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| Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:00 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
| In reply to: Netflix should re-film great musicals made into terrible movies - Zelgo 09:05 am EST 12/01/20 | |
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| Not necessarily at Netflix, but wherever. Great (or even just good) musicals that had been made into terrible movies? They could begin with every Broadway musical filmed before the mid-1950s. Then they could move on, as PlayWiz suggests below, to Fanny and Irma La Douce, both of which lost their entire scores in Hollywood. And then they could move on to the ones that merely lost most of their scores in Hollywood, like The Unsinkable Molly Brown and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. And then they could move on to all the ones that maybe didn't lose that much of their scores but were botched through miscasting or for some conceptual reason, like Kiss Me, Kate, Brigadoon, Kismet, and Sweeney Todd, just to name a few. |
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| re: Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:41 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! - keikekaze 05:00 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| While they don't have the full scores as heard on Broadway, the '36 Show Boat and the '43 Girl Crazy (with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney) were certainly not botched and are quite enjoyable. | |
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| re: Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 06:17 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! - BroadwayTonyJ 12:41 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| In the original version of my post, I put in a parenthetical exception for the '36 Show Boat, then decided that weakened the flow of the sentence so I just took it out. No, that one isn't a botch. | |
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| Kiss Me, Kate? Sweeney Todd? | |
| Posted by: shocktheatre 12:23 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: Now there's a project that would keep a lot of people employed for a long, long time! - keikekaze 05:00 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I can't call those films "botched." And "Kismet" does have the fabulous Dolores Gray. | |
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| re: Kiss Me, Kate? Sweeney Todd? | |
| Last Edit: keikekaze 06:36 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 06:31 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: Kiss Me, Kate? Sweeney Todd? - shocktheatre 12:23 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| The movie of Kiss Me, Kate has one sequence that is absolutely sublime--the dance for six to "From This Moment On"--but the rest is a mess. Cutting "Another Opening, Another Show," re-assigning "Too Darn Hot," taking the most dramatic song in the score ("So In Love") right out of its dramatic context and turning it into a who-cares audition song--yeesh. And I'm sorry, I just plain don't like Kathryn Grayson. With all that, I don't actually dislike the movie of Kiss Me, Kate. But it could be so much better. The movie of Sweeney Todd is fine if all you want is a Johnny Depp movie. It isn't the musical. The musical is a grand Big Sing, for grand big voices. I agree with you about Dolores Gray, but there could easily exist a better film version of Kismet than the one we have now. |
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| re: Kiss Me, Kate? Sweeney Todd? | |
| Posted by: shocktheatre 06:56 pm EST 12/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Kiss Me, Kate? Sweeney Todd? - keikekaze 06:31 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| We don't get the robust singing in the film version of SWEENEY TODD, but we damn hell get the essence and musicality and the horror, which is enough for me. The Sondheim score fills in the blanks of the adequate vocals in this tilm, and, supporting players Ed Sanders and others more than satisfy me. This MOVIE would never have gotten made without Depp and Tim Burton, and I am a fan for life that they got it done. I'm a big horror fan, and a big musical fan, and for me this worked 100 percent. From what I've read, Mr. Sondheim is on board with this opinion. |
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