How to Properly Adapt Musicals for the Screen: Don't Be Afraid of the Broadway Sound

[@MsMojo]

Which movie musical do YOU think best encompasses the Broadway sound? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Movie Musicals We Want to Be Remade - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp_Pmp6oedGNY9U

[@kamsismith]

Grease

[@TheMll1985]

Tick tick boom

[@Whisper_292]

Jesus Christ Superstar

[@ChristoAbrie]

Connie and Carla. not a direct musical, but it does center on two women hiding out as drag queens at a dinner theatre where they star in their own drag-show and perform covers of several Broadway classics. The music is interwoven with the story and the two leads are seasoned stage performers, plus it features a cameo from Broadway legend Debbie Reynolds.

[@kamsismith]

The important part of adapting a Broadway musical and anything, in general, is to try to understand what made the source material appealing in the first place without alienating your audience.

[@trinaq]

Exactly, In the Heights understood the assignment, and was a better film for it.

[@kamsismith]

I loved that movie. I didn't know Jonathan Larson was a real person until they showed archival footage of him towards the end of the movie.

[@music4thesoul80]

​@@kamsismith - Oh wow. I'm gonna guess that you were either incredibly young in the latter half of the 90s or possibly not even born yet?

[@kamsismith]

@@music4thesoul80 I was born in the early 2000s.

[@RLucas3000]

Can you explain why neither the movie nor the live tv version (one of the best) of Hairspray the Musical included the song The Big Dollhouse (which I love!)? I know movies occasionally leave songs out, so I’m not so mad at the original, but then the live tv version had a chance to rectify this, and STILL didn’t include it. It’s such a good song on the Broadway score cd, you instantly know who each character is, all trapped together in a hilarious setting. (I do love that the TV musical gave Penny’s mom a mini redemption arc, thank you Andrea Martin.)

[@LaLayla99]

Movie musicals need to be directed AND produced by people who not only love musicals, but understand how film works. "Chicago" is my favorite modern movie musical and was the best stage to screen adaptation, giving us the best of both. "Tick Tick Boom" is a close second.

[@Fl0k5ser]

I hope Lin Manuel Miranda gets more opportunity to make more movie musicals. Tick Tick Boom cannot just be his debut and only musical movie, he has to make more. I'd be interested to see if he could adapt the Bring It On musical to movie form as he wrote the lyrics and the music

[@SuperEasywalker]

I know it’s not a movie musical, but SCHMICADOON definitely encapsulate mood of the musical, parody’s it without being ashamed, celebrates also.

[@fangwulf]

I LOVED Schmigadoon and it's a crime it isn't getting a third season! But I guess it'll join Galavant in those series I really wanted more of.

[@angelatimpone246]

Schmigadoon is one of my favorite shows ever, musical or otherwise. I haven’t really accepted that it’s been canceled yet. Galavant was excellent too.

[@stuartcampbell4626]

You put the corn in the puddin' And the puddin' in the bowl You put the bowl in your belly 'Cause it's good for the soul!

[@trinaq]

I always wondered why musicals seem to be ashamed of being musicals. The "Annie" remake had Cameron Diaz repeatedly being confused and asking what was happening whenever a song started. Randomly singing is a convention in musicals, and the characters pointing it out kind of kills the moment.

[@kamsismith]

I hated the Annie remake, but my sister loved it. Almost everyone except Jamie Foxx couldn't sing and was autotuned to death. Musicals contain singing, which is the point of them. That's like doing a romantic comedy and there's no romance and comedy.

[@frankieseward8667]

Don't be ashamed of the movie you're. If you feel the need to air contempt, you deserve all the razzies

[@trinaq]

Seconded, or like having no car chases or explosions in an action movie, or no iambic pentameter in Shakespeare.

[@tomleonard830]

I agree, unless the singing is happening within the context of the reality of the story, commentary on the singing feels hacks and breaks the immersion.

[@3l3llala13]

Not all musicals are "ashamed of being musicals", certainly not the musicals from the past. With today's realistic approach to movies, it doesn't always make sense why someone would suddenly burst into song and dance in a scene. It depends on how the director and writer want to interpret their vision of their film. Chicago had all of the musical numbers emanating from Roxie's imagination, while Moulin Rough had actors just bursting out singing.

[@idoman9119]

Saw “in the heights” and Spielberg’s “West side story” and really enjoyed both of them

[@Itstonytime77]

Little Shop of Horrors is an almost perfect adaptations especially if you watch it with the original ending.

[@jennifercordova3847]

Tick Tick Boom is just a a piece of art 🎭 one of my favs for sure

[@WendyDahling3]

I loved Rent 2005.

[@angelatimpone246]

Me too! And I loved that most of the original cast returned. I didn’t mind at all that they were probably somewhat older than the characters. It’s not like that doesn’t happen all the time in film and tv!

[@OlaOla-ct4nu]

And he have live and stage Broadway filmed versions too so everybody have favorite version of this tittle

[@janetteshaw2121]

I agree w the shows they picked out but the logic behind this is batshit. Garfield was a gamble, he did not have the training on paper for that part, so saying broadway stars could keep up w him is insane. Yes he killed it, but it was a gamble when he was cast. Rents problem wasn't the age of people but that fact they literally put Adam in a brittney spears video, that I would say explains how the movie as a whole struggled Movie producers who don't apparently never seen a broadway show? (Funeral scene still sends shivers down my spine it is hit or miss). Outside of James I don't know why everyone hates Prom. It hits all the beautiful cheesy parts. But Chicago is the best movie version of broadway it hits all the points.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

My favorite one is Tick, Tick Boom! My worst one is Cats!

[@deedee67888]

What would work is if it didn't take years and years and years and years to get a musical made (i.e., Rent, Wicked) so casting the original Broadway cast makes more sense. Who wouldn't have wanted to see Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel??

[@richardperhai8292]

The producers of stage musicals would like their investment to pay off - the longer a show runs, the more money it makes. Sometimes sales to studios include a clause that forbids any movie adaption to be released until the show folds. Probably the best example of that was "hello, Dolly!" in which the producers kept putting new stars in and extending its popularity -- much to 20th Century-Fox's frustration

[@deedee67888]

​@@richardperhai8292I totally understand that, but for some shows that are bonafide hits, wouldn't it make sense to grab the initial cast after their Broadway run and make a movie? It's going to take a couple of years for it to see a screen, and they can even wait to release it, but they'd have the right casting for the film

[@richardperhai8292]

@@deedee67888 There's 3 reasons why that rarely happens 1) The cast ages out of the role so using them looks dumb and unrealistic (See: Evan Hansen) 2) Just because someone works on stage, doesn't mean it will translate to film - they are very different mediums and many stage actors fail on film or vice versa 3) Movies cost money to make, so the investors want a name big enough to be a draw. It's why Julie Andrews didn't get "My Fair Lady" on film - for movie audiences she was an unknown and (at the time) it was one of the most expensive films being made, so Audrey Hepburn was a much bigger name. Also a big name increases the chance for get more investors.

[@jamesgeorgi6627]

I think the worst part of the new Mean Girls movie’s marketing, other than not promoting the fact that it’s a musical, was that they announced the release date and switched it from a Paramount Plus release to a theatrical release at the last minute last fall. That’s barely enough time to promote the film. It’s almost felt like how Universal treated DreamWorks’ Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken

[@ultrabeest]

Everybody's Talking About Jamie is SO good, probably one of my fav modern movie musicals. Matilda also did a really good job at capturing that show's charm without sacrificing the sound.

[@OlaOla-ct4nu]

❤

[@kamiclements7456]

I was one of the people who showed up to West Side Story in the theater, and I was so glad I did. It was the first movie in years that had me going back to the theater multiple times. I think the last time that happened was Les Miz. Except for Russell Crowe, it was a masterpiece

[@gordongraham7]

Netflix's Matilda is phenomenal. It's not one of my favorite broadway shows but they hit it out of the park with the movie adaptation (choreography was on fire). Also, Tick, Tick Boom is a masterpiece.

[@doncameron8018]

I love the musicals so much from the current culture and in days gone by!😉

[@annafowdy]

3:46 And the CCAs had the gall to diss Ariana DeBose.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

James Corden is Movie Musical Poison..

[@voutsider190]

He's just poison in everything

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

@@voutsider190 True that as well 😅

[@Fl0k5ser]

Good thing The Prom had Andrew Rannells, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep, so i can just ignore Corden in the movie 😅 Although, i do like his take on "Tonight Belongs To You", it worked on the soundtrack for me but not in the movie

[@sanya1996]

The 2005 Producers is FABULOUS

[@davydoesthings]

Aside from dissing Meryl Streep, I enjoyed this video. It hits on some key struggles from movie to musical and back. The best portrayals put refreshing spins on old classics.

[@michaeltamaleactor]

Thank you! I loved Meryl in that film 😅

[@Serenityellie]

The film adaption of ‘Everyone’s Talking About Jamie’ - I loved! And the change of scene/song ‘Legend of Loco Chanel’ to ‘This Was Me’ was SO amazing and a really lovely change.

[@giorgoskouvaris1312]

The Prom was just AMAZING and fabulous, I totally disagree!

[@lonellfletcher]

Truly the only real issue was Corden, and that's mainly because people were tired of him at that point, not necessarily because he was bad in the part. I honestly think there's no real pleasing anyone when it comes to movie musicals.

[@giorgoskouvaris1312]

@@lonellfletcher I agree 👍

[@OlaOla-ct4nu]

Me too

[@michaeltamaleactor]

Same!

[@Fl0k5ser]

Andrew Rannels saved that movie for me

[@thecostumelady123]

Emma Watson....shots fired 😂😆

[@Olivia_Dreamrider]

Say it louder for the people in the back!

[@ajpat9620]

All of this pathetic accusations and insinuations are full of hooey hubris; nothing more.

[@netherfield2000]

I think the biggest fail for Cats 2019 was the overuse of bad CGI. They literally used it for 95% of the sets, props, costumes and makeup. It was truly embarrassing to watch.

[@ajpat9620]

And speaking of embarrassment, it was also downright awful to see of how horrible and a total eyesore to look on the nightmarish CGI being displayed on 2019's Cats and it's completely unbearable. 2019's Cats nearly destroyed the reputation of the Musical film genre (as if the horrible woke The Greatest Showman wasn't horrible).

[@kathrynmanning737]

Some actors are too theatrical for the screen and vise versa, as much as I love Rent, Dear Evan Hansen and Mean Girls the stage version in my opinion is better cause the vocal range and talent that is shown on stage can't be matched to the more modernised sound that they make the actors sing for the movie version and besides if more stage productions were filmed on stage for the film version I think more people would like it more cause trying to give characters less songs and more dialog to make it palatable for movie goers just ruins what was already great about stage musicals in the first place.

[@tomleonard830]

I think DEH could have worked even with Ben if they had cast the other kids to look the same age as him. Hollywood has been casting 30 year olds as teenagers for decades.

[@gracehowell.]

I saw 'West Side Story' at the cinemas, so I don't know what you're talking about. Also bought it on DVD as soon as it came out, and got the soundtrack, too.

[@jessc.994]

Phantom of the Opera and Chicago are my picks for musicals done right in film format. They leave out very little from the stage productions, and the set designs are incredible. Plus, going against popular opinion, I love all of the casting choices in both.

[@liteflightify]

‘Phantom’ is a hot mess.

[@scottsummers4234]

James Corden being in musical movies is a BIG NO NO!!! I will never get why Hollywood is casting that talentless man in musicals (Into the Woods, Cats, Prom).

[@SuperEasywalker]

Also the Amazon Movie CINDERELLA

[@Fl0k5ser]

I'm not a huge Corden fan although i do have to admit that he atleast has a decent singing voice and has been good in several plays before but when it comes to movies, it's clear that he wasn't the right person to play in many roles

[@Denis-89]

I think a mix of both medias is the best. Think of it like "you are doing a Broadway musical for a movie audience". Keep the Broadway elements but take advantage of the wonders that movies can do..

[@jaimeegreen1847]

I personally really like the movie version of The Prom and the added story of Barry speaking with his family. I watched it about a week after seeing the show live and felt it was a faithful adaption

[@JustinGrant-jf5gv]

As an aspiring showrunner/filmmaker, I am interested in one day making an animated musical adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about racing trains called "Starlight Express". For how the trains will be transitioned from people in costumes on rollerskates to actual trains in the film, I plan on having their designs be reminiscent of animated musicals from the 80s and 90s particularly the ones from Don Bluth. As for the character animation, I'll have them be more rubber and anthropomorphic alike to animated vehicles from the golden age of animation. Considering how the musical takes place in a child's dream, I figure these creative choices could fit in pretty well. While I may not be fully familiar with the base story of the musical, I understand that I may have to make a few changes to it along with even changing some of the lyrics to some of the songs, I do have some ideas for the story of the film that could work. Now there is a part of me that is hesitant to make changes from the source material out of fear of making a bad change or going against what the source material is about, but I hear the musical has actually been changing often since it's premiere, so I guess I'll only be doing the normal thing.

[@mossfrog9720]

The visuals sound so cool! I hope to see it one day

[@OlaOla-ct4nu]

I hope to see this 🤗

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

Why did you have to open the video with the Cats jump scare?

[@seasoncolorandpi]

The new West Side Story was stunning. The cinematography was gorgeous and the storytelling and the singing. I loved every moment.

[@MusicMonet09]

I wish the Mean Girls movie had really dived in to the musical aspect.

[@wespearce8678]

This was a thoughtful video and I like the thesis...for me the challenge with adapting from stage to screen is the difference in expectations - audiences for Broadway expect to use their imaginations, expect worlds to be incomplete and not realistic which allows for characters to burst into song (or dance) in an imaginative world were such things are accepted (possibly even expected). However, since the first moving images were captured in the 19th century movies have been the bastion of realism and movies excel at creating fictional worlds that are realistic...there is NOTHING realistic about people who burst into song (regardless of the world being created) and so most movie musicals try too hard to be "real" and lose everything that made them work onstage. Movie musicals that aren't adaptations tend to work by being a little tongue in cheek (The Greatest Showman) and even movie musical adaptations can work - Grease. I hadn't thought about the importance of maintaining the Broadway sound and not being afraid to sing out because it's an excellent argument.

[@mauraclarke6133]

I love tick tick boom

[@tomleonard830]

My favorite of the big three movie musicals that year.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Mary poppins, now and always. Have a happy monday afternoon, Emily. Take care and God bless you, greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@hannahburns4178]

Tik Tik Boom wins hands down!! But think there is a place for ones like The Producers that are very similar to what you would get on stage, for those people that can't make it to New York to see the real thing! Also Rent is fantastic in my opinion 😁

[@doncameron8018]

I did enjoy Cats on Broadway!💐

[@mikeklein5184]

PaintYour Wagon is one of my favourites

[@allisonbergh4429]

Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin were both perfect - it would have been jarring and weird if they had been gorgeous vocalists, save that for They Call The Wind Mariah. (The best things in life are dirty!)

[@fangirlofbands7146]

Tick Tick Boom is one of my favorite movies!

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video ms mojo of musical movies that try adapt broadway musical plays on the big screens,fantastic job. I rarely see musical movies that I like in the big screen.

[@cedgson91]

Reneé Rapp slayed Mean Girls: Regina George I listen to her songs on repeat & Mean Girls 2024 was brilliant in my opinion Favourite other movie musicals are Rent & Chicago Rent was a great film!

[@tyffanii1]

Honestly, I didn’t even know that mean girls was the movie version of the stage performance, the ads kind of left that out. And my parents went to see wonka on the weekend and came back surprised it was a musical. I don’t know why they feel like they need to market the musical movies anymore, cats was just a mess of it’s time and at least I wouldn’t stop going to the cinema just because it has musicals (mainly because during the pandemic I just stopped going to the cinema) but I still watch the movies and buy the soundtrack if I like it.

[@michelledawn7446]

I wish In The Heights got more attention. The movie is absolutely beautiful.

[@AkinaHuskie87]

I'm a huge Rent fan. I discovered the musical waaaaaaay after it premiered on Broadway, and I never got to see it in its original run. I listened to the original Broadway recording every day for years. I love the 2005 movie. I thought they did an excellent job, and while they did cut out some songs, I thought the choices they made were ultimately the right ones. Having a movie musical have their characters sing through their dialogue through the whole film is, in my opinion, not a good idea. As a Broadway fan, it doesn't bother me. As a movie fan, I would grow tired of it quickly. I took my cousin with me to see Les Mis when it came out in 2012 and her biggest complaint was the singing of all the dialogue. It made the movie harder to watch. And yes, Russell Crowe was awful. Some concessions need to be made to appeal to wider audiences and if singing through the dialogue gets dropped? Small price to pay.

[@saffyesperas2278]

I like the Disney Live Action musicals though.

[@angelagokool9514]

I haven't seen any shows on Broadway, but I have seen plenty of movie musicals. I think that some of the best movie musicals that encompass the Broadway sound are the original version of West Side Story, from the '60s, and Chicago and Hairspray, for the 2000s. I would also include classics like Singin' in the Rain and White Christmas. For Disney, it would have to be mostly the Renaissance era.

[@tomleonard830]

What I want with a movie musical is for it to work as a movie and a musical. While I enjoy a pro-shot, when I’m going to a movie musical, I’m not expecting it to be as faithful. I want beautiful cinematography and sets. I want to see things presented in a way that could not happen on the stage. I want actors who are cast and know how to act with an eye for the camera being a foot away instead of the audience being 100s of feet away. I am much more willing to ignore mediocre singing than mediocre acting. And it is okay to cast older actors to play younger, as long as you surround them with actors who read as the same age.

[@CheshireNeko-hx3sw]

I love moulin rouge movie. The movie was fabulous and beautiful. When i went to see the performance on stage it was awful. It didnt have the same beauty and love the movie had. I was disappointed with the stage production.

[@bheast86]

The Broadway Sound (which was often the London West End sound previously) often gets it wrong because characters being able to sing to the back row doesn't correspond to their character so some of these 'bad singer' complaints don't apply. Thus, Peter O'Toole was right for a clapped out Don Quixote in MAN OF LA MANCHA, Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood for rough-edged westerners in PAINT YOUR WAGON, and Russell Crowe for an introspective Javert in LES MISERABLES (it wasn't his fault that the original musical was written as if they were paid by the yard, so 'Stars' was an eminently disposable song, and one forgets what Amanda Seyfried got to sing)

[@tarahanson1321]

I read somewhere lin Manuel Miranda took the role in Mary Poppins returns to learn from Rob Marshall how to do a movie musical from someone who has done it so successfully, and I think it paid off no end through tick tick boom!

[@Fl0k5ser]

It also helps that Tick Tick Boom was backed up by Ron Howard as a producer. Howard was in the musical adaptation of "The Music Man" as an actor back in 1962 so clearly, with him backing Tick Tick Boom, Lin had someone close to him during that production who's not only an experienced Oscar winning filmmaker but also a guy who was at one time, an actor from The Music Man

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

I was in an amateur production of The Music Man several years ago, and am interested in what Wikipedia has to say about casting of the movie. Composer Meredith Willson put approval of the cast in his contract, and foiled the studio's wishes to cast James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, or Frank Sinatra in the lead role in favor of Broadway's original Harold Hill actor Robert Preston, who was much less well known.

[@Fl0k5ser]

That movie also had Ron Howard, who's now known for directing films including winning an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind and was the guy who backed up Lin Manuel Miranda for Tick Tick Boom as a producer

[@KZ1211-t2q]

The movie version of Cabaret is actually better than the original Broadway musical, which I saw with the original cast. Liza Minelli was much better than Jill Haworth, they cast real singers, and Maybe This Time, written for the movie, was a much better song than the ones they left out. Mostly, though, the movie did something they couldn't do on the stage, which was brilliant editing that contrasted the real horrors going on in the streets of Berlin with the acts in the Cabaret. The film was a masterpiece.

[@dearevandalton]

I will correct that 'The Prom' is a very faithful adaptation of the Broadway production. 'The Producers' was excellent! One of the best! However, 2024's 'Mean Girls' really missed the mark of what made the stage version great.

[@genreproductions2706]

If there’s going to be a Starlight Express movie, I’m going to take the helm on it.

[@OlaOla-ct4nu]

Favorites Tick Tick Boom, In The Heigts, Chicago , Cabaret (better than stage version), Matylda, Everybody talking about Jamie, Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story . Worst ones ... Dear Evan Hansen, Man of La Mancha 🫣, Doctor Dollitle. Into The Woods, Rock of Ages, Nine and Sweeney Todd - like 50:50 for me

[@Firepuma27]

There's a musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate factory that was made in 2017. Wonka was really good and Timothee worked with a vocal coach for it

[@andrewbloom7637]

"Into the Woods" and "Sweeney Todd" (both film adaptations of musicals by Sondheim) were both critically and commercially successful but were unfortunately excluded from the video. The 2021 version of "West Side Story" also bombed at the box office due to the release of "Spider-Man: No Way Home" (and yes, I saw both films), which stole most of WSS's thunder for younger audiences. Plus, as both "The Capeman" and "Sweet Smell of Success" underperformed both critically and commercially upon their debuts in 1998 and 2002, respectively, both receiving movie musical adaptations should revitalize interest in the properties.

[@3l3llala13]

Jennifer Hudson was overwrought with her rendition of Memory.

[@aaronlevesque8173]

The mean girls musical is soooo part of what’s wrong with movie musicals. Not understanding the original content and doing a messy job at recreating the feel of both sources together. The set ensemble and budget simply didn’t feel big enough for what a mean girls musical movie SHOULD be. Will admit Renee rap did an amazing job though!

[@jessevilla1254]

In the heights and West Side Story

[@JONSTERLEE]

Ok, but that Ben Platt clip of him crying from Dear Evan Hansen is sooooooo shady lmao

[@aerynxoxo]

Russel Crowe CAN sing. He has his own band. But the way that Tom Hooper directed Les Mis was NOT IT. 10 hours of takes while having to sing through the entire song every time!? Plus, he isn’t formally trained.

[@Trilleth]

Neither Crowe nor Jackman were properly cast. Crowe might have been a decent ValJean. Jackman stretches too much for some of those high notes, but might have been a grand Javert. We'll never know.

[@KevinKlineisawesome]

If I were a casting Director, I would hire people that can actually sing. Someone who at least took some choir classes in school or performed on Broadway or in the theater. Some of the lyrics in movie musicals either make me want to sing along or want to completely forget everything about them.

[@shelbymair5819]

She says no one showed up to see In the Heights or West Sidw Story in theaters, and I'm just thinking how i literally saw both in theaters 😂 must be the theater kid in me

[@HerbalMoon17]

Hey, Gerard is great in his role! Don't knock his singing.

[@kristenjackson4503]

Im sick of this hate. The Mean Girls musical movie was great. Periodt.

[@kristenjackson4503]

And new Damien was 10x funnier than the OG, I said what I said.

[@waittillfamewtf2385]

What if the next 007 film were adapted into a musical?

[@angyvirtu3593]

There's a musical parody of James Bond called Spies Are Forever. It's the closest we're ever gonna get to a musical adaptation of Bond.

[@Jlnkht]

This analysis completely overlooks the role that the recording of vocals has, and just sideline it as “bad singing”… In the Les Mis film, Tom Hooper chose to let the actors sing live on set while acting. This greatly affected their understanding of the musical score since they were only accompanied by a piano, and you cannot belt a song while *really* crying. As for Beauty and the Beast, Disney heavily put after effects on Emma’s vocal performance and in that, made poor editing decisions because of which her voice sounds metallic and overproduced at times; as if the very bad performance simply couldn’t be fixed by autotune. KZbin creator Sideways has great videos on this topic, for those that are interested.

[@callmethecommentcountess9329]

I had to agree with you

[@jessicaspecht]

My biggest "pet peeve" about 2019 Cats IS the cast choices. Most of them just should have said NO because it's an utter embarrassment, IMHO, for their careers to be associated with such a bomb of a "movie".

[@Amnesiachronicles]

Ban james cordon

[@88zaeta]

In the heights is so underrated, that mouse should’ve made much more than it did 😔

[@rebeccahansborough3817]

This video better mention dream girls 😅

[@hippolover369]

I'm sorry but RENT shouldnt be here.

[@jimbo9208]

why it was made into a movie so it counts for this video

[@GraciesMom]

I enjoyed Rent immensely. I wasn’t able to catch it on Broadway so it was next best thing. And even though there were a few casting issues I enjoyed The Prom. West Side Story was *chefs kiss*-so full of talent!

[@joyyoung3108]

I agree. I saw both the stage and movie and movie version. The movie wasn't a disaster and I thought the OG cast members still looked age appropriate to pull it off.

[@GabrielEmilCortez]

Actually, Disney animated films are the only recommended Hollywood-style musicas

[@kevinpoole6122]

*Cats* was the *worst* “adaptation” of all time!

[@FutureBereaAlumn]

No matter how seriously actors like Ian McKellen and Judi Dench are taking the project, few if any of the crewmembers are taking it seriously and it shows. Good performances can be prevented or erased by bad direction or bad editing.

[@tomleonard830]

To be fair, the musical doesn’t really lend itself to adaptation very well.

[@Hal-x7l]

Why no mention of HEDWIG &the Angry Inch ??

[@o.m9514]

"Dance break"

[@hannahdelvecchio7521]

I would pick my favorites is cats

[@angelh1743]

Ironic that this video was made after the release of Mean Girls 2024 version. Which is struggling on the big screen right now; unlike the original 2004 movie version. Go figure. It's no secret musicals are great on broadway but crash and burn on the big screen 9.5 out of 10 times. We've already learned this over the last 50 years alone. And it's obvious with the fact that a few movies trying to "hide" the fact that it's a musical of fear of losing ticket sales tells you a lot. For example Mean Girls 2024. But most people figured it out it was a musical right before it's official release. It's way easier to take a great movie and turn it into a musical and watch it become a big hit. Rarely and I mean rarely is it successful the other way around. Honestly the only musical to ever become an iconic successful movie was... Grease 1972. Which 6 years was turned into a movie and became a global hit on the big screen. No other broadway show has ever come close to being as successful as Grease 1978. A distant 2nd place would be West Side Story 1957 which was made into a movie in 1961. The 1961 version is far more successful than the 2021 reboot. Another obvious reason musicals are just not successful on the big screen is, your musical audiences are in the millions, but your movie audiences are in the 100's of millions worldwide.

[@ser132]

Chicago 2002 is right there, and you're going to just ignore it?

[@arielleagustin8280]

Basically don’t have James Corden in it

[@sheilaholmes996]

Some Broadway musicals should not be movies. Cats should never have been a movie. It just doesn’t work.

[@hollabigT]

The only appropriate adaptations. Sound of Music, Grease, West Side Story, Chicago, Mary Poppins, original Willy Wonka...not many more New WSS was not good compared to the original. And Heathers the Musical was WAAAAY better than Mean Girls musical.

[@jimbo9208]

Mean Girl was a good movie just not as good as the original

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

I personally think "CATS" is a great movie, but the CGI is awful!

[@tomleonard830]

I love Cats in the same way people love The Room.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

@@tomleonard830So bad, it's good?

[@ajpat9620]

Cats, "a great movie"???? Are you out of your mind??? That movie was downright awful....

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

@@ajpat9620That's YOUR opinion!

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

@@ajpat9620And no, I am not out of my mind, I just really like Andrew Lloyd Webber!

[@bethgoldman2560]

What…no Dreamgirls or The Color Purple…..

[@sunnygirl523]

I actually love the new mean girls movie ❤

[@BroadwayGuy]

"CATS" is horrible on stage and horrible on screen. It's just horrible!

[@ajpat9620]

2019's Cats just doesn't fit the film medium, and that's the filmmakers' problem of adapting it. Like, Cats, would be better off of stating as a stage version, instead.

[@BcAngel420]

I HATED the remake of #WestSideStory

[@DaCoach68]

I think the best versions of Broadway musicals are the ones recorded directly from the stage. Many are out and available ... streaming special anniversary editions or PBS fundraisers...etc. Worst example of great musical/ bad movie : A Chorus Line... universally adored Broadway show. Pretty dreadful film. Give me Phantom at Royal Albert Hall over ANY horrible movie of the same name. Sweeney Todd with Angela on stage beats Johnny on the beach. The Broadway version of Newsies over the not so great movie. Sometimes, the movie versions work well...My Fair Lady, WSS both versions...and the tale of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. I heard this story, but if someone could confirm...They tried a stage version of the very successful film musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers . It failed miserably. So maybe it works the other way, too.

[@Ginger18420]

Mean girls made twice it’s money back…

[@jimbo9208]

no it did not it need to make 90 million

[@Ginger18420]

@@jimbo9208 36 mil budget at its at 83 million made world wide. Try again Jimbo 🥸

[@hannachad3142]

I don't know what the problem is Emma Watson has a gorgeous voice the problem is she just isn't confident

[@Trilleth]

Learning to fake that confidence is part of what makes you a professional singer though.

[@ajpat9620]

To say that "Emma Watson just isn't confident", is wrong and absurd. And on the contrary, she has confidence on her performance.

[@Trilleth]

@@ajpat9620 Based on what?

[@ajpat9620]

@@Trilleth Haven't you get of what I said?? Based on the performance, itself.

[@Trilleth]

@@ajpat9620 What about the performance makes you feel she was confident? She was soft in most places, but that seems to just be her vocal style. But there's also a tiny bit of hesitancy in her phrasing that feels like a lack of confidence. I'm basing this on several decades of voice training.

[@Zacman1123]

Or they can not make an adaptation.

[@jimbo9208]

and why is that

[@mishapsmakemagic]

Dear Evan Hansen was an awful movie, so sad that I saw it before seeing the actual show on the stage

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

In the Heights are good one and La La Land is very nice one but I'm sorry for cats I watched I'm so totally uncomfortable to watch it sorry swfities a

[@ajpat9620]

9:11 - Halle Bailey or the Haileyr Baileyr nothing nobody wokester was not a good casting choice of Ariel, and let alone that she ruined that role, and the only reason that Haileyr Baileyr nothing nobody wokester got the role of Ariel was simply for woke identity politics hubris. And if Msmojo and all of its viewers and observers really thinks that Haileyr Baileyr nothing nobody wokester is the "right casting choice" for the role of Ariel; then, they are completely and pathetically wrong; for that casting was a total disaster, and Haileyr Baileyr's acting as Ariel was downright awful and horrible, and let alone the tact that Haileyr Baileyr was horribly miscast as Ariel, and was the wrong casting choice for that role, right from the very start, and clearly, Disney made a huge and a grave mistake on that casting of Ariel; and the role of Ariel should have gone instead towards to Anya Taylor-Joy, and by not casting the latter onto the role of Ariel, it was a missed opportunity.

[@kerrysater157]

"Wahh thr young black girl hurt my fee fees! So much that I actually have to make fun of a kid and think using woke as an insult is funny. Ha ha ha, aren't I so edgy and clever?"

[@iLoveTheEighties80]

Stop smoking crack, sweetie.

[@ajpat9620]

​@@iLoveTheEighties80I ain't smoking crack, you fool. Also, get lost and mind your own business.

[@corbinowens2437]

Damn…Eastwood can’t sing 😂😅