- Woody Allen is adapting Bullets Over Broadway into a Broadway musical.
- In advance of its Broadway debut this spring, Rebecca Milzoff reevaluates Newsies, the film.
If any Allen film is going to get the Broadway treatment, shouldn't it be Crimes and Misdemeanors? Songs including "The Eyes of God (Are Upon Us)," "I Know A Guy," "I No Longer Have Eyes For You," and, of course, "I've Gone Out the Window."
I think "Take the Money and Run" would have a nice arc for a musical. "Second Cello (In a Marching Band)"; "I have a G-U-B"; A Busy Day at the Bank, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnnie Hall -- the main character is a singer.
ReplyDeleteI recently watched Newsies for the first time, and couldn't really get to the cult worship of the film. It was slow and tonally just whacked - there was enough gritty realism to make the musical numbers seem way out of place, but not enough to make them "Pennies from Heaven"-like escapes from reality.
ReplyDeleteAnd my favorite song from Crimes! has to be "If it Bends."
Love and Death as a musical. "Pistols at Dawn" would be a highlight.
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to it! "If it bends, it's funny" has been part of my family's speech since we saw the movie way back when.
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ReplyDeleteI get the sense that folks around here are either lukewarm on Midnight in Paris, or just flat out don't like it, but c'mon, it could be a play in a heartbeat. I mean, you have Cole Porter and Josephine Baker as characters, just begging for numbers.
ReplyDeleteI would enjoy Ernest Hemingway's rendition of "Dying in the Mud (Noble and Brave)".
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of twisting that would need doing to take care of the nonlinear narrative, but any musical that ends with "We All Need the Eggs" can't be that bad.
ReplyDeleteI'd see that, if just for the brief duet "Sometimes When I'm Driving (On the Road at Night) (I'm Due Back on Planet Earth)."
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked by the number of people who actually see Woody Allen movies. I'm going to Paris in April and people can not stop recommending that I see Midnight in Paris. I always reply that I don't see Woody Allen movies. I had someone earlier this week ask me why. When I mentioned Soon-Yi, she said, "He's crazy, always been crazy. I don't even think about that."
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one still hung up on that?
Do you watch Morgan Freeman movies?
ReplyDeleteApparently not anymore. I actually haven't seen a Morgan Freeman movie since 2009, which, according to my google search for "morgan freeman scandal" was when that insanity hit the tabloids.
ReplyDeleteI'm horrified. Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies but good lord. What is wrong with people???
That's got the kickline, right?
ReplyDeleteI did not know that. Now I can't un-know that.
ReplyDeleteWHOA. I have no words. I wish I could un-know that.
ReplyDeleteChristy, it keeps me from enjoying Woody Allen movies, the same way I can no longer enjoy Mel Gibson movies. (Don't know if I would still enjoy Sleeper if I watched it again, or Take the Money and Run, but I think not as Woody plays himself in everything and I can't find him sympathetic at all.)
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