My Best Friend's Wedding:The Musical?
Last night I watched My Best Friend's Wedding for the 100th? time. Hey, I had a lot of laundry folding to do...gosh darn, I love that movie! Even though Julia Roberts still didn't end up with Dermot Mulroney at the end, shucks! I'm still waiting for the sequel, where he leaves Cameron Diaz...It was even more fun now that I've been to Chicago so many times so I could identify various landmarks and the hotel I stay in when I'm there.
As I was watching it occurred to me that maybe this movie would make a fun musical. Lots of silly love triangle stuff, scheming, chases, wedding planning, gay best friend, and they already have a group sing scene at the rehearsal lunch crab shack. I've always loved the Bacharach soundtrack of that movie, and for that reason it has always seemed like a very musical movie to begin with. How about the ending, where she dances with her gay friend, after losing her best friend/lover -- very bittersweet/life goes on ending like Sweet Charity (of course, not as bad) or Flora The Red Menace (Sing Happy).
Now if I could just find a couple of hundred thou' to buy the rights, then I'd really have something...
