ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Mactor327
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#1ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 9:39pm
This is what I think about the movie to stage deal
1) It must be an acclaimed and or classic movie. This is why Beauty and the Beast was super sucessful. 13 years on broadway! IT WAS THE FIRST ANIMATED FILM TO BE NOMINATED FOR A BEST PICTURE OSCAR
2) Music, must already be incorporated into the story (Beauty and the Beast, Hairspray, Producers ect)
3) It has to be a show that can come off realistic story in a musical format (all shows listed above)
4) Must appeal equally to all audiences.
So like I said, shows like BATB were as sucessful as they were. LM, cant buy it. It looks to ridiculous. Shrek, loved it, but i'd give it 2 more years. Legally Blonde, loved it, but it was basicaly a chick-musical. B.E i dont think has an equal appeal to everyone.
9-5 dont think will last long.
What are ur thoughts?
#2re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:11pmyes
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#2re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:13pmWas there a point in all of that?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#3re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:15pmI still think Jurassic Park should be turned into one. What could be better than singing and dancing dinosaurs wrecking havoc?
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#4re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:17pmTerminator.
#5re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:24pm
Boogie Nights: the musical!
...I'm semiserious, I think in the right hands it would be good
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
blaxx
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#6re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:26pmIt WOULD be good!
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#7re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:27pmStill waiting for That Thing You Do to be turned into a musical.
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"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#7re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:27pm
In all seriousness, I think the following films would make spectacular musicals.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Monster-In-Law
What Women Want
AND HOW HAS A BEWITCHED MUSICAL NOT BEEN MADE? Not based on the abysmal Ferrell/Kidman film, but the TV show. Kelli O'Hara and J. Robert Spencer as the Stephenses, Elaine Stritch as Endora, Gary Beach as Uncle Arthur, John McMartin as Maurice, Bill Irwin and Mary Testa as the Kravitzes. DONE. The Addams Family's happening, why not this?
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#9re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:32pm
There's nothing wrong with wanting to make a movie into a musical. If musicals that are adapted from novels and plays and short stories and other people's lives can be called "original," than what right do we have to say that making a movie into a musical is a bad idea?
The problem isn't with the idea, it's with the making: Movie-Musicals have such bad reputations because they're lazy. And it's so easy to be lazy when you have a movie script you can throw on stage without changing too much, a film that you can slavishly recreate the look from, and so much more.
And why should a movie have to appeal equally to everyone in order to be made into a musical? What does that have to do with anything? That's the kind of thinking that leads to adaptations of LEGALLY BLONDE, and why should that thinking be followed when Elmer Rice's play, THE ADDING MACHINE (a play that would NEVER EVER appeal to everyone), can be turned into such a incredible, artistically worthy musical?
"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
Updated On: 5/28/09 at 10:32 PM
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#10re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 10:52pm
Beauty and the Beast was one of the least deserving Best Picture nominees in an incredibly weak year for American film. Just because it's well-liked doesn't make it good. It was all spectacle with very little substance beyond the score and fancy computer-assisted animation technique.
There's no real way to judge what movies will make good musicals. And so much depends on the creative team assembled for the project.
And musical theater has, for the large part, been adaptations. Sweeney Todd, one of the greatest musicals ever written, was based on an English urban legend, for pete's sake. But it also had Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, and Harold Prince behind it. SO much depends on the creative forces behind it. Legally Blonde the musical was not a labor of art or love.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
Updated On: 5/28/09 at 10:52 PM
#11re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/28/09 at 11:34pmI'm waiting for Stephanie J. Block to do Grace Hart in Miss Congeniality the Musical
#12re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 11:34pm
Boogie Nights: the musical!
Cheyenne Jackson- Dirk Diggler
Tom Wopat- Jack Horner
Alexander Gemignani- Reed Rothchild
Lisa Howard- Amber Waves
Richard Kind- The Colonel
Brooke Sunny Moriber- Rollergirl
Daniel Breaker- Buck
Sasha Allen- Jessie (Buck's wife)
Sean McCourt- Little Bill
Josh Gad- Scotty
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (seriously, why is no one making this a musical?)
Miss Pettigrew- Donna Murphy
Delysia LaFosse- Ally Mauzey
Joe Blomfield- Edward Hibbert
Edythe Dubarry- Stephanie D'Abruzzo
Michael Pardew- Aaron Tveit
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Updated On: 5/28/09 at 11:34 PM
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#13re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 11:34pmdblpst
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Updated On: 5/28/09 at 11:34 PM
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#14re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/28/09 at 11:43pmCan we please stop with the revisionist history that movies into musicals is some new trend? It's just become more popular. That's all.
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Leading Actor Joined: 10/2/08
#15re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/29/09 at 1:23amWhy do you call it "nonsense"? Would movie audiences object if producers kept taking successful original Bdwy musicals OR plays and turning them into motion pictures? Musicals can start life in many different ways. Motions pictures are one legitimate source of inspiration. I can think of original Bdwy musicals on the boards right now that I would not recommend. And I am not talking about Next To Normal, which I love.
#16re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/29/09 at 2:05am
Bustopher is right--it's only nonsense when it's done poorly.
How about we stop with this whole "musicals shouldn't be made from films" nonsense? If someone has a good idea and can make it happen, let them. If they fail, they fail.
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#17re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/29/09 at 5:41amEven in the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop they are taught that your best options when creating a new musical is to do an adapatation: novel, short story, play, or movie. They don't completely discourage completely original work, but it is definitely not where the focus is.
#18re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage nonsense...
Posted: 5/29/09 at 6:08amDEATH BECOMES HER !!
#19re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/29/09 at 6:27am
I know there have been approaches to John Hughes about Ferris Bueller- they met with a brick wall. Shame, it seems like a promising idea.
It's worth trying to count how many great musicals are not based on other source material. Even A Chorus Line was based on the stories told by dancers
#20re: ok so, if broadway is gonna continue with this whole Movie to Stage non
Posted: 5/30/09 at 10:14pm
Adam Sandler's "Eight Crazy Nights" live on stage!
Davey- Raul Esparza
Jennifer- Laura Benanti
Whitey- Carol Channing (Imagine "That's a Techinal Foul")
Eleanor- Christine Pedi
Jennifer's Son- Lead Kid from 13
Mayor Stewy Dewey- ???? **EDIT: James Barbour because he did his singing voice in the movie**
Updated On: 5/30/09 at 10:14 PM
