This Doesn't Sound Good- Page 2
This Doesn't Sound Good
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#25re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:14pm
How about a musical about Siamese twins ?
A flop that deserved a much better fate with a great score & performances to match
Poster Emeritus
#26re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:17pm
Superman? The Musical?
And of course the penultimate bad idea: Carrie.
despite the good parts with mom and Carrie, how in the world do you musicalize that prom scene?
....but the world goes 'round
#26re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:17pmHow's about a musical about bunch of German teenagers going through puberty, based on a play that was banned for many years due to it's sexual content?
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#28re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:25pm
A musical of The Fourposter
2 people on stage
No dancing
Poster Emeritus
#29re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:25pm
Doesn't this all prove that with the right artistry and creativity, any premise can be made into a musical that is either artful, entertaining or both?
Yes.
And doesn't that discredit all of the recent "Isn't Legally Blonde/ (fill in the blank with any new musical people complain about) an awful idea for a musical?" discussions?
It is different when theatergoers see a show, and report back: "Wow, that didn't come to fruition well". It is also different when a theatergoer comments, "They're making Shrek into a musical? How will Jeanine Tesori deal with that?" But damning a show thoroughly based on a premise alone is ignorant and obnoxious.
In my opinion.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#30re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:37pm
"well, of course they're all going to sound terrible when you describe them like that" THATS THE POINT. No one's saying that these shows are actually bad (neccesarily) they're saying that the descriptions sound like they would be such bad musicals. That'st he whole point of this thread.
I can't believe no one has said: People SINGING about the fact that they've got AIDs.
A musical about a girl who's mother slept around and she's trying to figure out which one her father is.
A musical about a babysitter who flies and uses big words.
A musical about a hair product.
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
#31re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:39pm
"A musical about a babysitter who flies and uses big words."
HAHA! That made me laugh out loud.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#32re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:43pm
My mom told me that Les Miz was about a guy with a big hat. But that's not completely accurate.
More like a guy steals bread and everyone dies.
The W.A.N.D
Understudy Joined: 3/16/06
#33re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:43pm
A musical about married people bitching at each other! (Company)
Lets have middle aged men strip onstage! (Full Monty)
Three Words: "Raul Esparza Flying." (The Chitty revival)
i.heart.link
Featured Actor Joined: 5/7/07
#34re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:51pm
A musical about an old guy listening to a musical.
Two producers produce the worst musical in history!
A musical about a town where you have to pay to use the bathroom.
hehe this is fun!
The W.A.N.D
Understudy Joined: 3/16/06
#35re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:54pm
-Whiney German kids all bitch and moan for 2 hours and one of them kills himself. A song is entitled "Totally F*CKed" and features a masturbation scene.
- Lets do a musical but run the whole thing BACKWARDS!!! (This could be Merriy or The Last 5 Years)
-3 loooong plays about Russians with ideas.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#36re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:54pmHow about a musical about the biggest maritime disaster ever?
Poster Emeritus
i.heart.link
Featured Actor Joined: 5/7/07
#37re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:57pm
"-Whiney German kids all bitch and moan for 2 hours and one of them kills himself. A song is entitled "Totally F*CKed" and features a masturbation scene."
haha! i love it!
musicalsaregreat
Understudy Joined: 4/13/05
#38re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:02pmA woman kills her lover, gets thrown in prison with other female murderers. A jury finds her innocent and she goes on a vaudeville tour.
The W.A.N.D
Understudy Joined: 3/16/06
#39re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:05pm
Lets do ONE MORE!!!
*Writers and other people from the show scramble to get their things together and aproach the producers*
"Hello! We have a great idea for a new musical that we think you'd love! What is the one book that everybody adores? What? The Bible? Hell no, I'm talking about Lord of the Rings silly! Now picture Frodo fighting orcs, set to a boisterous broadway score! I see it now! All we need is a few (Hundred) million and we're on our way!"
EDIT
-God musicalsaregreat that made me pee my pants with the ending.
Updated On: 5/29/07 at 09:05 PM
Action2
Understudy Joined: 2/21/07
#40re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:35pmpuppets...singing puppets (who have sex and drink)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#41re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:40pm
I'm surprised no one said Urinetown yet, unless I overlooked something.
A musical where people revolt because they cannot pee for free.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#42re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:48pm
A musical about a girl who's mother slept around and she's trying to figure out which one her father is.
Any way you spin Mamma Mia! will always sound absurd.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#43re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:01pmHmm... I think a musical that basically represents the dangers of LSD!!! LETS CALL IT "THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW"
:D
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#44re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:04pmTazber... I'm definitely with you. I don't see how they got the idea to turn the doc into a musical.
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#45re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:15pmPoor and dark-skinned peasant girl falls for rich and light-skinned society boy who marries another girl. Poor girl turns into tree.
#46re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:19pmRockabyeHamlet: I took the pict of Cerveris while stage-dooring at Sweeney. He waved right after, but looks really mean in the pict.
#47re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:21pm
4 parts hippies
1 part country boy
5 parts various illegal substances
Mix ingrediants in 1960s New York City. Add a dash of the Vietnam war, stir well.
I can't talk now. I gotta go get my wallet out of the toaster.
Anti-Romanticist
Understudy Joined: 8/23/06
#48re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:22pm
Take a CERTAIN Robert Louis Stevenson novella and turn it into a musical, EXCEPT it's NOT Danvers that's murdered, but a buncha other people, also mixing in a subplot about a prostitute who could have possibly been in the novella had RSL thought about it and a fiancee we KNOW was never there in the novella because it was her father who was murdered in the novella except he wasn't really her father in the novella because she wasn't in the novella at all.
(I hope I didn't confuse anyone with that. Heh. BTW, in case anyone couldn't guess, I'm talking about Jekyll and Hyde.)
Bow before the cuteness of my cousin!!! ;]
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#49re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:28pmFour guys from New Jersey speak about the songs they used to sing, then they sing the old songs.
