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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 20, 2018 7:13:54 GMT
Downtown Abbey
Selfridges
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sliding Doors
Nuns on the Run
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Post by spendleb on Aug 20, 2018 7:59:32 GMT
The Pride film would make a great musical, maybe the whole miners strike thing has already been done with Billy Elliot?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 8:17:32 GMT
Last I heard, Matthew Warchus was already working to turn Pride into a musical. It obviously takes time to write songs and do workshops and all that, but it's less "if" and more "when" for that one.
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 20, 2018 11:29:50 GMT
I always wanted to do a musical about Walter Freeman - the guy who invented the lobotomy, but It happened in Key West kind of turned me off dark medical based musicals for a while :-p
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 20, 2018 11:57:22 GMT
It would be nice to see a mash up of ethnicities in a musical. West Side Story collides with Fiddler on the Roof via Jamaica. Kind a thing. Lots of dancing. With humour but no stereotypes. Kosher Jerk Chicken. You aren't allowed to mention Jerk without checking with Dawn Butler if it is ok these days... |
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Post by firefingers on Aug 20, 2018 12:15:27 GMT
A few musicals about the suffragette movement are in the works, with the most prominent running at The Old Vic next month. With Hamilton’s success people are scrambling to make a similar thing on British history. The problem being is most historical events have either been covered (say World War One or the minners’ strike) or would be unsavoury (being tied to our colonial history for example). Could see some Victoriana stuff coming up, such as Charles Babbage or Isambard Kingdom Brunel etc.
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Post by mallardo on Aug 20, 2018 13:48:26 GMT
The St. Trinian's films, especially the first iconic one. I would cast it in the same way with one actor playing both the headmistress (in drag) and her criminal brother. It's a fabulous double role for a big name actor. There are also great roles for the slithery Flash Harry and the female police officer. And of course the girls. There is no real leading man so that would have to be created. But, with the right score, I can definitely see this working
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 15:29:51 GMT
I have never seen the movie, but people talk highly of it. The movie Casablanca.
Re the St Trinians musical. I have never watched a St Trinians film to the end. Maybe there is enough story and laughs to be mined from all of them combined. Farces used to run for many years.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 15:45:18 GMT
Thinking about it, I'd like to see something along the lines of London Road but in regard to Grenfell.
Granted most like their musicals all *jazzhands* and *tapdance* I thought London Road was a really intelligent and well executed treatment of some very different subject matter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 17:04:00 GMT
Leslie Grantham
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 20, 2018 22:24:09 GMT
THE WORST WITCH!!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 21, 2018 6:58:20 GMT
It would be nice to see a mash up of ethnicities in a musical. West Side Story collides with Fiddler on the Roof via Jamaica. Kind a thing. Lots of dancing. With humour but no stereotypes. Kosher Jerk Chicken. In a recipie by Jamie Oliver |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 21, 2018 12:05:53 GMT
Jamie Oliver has gone all Italian now.
Maybe Levi Roots, with a bit of Reggae Reggae sauce, there you go Levi is a Hebrew, pre deluvian Old Testament name, so links Kosher Jerk Chicken.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 21, 2018 12:06:52 GMT
Rosa Parks would make an interesting musical.
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Post by jaqs on Aug 21, 2018 12:49:28 GMT
Shirley Bassey the musical, has there been one?
Obviously 'I can't sing' didn't work out but I still think a musical based on the reality competition shows could work.
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Post by drowseychap on Aug 22, 2018 0:22:15 GMT
Shirley Bassey the musical, has there been one? Obviously 'I can't sing' didn't work out but I still think a musical based on the reality competition shows could work. Ooooo yes Bassey the girl from tiger bay ❤️ |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 18:47:46 GMT
Is Flowers For Mrs Harris a British musical? if so that stands a chance of being a hit.
Love Story was brilliant, it may not have caught on commercially but it was a strong musical
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Post by danb on Aug 22, 2018 20:08:58 GMT
Is Flowers For Mrs Harris a British musical? if so that stands a chance of being a hit. Love Story was brilliant, it may not have caught on commercially but it was a strong musical Unfortunately they are the ones that are considered successful. No point being great if no-one ever sees it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 11:17:24 GMT
Queen Elizabeth Woodville I always thought had a story that deserved to be on stage.
Secretly married to the King of England, battles were fought, won and lost over her union with King Edward. She sought sanctuary in Westminster Abbey a number of times, her sons were the murdered Princes in the Tower, her mother was arrested as a witch, her Father beheaded without trial by her enemies, her daughter married to another enemy (Henry VII) and confined to live out her later life in an Abbey.
Depending on what you believe, it all happened because she and the King fell in love... at a time when that didn’t matter at all in nobility. But she was the wife of a King (Edward IV), Sister-in-law to a King (Richard III), Mother of a King (Edward V), Mother-in-law to a King (Henry VII) and Grandmother to a King (Henry VIII). Now how’s that for a supporting cast?
Her influence is even felt in the world today - she’s related to Queen Elizabeth II and her story was woven into Game of Thrones (Rob Stark’s wife).
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Post by viserys on Aug 23, 2018 11:24:58 GMT
She was the subject of the (sadly rather bad) TV series The White Queen, based on the novel by Philippa Gregory, played by the very bland Rebecca Ferguson. I'm not sure how you could squish her story and all these pepople in a musical though.
I agree though that there are plenty of interesting female characters in history that deserve their stories told. Composers/writers should just read the fabulous blog/book "Rejected Princesses" for inspiration!
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Post by viserys on Aug 23, 2018 18:36:59 GMT
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Post by hulmeman on Aug 23, 2018 18:45:35 GMT
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Post by viserys on Aug 23, 2018 18:50:46 GMT
Haha, that's awesome! Let's hope it goes somewhere.
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Post by ali973 on Aug 24, 2018 15:24:06 GMT
I don't know if this counts, but I recently started wanting a musical similar to Boys in the Band. An all-gay all-star musical with top gay leading men about current social issues. Jonathan Groff, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, just to name a few. I want everyone to leave the theatre with rainbows coming out of their ass.
I also would love see a musical version of Real Women Have Curves. It's an HBO film from the early 2000s (based on a play, I believe) that would be perfect as a small musical (written by Lin Manuel Miranda).
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