What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#0What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:40pm
I just did a search through the last 5 or so pages of posts and didn't see this, so forgive me if this is already a thread.
With Wedding Singer a recent example, what film from the past 20 years do you think would be a great Broadway show?
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The Hours
Brokeback Mountain
Silence of The Lambs
Good Will Hunting
Shakespeare in Love
Wedding Crashers
Swingers
Frequency
Field of Dreams
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#1re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:46pm
Movies that could make for interesting musicals:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Hudsucker Proxy
Amelie
A Very Long Engagement
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 6/6/06 at 09:46 PM
#2re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:49pm
Big Fish could be this weird Big River-type thing...
Down With Love. Seriously.
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#3re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:49pmWith a little work, MOULIN ROUGE would be a wonderful musical on stage.
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#4re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 10:36pm
Happy Gilmore
Finding Forester
Castaway would be easy too
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#5re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 10:38pm
"Interview With The Vampire"
"Dracula: Dead and Loving It"
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#6re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 10:39pm
What about Bob?
Finding Neverland
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#7re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 10:46pm
Wow, I really love the idea of Eternal Sunshine.
Down With Love is basically a poor retooling of Pillow Talk - but any of the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies would make great musicals.
I think either Kolya or Central Station (which are also practically the same movie) would make great musicals.
Then, of course, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome!!!
(kidding)
(also probably not the past 20 years)
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#8re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 10:47pm
DEATH BECOMES HER
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#9re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 11:05pm
ooooooo Amelie...good call Smaxie.
EDIT: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Updated On: 6/7/06 at 11:05 PM
#10re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/6/06 at 11:09pm
not a great big film but was a well recived teen flick with balls
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TonyaFanatic
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#11re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:58amI think 'Do The Right Thing' would be awesome as a play. But Spike would have to direct it.
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#12re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 3:12amYeah Eternal Sunshine.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 4:10amMoulin Rouge here too...could be really spectacular.
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actingstar08
Chorus Member Joined: 5/4/05
#14re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:41amdon't you mean spectacular spectactular?
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#15re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 6:12am
The Prince of Egypt
Big Fish
The Nightmare Before Christmas
#16re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 7:42amHave they done Sixteen Candles yet? I think that could be pretty awesome.
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#17re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 8:02ami can't believe more drag queens haven't made a spoof of The Hours. that is one of the funniest movies of the past 20 years. i would LOVE to see it...
#18re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 8:06amAre we really considering "The Wedding Singer" to be a great musical?
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#19re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 10:05amAmerican Beauty
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Nycboi23
Understudy Joined: 4/25/06
#20re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 10:12am
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985, but still) They could do an opening dance routine from the movie's opening number, SHOUT! I'd love to see the showdown at the end with the musical number TECHNIQUE
Updated On: 6/7/06 at 10:12 AM
MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#21re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:45pm
American Beauty would be great!
I think Matchpoint and Bullets over Braodway would be good ones, too.
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#22re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:53pmIt is my dream to see Moulin Rouge on the stage with Ewan Mcgregor starring in it....It would be so magnificent!
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#23re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 3:06pm
The real Moulin Rouge, the story of Toulouse-Latrec could make a great stage musical, even if it's more than 20 years old. I don't imagine there would be a problem finding actors willing to perform on their knees 
#24re: What Movie From The Past 20 Years Could Become a Great Play/Musical
Posted: 6/7/06 at 3:21pm
Ohhh, I'm all about 'The Hours'
I wonder if Cherry Jones would be in that?
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