posted 06-24-2006 04:57 PM               

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Originally posted by Lookin In A Different Way:

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posted 06-24-2006 08:52 PM               

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Originally posted by Twyzzlyr:
Well that explains my ears.

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posted 06-25-2006 11:39 PM               

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Originally posted by Galinda Upland:
"Jessica Simpson? You must not have much respect for the role of Glinda. There is no way she could pull that off vocally."

Excuse me, but did you happen to see that my username is Galinda Upland. You obviously don't know me becuase I cherish the role of Galinda/Glinda. She is THE best character aside from Elphaba. And, as I've said before, I AM Glinda, minus the blonde hair. I played her in a small local theater group when we did a version of Wicked. And Jessica Simpson could totally pull off playing her as well. She has the looks, personality, and talent. Belive me, she is ten times better than the Glinda I saw on tour.

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posted 06-26-2006 12:47 AM            

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
I feel as though your community theatre group could not have done Wicked... First of all the rights go for like fifty grand, and second the stage itself was like 14 million... So if you did somehow do it, you would have been stealing (this is illegal), also your theatre group could not have done Wicked justice being that the Orchestra's music is written for extremely talented professionals and some of the music in the show is insanely difficult vocally... Or maybeI'm just slow... Can't ruleout the possibility that I'm slow!

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posted 06-26-2006 03:13 AM            

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
I feel as though your community theatre group could not have done Wicked... First of all the rights go for like fifty grand, and second the stage itself was like 14 million... So if you did somehow do it, you would have been stealing (this is illegal), also your theatre group could not have done Wicked justice being that the Orchestra's music is written for extremely talented professionals and some of the music in the show is insanely difficult vocally... Or maybeI'm just slow... Can't ruleout the possibility that I'm slow!

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posted 06-26-2006 10:52 PM               

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Originally posted by Green Girl:
Wow, you are seriously uptight, dude unclench!!

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posted 06-27-2006 05:43 PM               

In lots of book/musical --> movie transitions many fan-favorite scenes are cut (I can think of at least 83 for Harry Potter )

So, if you had a say in "wicked the movie" and you were able to guarantee that one scene was in the movie and one scene was not in the movie, what would you choose?

You can answer for both a book --> movie and a musical --> movie. Make sure that you clarify which you are picking (although it wouldn't be too difficult for us to realize which one you were referring to).

*Remember to pick scenes that you don't think would be included or excluded. i.e. don't pick a scene that would definitely be in there like Dorothy melting Elphie.

I am still thinking about my choices but these are what I've come up with so far:

musical --> movie
scene I must have:
I would love to have the scene in the musical where Glinda comes to Elphie right before she gets melted and tells her to let Dorothy and her poor dog "dodo" go. And reminds Elphie they're just shoes. I would love to see this scene in there somehow played out exactly as Chenoweth does it.

scene I don't care for:
I wouldn't want minutes of the film being wasted on Ozdust dancing. It's long, tedious, and uninteresting.

(edited because I forgot 1 "s" and I'm anal-retentive about that kind of thing.)

posted 06-27-2006 09:51 PM               

must be included: No One Mourns the Wicked... Some of the music in the show is more pop style than broadway.Personally I think NOMTW makes the show!

posted 06-27-2006 10:53 PM            

I would cut The Wizard songs, but leave the dialogue.
I would keep the monkeys at the beginning. I think it motions to the audience that the monkeys were sad at her death.

posted 06-28-2006 01:53 AM               

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Originally posted by I Couldn't Be Happier:
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I would cut The Wizard songs, but leave the dialogue.
I would keep the monkeys at the beginning. I think it motions to the audience that the monkeys were sad at her death.

BTW: Dancing thru Life must be there. It shows the beginning of Elphaba and Galind's friendship.

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I agree about dancing through life, just not the actual dancing.

posted 06-28-2006 02:13 AM               

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:
Musical to movie...

must be included: No One Mourns the Wicked... Some of the music in the show is more pop style than broadway.Personally I think NOMTW makes the show!

must be discluded: Those weird giant humpty-dumpty creatures that dance about in One Short Day

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Speaking about a musical --> movie:
You know, I've actually thought a lot about this song in regards to the movie. And I completely agree with you.

For many movies there is a song that is considered the title song (you know, the one they play in the trailers ALL the time and starts to get annoying?). I personally LOVE defying gravity and I think that it represents the story's message quite well, which is generally what a title song does.

However, I think that NOMTW would actually be a better title song for the movie. First off, it opens the musical and puts the audience in the right mood to receive the story. I also think that it has a great baseline that can be used as background music throughout the movie. (an example: Lord of the Rings uses the main Fellowship theme in different variations as background for the entire movie, changing it to fit the current audience mood and to fit the director's desire for subconscious emotional cues. Shore (the composer) did this for all three of the films, utilizing the main theme of each movie - and he received well deserved oscars for those scores. John Williams is also VERY good at doing this).

I'm all of a sudden curious. I wonder if the producers and director would ask Schwartz to do the score for the movie? I think that would be smart. He does have experience in film scoring (two academy awards for Pocahontas - one of my favs). I would love to see him possibly collaborate with Danny Elfman or someone similar and co-score it. Just as long as they were EXTREMELY faithful to the original score.

On another note, I noticed that the director Tim Burton has already been discussed on this board and I'm just going to add my two cents on him. I’ll start by saying that while I appreciate his work, I do not like most of it. (I somehow really enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory though - perhaps it's due to the fact that I'm a chocoholic). What I do like about him is his ability to work with dark subject matter and make it somehow uplifting while keeping it twisted. If a book --> movie transition is in store for us, I would champion Burton as my director for the film. I’m still stewing over several potential directors for a musical transition (including Burton).

Wow, this is really long. Sorry. Sometimes, “once you pop, you just can’t stop.”

Oh, Humpty-Dumptys = first thing to go.

posted 06-28-2006 04:53 AM            

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Originally posted by Green Girl:
Has the musical taught you nothing? Colour does not matter my friend!

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posted 06-28-2006 06:18 AM            

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Originally posted by Fiyero78:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Green Girl:
[b] Has the musical taught you nothing? Colour does not matter my friend!

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posted 06-29-2006 02:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Elphaba/Fiyero:
I think that it would be insane to have very well known actors and actresses to be apart of a film version of Wicked. For example, the film version of Rent is coming out and most of the original cast from the Broadway production is in the film, so why can't some of the orginal cast of Wicked be apart of this possible film? The Phantom of the Opera didn't have well-known actors, but everyone loved it anyway! It makes it more original! But I really doubt that they'll ever make a movie from, "Wicked." At least not until we're all dead! Musical movies are just now re-awakening in the public's eye, so for now, lets just appreciate the stage show, which is awesome as it is!

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posted 06-30-2006 08:00 PM               

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Originally posted by MusicalTheatreObsessed:

I fell out of my chair I laughed so hard when I read that. However, in my defense, I've seen so many people on here lately that are under the impression that anyone can just do Wicked, and even just cuttings from the show are illegal. You can only do Broadway Showstopper arrangments of For Good, Defying Gravity, What is this feeling, wonderful, and popular. No other companies arrange is and any other use for performance, when the audience pays is illegal. I wasn't trying to be mean, Iwas just curious how they were able to do a show like that. For what she said she did, she would have had to change every character name, the title of the show, and at least 50% of the lines

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posted 06-30-2006 08:03 PM               

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Originally posted by Nessarose Throppe:
I'm torn.... I hate the weird things that dance in Wizomania, but it does show that Ozians have a different form of entertainment than we do....

Still.... they're creepy little boogers.

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posted 06-30-2006 08:07 PM               

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Originally posted by ~*~elphaba~*~:
as for the musical-->movie i would definately cut some of the dancing through life/Ozdust dancing.

and i'm not sure what my must have scene would be yet. i'll have to think more about it.

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posted 06-30-2006 09:47 PM               

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Originally posted by ~~Broom`rider~~:

i deffinally would not do that because that is when we starte to learn alot about fyero and it is really funny watching elphaba try to dance
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I think that she meant just the dancing. Not the song or any significant parts of the plot/action.

It is of course a very important scene because it is the turning point in Glinda and Elphie's relationship.

posted 06-30-2006 11:46 PM               

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Originally posted by Elphaba Potter:
I think that she meant just the dancing. Not the song or any significant parts of the plot/action.

It is of course a very important scene because it is the turning point in Glinda and Elphie's relationship.

Just thought I'd try and clarify

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posted 07-01-2006 12:09 PM               

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Originally posted by Nessarose Throppe:
Well, I love dancing, I love watching it, or pathetically attempting to do it myself. But to hold a movie goer's attention, you either have to cut it or do something interesting with it. Again, cool camera angles can help too. I loved how they did "Masquerade" in Phantom....

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OOh. "masquerade" in Phantom was lots of fun. They did definitely play with some fun camera angles in that one. Great lighting in that one too. That scene really added to the tension by building such a false sense of security in the dancers (and audience) so when the Phantom makes his entrance it's just that much more dramatic.

posted 07-02-2006 02:42 PM               

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Originally posted by Green Girl:
The more I read of the book the more I hope that IF they do make a movie it won't be a musical. They'll only shred the matirial anyway. I would like them to use the score of the musical if possible thou, I think that would be a great way of linking the play to the book on film. What do you guys think?

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First, "matirial" = material

Second, I agree with you. I really think that the movie would be lacking if the music were not included.

I would like to see a movie that combines both the musical and the book. I think there are great parts in the musical that would make the movie more accessible to an audience. But I also think that the movie would be so much better if it included more of the complexities in the book. This way it wouldn't just be a carbon copy of the musical.

Someone said this to me the other day and I almost lashed out in response. They suggested that this movie be done as a CG movie like Shrek. That way they could still use the voices of the original cast.

I am horrified at the thought of this.

Any thoughts?

posted 07-02-2006 04:45 PM               

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Originally posted by Yero the Hero:
Jesus christ, CGI? *gags* *chokes* *dies* *reincarnates and rapidly ages like sailor saturn*

I'm back. CGI is a horrible idea, the worst I've heard since the beginning fo this topic. Why don't they just take out all of the darkness of the book, and all of the songs from the musical and make it a kiddy movie?

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Haha. I would say that I had a similar reaction. Believe me I have chastised my friend accordingly. She doesn't even like Wicked. I mean, she doesn't dislike it but she's indifferent to it.

posted 07-02-2006 10:11 PM               

We have the B'way play for a musical, a book for reading, so there needs to be a movie that pulls out the darker side of Wicked (Not the Upbeat, and fantastic, music.)