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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 6:36:15 GMT
Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful People. Bring Sam Barnett, Olivia Coleman, Meera Syal back in their roles, have Luke and Layton involved somehow, anyhow, they were so good! Guest stars too... like the TV series. Musically there's an assortment of musical theatre numbers, Kylie, the Spice Girls, and anything else you want to throw in. It's a beautiful coming of age story with flashbacks, laughs, tears, an obsession with Princess Diana, and a sprinkling of camp. Okay, perhaps more than a sprinkling. Can't see how it would fail.
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 12, 2017 20:42:53 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_We_Dance_(1937_film)When An American in Paris came out a few of us on here lamented that the Gershwin's (well George really) didn't really have a solid gold show. AAIP undoubtedly has it moments as do Girl Crazy/ Crazy for you but the feeling remains there's so much great music and songs that something more could be done. When AAIP has been gone 5 years my plan is to mortgage the house, get the rights to this and a new book writer and make my fortune. Now who wants to help me explain this to Mrs Snow?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 0:15:23 GMT
I know someone suggested Coming to America, I was thinking that could be a great vehicle for someone like Layton Williams with say Matt Henry in the Arsenio Hall role and maybe Clive Rowe as the King or if you wanted a more regal type presence Don Warrington. To do an all black cast would be a great diversity statement and if you got some of the older generation of black actors to play the barber shop characters Eddie Murphy was made up into in the film, it would be a nice touch too.
Lets not suggest Cynthia Eviro auditions for the royal penis washer though.
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Post by danb on Sept 28, 2017 4:56:14 GMT
I know someone suggested Coming to America, I was thinking that could be a great vehicle for someone like Layton Williams with say Matt Henry in the Arsenio Hall role and maybe Clive Rowe as the King or if you wanted a more regal type presence Don Warrington. To do an all black cast would be a great diversity statement and if you got some of the older generation of black actors to play the barber shop characters Eddie Murphy was made up into in the film, it would be a nice touch too. Lets not suggest Cynthia Eviro auditions for the royal penis washer though. Auditions? Do you KNOW who she is?😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 6:18:06 GMT
To do an all black cast would be a great diversity statement It may very well make a great statement, but there would be a significant absence of diversity among an all black cast. |
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Post by floorshow on Sept 28, 2017 7:35:01 GMT
....if we can have Bat Out Of Hell, we can surely do something with Alice Cooper's catalogue. ^ this! I'd like to see a complete production of Franz Liebkind's Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden It could run for years! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 8:08:06 GMT
'Inside Daisy Clover' could work. It's an excellent book and good film already (with Natalie Wood), wherein a teenaged tomboy with a golden voice is plucked from obscurity for movie stardom, put through the questionable rigours of the Hollywood star system, sticks her crazy mother in a home, burns out on booze and drugs and marries a closeted homosexual. There's echoes of Judy Garland in the story. A musical would practically write itself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 23:06:39 GMT
Would Harvey Milk the musical work?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 28, 2017 23:14:59 GMT
I believe there is already an opera based on his life - so there is no reason why it couldn't also work as a piece of musical theatre
You would have to get the tone right - but it can be done.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 23:16:51 GMT
His story has already been made into an opera, back in 1995.
As a musical? Not so sure
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Post by ali973 on Sept 28, 2017 23:27:43 GMT
Andrew Lippa did an oratorio version, not sure if this is what the kids above are talking about. Kristen Chenoweth featured in one of the performances they did in San Fran not too long ago.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 28, 2017 23:30:51 GMT
Merged.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 13:50:03 GMT
To do an all black cast would be a great diversity statement It may very well make a great statement, but there would be a significant absence of diversity among an all black cast. Perhaps I should have said inclusivity. The more I think about that film the better an idea of a musical sounds, the wet look Jehri Curl guy, the girl's father who Akeem works for, there are a lot of good characters who could be given songs not just the main couple of guys.
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Post by sf on Sept 30, 2017 13:56:17 GMT
Someday, somewhere, someone has to produce a stage version of the very, very strange Japanese zombie movie musical 'The Happiness of the Katakuris'.
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Post by loureviews on Oct 1, 2017 19:59:52 GMT
I'm surprised no one has tackled Pretty Woman.
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 1, 2017 20:14:38 GMT
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Post by loureviews on Oct 2, 2017 7:15:35 GMT
Well there you go. Hadn't heard about that one!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 7:35:58 GMT
The new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm follows the repurcussions of Larry writing the musical Fatwa! about Salmon Rushdie.
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Post by drowseychap on Oct 12, 2017 0:12:43 GMT
Bed knobs and broom sticks .... come on bobbing along singing a song .....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 0:28:39 GMT
Tim Minchin said in The Guardian Facebook live interview the other day (with him and Dennis Kelly about Matilda) that he has had the movie/book "Stardust" as an idea for a musical. I think it would be pretty great to see, especially as Matilda and Groundhog Day are both incredible.
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Post by daniel on Oct 12, 2017 0:56:20 GMT
Tim Minchin said in The Guardian Facebook live interview the other day (with him and Dennis Kelly about Matilda) that he has had the movie/book "Stardust" as an idea for a musical. I think it would be pretty great to see, especially as Matilda and Groundhog Day are both incredible. ...featuring the music of Take That?  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 1:55:52 GMT
Tim Minchin said in The Guardian Facebook live interview the other day (with him and Dennis Kelly about Matilda) that he has had the movie/book "Stardust" as an idea for a musical. I think it would be pretty great to see, especially as Matilda and Groundhog Day are both incredible. ...featuring the music of Take That? I said Tim MINCHIN not Tim FIRTH 😉 As as great as "Rule The World" is, it was only used for the credits so I doubt it would be used. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 6:39:09 GMT
Stardust is a great film if its the one I'm thinking of? (Michelle Pfeiffer right?) Visually I can see it fitting well into Minchin's previous credits!
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 12, 2017 10:40:27 GMT
There was an article a week or so ago saying that Pushing Daises writer Bryan Fuller thinks that Tim Minchin would make a good Pushing Daises musical.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2017 11:38:12 GMT
There was an article a week or so ago saying that Pushing Daises writer Bryan Fuller thinks that Tim Minchin would make a good Pushing Daises musical. I ADORED Pushing Daisies. It was super quirky and it was gorgeous visually. Too bad the writers strike cut it short. The cast was full of broadway talent and i would rush to see a musical of it in a heartbeat. I urge everyone to check it out. Ned the Pieman will break your heart. |
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