Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Books you feel could be made into a musical...
#2re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/10/08 at 11:58pmI can't say I've read any lately... I know one BWW user is toying with the idea of a Tuck Everlasting musical.
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#2re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:06am
I dream of seeing 'Trainspotting' turned into a musical someday.
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#3re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:13am
Trainspotting could be weirdly good
Tuck Everlasting?! YAY! Wonderful idea!
There is this book called 1916 by Morgan Llwelyn and I think, if done properly, it could be really good.
Let's have us another Little Women musical.
My friend said Memoirs of Geisha may be good...I could see that although I would never have thought so originally myself.
How about Out of Africa?
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#4re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:26amSister Carrie, it would be great!
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
#5re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:28amI think that The Giver could be interesting
#6re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:36amI'm not 100% sure if this could work as a musical but I've felt for years that MM Kaye's Ordinary Princess could be adapted for stage or screen. There is no real "bad guy" but I've always found it to be a beautiful novel.
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#7re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:38am
My Sister's Keeper could be made into a good chamber musical, with a minimalist set and lots of power ballads.
Seems like everyone's doing that lately though..
#8re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:38am
There's a novel called "The Ballad of Typhoid Mary" by J.F. Federspeigel that I "worked" on for a while, but what I was coming up with was "Sweeney Todd" in drag.
But, it's a beautiful, sad, sweet story.
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#9re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:55amSomething like this has been said before, but Anastacia (sp?) needs to be made into a STAGE musical!
#10re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 1:00am
This sounds strange but I could see "The Virgin Suicides" being a musical, along with "The Catcher in the Rye".
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
Updated On: 2/11/08 at 01:00 AM
#11re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 1:02am
There's this really long Victor Hugo novel, it's about some dude named John and like, some French Revolution.
I don't think they could make it into a musical though, at least not a good one.
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#12re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 1:04amI wanted to write a Memoirs of a Geisha musical. Unfortunately, I only ever wrote one song. Lame.
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#13re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 1:19amLe Grand Meaulness
"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller
#14re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 1:24am
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#15re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:02am
I think Elle Enchanted has potential.
Will it happen? Probably not.
Does the sun really rise in the east?
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
#16re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:11am
"The Widow of the South"
"The Great Gatsby"
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#17re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:22am
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Kitchen God's Wife
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#18re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:33amI've always said that Anthem would make a very strange, but good opera or musical.
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GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#19re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:42amThe Life and Loves of a She Devil
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#20re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:57am
Pride and Prejudice
#21re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:10amI would be very interested in seeing either Sondheim, LaChuisa, or Guettal tackle "Point, Counterpoint" by Huxley.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#22re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:18am
I second "The Great Gatsby."
maybe "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret".
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#23re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:26am
She-Devil would be cool...
The one I've always had in the back of my mind, but will never lift a finger to pursue, is Ray Bradbury's"Something Wicked This Way Comes."
#24re: Books you feel could be made into a musical...
Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:52am
Well, the Great Gatsby was already made into an opera that premiered at the Met a few years ago, but it would also make a good musical I would think.
As for other books that would make a good musical, it's always hard to tell. Books when read hardly seem like they can sing right off the page, and clearly they were not originally intended to do so. When you read Ragtime by Doctrow, it doesn't quite scream MUSICAL!!! but when you see the show, you understand how it works out.
Yes, there are some books that seem to lend themselves easily to musicalization, but it's really the matter of how the creators are able to take a pre-existing story, and create a compelling piece of work that's their own, but also pays respect to the original author. This in itself is very difficult.
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
