
#83re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 7/14/05 at 4:09pmI hope they put that movie Rent on the stage!
#84re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 4:22am
Thenardier I so agree but I heard it just a rock version of some old opera. And you know that they would have to cast the pople from the movie cause there famous now. gaw
ha ha ha
love it
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#85re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 4:38am
Jurassic Park.
American Psycho.
IT.
sharon1
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/03
#87re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 11:53am
I have written a musical version of Zorro: ZORRO THE FOX. It's pretty damn good if I say so myself.
LEGEND was an excellent suggestion. One of the main reasons one should musicalize a source is to IMPROVE it by the addition of songs. LEGEND is a beautiful, fascinating muddle of a movie, and if it were musicalized it might actually begin to make sense!
PLUS, Darkness MUST be played by Tim Curry, even if the character is a giant puppet ala LION KING and Tim just does a vioce-over.
#88re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 1:01pm
SCOTLAND, PA!
One of my favorite movies of all time.
#89re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:05pmTOOTSIE could make a very funny show especially since LARRY GELBART could easily rework his original scrip for the stage.
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#90re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:27pm"In The Good Old Summertime" is the same book as "She Loves Me". It was just announced last week that Dolly Parton is writing a Broadway bound score for "9 to 5" and I just saw "Topper" on the Turner Movie channel and want to see that as a musical. "High Spirits" had no problem portraying ghosts on stage so it shouldn't be a problem.
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#91re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:30pmI don't know why but I think Heathers would be a very interesting musical.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#92re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 4:14pm
I was just thinking Practical Magic would make a really good musical....
more leading women as witches!!!
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#93re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/5/05 at 5:38pm
Here's a few "don't"s that come to mind for the list... but I'll bet someone out there in a remote corner of the universe is trying already...
Schindler's List
Armageddon
Saving Private Ryan
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Exorcist
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Agnes of God
Erin Brokovich
Monster
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#94re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:06pmEarth Girls are Easy
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#95re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 8:02pm
Mulan, definately...
Or how about Drop Dead Gorgeous
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"Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes." - Swordfish
"Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes." - Swordfish
LightMyCandle
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/04
#96re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 8:48pm
Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe is my hero.
ETA: Nancy Wilson (Heart) his lovely wife could write the music with him. *Sigh* I love it.
i'm a tough act to follow because when i'm done i take the microphone with me.
Updated On: 9/13/05 at 08:48 PM
#97re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 9:26pm*off topic* LightMyCandle, is that Clay Aiken in your avatar?
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#98re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 9:38pmI'm not really a huge fan of the movie musical, but I always kind of thought that Where the Heart Is would make a good musical. It's a novel, of course, as well.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
LorelaiGilmore
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/05
#99re: movies you wish they would make into musicals
Posted: 9/13/05 at 9:48pm
i think the princess bride would make a great musical
i'm not sure about mean girls and clueless though(but i do LOVE those movies)
and i think plesantville could be good, but i'm not sure how they'd do it(the whole changing to color thing and the getting in to the tv) though it probably could be done)
oy with the poodles already!
