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Post by spiderwort on Apr 28, 2019 15:04:26 GMT
This subject came to mind because there are two prominent productions on Broadway right now:
To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus.
Network, starring Bryan Cranston in the Peter Finch role.
Would love to see both.
Another I recall is the musical version of Sunset Boulevard, starring Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in 1995 & 1997. Would have loved to have seen that one, too.
I know there are probably many more.
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 28, 2019 15:34:28 GMT
Legally Blonde and Sister Act are two that jump to mind.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 28, 2019 15:37:35 GMT
The 1968 film CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG became a Musical that opened in London's West End in 2002 and premiered on Broadway in 2005.   |
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 28, 2019 15:46:27 GMT
Previous animated films have proven to be a rich harvest for conversion into Broadway musicals:
Frozen / Beauty and the Beast / The Lion King / Anastasia / Shrek / Finding Nemo / Aladdin
There was even a stage version of ROCKY a few seasons ago
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Post by snsurone on Apr 28, 2019 16:20:33 GMT
Used to be that movies were derived from stage plays.
Now, it's the other way around!
There seem to be no talented playwrights in the US today.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 29, 2019 15:00:16 GMT
There seem to be no talented playwrights in the US today.
I'm not as up-to-date as I used to be, but I'm sure there are still talented playwrights; getting their plays produced is probably more the problem. Things are so derivative these days, it's really unfortunate. On the other hand, there don't seem to be many monumental talents like Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, et al. Not sure.
Here's another film that became a play: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (2015). People often think that it was a play first, but it wasn't.
And yet another, that took a while to get to the stage after being a Rogers and Hammerstein musical but finally made it in the 90s: STATE FAIR (not a success, sadly).
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 29, 2019 17:22:51 GMT
Dick Van Dyke again. "Mary Poppins" premiered in the West End in 2004 and on Broadway in 2006.  |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 29, 2019 17:36:29 GMT
 Singin' in the Rain became a stage musical, starting on London's West End in 1983 with Tommy Steele in the Gene role.
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Post by spiderwort on Apr 29, 2019 21:32:08 GMT
Singin' in the Rain became a stage musical, starting on London's West End in 1983 with Tommy Steele in the Gene role.
Wasn't aware of this one, tele. But you've made think of this: Applause (1970-72), adapted from All About Eve and starring Lauren Bacall
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 29, 2019 23:07:22 GMT
It’s not exactly based on the film, but I recently saw A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, which is based on the same source material as (and very similar to) Kind Hearts and Coronets.
I think the movie’s a bit better, but the musical’s very good—and very funny.
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 30, 2019 1:06:08 GMT
The Producers
Story about a Broadway play which was a movie and many years later was a play which then became a movie.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 30, 2019 2:05:02 GMT
"Promises, Promises", a Musical based on Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT, premiered on Broadway in 1968 and starred the aforementioned Jerry Orbach as C.C. Baxter. It featured music and lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and a book written by Neil Simon.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 30, 2019 10:03:24 GMT
The Leslie Caron film LILI became the musical CARNIVAL in the 1960s
ditto THE SHOP AROUND CORNER -- as SHE LOVES ME
and -- Garbo's NINOTCHKA in the 1950s was a big hit as SILK STOCKINGS
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Post by teleadm on Apr 30, 2019 17:42:15 GMT
 Kinky Boots was based in a 2005 British movie that wasn't especially popular.  Based on the 2000 British movie Billy Elliott, and had a healthy Broadway run of 1,312 regular performances that ended in 2012.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 30, 2019 17:46:04 GMT
Lady Garth and I will be seeing a regional production of BILLY ELLIOT later in the year
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 30, 2019 18:54:51 GMT
I just had to mention that this year's Tony nominations just came out and two of the nominees for Best Musical are BEETLEJUICE and TOOTSIE. 2019 Tony Nominations |
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Post by teleadm on May 3, 2019 16:37:38 GMT
Maybe a bit OT. Three muscals that failed that was based on movies (I think, I'm not 100% sure), or other sources.  Nick & Nora 1991, if it's based on the The Thin Man movies, I'm not sure, but it is those characters. It closed after 9 performances on Broadway, and had an amazing 71 previews, so something must have been wrong that they never were able to fix. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8743661-1467817138-2995.jpeg.jpg) Breakfast at Tiffany's 1966, David Merrick produced a Broadway musical starring Mary Tyler Moore as Holly Golightly and Richard Chamberlain as Paul. A troubled production that closed after four previews! But they made an "Original Cast" album, if it had became a hit it was better to be brepared, I guess. The third one was a bit of a mystery to locate, I found it on an old Frank Sinatra album called "My Kind of Broadway" from 1965, all numbers was from musicals I knew or could locate, except one. "Golden Moment" from Hot September. Turns out that in the 1960s there was a musical that was based on Picnic, either the movie or the play, destined to play on the Alvin Theatre on Broadway in October 1965, it premiered in Boston and closed within a few weeks. They must have had hig hopes for it since they made Sinatra record one of the song, and if the musical had became a hit, it might have continued be on Sinatra's repertoire instead of being one of many recorded songs that has fallen into oblivion. |
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Post by Salzmank on May 3, 2019 17:20:45 GMT
I’m still bizarrely intrigued by Nick & Nora (which, as you say, flopped miserably), teleadm…but that may just because I’d love more Thin Man adventures! I’ve listened to one of the songs on YouTube, and it was—fine, if not particularly memorable. It seems like most of the problems were with the book. Arthur Laurents was one of the great Broadway bookwriters, but while he was writing it he said (if I’m remembering correctly) that he didn’t particularly like the Charleses—something I’m surprised didn’t kill the project from the get-go. Still, if every production of Merrily We Roll Along since its 16 performances on Broadway has altered the book, I wonder if Nick & Nora could ever be revived with an improved book. |
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Post by teleadm on May 3, 2019 18:10:18 GMT
I’m still bizarrely intrigued by Nick & Nora (which, as you say, flopped miserably), teleadm …but that may just because I’d love more Thin Man adventures! I’ve listened to one of the songs on YouTube, and it was—fine, if not particularly memorable. It seems like most of the problems were with the book. Arthur Laurents was one of the great Broadway bookwriters, but while he was writing it he said (if I’m remembering correctly) that he didn’t particularly like the Charleses—something I’m surprised didn’t kill the project from the get-go. Still, if every production of Merrily We Roll Along since its 16 performances on Broadway has altered the book, I wonder if Nick & Nora could ever be revived with an improved book. I think it was a former discussion that made me remember this one, and I think after a bit research found that the reason it never yelled was that it never found the right tone and flow of the storyline to make it work. I've later found that (could be Laurents, but not sure) said the reason it didn't work was the characters were too identified with Powell and Loy, but that doesn't really ring true since there was a fairly popular and remembered TV-series from the 1950's too.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 3, 2019 18:46:46 GMT
I’m still bizarrely intrigued by Nick & Nora (which, as you say, flopped miserably), teleadm …but that may just because I’d love more Thin Man adventures! I’ve listened to one of the songs on YouTube, and it was—fine, if not particularly memorable. It seems like most of the problems were with the book. Arthur Laurents was one of the great Broadway bookwriters, but while he was writing it he said (if I’m remembering correctly) that he didn’t particularly like the Charleses—something I’m surprised didn’t kill the project from the get-go. Still, if every production of Merrily We Roll Along since its 16 performances on Broadway has altered the book, I wonder if Nick & Nora could ever be revived with an improved book. I think it was a former discussion that made me remember this one, and I think after a bit research found that the reason it never yelled was that it never found the right tone and flow of the storyline to make it work. I've later found that (could be Laurents, but not sure) said the reason it didn't work was the characters were too identified with Powell and Loy, but that doesn't really ring true since there was a fairly popular and remembered TV-series from the 1950's too. I can buy it. As a boomer, I remember the show, but it's largely forgotten now, while the films are well-known through TCM showings and home video by multiple generations born decades later who never heard of the TV series. In other words, I think it's simply a matter of exposure: the films get it; the show doesn't.
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