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Post by joem on Mar 10, 2017 10:07:29 GMT
I nominate Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
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Post by thebearofwestend on Mar 10, 2017 10:11:12 GMT
Pocahontas
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 13:52:57 GMT
None.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 13:54:49 GMT
I nominate Jonathan Livingston Seagull. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:14:15 GMT
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler. On the same lines The Wasp Factory |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:15:26 GMT
2 girls 1 cup
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 10, 2017 14:44:13 GMT
The Time Travellers Wife. Unless you get a fair bit of smoke and mirrors involved.
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Post by joem on Mar 10, 2017 15:48:37 GMT
I nominate Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Game, set and match to you sir. |
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Post by viserys on Mar 10, 2017 16:06:06 GMT
I would nominate The Last Unicorn. I love the book (and by extension the movie which was one of my favorites as a child) and I think there is plenty of potential for great songs in it. But I just don't see how they can convincingly create a single four-legged creature among two-legged humans that doesn't look like a panto horse. A theatre in Germany had a stab at it some years ago and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 16:18:05 GMT
I would nominate The Last Unicorn. I love the book (and by extension the movie which was one of my favorites as a child) and I think there is plenty of potential for great songs in it. But I just don't see how they can convincingly create a single four-legged creature among two-legged humans that doesn't look like a panto horse. A theatre in Germany had a stab at it some years ago and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either. Oh god I was OBSESSED with the film as a kid! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 17:05:04 GMT
A complete Finnegan's Wake would be a bit of a stretch.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 17:24:24 GMT
A complete Finnegan's Wake would be a bit of a stretch. Read the question! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 17:28:04 GMT
Jumanji.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 17:43:30 GMT
A complete Finnegan's Wake would be a bit of a stretch. Read the question! It's a dense, allusive, literary work that often resorts to its own made up language. I'd put it as being right near the top of difficult works to stage as a whole. I don't believe in absolute impossibility, anything might just work, however challenging. riverrun had a stab at a bit of it but that was a mere fragment of the whole. "a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs". A nice challenge for anyone. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 17:52:12 GMT
Taken or any other action movie like that could be difficult to put on stage and probably not great.
A Pixar movie like up,walle or inside out could be a challenge to put to stage.
I would like to see a planet of the apes musical but it would have to be their version on the Simpsons
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Post by Jan on Mar 10, 2017 18:01:20 GMT
Gone With The Wind - and I've got proof.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 10, 2017 19:11:09 GMT
I'm with HG on this. I truly believe everything could be adapted.
I would be interested into why people think various pieces can't be adapted
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 19:57:40 GMT
I disagree with the idea that you couldn't do The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler. You'd either need to cast it REALLY carefully to preserve Gene Kemp's story-telling technique, or you could jettison that whole idea and just focus on the brilliant characters and story. It's SUCH a good book, there's way more to it than just what unimaginative people might consider a problem.
I think puppetry might be a decent idea for The Wasp Factory, there are some extremely vivid visuals that it would be a shame not to realise as faithfully as possible.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 19:58:58 GMT
I'm with HG on this. I truly believe everything could be adapted. I would be interested into why people think various pieces can't be adapted Think The Crying Game. That's what they're saying. But The Crying Game managed it, even though you don't have quite as much creative freedom in film as you do in theatre. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 21:08:48 GMT
Taken or any other action movie like that could be difficult to put on stage and probably not great. It depends how you adapt them. Eddie Ladd had a hit with her two solo Scarface shows, Scarface and the shorter Scarface Sawn-Off, |
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 10, 2017 22:34:19 GMT
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler. Why not? The author claimed that the reveal was accidental and isn't particularly important. In fact she dramatised it herself for schools (and there was a tv adaptation) Re Catcher in the Rye - it's no more internal than Curious Incident and I can imagine it getting the same treatment (if the rights were ever made available). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 22:57:58 GMT
On the same lines The Wasp Factory |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 11, 2017 8:51:40 GMT
I thought Jaws until I saw The Glass Menagerie
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Post by Jan on Mar 11, 2017 8:56:57 GMT
I'm with HG on this. I truly believe everything could be adapted. I would be interested into why people think various pieces can't be adapted Think The Crying Game. That's what they're saying. But The Crying Game managed it, even though you don't have quite as much creative freedom in film as you do in theatre. You have far more creative freedom in film than you do in the theatre, far more, it is not even close, CGI and animation being only one difference. |
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 11, 2017 9:11:18 GMT
I agree with those who have said that anything can be adapted. I truly believe that any source material has the POTENTIAL to be adapted effectively to the stage - it only depends on who is hired to work on it, and what direction they decide to go with it. I think it's especially true if you don't limit it to musicals, which are much harder to write effectively. That isn't to say that a lot of them wouldn't end up being terrible, because it's very difficult to know exactly what choices to make in order to make the material adapt well, but I think it's always possible to make choices that work.
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