7 Books We Want To See Made Into A Musical
Musicals based on books are THE BEST WAY to guarantee your show's success. Here are a few of HACKSTAGE'S favorite ideas for books to musicals!
Selfish by Kim Kardashian West:
A New Song Cycle by Jason Robert Brown! If pictures are worth a thousand words, then Kim K’s new book of selfies could surely inspire JRB to write some killer songs. Starring Leslie Odom Jr. as Kanye. (Maybe a selfie contest for the role of Kim?)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville:
Cirque du Soleil is taking over Broadway this season! This new adaptation is Cirque’s most ambitious one yet--a cadre of acrobats do daring feats from inside the belly of an actual whale, while clowns Ishmael and Captain Ahab look on.
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown:
An intimate and immersive one man show with Christopher Walken as the moon.
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola:
Bernadette Peters stars a Strega Nona. Ivo VanHove directs. Pasta pours from the ceiling. Audience members are given handfuls of pasta as they exit the space.
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding:
A jukebox musical featuring the songs of Taylor Swift.
Jewel stars.
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey:
The children of Matilda play the ducklings in full duck costume. It'll probably lose the choreography nomination though, thanks to those flippers getting in the way of their foutés.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo:
Oh wait. It's done. And it's perfect.
