Movies-to-Stage. On Musical Adaptations
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 6:15PM Today we've turned the blog over to Tom Mizer, one half of the songwriting team Mizer & Moore...
Musicals have alwasy been adapted from non-musical material
by Tom Mizer
Can I admit something and you promise not to judge me? My writing partner and I are working on adapting some movies into stage musicals. If eye-rolling made a sound, I bet I would hear a thousand violent swooshes. “Not another movie made into a musical! Why can’t there be original musicals?”...
Here’s the deal: musicals have always been built largely on the foundations of other forms, whether adapted from novels (South Pacific, Show Boat) or straight plays (Oklahoma, My Fair Lady) or, yes, movies. Musicals are incredibly difficult to make work; there are so many moving parts that having the framework of a good story already in place can be an enormous advantage...