re: This Doesn't Sound Good

[Mr Roxy]

How about a musical about Siamese twins ?

A flop that deserved a much better fate with a great score & performances to match

[tazber]

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?

[Piazzaslight]

How'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?

[Mr Roxy]

A musical of The Fourposter

2 people on stage
No dancing

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

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.

[Mealz1042]

"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.

[little_sally]

"A musical about a babysitter who flies and uses big words."

HAHA! That made me laugh out loud.

[BobbyErikValjean]

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]

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]

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]

-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]

How about a musical about the biggest maritime disaster ever?

[i.heart.link]

"-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]

A 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]

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.

[Action2]

puppets...singing puppets (who have sex and drink)

[millie_dillmount]

I'm surprised no one said Urinetown yet, unless I overlooked something.

A musical where people revolt because they cannot pee for free.

[Raviolisun]

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.

[Night707]

Hmm... I think a musical that basically represents the dangers of LSD!!! LETS CALL IT "THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW"

[jordangirl]

Tazber... I'm definitely with you. I don't see how they got the idea to turn the doc into a musical.

[kelzama]

Poor and dark-skinned peasant girl falls for rich and light-skinned society boy who marries another girl. Poor girl turns into tree.

[jpbran]

RockabyeHamlet: I took the pict of Cerveris while stage-dooring at Sweeney. He waved right after, but looks really mean in the pict.

[gypsiedtokill]

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.

[Anti-Romanticist]

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.)

[kelzama]

Four guys from New Jersey speak about the songs they used to sing, then they sing the old songs.

[StageManager2]

"Poor and dark-skinned peasant girl falls for rich and light-skinned society boy who marries another girl. Poor girl turns into tree."

Can't figure out what yours is, kelzama.