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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: Film Directors who took on Big Screen Musicals.    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 4, 2021 - 11:30 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Like Vincente Minnelli, Bob Fosse is best known for musicals (SWEET CHARITY, CABARET) but also directed the dramas LENNY (1974) and STAR 80 (1983). CABARET (1972) is considered a success, but what of SWEET CHARITY (1969)?    Posted:   Dec 4, 2021 - 12:00 PM     By:   eriknelson   (Member) Like Vincente Minnelli, Bob Fosse is best known for musicals (SWEET CHARITY, CABARET) but also directed the dramas LENNY (1974) and STAR 80 (1983). CABARET (1972) is considered as success, but what of SWEET CHARITY (1969)? I think SC was the first film Fosse directed. I like the film, but I think it suffered from being overblown when Universal decided to give it the full roadshow treatment. On that subject, I've read that Paramount originally planned to do the same thing to ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. After seeing what happened to SWEET CHARITY, Barbra Streisand insisted that the film be trimmed down to regular feature length with no intermission.    Posted:   Dec 4, 2021 - 4:10 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) I can hear it now, "Whatever V'ger wants, V'ger gets and V'ger wants you!" You get 9 Princess Points for this excellent reply, Zoob!    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 12:24 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Otto Preminger is not usually regarded as a director of musicals, but he has three to his credit: CENNTENNIAL SUMMER (1946), with Jerome Kern's final film score, CARMEN JONES (1954), a contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and an African-American cast, PORGY AND BESS (1959), George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk opera of African-American life.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 12:40 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Between 1955 and 1962, actor José Ferrer also directed seven films, while appearing in six of them. His final directorial foray was his only musical, and a film in which he did not appear. It was the 1962 remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's STATE FAIR, starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, and Ann-Margret.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 12:47 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Philadelphia-born Morton DaCosta started his career as a stage actor in 1942, and by 1950 had become a respected stage director, both in stock theater and on Broadway. His short film career included of a pair of successful adaptations of Broadway hits: AUNTIE MAME (the 1958 non-musical version of Patrick Dennis' novel) and THE MUSIC MAN (1962), the #6 film at that year's box office, with a $23 million gross.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 12:48 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Richard Lester has a varied filmography, which includes four 1960s musicals. He started with IT'S TRAD, DAD (1962) (aka RING-A-DING RHYTHM!), broke new ground with the two Beatles films A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964) and HELP! (1965), and finished with his adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway hit A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (1966).    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 1:10 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) George Roy Hill directed 14 feature films, including such big hits as HAWAII (1966), BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969), and THE STING (1973). His sole musical was also a big hit--THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (1967).    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 1:26 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) David Swift isn't a name much remembered today. In the 1960s, he directed two Disney hits with Hayley Mills--POLLYANNA (1960) and THE PARENT TRAP (1961), as well as two minor Jack Lemmon comedies--UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE (1963) and GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM (1964). His final theatrical film, and sole musical, was the 1967 adaptation of Frank Loesser's HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, which he also produced and wrote (based on the stage book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert). The film got mixed reviews and was considered a box office disappointment, with a $7.2 million gross.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 1:40 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Famed stage director Joshua Logan also directed 10 films. Three of them are musicals, and all three are considered problematic--SOUTH PACIFIC (1958), CAMELOT (1967), and PAINT YOUR WAGON (1969). Before he turned to musicals, Logan had better luck with his dramatic film adaptations of two plays by William Inge--PICNIC (1955) and BUS STOP (1956)--and the James A. Michener novel SAYONARA (1957).    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 1:57 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Richard Fleischer had a four decade feature film directorial career, during which he directed more than 40 films, in nearly every genre. Two of his films were musicals. The first, 1967's DOCTOR DOLITTLE, was a critical and commercial flop, grossing just $8.8 million on its $17 million budget. The second, 1980's THE JAZZ SINGER, was a film that Fleischer was called in to rescue after original director Sidney J. Furie was fired. Fleischer did just that, at least commercially. The $13 million production, starring Neil Diamond, grossed $30.2 million at the domestic box office.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 4:36 AM     By:   Brad Wills   (Member) Besides the titles mentioned earlier, there are quite a few more from the 70's: Don Taylor - TOM SAWYER J. Lee Thompson - HUCKLEBERRY FINN Charles Jarrott - LOST HORIZON Randall Kleiser - GREASE David Greene - GODSPELL Alan Parker - BUGSY MALONE Milos Forman - HAIR    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 11:48 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Before HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974), J. Lee Thompson had directed two minor British musicals of the 1950s--AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY (1955) with Diana Dors and THE GOOD COMPANIONS (1957), with Eric Portman and Celia Johnson. The latter had songs by Carlo Alberto Rossi, Paddy Roberts and Geoffrey Parsons THE GOOD COMPANIONS was based on a 1929 novel of the same title by J. B. Priestley. In 1974, a stage musical adaptation opened in London, with an all new score by Andre Previn and Johnny Mercer. The score was orchestrated by Herbert W. Spencer and Angela Morley. Although the show ran for 252 performances in London, it never came to Broadway.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 6:42 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) Ronald Neame - “Scrooge”.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 11:38 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In addition to BUGSY MALONE (1976), Alan Parker's musicals may be said to include FAME (1980), PINK FLOYD: THE WALL (1982), THE COMMITMENTS (1991), and most assuredly EVITA (1996).    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 11:41 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) With all of its sung opera segments, some may consider Milos Forman's AMADEUS (1984) to be a musical.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2021 - 11:50 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In her final film, I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963), Judy Garland does enough singing that many consider that Ronald Neame-directed film to be a musical.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2021 - 12:00 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Francis Ford Coppola has two definite musicals to his credit--FINIAN'S RAINBOW (1968) and ONE FROM THE HEART (1981). If you want to stretch the point, YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW (1966), with its nonstop soundtrack of Lovin' Spoonful songs, may qualify, as may THE COTTON CLUB (1984) with its plethora of 1920s big band numbers.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2021 - 12:09 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Bob Rafelson (FIVE EASY PIECES) may be said to have directed a musical with his first film, HEAD (1968), which had numerous songs by THE MONKEES on its soundtrack.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2021 - 12:22 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Director Herbert Ross had an eclectic career in film musicals. His first directorial assignment of any type was on the television adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green stage musical WONDERFUL TOWN, which CBS aired live on 10 November 1958. Ross's first theatrical film was the 1969 book musical GOODBYE MISTER CHIPS, with Peter O'Toole and Petulia Clark. Ross directed Barbra Streisand's sequel to FUNNY GIRL, 1975's FUNNY LADY. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (1981) utilized enough songs from the 1920s and 1930s on its soundtrack to quality as a musical. And FOOTLOOSE (1984) was a modern pop musical.     General Discussion: Film Directors who took on Big Screen Musicals.    << < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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