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We all have our dream Broadway musical adaptations of kind of oldish movies, but for some reason the topic very rarely comes up in conversation. Think about it — the last time you and your friends mulled it over at a party, did the topic come up naturally or did you really have to force it, over and over again, before someone finally took the bait? Mmhm. Luckily for us, though, today we have the perfect lead-in from The New York Times:
The stage adaptation of “Flashdance,” based on the 1983 movie about a female welder-dancer, will begin performances on Broadway in Aug. 2013, the show’s producers announced on Tuesday. A theater, dates and casting are still to be announced.
A Broadway run of “Flashdance” has been in the works for several years. Following a 2010 London production, a group of veteran theater producers announced last year that the show would come to Broadway in the fall of 2012. In May, however, the producer Marc Routh said the show would be pushed to spring 2013, citing a lack of available Broadway theaters this fall, and to give time for more work to be done on the show.
Ok, so Flashdance is already off the table, as is Austin Powers, not to mention Bring It On and Once and Sister Act and Newsies and Ghost and The Lion King and Marry Poppins, et cetra, but I’m sure you can think of a few others. Like, what are the ones you always think about? It’s fine if you just want to say those! You don’t have to reinvent your Movie-To-Broadway dreams, just share them. My choices are obviously Clueless and The Shining and almost definitely Buffalo ’66. But you know what else would be great? DROP DEAD FRED. Especially if they can get Rik Mayall to reprise his roll. And maybe So I Married An Axe Murderer? WHO KNOWS! Maybe they should just remake all the movies into musicals and we’ll go from there. What do you think???????
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National Treasure.
what about a Nic Cage movie to musical medley? Nicolas Cage aux Follies!
Spaceballs
StopThe Planet of The Apes…I Want To Get Off
Hairpray (the remake, not the original)
Really anything by Robert Altman.
“you couldn’t hear the two leads, as they mumbled the majority of their lyrics, and in other songs, there must’ve been at least 15 chorus members all singing different words and melodies from one another. it was a jumbled mess”
“It was a jumbled AWESOME”
fixed it for you.
A musical version of the Mickey Rourke – Don Johnson classic Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is something I dream about often.
Grizzly Man
Milo & Otis
Melancholia featuring the 11o’clock number, “It Takes Like Ashes”
The Oogieloves
Arrested Development: The Movie: The Musical
Six seasons and a movie and a Broadway musical!
Well, if we are going to pick TV shows, then obviously Veronica Mars!
Hotel For Dogs — starring real life singing and dancing dogs!!
Caligula
Way, way to big. But you get the idea.
Way to DREAM big, more like. Reach for the Starfighters, Spicy Pizza.
12-year-old me just SQUUEEEEE’D at that.
how have I never heard of this movie? Why was it never on repeat on AMC?
It’s a travesty up there with any other travesty you can think of.
Oh, thanks, now I have to order this movie off of Amazon, thanks a lot.
Oh, also, until this happens you just watch “The Music Man.”
Taken
Primer
A History of Violence. The smoldering, pre-69 duet would top the itunes charts for sure.
The Remote from Click: The Musical
Step Up 2 The Stage
Wet Hot American Musical!
They’re already working on a sequel or prequel, why not make it a musiquel.
Forget musicals. I want to see Blue Valentine on ice!
Mulholland Drive, and it will have a really wonderful grand finale “Silencio!”. Can’t you just picture it? Everyone wearing blue wigs? Perfect Broadway show. Perfect.
No hay banda! Silencio! No hay banda! *Boom* *boom* *boom*
Irreversible staring Akin and Ryan
Eat Pray Love
Drop Dead Fred is one of those movies I saw like 50 times when I was a kid and then caught most of it on TV not too long ago and realized what a piece of shit it is. Sometimes I think I should actively avoid every piece of pop culture that was important to me when I was very young. It may be the only way to protect the reputation of these things. Drop Dead Fred should’ve DEFINITELY stayed in the taped up Jack In The Box, if you catch my drift.
My choice for a broadway musical is Showgirls.
Howard the Duck
Featuring the climactic crescendo number ‘no more Mr. Nice Duck’
OMG OMG TWILIGHT AND THE HUNGER GAMES
- Votes from the Teen Corner
Pass me a Werther’s Original. It’s Teen Korner.
Jurassic Park, obviously.
Margaret
I’m Still Here
Solarbabies, with Lukas Haas reprising his role, somehow.
The Dark Knight: Turn on the Even Darker than Previously Imagined (K)night: The Musical-ish
Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4
‘Phantom of the Opera’, as long as it’s the 2004 version.
There Will Be Blood.
I made a Shining Musical in my high school! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGSsZwHO5U
Robocop