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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 18:51:56 GMT
If it was a movie then I'd go for Daniel J v AliceFearnFan: Life or Death It would basically be the male version of War Paint... except unlike Patti or Christine, I would win the Tony.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 24, 2017 21:38:30 GMT
I've always thought elements of War and Peace would make a great musical. Then last week I discovered Natasha, Pierre and the great comet ... I can't stop playing the recording. Love it
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 23:24:58 GMT
If it was a movie then I'd go for Daniel J v AliceFearnFan: Life or Death I love you.
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Post by junet on May 25, 2017 12:47:30 GMT
Last Year I read a great book called The House We Grew Up In. Imagine my delight when I saw that they were staging it at Chichester this year. Couldn't get the tickets quick enough.
Unfortunately the play we are going to see is The House THEY Grew Up In. No idea what it is about just hope it's better than Forty Years On.
Another senior moment!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 16:29:43 GMT
Always - The musical about Edward and Wallis Simpson is one of my favourite flops ever. I still listen to the score. It had Clive Carter, Jan Hartley, Shani Wallis and Sheila Ferguson, who seems to be the kiss of death to any musical she appears in.
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 25, 2017 16:33:07 GMT
I have long wondered whether Mapp and Lucia might work as the basis for a musical. Great fun characters, outrageous plots - with the right period pastiche feel, it could be a really entertaining night out.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 25, 2017 16:59:15 GMT
M&L was turned into a musical in the 80's I believe but I can't find anything on Wiki so maybe I'm delusional (again).
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 17:30:55 GMT
The Amazing Mr Blunden was one of my favourite films as a child and would be a great musical similar in style to The Secret Garden. Great characters and a chance to use lots of stage effects and magic.
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Post by ali973 on May 25, 2017 17:39:10 GMT
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Mrs Doubtfire (which I believe is in the works) Devil Wears Parada (currently in development) Heartbreakers
..a few years ago my friend saw A Bronx Tale, way before it was announced as a musical, and said it should be musicalized. Fast forward..interestingly, my friend borderline hates musicals.
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Post by vabbian on May 25, 2017 18:06:39 GMT
The Prince of Egypt film!!
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Post by vabbian on May 25, 2017 18:09:21 GMT
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Post by primitivewallflower on May 25, 2017 19:18:50 GMT
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption - has the crucial advantage of being a splendid story. Has the downside of starting out sad and getting (very gradually) happier as it goes but in the right hands it could work well.
Book: Grendel - admittedly pulling a bit of a Wicked here but doing Beowulf from the monster's perspective sounds intriguing.
Biography: Marquis de Lafayette - thrust back in the limelight by Hamilton, his life is amazing. Hero in America, then comes back to France and is for a brief period one of the leading figures of the French Revolution, founding the National Guard and leading the charge for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, before the Revolution almost eats him alive. Tries to escape back to America, gets thrown in an Austrian prison, only released years later after Napoleon intervenes. And then gets caught up in *another* French revolution (1830) and is asked by some to become king, though he refuses. All the while, his reputation in France ebbs and flows between arrogant grand stander and national hero. Plus he's constantly in touch with other revolutionaries throughout the world (Bolivar, Louverture) and after Waterloo even manages to visit America again where he's given a hero's welcome everywhere he goes.
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Post by ptwest on May 25, 2017 19:23:54 GMT
Overboard - the movie from the 80s with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.
Edit - just checked, its next in line for a "reimagining" apparently.
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Post by crowblack on May 25, 2017 19:25:31 GMT
The Ferryman. The two of them could dance round the kitchen at the start, Aunt Maggie Far Away a wistful number about her youth, the drunk teenage boys a punk-style number, Tom the Lennie-character a comic song, or a lovelorn one, an argumentative one between the other aunt and uncle, a menacing number by Muldoon, the whole family a big song and dance about the goose...
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Post by 49thand8th on May 25, 2017 20:35:27 GMT
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Post by primitivewallflower on May 25, 2017 20:51:48 GMT
Oh, and if I had to make a play into a musical, I'd do this one, which I got to see on stage. Dark and twisted but brilliant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Play
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 21:51:57 GMT
Oh, and if I had to make a play into a musical, I'd do this one, which I got to see on stage. Dark and twisted but brilliant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Play But, if memory recalls, apart from the first act it WAS pretty much a musical? Deffo the 3rd act at any rate
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 25, 2017 21:55:04 GMT
Speaking of Goldie Hawn, Third Wives Club could be fun.
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Post by ali973 on May 25, 2017 22:23:45 GMT
Speaking of Goldie Hawn, Third Wives Club could be fun. This was done already. It was first done in Atlanta, I believe? Somewhere in an unusual try-out city. It wasn't ready- and it slept for a while. Then they redid it again with a new team and tried it out in Chicago, hoping to prep it for Broadway. Still didn't do well- and the reception was bad. In principle, I think it would be great, but it looks like the rights ended up with a less than capable team.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 25, 2017 22:46:07 GMT
Speaking of Goldie Hawn, Third Wives Club could be fun. This was done already. It was first done in Atlanta, I believe? Somewhere in an unusual try-out city. It wasn't ready- and it slept for a while. Then they redid it again with a new team and tried it out in Chicago, hoping to prep it for Broadway. Still didn't do well- and the reception was bad. In principle, I think it would be great, but it looks like the rights ended up with a less than capable team. A mine of info as usual Ali and now I remember the film was First Wives Club, not Third! (I'm up late )
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Post by infofreako on May 25, 2017 22:51:20 GMT
If it was a movie then I'd go for Daniel J v AliceFearnFan: Life or Death I love you. Such a great idea. I would expect you and I would get decent cameos
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Post by infofreako on May 25, 2017 22:54:30 GMT
For a film to be adapted though Ferris Buellers Day Off
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 0:47:28 GMT
The Importance of Being Ernest has been attempted before but with the right songs could work superbly.
The Usual Suspects or American Beauty ( okay I'm a Spacey fan).
Dick Tracy - has that been tried.
Thelma and Louise sprang to mind.
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Post by crowblack on May 26, 2017 11:40:56 GMT
The Amazing Mr Blunden was one of my favourite films as a child I love that film! I don't know why it's so forgotten compared to The Railway Children, from the same team. Mark Kermode and a few others - I think the League of Gentlemen lot - are fans and flag it up when it has one of its rare TV outings. As a kid, I particularly appreciated the closing titles where all the cast - including the baddies - wave goodbye, because the film itself was actually quite scary.
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Post by frontrowcentre on May 26, 2017 15:12:13 GMT
They're working on Pretty Woman, right? I'm surprised It wasn't done donkeys ago
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Post by 49thand8th on May 26, 2017 15:14:27 GMT
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Post by hal9000 on May 26, 2017 21:32:23 GMT
An adaptation of GIRL, INTERRUPTED featuring music by P!nk.
An adaptation of WORKING GIRL featuring music by Gwen Stefani and No Doubt.
An adaptation of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER featuring music by ELO.
And adaptation of DUMBO featuring music by Cher.
I also imagine it would be easy to throw in an extra song or two and put LA LA LAND and MOULIN ROUGE! on stage.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2017 11:46:39 GMT
An adaptation of GIRL, INTERRUPTED featuring music by P!nk. An adaptation of WORKING GIRL featuring music by Gwen Stefani and No Doubt. An adaptation of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER featuring music by ELO. And adaptation of DUMBO featuring music by Cher. I also imagine it would be easy to throw in an extra song or two and put LA LA LAND and MOULIN ROUGE! on stage. Im sure Whats on Stage posted that Luhrman was working on a stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge! currently. LaLaLand is inevitable.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 27, 2017 11:51:07 GMT
I also imagine it would be easy to throw in an extra song or two and put LA LA LAND and MOULIN ROUGE! on stage. Im sure Whats on Stage posted that Luhrman was working on a stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge! currently. LaLaLand is inevitable. Moulin Rouge www.theatreboard.co.uk/thread/1486/moulin-rouge-happening
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Post by hal9000 on May 30, 2017 18:34:05 GMT
The Wendy Craig sitcom BUTTERFLIES could be adapted for stage. It is about a woman who is a loving wife and mother and terrible homemaker who is on the verge of having a brief encounter with an equally kindly and despondent local businessman.
Bittersweet it is, and still has a lot of relevant commentary about women's roles.
And it comes tailor made with a theme song by Dolly Parton.
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