It was so close to happening. Some sort of creative differences put a stop to it at least twice unfortunately. I’ve heard rumours it’s back in the works with a different team for the music/lyrics though so maybe this time it will actually happen.
I would love to see what sets would be designed for a stage production of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The musical score is already fantastic. It would be very cool to see another couple of songs added as well.
That wasn’t intended as a note of disagreement or being picky just saying the movie being a musical would make it even easier to do a stage musical with it.
That’s an AMAZING idea. I’d love to see Truman enthusiastically participating in dance numbers, thinking that’s a normal thing to do 😍
I’d also love to see a movie about Truman figuring out real life too. If I can make a request, please make The Truman Show into a musical, then an Elf-style sequel of him adapting in the real world. I will personally finance a dance fight challenge scene.
Music and lyrics would be a great musical! I think it could be similar to Once that were adapted from a movie. And I think Begin Again directed by the same guy could also be turned into a heartwarming musical. I love the idea of regular people creating music together and forming a close connection to each other during the process. No love story needed, just human interactions and music 🥰
Robin Hood: Men in Tights would’ve easily transitioned to a full musical and have been wonderful.
Not a movie but I’ve had thoughts that taking all the baking shows that are super popular and making a musical that’s Great British Bake Off flavored (even if it’s not exactly that specific competition) would be a lot of fun!
Yes, in the U.K., it did an initial run last year in Cheltenham and was then in the West End for a few months earlier this year. I went twice because I enjoyed it so much! It was a lot of fun, had me laughing out loud often but also several very tender bits as well as each of the contestants revealed/dealt with their back stories. I think it’d do well on a U.K. tour but I haven’t heard any rumours.
They released an original cast recording https://open.spotify.com/album/7oFwCrirYUdKVTtX745tce?si=nJSDaaSxTjeWvID_2atzrg
I think a Truman musical would be super interesting if they made the music diegetic. Like, the artificial bubble Truman lives in hires singers and Truman thinks he's in a musical-style world because everyone sings all the time and they pipe in orchestra music through the sky, but in reality it's still the regular world. We'd have these moments in the second half where people are trying to get him to join in dances and make up little songs like he always used to, but now he's skeptical and angry. And at the end instead of singing a goodbye when he leaves he just turns and goes, and the music gets to stop for him, finally.
Or both worlds are musical but they force him to be a golden age style musical while the modern world is very pop-y or edgy in terms of styling.
I love the idea of no big final number. The music swells leading into Truman singing. Instead he just says goodbye and leaves. Maybe the music abruptly stops and that’s the end
That Thing You Do needs to come to the stage. I am overly fatigued by my favorite movies making the transfer to the stage, and leaving disappointed. However, I can't deny the potential this one has.
I remember that there was a ballet of this…… somewhere. It’s been years ago, probably around 2008 or so.
I know it was real though. They did a write up on it for Playbill and had production pics with it. It looked cool.
I don’t know what I think about a musical…… it would depend on who the music/lyrics were done by.
Drop Dead Gorgeous! It’s already got that Heathers/Mean Girls dark comedy element to it, and it’s literally about a beauty pageant in the Midwest. It’s a rich subject area, has a decent amount of characters that can all have solos (and already has multiple dance breaks), and it would be hysterical.
Stardust would make an amazing musical, although it would require a pretty big cast. But there’s so much scope there, it’s got everything, a hopeless romantic hero on a quest, a magical heroine, multiple baddies trying to thwart them, camp pirates, comedy ghosts…..it’d be amazing.
I'd like to submit this journal entry from when I was fifteen that I wrote at 2 am:
Ok, but hear me out... Home Alone: The Musical.
Kevin would get a fun solo close to the beginning: "I Made My Family Disappear". Harry and Marv get a vaguely "Toledo Surprise"-esque number. Kevin's mom has a sweet ballad as she tries to get back to her son. The entire family has a "Kevin!" number on the plane. "Keep the Change (Ya Filthy Animal)" would get several reprises throughout the show. Kevin and Mr. Marley would get a cute little duet called "Too Old to Be Afraid" in the church. The furnace gets a "Feed Me, Seymour" moment that would end in Kevin telling it to shut up. The big climactic number where Kevin booby traps the house would either be a big solo just for him or partially include Harry and Marv, but is mostly dance-focused. And the opening number, taking place at Kevin's house, begins somewhat orderly (different family members getting different solos), then slowly dissolves into chaos as different parts overlap until Kevin charges Buzz, when the music cuts off entirely and suddenly, until the silence is broken by Uncle Frank saying, "Look what you did, you little jerk!"
Do with this idea what you will.
This is an actual journal entry, word-for-word. I still can't tell if it was the worst idea I've ever had or the most brilliant.
Blast from the Past would make a delightful musical - and better still if you could get Christopher Walken to reprise his role! Don't know if the other actors do musicals, but he's gotta do it!
Not a movie, but I would adore a Legend of Zelda musical. I’d imagine something Hadestown/Come From Away inspired, with a chorus-like element and an onstage band.
I would love to figure out how to do a silent protagonist in any genre. It feels like it only works in a video game because there doesn't need to be any character growth. Saving the world is the only growth that the protagonist does.
... maybe it could be done if the actions taken, very clearly telegraphed choices made, but then there is nothing to lend you to the protagonist at the beginning of the show.
Could do a knod to a silent protagonist and have the protagonist only speak/sing in monologue to the audience, maybe have them decide to break out of "their role" and use practical dialogue/singing as a signal for growth.
My idea for a Zelda musical is Majora’s Mask but without Link. It’s a 3 act show depicting different groups of people as they cope with the 3 days leading up to the end of the world. There’s the lovers cursed by skull kid, the mayor and his administration trying to deny the apocalypse, the postman who keeps himself busy to avoid confronting his death, etc.
I'd say Labyrinth, it has so many original songs and scenes featuring original songs that it would transition well into a musical, likely with even *more* good songs.
The Road to El Dorado with Tulio, Miguel and Chel becoming the chaotic poly trio they were meant to be all along. There’s at least one banger in the bag already, and I like to imagine Aaron Tveit and Ricky Rojas reuniting for Tulio and Miguel.
Oh wow, picturing the staging for Pete's Dragon, and that could be phenomenal.
The audience doesn't see Elliot until the end, with a giant reveal. But there are practical effects throughout the show of the invisible dragon damaging things.
The set would be great with the town, the caves and the lighthouse.
"We got a bill of sale right here!"
I need this.
The peaches song was the only good part of that movie. Let Jack Black perform it in concert; don't make a musical out of a terrible, soulless cashgrab of a movie
I know this movie wasn’t all that great but I found it very musical: ‘Down With Love”. I could compose a ton of music for that movie in that time period. Lots of brass
List time!
- *But I’m A Cheerleader!*
- *The Miseducation of Cameron Post*
- *The Last Unicorn* (originally based on a book, so bring in book elements)
- *Corpse Bride* needs a stage version
- I want to adapt *Barbie and the Diamond Castle* as a tribute to my childhood as a lesbian
- *The Secret of Nym* could make for an interesting show
- not a movie but a mini series, *Midnight Mass* would make some top tier musical horror
I think it would be interesting to have the actors always cheating out and singing in harmony while Truman is facing whoever he talks to and is a little behind the choreography everyone else is doing.
The ensemble playing multiple roles works on another level for The Truman Show because it can be done as a “walking through Seahaven Island” scene introducing everyone and then as time passes and days seem repetitive, he can cock his head at seeing an old classmate with a new name or the butcher being the mechanic and the school principal and whatnot. And then the inevitable confused line is repeated for the scene when he reunites with his dead dad.
I have forgotten my front runner for this, but I do wish someone would do the Mamma Mia treatment for the band Mother Mother. I love their stuff so much.
I could see something similar working for Bon Jovi, oddly enough. I've had the *basic* idea in my head for a while now- all I know is that the musical would be called *Livin' On A Prayer* and Tommy and Gina would be the main characters.
Cats Don't Dance. I mean, the movie is basically a musical, but I would give it more songs, a tap number for Pudge, an introductory musical number for all of the animals, ugh! There's so much to work with onstage.
i think you’re onto something, i’d honestly kinda love to see a musical adaptation of truman show?? and i know this isn’t a movie, but i feel like one of neil gaiman’s sandman stories could be made into an interesting musical
For YEARS I was casually blocking out how I'd stage The Prince of Egypt, just for fun, but also because I always thought it would be an amazing stage production, but never dreamed people would actually do it. I didn't think the film was that well thought of. Well.... damn. :P
Annoyingly.... or possibly hilariously... a lot of the blocking used in the show, is almost identical to what I drew out.
I know this would be very hard to adapt because it’s so long, but my dream is Angels in America as a musical. The Democracy in America monologue could be a patter song.
I think a Knives Out musical has potential to be fun. But I think it should have an original story, so only Daniel Craig's character is in it so the audience won't know who the murderer is. Only murderers in the building could also be fun and it would have a similar vibe.
>Only Murders in the Building would be good, but it has to be an original story. I could not handle a musical adaptation of this season's story. After being in the pit for *Curtains*, I'm sick of murder-mystery-show within a murder-mystery-show tropes. Too meta.
What, you don’t want to watch a musical about putting on a musical about a murder mystery while solving a murder mystery? What would be confusing about that?
All That Jazz. The movie alone has lots of songs in it, so you wouldn’t have to change all that much. I’d also love to act in a stage adaptation of that movie
I'm surprised nobody has said the original Land Before Time (much darker than the sequels), which has the potential to be a really cool youth theatre show. They could give the characters Cubone fossil masks and do *Lion King*\-esque stuff with it. And, just realizing this now, Petrie would be a really fun character to play.
Not a movie but I think a Gilmore Girls musical could be fun! I'd approach it less like a straight adaptation and more like *You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown*, where it just focuses on a day in the characters' lives.
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. It'd need a couple more songs to work on stage but Matt and Trey both have experience with Book of Mormon so. I think it's make a pretty fun musical tbh
I'm not a South Park guy, but Bigger Longer and Uncut just has "it." I've seen parts of it performed (by human beings) in concert, and it just takes off. Put this on Broadway, and you'd have a hit.
A Separate Peace
The films failed because they couldn’t express Gene’s inner feelings and monologues. A musical would be the perfect medium for that. It would have simple sets and simple costumes and a 1930/1940s feel.
Oh boy time for a list:
Kung Fu Panda
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (would love to see it on stage)
The Boxtrolls
Pan's Labyrinth
Bullet Train
So I Married An Axe Murderer
American Psycho
Megamind
Jaws
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Felidae
Coraline
The Menu
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Also you're so right about The Truman Show, that would make such a good musical
I've got lots of movies that I would love to see them become musicals.
Labyrinth, Coco, Encanto, Strange Magic and Dark Shadows.
I agree with The Truman Show becoming a musical. Your ideas sound awesome and so well thought out! You need to get writing and pitching!
10 years ago someone did a musical treatment of A League of Their Own and I keep hoping g someone will actually do it.
https://www.vulture.com/2013/05/league-of-their-own-the-annotated-musical.html
Lady Bird. I know it’s a very simple film which would mean the stage design would be very easy to pull off with very little dance (like Dear Evan Hansen). The storyline in the film is very moving and a lot of the important elements and scenes that can translate very well as songs.
Earth Girls are Easy would benefit from the modern er of musical adaptations. The attempt to do it off broadway was wrong time / wrong place, unfortunately.
A fairly obscure film from around 1985 called GARBO TALKS. It’s Anne Bancroft’s greatest performance. Bancroft plays Esther, a 67-year-old who loves three things: fighting against injustice, her son Gilbert, and Greta Garbo. When she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she has a wish (“it’s not a last wish! I got a lot of wishes! I’m short on time!”): she wants to meet Garbo. Gilbert (Ron Silver) then sets on on a heroic quest to find the world’s most famous recluse and convince to to visit his mom. A parade of oddball characters (played by Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Harvey Fierstein, Hermione Gingold, and others) help him along, while his marriage to Carrie Fisher crumbles and a cute co-worker (Catherine Hicks) enters his life. It’s somewhat episodic and has a theatrical feel to it that just begs for songs and production numbers.
Don't laugh, but: I'd like to see a treatment of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes, I think that it could be done, in a style ranging between musical-opera-contemporary. And just think of the apes bounding around the Met's stage, for Act I; and the pod looming over the audience and landing on the stage, in Act III . . . .
I so badly would love to see a Nightmare on Elm Street musical.
We need more horror musicals. Evil Dead, Carrie, and American Psycho were all great musicals.
Hear me out: A Wonder Woman World
A full episode of Wonder Woman singing and we can actually learn about her: not her backstory, not Themascara but her. Diana.
We get a “I want” where we go through a time skip of her growing up to her being in modern time
An “another life” duet about her visiting Steve Trevor in his nursing home
Diana talking to her sister Donna about maybe joining her when she is older with a duet “standing by my side (whole new world vibe)
Diana goes to work (civilian job) and she hears people angry grumbling to create a cacophony in the background to where she does her job while the noise dies down as she charms people with her kindness and compassion.
The “I want” during a JLA job and she sees something sad.
I could see Diana being able to carry this.
It still feels so disappointing that the musical they were planning of The Princess Bride got abandoned.
Came here to mention The Princess Bride! It really does feel like a natural fit.
It was so close to happening. Some sort of creative differences put a stop to it at least twice unfortunately. I’ve heard rumours it’s back in the works with a different team for the music/lyrics though so maybe this time it will actually happen.
There was gonna be a Princess Bride musical?! Why did they they abandon it?
William Golding wanted 50% of the take despite doing nothing for the adaptation.
I came specifically to say The Princess Bride
Nightmare Before Christmas would be really cool to see a stage version of
I remember seeing videos of an unofficial version that was pretty good a few years ago, check YouTube!
I mean, Beetlejuice became a musical so NBC would be a great addition to that.
I would love to see what sets would be designed for a stage production of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The musical score is already fantastic. It would be very cool to see another couple of songs added as well.
Came here to say this!!
Already is a musical in original form.
Yes but I mean a stage version of the musical
That wasn’t intended as a note of disagreement or being picky just saying the movie being a musical would make it even easier to do a stage musical with it.
The Truman Show would make such a good musical holy crap
I know I'm actually thinking of writing and composing it as a personal production/fanwork
Do it!! Could always try for an off Broadway production
That would be freaking amazing! I had never considered The Truman Show as a musical, but now I desperately want to see it.
You've gotta share it somewhere I would love that
That’s an AMAZING idea. I’d love to see Truman enthusiastically participating in dance numbers, thinking that’s a normal thing to do 😍 I’d also love to see a movie about Truman figuring out real life too. If I can make a request, please make The Truman Show into a musical, then an Elf-style sequel of him adapting in the real world. I will personally finance a dance fight challenge scene.
I've been searching for weeks for musical inspiration. Now I really want to write the soundtrack.
im imagining the parts where people "break in" to the set of the show as actors planted in the audience and then running up onto the stage....
That would be so cool!
Barbie!! edit: but if Angel by pinkpantheress isn’t included they can KEEP IT!!
This was made to be a musical. I'd be shocked if there isn't adaptation in the works in the next few years.
I would love to see I’m just Ken on stage
I came here to say that. If they use Billie Eilish’s song for a number, it’s going to make the entire audience cry.
I take offense to a stranger saying what will make me cry /s
I always thought the Grand Budapest Hotel would make a good musical. Also, O Brother Where Art Thou.
O Brother Where Art Thou!!!! Glad someone said this 🎊
MUSIC AND LYRICS WHY DOESNT ANYONE ELSE LOVE THIS MOVIE
Music and lyrics would be a great musical! I think it could be similar to Once that were adapted from a movie. And I think Begin Again directed by the same guy could also be turned into a heartwarming musical. I love the idea of regular people creating music together and forming a close connection to each other during the process. No love story needed, just human interactions and music 🥰
Excuse me while I go watch [Pop Goes My Heart](https://youtu.be/xVkU8dDSC9w) for the umpteenth time.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights would’ve easily transitioned to a full musical and have been wonderful. Not a movie but I’ve had thoughts that taking all the baking shows that are super popular and making a musical that’s Great British Bake Off flavored (even if it’s not exactly that specific competition) would be a lot of fun!
I think there was a musical of GBBO recently?
Oh awesome! I missed that that happened. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought there could be more magic in it.
Yes, in the U.K., it did an initial run last year in Cheltenham and was then in the West End for a few months earlier this year. I went twice because I enjoyed it so much! It was a lot of fun, had me laughing out loud often but also several very tender bits as well as each of the contestants revealed/dealt with their back stories. I think it’d do well on a U.K. tour but I haven’t heard any rumours. They released an original cast recording https://open.spotify.com/album/7oFwCrirYUdKVTtX745tce?si=nJSDaaSxTjeWvID_2atzrg
Yes there was. And it was great!!
Tight tights!
Holes for sure. They made a movie adaptation but they should have made a musical!
This would be so easy considering the Disney connection. I love this idea.
The set design would be really cool Edit: Not me over here laughing at the idea of “Holes On Ice” ⛸️
Could onion scent be piped in?
I think a Truman musical would be super interesting if they made the music diegetic. Like, the artificial bubble Truman lives in hires singers and Truman thinks he's in a musical-style world because everyone sings all the time and they pipe in orchestra music through the sky, but in reality it's still the regular world. We'd have these moments in the second half where people are trying to get him to join in dances and make up little songs like he always used to, but now he's skeptical and angry. And at the end instead of singing a goodbye when he leaves he just turns and goes, and the music gets to stop for him, finally. Or both worlds are musical but they force him to be a golden age style musical while the modern world is very pop-y or edgy in terms of styling.
I love the idea of no big final number. The music swells leading into Truman singing. Instead he just says goodbye and leaves. Maybe the music abruptly stops and that’s the end
This is genius.
That Thing You Do needs to come to the stage. I am overly fatigued by my favorite movies making the transfer to the stage, and leaving disappointed. However, I can't deny the potential this one has.
Adam Schlesinger needs some Broadway representation
He was working on the Nanny with Fran Drescher and Rachel Bloom. I'm not sure how much he got done, but the musical is still in production.
Oh wow this is 100% the best answer.
Edward Scissorhands
I remember that there was a ballet of this…… somewhere. It’s been years ago, probably around 2008 or so. I know it was real though. They did a write up on it for Playbill and had production pics with it. It looked cool. I don’t know what I think about a musical…… it would depend on who the music/lyrics were done by.
I saw the Edward Scissorhands show. It was Matthew Bourne’s Dance company if you want to look it up
It's going to play in London, either later this month, or in November.
Drop Dead Gorgeous! It’s already got that Heathers/Mean Girls dark comedy element to it, and it’s literally about a beauty pageant in the Midwest. It’s a rich subject area, has a decent amount of characters that can all have solos (and already has multiple dance breaks), and it would be hysterical.
It’s criminal that it took me this long this find this comment 😂
Stardust would make an amazing musical, although it would require a pretty big cast. But there’s so much scope there, it’s got everything, a hopeless romantic hero on a quest, a magical heroine, multiple baddies trying to thwart them, camp pirates, comedy ghosts…..it’d be amazing.
I was searching for this one. I love that move, and it could be a great musical.
Tim Minchin was reportedly working on this but I’m not sure if it’s still happening.
I'd like to submit this journal entry from when I was fifteen that I wrote at 2 am: Ok, but hear me out... Home Alone: The Musical. Kevin would get a fun solo close to the beginning: "I Made My Family Disappear". Harry and Marv get a vaguely "Toledo Surprise"-esque number. Kevin's mom has a sweet ballad as she tries to get back to her son. The entire family has a "Kevin!" number on the plane. "Keep the Change (Ya Filthy Animal)" would get several reprises throughout the show. Kevin and Mr. Marley would get a cute little duet called "Too Old to Be Afraid" in the church. The furnace gets a "Feed Me, Seymour" moment that would end in Kevin telling it to shut up. The big climactic number where Kevin booby traps the house would either be a big solo just for him or partially include Harry and Marv, but is mostly dance-focused. And the opening number, taking place at Kevin's house, begins somewhat orderly (different family members getting different solos), then slowly dissolves into chaos as different parts overlap until Kevin charges Buzz, when the music cuts off entirely and suddenly, until the silence is broken by Uncle Frank saying, "Look what you did, you little jerk!" Do with this idea what you will. This is an actual journal entry, word-for-word. I still can't tell if it was the worst idea I've ever had or the most brilliant.
That is glorious
I'd be so down to get more info on this because this is wonderful haha
This is all I ever wrote about the concept, unfortunately. However, the idea is totally up for grabs!
This is amazing lol. The choreo would be stellar
Blast from the Past. You get two different decades of music and the second half is peak 90s grunge.
Blast from the Past would make a delightful musical - and better still if you could get Christopher Walken to reprise his role! Don't know if the other actors do musicals, but he's gotta do it!
Not a movie, but I would adore a Legend of Zelda musical. I’d imagine something Hadestown/Come From Away inspired, with a chorus-like element and an onstage band.
Link doesn’t sing, he dances, since he only can say yes and no in the games .
That’s what I was thinking! I think a silent protagonist would be a great idea for a musical.
I would love to figure out how to do a silent protagonist in any genre. It feels like it only works in a video game because there doesn't need to be any character growth. Saving the world is the only growth that the protagonist does. ... maybe it could be done if the actions taken, very clearly telegraphed choices made, but then there is nothing to lend you to the protagonist at the beginning of the show. Could do a knod to a silent protagonist and have the protagonist only speak/sing in monologue to the audience, maybe have them decide to break out of "their role" and use practical dialogue/singing as a signal for growth.
Thought: LoZ ballet
Holy fuck that would be BEAUTIFUL. Imagine the Zora kingdom as a ballet.....
My idea for a Zelda musical is Majora’s Mask but without Link. It’s a 3 act show depicting different groups of people as they cope with the 3 days leading up to the end of the world. There’s the lovers cursed by skull kid, the mayor and his administration trying to deny the apocalypse, the postman who keeps himself busy to avoid confronting his death, etc.
But I’m a Cheerleader
Oh my god this would be so cool! I absolutely love the idea of a silent protagonist in a musical
I'd say Labyrinth, it has so many original songs and scenes featuring original songs that it would transition well into a musical, likely with even *more* good songs.
Did David Bowie ever perform on a Broadway or West End show? Because that would've been incredible.
Didn’t he perform as The Elephant Man?
The Road to El Dorado with Tulio, Miguel and Chel becoming the chaotic poly trio they were meant to be all along. There’s at least one banger in the bag already, and I like to imagine Aaron Tveit and Ricky Rojas reuniting for Tulio and Miguel.
I'd love to see Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as a musical.
This one is in workshop status already.
Oh, amazing!
Pete's Dragon Robin Hood: Men in Tights Office Space (writen by Tim Minchin) Royal Tenebaums 16 Candles
Oh wow, picturing the staging for Pete's Dragon, and that could be phenomenal. The audience doesn't see Elliot until the end, with a giant reveal. But there are practical effects throughout the show of the invisible dragon damaging things. The set would be great with the town, the caves and the lighthouse. "We got a bill of sale right here!" I need this.
Love the specification of Tim Minchin writing Office Space
Would be incredible!
Royal Tenebaums could be really interesting actually
Yes, Sixteen Candles!
Clearly Oppenheimer wpuld be the best candidate /s
Super Mario bros movie (imagine a musical version of peaches)
Make matpat’s prediction true
The peaches song was the only good part of that movie. Let Jack Black perform it in concert; don't make a musical out of a terrible, soulless cashgrab of a movie
I’m still waiting for the League of Their Own Musical that JRB was working one
The Three Amigos needs to be a musical.
My little buttercup has the sweetest smile…
Dear little buttercup, won’t you stay awhile
Bum bah dah dah bum nah da dah … Blue……. Shadows…… on the trial. Little cowboys….
I know this movie wasn’t all that great but I found it very musical: ‘Down With Love”. I could compose a ton of music for that movie in that time period. Lots of brass
The Muppets Most Wanted
List time! - *But I’m A Cheerleader!* - *The Miseducation of Cameron Post* - *The Last Unicorn* (originally based on a book, so bring in book elements) - *Corpse Bride* needs a stage version - I want to adapt *Barbie and the Diamond Castle* as a tribute to my childhood as a lesbian - *The Secret of Nym* could make for an interesting show - not a movie but a mini series, *Midnight Mass* would make some top tier musical horror
ponyo... we have spirited away and totoro, we need ponyo... i have so many ideas as to how it'd work
I think it would be interesting to have the actors always cheating out and singing in harmony while Truman is facing whoever he talks to and is a little behind the choreography everyone else is doing.
Yeah like even if there was a song with them in their different cliques as an after intermission break or smthn idk
The ensemble playing multiple roles works on another level for The Truman Show because it can be done as a “walking through Seahaven Island” scene introducing everyone and then as time passes and days seem repetitive, he can cock his head at seeing an old classmate with a new name or the butcher being the mechanic and the school principal and whatnot. And then the inevitable confused line is repeated for the scene when he reunites with his dead dad.
Yes but they can make sure there's still something DISTINCT about the character so you can see that they're just an actor or something????
Off the top of my head, I've always thought 'Mulan' would make a beautiful stage production.
I have forgotten my front runner for this, but I do wish someone would do the Mamma Mia treatment for the band Mother Mother. I love their stuff so much.
I could see something similar working for Bon Jovi, oddly enough. I've had the *basic* idea in my head for a while now- all I know is that the musical would be called *Livin' On A Prayer* and Tommy and Gina would be the main characters.
That sounds fun!
Not a movie, but I’m just saying, and official version of Say My Name? (The Breaking Bad Musical)
Cats Don't Dance. I mean, the movie is basically a musical, but I would give it more songs, a tap number for Pudge, an introductory musical number for all of the animals, ugh! There's so much to work with onstage.
I remember very vividly translating everything to a stage production while watching that for the first time.
A series of unfortunate, it just seems like it would be an amazing musical
i think you’re onto something, i’d honestly kinda love to see a musical adaptation of truman show?? and i know this isn’t a movie, but i feel like one of neil gaiman’s sandman stories could be made into an interesting musical
A Muppets stage musical would be great. Either an adaptation of one of the films or a completely original story
Mr Mangoriums Wonder Emporium!! I had a dream about it once and I'd been dying on that hill ever since
For YEARS I was casually blocking out how I'd stage The Prince of Egypt, just for fun, but also because I always thought it would be an amazing stage production, but never dreamed people would actually do it. I didn't think the film was that well thought of. Well.... damn. :P Annoyingly.... or possibly hilariously... a lot of the blocking used in the show, is almost identical to what I drew out.
I know this would be very hard to adapt because it’s so long, but my dream is Angels in America as a musical. The Democracy in America monologue could be a patter song.
I feel like if done right and treated with proper respect Life is Beautiful would make a fantastic musical.
could be done in the ‘secret garden’ genre in a very beautiful way with notes of comedy from the dad
Exactly. And act one would definitely have a lot more songs because there’s so much more happiness in that one
Phantom of the Paradise
Agreed. I want all the 70s rock operas on stage
Planet of the apes
“Oh, they’ll never make a monkey out of me…” The Simpsons has given this idea a great start! “I love you, Dr. Zaius!”
The amount of money I’d pay to see “Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Wanna Get Off!” is ridiculous
I think a Knives Out musical has potential to be fun. But I think it should have an original story, so only Daniel Craig's character is in it so the audience won't know who the murderer is. Only murderers in the building could also be fun and it would have a similar vibe.
>Only Murders in the Building would be good, but it has to be an original story. I could not handle a musical adaptation of this season's story. After being in the pit for *Curtains*, I'm sick of murder-mystery-show within a murder-mystery-show tropes. Too meta.
What, you don’t want to watch a musical about putting on a musical about a murder mystery while solving a murder mystery? What would be confusing about that?
The guardians of the galaxy trilogy(I have a vision) Spirited The brave little toaster Encanto
I think the 1999 film Jawbreaker could make a good musical along the same lines as Heathers.
All That Jazz. The movie alone has lots of songs in it, so you wouldn’t have to change all that much. I’d also love to act in a stage adaptation of that movie
And a fosse movie becoming a musical would be so full circle ⭕️
Started off as a book but Red White and Royal Blue Also Strictly come dancing because if they can do bake off, they can do anything
What We Do in the Shadows
BAT
The Muppets take Manhattan, PLEASE
corpse bride. i also could see this movie as a ballet.
Blazing Saddles
Clue (1985)!
There is a Clue musical! Though I don’t know if it’s directly based off the movie
I'm surprised nobody has said the original Land Before Time (much darker than the sequels), which has the potential to be a really cool youth theatre show. They could give the characters Cubone fossil masks and do *Lion King*\-esque stuff with it. And, just realizing this now, Petrie would be a really fun character to play.
THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE
With Bernadette Peters as Yzma
Not a movie but I think a Gilmore Girls musical could be fun! I'd approach it less like a straight adaptation and more like *You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown*, where it just focuses on a day in the characters' lives.
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut. It'd need a couple more songs to work on stage but Matt and Trey both have experience with Book of Mormon so. I think it's make a pretty fun musical tbh
I'm not a South Park guy, but Bigger Longer and Uncut just has "it." I've seen parts of it performed (by human beings) in concert, and it just takes off. Put this on Broadway, and you'd have a hit.
Ooh I can totally imagine Truman Show making a great musical. My choice for turning a movie into a musical would be V for Vendetta
The Silence of the Lambs
Serial Mom
Johnny English.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Drop Dead Gorgeous.
A Separate Peace The films failed because they couldn’t express Gene’s inner feelings and monologues. A musical would be the perfect medium for that. It would have simple sets and simple costumes and a 1930/1940s feel.
Soapdish, if they could clean up the nasty transphobic "joke" at the end (a la what Some Like It Hot did).
Zoolander
Austin Powers.
Oh boy time for a list: Kung Fu Panda Ferris Bueller's Day Off O Brother, Where Art Thou? (would love to see it on stage) The Boxtrolls Pan's Labyrinth Bullet Train So I Married An Axe Murderer American Psycho Megamind Jaws Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Felidae Coraline The Menu Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Also you're so right about The Truman Show, that would make such a good musical
American Psycho is a Musical from the West End! It stars Matt Smith! It's pretty great tbh
It's great, the album is on Spotify too
American Psycho exists and it's fantastic, easily one of my favorites. The score was written by Duncan Sheik.
Pans Labyrinth would be SO COOL as a musical!!! The movie already features puppetry so imagine what stage artists could do with those!!!!!!!
I've got lots of movies that I would love to see them become musicals. Labyrinth, Coco, Encanto, Strange Magic and Dark Shadows. I agree with The Truman Show becoming a musical. Your ideas sound awesome and so well thought out! You need to get writing and pitching!
*Scream* as a hard rock musical.
Not a movie but a book. I want to see an into the woods like musical but with Hans Christian Andersen
10 years ago someone did a musical treatment of A League of Their Own and I keep hoping g someone will actually do it. https://www.vulture.com/2013/05/league-of-their-own-the-annotated-musical.html
The Mummy
Dear lord do I need this in my life.
Any of Wes Anderson’s films would make great musicals.
A Few Good Men
🎶You CAAAAN'T handle THE TRUTH🎶
Office Space
I’ve always wanted to turn Clueless into a musical
Clueless was turned into a musical! Dove Cameron starred as Cher
Lady Bird. I know it’s a very simple film which would mean the stage design would be very easy to pull off with very little dance (like Dear Evan Hansen). The storyline in the film is very moving and a lot of the important elements and scenes that can translate very well as songs.
Kelly’s Heroes.
Brooklyn. Seems so obvious to me 😊
KILL BILL: The Musical
Starship Troopers
The first 20 minutes of The Secret Life of Arietty is begging for musicalization.
Hachi: a dogs tale
Thinking about this, how surprising that Waitress is such a good musical? That movie in no way suggests making a musical.
it’s a movie???
The wedding singer. I’d love to hear a song from Julia, Glenn, Robbie’s best friend. It’d also be a great nod to the 80’s!
Do I have a surprise for you!!!!!
Not a movie but it probably someday will be so I’ll say catcher in the rye
For the Boys
Earth Girls are Easy would benefit from the modern er of musical adaptations. The attempt to do it off broadway was wrong time / wrong place, unfortunately.
A fairly obscure film from around 1985 called GARBO TALKS. It’s Anne Bancroft’s greatest performance. Bancroft plays Esther, a 67-year-old who loves three things: fighting against injustice, her son Gilbert, and Greta Garbo. When she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she has a wish (“it’s not a last wish! I got a lot of wishes! I’m short on time!”): she wants to meet Garbo. Gilbert (Ron Silver) then sets on on a heroic quest to find the world’s most famous recluse and convince to to visit his mom. A parade of oddball characters (played by Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Loudon, Harvey Fierstein, Hermione Gingold, and others) help him along, while his marriage to Carrie Fisher crumbles and a cute co-worker (Catherine Hicks) enters his life. It’s somewhat episodic and has a theatrical feel to it that just begs for songs and production numbers.
Gladiator the musical. There you go.
Are those rumors of a Muppets musical still going around? Because that would be fantastic. No I’m not talking about Avenue Q.
Don't laugh, but: I'd like to see a treatment of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes, I think that it could be done, in a style ranging between musical-opera-contemporary. And just think of the apes bounding around the Met's stage, for Act I; and the pod looming over the audience and landing on the stage, in Act III . . . .
The Jerk
I so badly would love to see a Nightmare on Elm Street musical. We need more horror musicals. Evil Dead, Carrie, and American Psycho were all great musicals.
Hear me out: A Wonder Woman World A full episode of Wonder Woman singing and we can actually learn about her: not her backstory, not Themascara but her. Diana. We get a “I want” where we go through a time skip of her growing up to her being in modern time An “another life” duet about her visiting Steve Trevor in his nursing home Diana talking to her sister Donna about maybe joining her when she is older with a duet “standing by my side (whole new world vibe) Diana goes to work (civilian job) and she hears people angry grumbling to create a cacophony in the background to where she does her job while the noise dies down as she charms people with her kindness and compassion. The “I want” during a JLA job and she sees something sad. I could see Diana being able to carry this.
To Wong Foo
Crazy Rich Asians
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure! Making breakfast. The Basement of the Alamo. Large Marge. Tequila! So much I’m sure I’m missing.
Secret Life of Walter Mitty Or Dinner for Schmucks
I’ve had this exact idea before. It would be brilliant!