What are some Movies you would like to see turned into Broadway musicals? Obviously, Disney hits have already taken to the stage (though Hunchback of Notre Dame sure is taking its time), as well as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Shrek and beyond.

Name some of your choices for what films you think would adapt well to the stage and why.

Just just go 80s here.

Cheesy fun 80s: Girls Just Want to Have Fun. That is just screaming for a musical treatment

Fantasy Fun 80s: Princess Bride. If someone is that ambitious, try Neverending Story

Molly 80s: Breakfast Club (although I think it'd work better as a play) Pretty In Pink.

That's it for starters. haha

I'm actually surprised no one has tried Princess Bride yet. It seems like the quirky witty fantasy romance that Broadway goes for ever once in a while.

Breakfast Club could work if someone could figure out how to show the kids sneaking around the school.

Haven't seen Girls Just Want to Have Fun, though the title song is already stuck in my head.

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A Separate Peace would make a great musical, although it's more well known as a book than a movie.

Agreed that The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be an excellent musical, with its haunting and elegiac score. The movie already plays out like a Broadway Musical, and "Out There" and "God Help the Outcasts" are already destined to be showstoppers. With added songs by Schwartz (I'm already dying from imagining a second-act quintet between Quasimodo, Phoebus, Esmeralda, Frollo and Clopin), it really could put Disney on Broadway back to the level of critical and financial success it saw with Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.

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A Separate Peace would make a great musical, although it's more well known as a book than a movie.

Haven't actually heard of it. Or maybe I know about it, just not by its title.... which doesn't make sense, but whatever.

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Agreed that The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be an excellent musical, with its haunting and elegiac score. The movie already plays out like a Broadway Musical, and "Out There" and "God Help the Outcasts" are already destined to be showstoppers. With added songs by Schwartz (I'm already dying from imagining a second-act quintet between Quasimodo, Phoebus, Esmeralda, Frollo and Clopin), it really could put Disney on Broadway back to the level of critical and financial success it saw with Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.

No kidding. "Out There" would be the Tony song for whoever played Quasi. No actors pop out at me right away, but ya know.

"Hellfire" would be incredible if done with the correct set designer and lighting team. Wow. Just thinking about it gives me chills. If someone like Frank Langella could sing, he'd be perfect.

I'll post links to several songs I like from that film, just for everyone to enjoy who don't own the movie.

And yeah, after Little Mermaid (really, was that necessary?), I think Disney could use a new Broadway stunner.

BELLS OF NOTRE DAME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnh-sxaBwk

GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEEpavnk7Uw

OUT THERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCALg2levk

HEAVEN'S LIGHT/HELLFIRE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...s9Jo&feature=related

Also for your viewing pleasure, a performance of Hunchback at Disney's MGM Studios. It has interesting tricks and turns, but its apparently shot with a VHS initially. Sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ext_from=PL&index=20

I actually am quite shocked that Dreamworks has not mounted a stage production of The Prince of Egypt. It has a ready score and tons of potential to be a big Broadway hit. Other than that, I hope composers start taking a cue from Next to Normal and get away from making every film into a musical.

I actually think my favorite movie-to-musical is Billy Elliot. A lot of the pathos in the original film as well as its social context are actually enhanced on stage; and of course it's an entirely theatrical approach to the story that has the advantage of allowing the dance to be fully realized.

Nothing would be more exciting to me than if they adapted

JUNO

as a broadway musical..i think it would be brilliant

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I actually am quite shocked that Dreamworks has not mounted a stage production of The Prince of Egypt. It has a ready score and tons of potential to be a big Broadway hit. Other than that, I hope composers start taking a cue from Next to Normal and get away from making every film into a musical.

Prince of Egypt was a tremendous film, and one of the only DreamWorks animations I can watch over and over again. Just thinking about the sets overwhelming a Broadway stage makes me wonder.

Even though its the point of this discussion, I agree that too many movie-to-musicals will make the Great White Way look like the Vegas strip. Doing film adaptations for the sake of it is getting to be annoying; I only like them when the choice was inspired, like Billy Elliot or Lion King.

Speaking of which, R2684, I would actually not be surprised if they tried to do a musical movie of Billy Elliot. It might actually be pretty awesome, if the cinematography was up to the challenge (the camerawork for so many movie musicals nowadays is stoic and boring; see Mamma Mia and The Producers for examples).

Really, Oscarnutlen? I don't know if you realize, but the ScreenVision crew actually went around interviewing people, and that was one of the joke musicals people proposed. Right alongside No Country for Old Men. How funny would that be?

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Besides, what would the musical numbers for Juno be? "Marked With Urine," "Crapload of Sunny D," and "Desperately Seeking Spawn?" Haha.

Oh, I don't think we need musical movie of Billy Elliot. The musical is excellent, the movie is excellent...I'm not that interested in seeing a hybrid of the two.

A couple of friends and me are in the beginning stages of writing the book & score to a musical adaptation of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Aaron Tveit is on temporary loan toCatch Me If You Can. It has an amazing cast: along with Tveit, there's Norbert Leo Butz, Kerry Butler, Tom Wopat, and Linda Hart, with Jack O'Brien directing and Jerry Mitchell penning the score. Sounds like it has potential.

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Aaron Tveit is on temporary loan toCatch Me If You Can. It has an amazing cast: along with Tveit, there's Norbert Leo Butz, Kerry Butler, Tom Wopat, and Linda Hart, with Jack O'Brien directing and Jerry Mitchell penning the score. Sounds like it has potential.

Mitchell is the choreographer. Mark Shaiman and Scott Whitman are writing the score. It's basically the entire Hairspray team.

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Originally posted by pIlIpinolegoLass:
Aaron Tveit is on temporary loan toCatch Me If You Can. It has an amazing cast: along with Tveit, there's Norbert Leo Butz, Kerry Butler, Tom Wopat, and Linda Hart, with Jack O'Brien directing and Jerry Mitchell penning the score. Sounds like it has potential.

I was just about to say what R2684 said. Mark Shaiman is writing the score with Whitman. I hope its even better than Hairspray; the whole idea has quite a good deal of potential.