Let's Be the WORST Ideas for Films Turned into Broadway Musicals

Deep Throat: The Musical

Carrie: The Musical

Halloween: The Musical

Sophie's Choice, the Musical.

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend, the Musical

A Serbian Film

Zodiac, the Musical.

Salo: Or the 100 Days of Sodom

Starring Nathan Lane

Eraserhead

Doctor's Wives

Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat: The Musical

The big leg amputation dance number will be a classic.

Fatal Attraction: The Musical, starring Cole Escola, who sings the showstopper “I’m Not Gonna Be Ignored!”

"Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO: The Musical"

Gone with the Wind: Sing it, Mammy!

R11, that was performed under the name " Rose's Turn" at the 2025 Tonys.

The recent musical adaptation of the TV series Transparent was one of the absolute worst pieces of garbage I have ever seen on stage

Matthew Broderick in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

My Dinner with Andre: The Musical

R12, I hate to tell you this, but there have been not 1, but 2 Gone With The Wind musicals.

UGH.

Schindler's List

The Coffee Table

I was going to suggest My Dinner with Andre, too -But then I realized what a great opportunity it would be to have the two guys at the table, surrounded by the singing and dancing stories that they are telling each other. And maybe they get caught up in those stories, too. It could be quite entertaining! In the immortal words of Max Bialystock, "It's too good."

I see your point, r20

I’d heard of Star Trek-the opera, but as far as I know it never materialized.

I believe Leslie Ann Waren was the Scarlett in one of the adaptions. I love Warren but the idea of her as a singing and dancing Scarlett... I believe it was a Harold Rome score. I imagine It must have been done in two 4 hour parts like Nicholas Nickleby. Or Einstein on the Beach.

Ordinary People

Steel Magnolias

R24 Buck never would've BEEN a Tony nominee!

The Harriet Tubman musical, starring Julia Roberts.

Sorry, that movie was never made.

The smash Broadway musical of the decade

Kevin Costner presents "Dancing With Wolves"

Judgment at Nuremberg: The Musical

R30 Sadly, Mel Brooks is too old to work that into a movie.

Yes, R30!!!

With the big 11:00 number "I Sat on His Lap."

Patti LuPone in THE PIANO

with Harvey Fierstein, Kristin Chenowith, and David Hyde Pierce

R31 I would actually love a Mel Brooks rendition of Judgment at Nuremberg.

Zero Mostel as the Judge

Gene Wilder and Mart Feldman as the Nazis

Madeline Kahn, of course, as Marlene Dietrich

2001: A Space Odyssey The Musical

Do you think Patti would be interested in playing the ape-person who clubs everyone to death with a thigh bone?

Requiem For A Dream

Precious

R35 I don’t know about Patti, but there’s something that would be perfect for HAL.

Ben Platt IS Jeffrey Dahmer in Oh, Dahmer!

‘Night Mother: the Musical

Reversal of Fortune: With Sunny's iconic tap-dance routine, "Coma See About Me."

R40, Kristin Chenoweth as Sunny!

Philadelphia: The Musical

Brokeback Mountain

[quote]Carrie: The Musical

If we’re doing bad musical adaptations that have already happened I pick TOOTSIE

The Prince of Tides: The Musical.

Featuring the hit song "The Southern Way", which depicts how southern people comically deal with almost an entire family being raped at the same time by escaped convicts.

I Spit on Your Grave

R45 if the live stage show includes the tiger from the book then I’m in.

Monster: The Musical, starring Cole Escola as Aileen Wuornos

Nixon: the Musical

Suddenly Last Summer the musical.

With Sebastian's big number "Eat Me."

I know it started as a tv show (and kind of is again) but you KNOW someone has already pitched a musical version of Sex and the City. Think of the fraus who would be making pilgrimages to NYC to see it and enjoy signature cosmos in the lobby.

Night & Fog

Mommie Dearest: The Musical

Featuring "The Wire Hanger Waltz"

R3: "Dawson's 50-Load Weekend, the Musical"

Attend the tale of Dawson’s cunt.

His ass was pale and ‘twas on the hunt

For toxic semen of gentlemen

Who never thereafter were heard from again

He milked their cum and took the brunt

Of loads, that cunt

The Semen Pozslut of Boystown

Trog!!

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle with the act one showstopper "Are You A Retard?"

Brokeback Mountain the Musical was already done in London. I have the cast album.

Shoah: The Musical

You'll love all 30 hours of it!

Bette Davis' 1974 Miss Moffat, which closed because of the star's "back ailment". The real reason could be she couldn't face doing another live show.

“CUCKOO!”

A musical version of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starring Patti LuPone as Nurse Ratched.

Debbie Does Dallas

^ with Debbie Boone singing You Light Up My Life.