Why no remakes of musicals?
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Orang Utan
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Little Shop Of Horrors is a remake, I think
And Hairspray definitely, though it was a shit remake - oh wait that was a musical remake, rather than a remake of a musical, wasn't it?
And Hairspray definitely, though it was a shit remake - oh wait that was a musical remake, rather than a remake of a musical, wasn't it?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Footloose!
ah, wait, same as Hairspray
ah, wait, same as Hairspray
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Fame was a musical remake of a musical film of a musical I think
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
So many films seem to get remade after a while, some more successfully than others.
However musical films don't.
Why no remakes of West Side Story, Oliver! etc
Just be grateful that they haven't been.
Having said that Oliver Twist has been adapted, non-musically several times since. I can off the top of my head think think of the Bleezedale scripted BBC series and the film adaptation by Polanski. The original source of West Side Story, Romeo and Juiet has of course seen countless film and TV adaptations since the1960's.
Oliver and West Side Story were written for the stage and both have also seen several revivals on Broadway and in the West End over the years.
The above is a clip from West Side Story from the Proms in2012
Little Shop of Horrors and Hairspray were both filmed previously, but not as musicals but the musical films were based on stage musicals.
Footloose was filmed twice as a musical.
Fame was a musical remake of a musical film but had not previously been a musical.
Although there is at least one prominent one out at the moment, they don't tend to release musicals much anymore so I would guess this may be the main reason currently. Orang Utan mentioned a couple of recent ones in Fame and Footloose. Annie is another one of recent times.So many films seem to get remade after a while, some more successfully than others.
However musical films don't.
Why no remakes of West Side Story, Oliver! etc
Before that, musicals have been remade such as Show Boat and A Star is Born and I am sure many others.
PursuedByBears
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Reno
The In Kraut
A lot of film musicals already were remakes of non-musical films, often via stage shows (The Producers, Silk Stockings, Little Shop of Horrors, High Society, A Star is Born, Hairspray, Xanadu)
Musicals often get remade for TV, especially in recent years (The Sound of Music, Grease, Gypsy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Occasionally a musical film does get remade as a musical film (A Star is Born, Fame, Annie)
Musicals often get remade for TV, especially in recent years (The Sound of Music, Grease, Gypsy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Occasionally a musical film does get remade as a musical film (A Star is Born, Fame, Annie)
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The live action remake of Beauty and the Beast due to be released this year will be a musical. (But I'm not clear how many of the songs will be from the cartoon version).
Disney has done lots of remakes of cartoon musicals, but of the ones I've seen the remakes were not musicals.
High Society was a musical remake of the Philadelphia Story. The original is the better film, but the remake has Louis Armstrong and his Allstars, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
Disney has done lots of remakes of cartoon musicals, but of the ones I've seen the remakes were not musicals.
High Society was a musical remake of the Philadelphia Story. The original is the better film, but the remake has Louis Armstrong and his Allstars, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
My mum has a lot to answer for 
she compulsively made me watch musicals with her when i was little. For some unfortunate reason they have ALL stuck with me & I know the words to every.single.song. 
seven brides for seven brothers, Oklahoma, brigadoon, fiddler on the roof. sound of music, oliver, west side story, the king and i, carousel, south pacific.... The list is endless and today, almost 50 years later it is relentless. I'll suddenly find myself singing one, just like that, out of the blue! its some sort of disorder i swear 
she compulsively made me watch musicals with her when i was little. For some unfortunate reason they have ALL stuck with me & I know the words to every.single.song. seven brides for seven brothers, Oklahoma, brigadoon, fiddler on the roof. sound of music, oliver, west side story, the king and i, carousel, south pacific.... The list is endless and today, almost 50 years later it is relentless. I'll suddenly find myself singing one, just like that, out of the blue! its some sort of disorder i swear
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Those are proper musicals. Not ALW or this warbly shit they have now.My mum has a lot to answer for
There's nothing better than getting a few drinks in you and then belting out a rousing medley from the shows.
Just blew in from the Windy City...
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Maybe because they are 'remade' on stage regularly?
The new film is an adaptation of the stage adaptation of the cartoon, it's got all the songs from the original film plus new ones from the stage version.
I imagine Disney are already working on a live/CGI adaptation of the stage version of Lion King and/or Aladdin.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
True. And a significant proportion of "originals" are already film versions of successful musicals.
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