I don't know about the rest of my fellow League members, but SP disserves a decent film version of the musical. Frankly, my dream cast would have to be:

Percy- Douglas Sills
Marguerite- Catherine Zeta Jones
Chauvelin- Kyle Lowder (may be too young, but certainly talented)
Armand- Orlando Bloom (ONLY if he can sing)

Who stands behind me that there should be a film version of the musical???

Sigh. If we all win the lottery, maybe we can pool our resources and produce it ourselves. Would be lovely, though.

Oh I would love to have SP turned into a movie. And I like your casting you listed. Of course Percy would have to be Douglas Sills, he is the only Percy in my eyes. LOL

They are slowly making Broadway productions into film/musicals, so maybe there might be a slight change it will happen.....

No offense, but I would rather see a non-musical remake of Pimpernel. The stage show works so well as a stage show.

I personally quite dislike musicals made into movies... I'm not exactly looking forward to J&H with relish, especially after "The Phantom of the Opera". If the casting is bad, it all goes out the window... and if I see Orlando Bloom cast in a musical movie I will most likely shoot myself.

I love the excitement and rarity of stage shows. Make a movie and it becomes accessible all the time and it loses some of its magical charm...

I think Jeremy (Roberts) said it best. The problem with the stage-shows becoming movies, in the past, was that they were too close to their source-material. Look at Phantom, look at Producers, they're like Pay-Per-View specials on a grand scale.

If "Jekyll & Hyde" is to be a film, my guess will be (based on Jeremy's comments) it will be completely different to the stage-show. I respect that.

Look at the concept album compared to the Complete Work. Look at the C.W. compared to the Broadway show, and then that to Resurrection. It's stunningly different.

The movie, hopefully, will be another venture altogether. Although, of course, it will have all of the music!

EDIT: Looks like my two favourite musicals will be movies then :D Not just Jekyll, but Roman Polanski is doing "Tanz der Vampire" as his next major picture :D

Yeah, and I'm thinking the J&H movie music will be similar to the Ressurectoin cd. But, then again, I could be entirely wrong.

I think SP as a movie might be good, but there are already movies of it, and I really like the stage play as it is. I don't think it'd make as good a movie.

^ I think it's charm is in the stage show. Whereas the lavish, gothic shows like PotO and JH can on some levels appeal to a wider audience, you're asking for people to appreciate a) a period "romance", and B) in musical-movie form. It doesn't have the appeal to the general population that past films have had - PotO in its lavish designs and almost entire undercurrent of general sexiness, and Rent in its tortured, belting, infected young people... etc.