Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
#1Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 7:58pm
Yes, I know there have been many threads talking about how just because a movie is good, doesn't mean it will be a good musical, but, hey, you never know what these crazy musical producers are up to these days. Did anyone suspect Shrek the Musical?
So, of the five nominees,
ATONEMENT
JUNO
MICHAEL CLAYTON
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Which do you think would best translate to the musical stage?
I say "Blood."
If you want to bash me, go ahead..
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:07pmI could kind of see Atonement more as a play, but there have been worse ideas for musicals.
#2re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:20pmFor some bizarre reasons I think No Country would make a creepy, but highly interesting musical. Hey, it worked for Sweeney Todd!
#3re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 8:35pmTHERE WILL BE BLOOD, definitely. "I Drink Your Milkshake" could be a fun number.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#5re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 9:56pmThere Will Be Blood would make an excellent play.
#6re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:42pm
If ATONEMENT were to be a musical, I'd cringe at the inevitable number titled: "Come Back to Me."
Having said that--and this is merely from watching the film as I've yet to read the novel--I think it MIGHT make an interesting musical if someone like Adam Guettel or Michael Korie and Scott Frankel were to re-invent it for the stage.
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#7re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:22amI agree with ray, that if Atonement were to be made a musical, it could be great if someone like Adam Guettel wrote the music.
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#8re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 1:25am
I'm with ray and IdinaBell, Atonement would only work as a musical if it was the kind of epic tragic love story it should be. Along the lines of Light in the Piazza in terms of score, almost operatic and soaring music.
It could be beautiful.
#9re: Best Picture Nominees as Musicals?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 2:49amJuno
....but the world goes 'round
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