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

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  • Just because a musical goes Hollywood doesn't mean it should leave Broadway behind. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re discussing the key to any musical’s journey from stage to screen: maintaining the Broadway sound. Our countdown includes "Mean Girls," "The Color Purple," "Wonka," and more! Which movie musical do YOU think best encompasses the Broadway sound? Let us know in the comments!
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  • @MsMojo
    @MsMojo  Před 5 měsíci +11

    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 - czcams.com/video/8nlikrDlZ-s/video.html

    • @kamsismith
      @kamsismith Před 5 měsíci

      Grease

    • @TheMll1985
      @TheMll1985 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Tick tick boom

    • @Whisper_292
      @Whisper_292 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Jesus Christ Superstar

    • @ChristoAbrie
      @ChristoAbrie Před 5 měsíci

      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.

  • @LaLayla99
    @LaLayla99 Před 5 měsíci +106

    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.

  • @kamsismith
    @kamsismith Před 5 měsíci +147

    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
      @trinaq Před 5 měsíci +2

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

    • @kamsismith
      @kamsismith Před 5 měsíci +3

      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
      @music4thesoul80 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@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
      @kamsismith Před 5 měsíci +1

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

    • @RLucas3000
      @RLucas3000 Před 5 měsíci

      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.)

  • @SuperEasywalker
    @SuperEasywalker Před 5 měsíci +48

    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
      @fangwulf Před 5 měsíci +4

      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
      @angelatimpone246 Před 5 měsíci +3

      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
      @stuartcampbell4626 Před 5 měsíci +1

      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
    @trinaq Před 5 měsíci +69

    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
      @kamsismith Před 5 měsíci +9

      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
      @frankieseward8667 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @trinaq
      @trinaq Před 5 měsíci +6

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

    • @tomleonard830
      @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci +5

      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
      @3l3llala13 Před 5 měsíci

      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
    @idoman9119 Před 5 měsíci +20

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

  • @Itstonytime77
    @Itstonytime77 Před 5 měsíci +36

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

  • @jennifercordova3847
    @jennifercordova3847 Před 5 měsíci +15

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

  • @WendyDahling3
    @WendyDahling3 Před 5 měsíci +27

    I loved Rent 2005.

    • @angelatimpone246
      @angelatimpone246 Před 5 měsíci +7

      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
      @OlaOla-ct4nu Před 5 měsíci +1

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

    • @janetteshaw2121
      @janetteshaw2121 Před 5 měsíci

      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.

  • @jamesgeorgi6627
    @jamesgeorgi6627 Před 5 měsíci +9

    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

  • @deedee67888
    @deedee67888 Před 5 měsíci +24

    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
      @richardperhai8292 Před 5 měsíci +2

      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
      @deedee67888 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@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
      @richardperhai8292 Před 5 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @GamerFunOriginallyAarush
    @GamerFunOriginallyAarush Před 5 měsíci +27

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

  • @kamiclements7456
    @kamiclements7456 Před 5 měsíci +5

    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

  • @ultrabeest
    @ultrabeest Před 5 měsíci +8

    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.

  • @annafowdy
    @annafowdy Před 5 měsíci +15

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

  • @sanya1996
    @sanya1996 Před 5 měsíci +6

    The 2005 Producers is FABULOUS

  • @Thomas_H._Smith
    @Thomas_H._Smith Před 5 měsíci +13

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

  • @doncameron8018
    @doncameron8018 Před 5 měsíci +10

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

  • @ROBYNMARKOW
    @ROBYNMARKOW Před 5 měsíci +21

    James Corden is Movie Musical Poison..

    • @voutsider190
      @voutsider190 Před 5 měsíci +8

      He's just poison in everything

    • @ROBYNMARKOW
      @ROBYNMARKOW Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@voutsider190 True that as well 😅

  • @Serenityellie
    @Serenityellie Před 5 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @davydoesthings
    @davydoesthings Před 5 měsíci +3

    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.

  • @netherfield2000
    @netherfield2000 Před 5 měsíci +11

    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
      @ajpat9620 Před 5 měsíci +1

      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).

  • @thecostumelady123
    @thecostumelady123 Před 5 měsíci +18

    Emma Watson....shots fired 😂😆

    • @Olivia_Dreamrider
      @Olivia_Dreamrider Před 5 měsíci +1

      Say it louder for the people in the back!

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @giorgoskouvaris1312
    @giorgoskouvaris1312 Před 5 měsíci +15

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

    • @lonellfletcher
      @lonellfletcher Před 5 měsíci +5

      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
      @giorgoskouvaris1312 Před 5 měsíci

      @@lonellfletcher I agree 👍

    • @OlaOla-ct4nu
      @OlaOla-ct4nu Před 5 měsíci +1

      Me too

    • @michaeltamale2465
      @michaeltamale2465 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Same!

  • @gordongraham7
    @gordongraham7 Před 4 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @gracehowell.
    @gracehowell. Před 5 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @Denis-89
    @Denis-89 Před 5 měsíci +3

    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..

  • @JustinGrant-jf5gv
    @JustinGrant-jf5gv Před 5 měsíci +7

    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
      @mossfrog9720 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @OlaOla-ct4nu
      @OlaOla-ct4nu Před 5 měsíci

      I hope to see this 🤗

  • @jaimeegreen1847
    @jaimeegreen1847 Před 5 měsíci +2

    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

  • @seasoncolorandpi
    @seasoncolorandpi Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @kathrynmanning737
    @kathrynmanning737 Před 5 měsíci +8

    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
      @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @jessc.994
    @jessc.994 Před 5 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @mauraclarke6133
    @mauraclarke6133 Před 5 měsíci +12

    I love tick tick boom

    • @tomleonard830
      @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci +1

      My favorite of the big three movie musicals that year.

  • @doncameron8018
    @doncameron8018 Před 5 měsíci +6

    I did enjoy Cats on Broadway!💐

  • @wespearce8678
    @wespearce8678 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @jacobdrolet4262
    @jacobdrolet4262 Před 5 měsíci

    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.

  • @hannahburns4178
    @hannahburns4178 Před měsícem +1

    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 😁

  • @samuelcollantes1175
    @samuelcollantes1175 Před 5 měsíci +5

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

  • @fangirlofbands7146
    @fangirlofbands7146 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Tick Tick Boom is one of my favorite movies!

  • @tyffanii1
    @tyffanii1 Před 5 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @mikeklein5184
    @mikeklein5184 Před 5 měsíci +3

    PaintYour Wagon is one of my favourites

    • @allisonbergh4429
      @allisonbergh4429 Před 5 měsíci +1

      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!)

  • @tarahanson1321
    @tarahanson1321 Před 5 měsíci

    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!

  • @MusicMonet09
    @MusicMonet09 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @scottsummers4234
    @scottsummers4234 Před 5 měsíci +10

    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).

  • @CheshireNeko-hx3sw
    @CheshireNeko-hx3sw Před 5 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @michelledawn7446
    @michelledawn7446 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @angelagokool9514
    @angelagokool9514 Před 5 měsíci

    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.

  • @What_Makes_Climate_Tick
    @What_Makes_Climate_Tick Před 5 měsíci

    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.

  • @saffyesperas2278
    @saffyesperas2278 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I like the Disney Live Action musicals though.

  • @tomleonard830
    @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @genreproductions2706
    @genreproductions2706 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @jessevilla1254
    @jessevilla1254 Před 5 měsíci +2

    In the heights and West Side Story

  • @callmethecommentcountess9329

    I had to agree with you

  • @dearevandalton
    @dearevandalton Před 4 měsíci

    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.

  • @AkinaHuskie87
    @AkinaHuskie87 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @bheast86
    @bheast86 Před 5 měsíci

    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)

  • @Firepuma27
    @Firepuma27 Před 5 měsíci

    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

  • @karenzaslow3808
    @karenzaslow3808 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @Jlnkht
    @Jlnkht Před 5 měsíci

    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.
    CZcams creator Sideways has great videos on this topic, for those that are interested.

  • @andrewbloom7637
    @andrewbloom7637 Před 5 měsíci

    "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.

  • @OlaOla-ct4nu
    @OlaOla-ct4nu Před 5 měsíci

    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

  • @3l3llala13
    @3l3llala13 Před 5 měsíci

    Jennifer Hudson was overwrought with her rendition of Memory.

  • @aerynxoxo
    @aerynxoxo Před 5 měsíci +2

    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
      @Trilleth Před 5 měsíci

      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.

  • @waittillfamewtf2385
    @waittillfamewtf2385 Před 5 měsíci +4

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

    • @angyvirtu3593
      @angyvirtu3593 Před 15 dny

      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.

  • @JONSTERLEE
    @JONSTERLEE Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @aaronlevesque8173
    @aaronlevesque8173 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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!

  • @shelbymair5819
    @shelbymair5819 Před 5 měsíci

    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

  • @88zaeta
    @88zaeta Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @user-fv7zs2ds5h
    @user-fv7zs2ds5h Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @KevinKlineisawesome
    @KevinKlineisawesome Před 5 měsíci

    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.

  • @HerbalMoon17
    @HerbalMoon17 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @o.m9514
    @o.m9514 Před 5 měsíci

    "Dance break"

  • @user-wc9df9bq1c
    @user-wc9df9bq1c Před 5 měsíci

    Why no mention of HEDWIG &the Angry Inch ??

  • @hannahdelvecchio7521
    @hannahdelvecchio7521 Před 5 měsíci

    I would pick my favorites is cats

  • @rebeccahansborough3817
    @rebeccahansborough3817 Před 5 měsíci

    This video better mention dream girls 😅

  • @jessicaspecht
    @jessicaspecht Před 5 měsíci

    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".

  • @kristenjackson4503
    @kristenjackson4503 Před 5 měsíci +1

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

    • @kristenjackson4503
      @kristenjackson4503 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @angelh1743
    @angelh1743 Před 5 měsíci

    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
      @ser132 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @hollabigT
    @hollabigT Před 5 měsíci

    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.

  • @arielleagustin8280
    @arielleagustin8280 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Basically don’t have James Corden in it

  • @jimbo9208
    @jimbo9208 Před 5 měsíci +2

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

  • @Amnesiachronicles
    @Amnesiachronicles Před 5 měsíci +2

    Ban james cordon

  • @hippolover369
    @hippolover369 Před 5 měsíci +5

    I'm sorry but RENT shouldnt be here.

    • @jimbo9208
      @jimbo9208 Před 5 měsíci +3

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

    • @GraciesMom
      @GraciesMom Před 5 měsíci +2

      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
      @joyyoung3108 Před 5 měsíci +2

      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.

  • @bethgoldman2560
    @bethgoldman2560 Před 5 měsíci

    What…no Dreamgirls or The Color Purple…..

  • @sheilaholmes996
    @sheilaholmes996 Před 5 měsíci +1

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

  • @kevinpoole6122
    @kevinpoole6122 Před 5 měsíci +9

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

    • @FutureBereaAlumn
      @FutureBereaAlumn Před 5 měsíci +1

      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
      @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @DaCoach68
    @DaCoach68 Před 4 měsíci

    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.

  • @sunnygirl523
    @sunnygirl523 Před 5 měsíci

    I actually love the new mean girls movie ❤

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci +3

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

    • @tomleonard830
      @tomleonard830 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@tomleonard830So bad, it's good?

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci

      @@ajpat9620That's YOUR opinion!

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @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

  • @Ginger18420
    @Ginger18420 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Mean girls made twice it’s money back…

    • @jimbo9208
      @jimbo9208 Před 5 měsíci +3

      no it did not it need to make 90 million

    • @Ginger18420
      @Ginger18420 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @BcAngel420
    @BcAngel420 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I HATED the remake of #WestSideStory

  • @BroadwayGuy
    @BroadwayGuy Před 5 měsíci +2

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

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 5 měsíci

      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.

  • @Zacman1123
    @Zacman1123 Před 5 měsíci

    Or they can not make an adaptation.

  • @hannahchadwell3142
    @hannahchadwell3142 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @Trilleth
      @Trilleth Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

    • @Trilleth
      @Trilleth Před 4 měsíci

      @@ajpat9620 Based on what?

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @Trilleth
      @Trilleth Před 4 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @corbinowens2437
    @corbinowens2437 Před 4 měsíci

    Damn…Eastwood can’t sing 😂😅

  • @mishapsmakemagic
    @mishapsmakemagic Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @ajpat9620
    @ajpat9620 Před 5 měsíci +2

    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
      @kerrysater157 Před 5 měsíci

      "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
      @iLoveTheEighties80 Před 5 měsíci

      Stop smoking crack, sweetie.

    • @ajpat9620
      @ajpat9620 Před 4 měsíci +1

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