| There used to be a rule that the stage run and tours had to be closed before a movie could be made | |
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| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 03:18 pm EDT 07/10/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Dreamgirls... but not in the way you meant - Likeitlots 02:29 pm EDT 07/10/24 | |
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| "Oklahoma!" premiered in 1943 and the movie got made 12 years later because the show ran so long and Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't sell the movie rights until the show closed both in New York and on tour. Most movie adaptations of musicals required that the stage version not compete with the movie as it was felt that a movie would cut into the stage show's box office. That sort of changed with the movie of "Chicago" where the Broadway show (which is now the longest running revival and hasn't closed) got a boost from the concurrent successful movie adaptation (whatever you think of the movie's cut songs and MTV editing that turns dance sequences into a series of spliced together individual steps rather than a continuous series of movements). Then suddenly shows that were still open on Broadway got movie adaptations. I think that the success of the "Chicago" film spurred a spate of movie musicals and some really failed artistically and financially - the movie of "Nine" for example and more recently the "Cats" disaster. Also, there are a lot of musical films that have been bruited for movie adaptations and remakes that never got done. The "My Fair Lady" remake with Carey Mulligan and Emma Thompson penning the screenplay is one. The "Gypsy" remake with Barbra Streisand with a script by Julian Fellowes. The "Sunset Boulevard" projects which got quite far into pre-production with Meryl Streep or Glenn Close. Was there a "Carousel" remake announced with Hugh Jackman? Hugh Jackman was attached to a lot of proposed movie musicals that never happened. But over the years there have been a lot of bad movie adaptations of shows but the stage version still gets done. "A Chorus Line" is one example. "Man of La Mancha" had a bad film adaptation with non-singers but the show still got revived and performed regionally. Also, stage versions of "Cabaret" now include movie songs like the revised "Money Song" and "Maybe This Time" that are not in the original show. Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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