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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 5, 2017 7:51:16 GMT
how about a show about the chap who invented braille?!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 0:34:04 GMT
Still standing firm on Hocus Pocus being a musical.  |
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Post by hal9000 on May 24, 2017 18:26:35 GMT
TO THE MOON AND BACK: a musical adaptation of LOVE AFFAIR/AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER featuring the music of Savage Garden and Darren Hayes.
It is a boy-meets-boy romance an Australian footballer and a Jamaican musician meeting in the Caribbean before tragedy strikes in the form of an on field injury jeopardising their reunion.
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Post by cheesy116 on May 24, 2017 18:33:46 GMT
If it was a movie then I'd go for Daniel J v AliceFearnFan: Life or Death  |
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Post by danb on May 24, 2017 18:39:08 GMT
Wallace - or even Wallace!. The story of Edward and Mrs Simpson. It's got the lot, illicit love, family feuds, revenge and a big finish with the abdication of the King and our current Queen being propelled into a life of duty. Not to mention all those fab 30's fashions. There was a short-lived musical about them! It was called "Always"... which is all I remember as it's been some years, but I know it existed in the West End for a bit. One thing I've always wanted to see on stage was "The Last Unicorn". There was an "okayish" version in Germany some years ago, but I'm sure it could be done so much better. Ignore the animated movie (which had its own lovely soundtrack) and go back to the original novel by Peter S. Beagle - it sings so much, the musical is practically leaping off the pages. Otherwise I'd suggest a browse through the website rejectedprincesses.com - so many fantastic tales about fantastic women throughout the centuries that would make for great musicals with strong female leads from all over the world. I'd definitely love to see a decent stage version of Grania O'Malley's life to finally banish the bad taste of Boublil/Schoenbergs godawful sexist nonsense from my memory. The Last Unicorn...lovely. I'd love someone to have a crack at 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt. I think it could be incredible. |
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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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