re: This Doesn't Sound Good

[raphael06]

A couple guys sell their brother out of jealousy for his overly colorful coat. However, he happens to see the future and becomes a dominant political figure of Egypt.

[wickedfan]

Let's do a musical about the crucifixion of Jesus. Set to rock music.

[juice23]

A broadway musical about street performers performing on a set that looks exactly like the street, with costumes and props made out of things found on the street, written by a guy who used to live on the street... and let's charge them full ticket prices!

[Weez]

Salvadar Agron - Puerto Rican gang member who murdered two teens during a gang fight - DEFINITELY needs a musical made about him.

[vfd88]

A musical about a con man who swindles an entire town out of their money while pretending to teach music. Oh, and it's a comedy.

[i.heart.link]

"Let's do a musical about the crucifixion of Jesus. Set to rock music."

i think thats my favorite

[Night707]

How about a musical about old people who steal coats.

[BroadwayGirl107]

"I can't believe no one has said: People SINGING about the fact that they've got AIDs."

This is what is silly about most of this thread; people keep saying something like "a musical about..." and writing ridiculous things like the statement above. What would be more acurate is saying "Modernizing La Boheme and setting it to rock music in East Village New York in the 90s." Now THAT sounds fascinating.

[C is for Company]

Isn't the thread titled: "This Doesn't Sound Good," implying that it is supposed to sound horrible versus fascinating?

edit; Maybe not so much horrible compared to unbelievable.

[Luvinbroadway]

20 dancers on a bare stage whining.

[kelzama]

Let's get two actors with little to no rehearsal to read letters (written by someone else)to each other on a bare stage.

[musicalkid]

how about a musical where the lead, a voudou woman, kills her brother for her lover, then kills her children to spite her lover.

a musical about people dancing endlessly for money, and a guy coming back from the dead to claim his draw prize.

a show about aging showgirls.

a musical where an aging irish bloke realizes he's gay. and has his amateur theater group closed.

let's do a musical about the Rothschilds. but not the interesting well-known Rothchilds. let's go for their less interesting ancestors, and their male-fiddler tales

let's do Hamlet, only with lions. and an elton john score.

[Mealz1042]

"A girl has to stay at a castle with singing objects and a monster who needs anger management."

ahah that's great!

[Mealz1042]

Let's write a play about a handicap girl who collects glass and her brother who ditches the family
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A play about a bunch of gay people and mormons and people who see angels.
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a musical about the guillotine in France
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A MUSICAL ABOUT PEOPLE PUTTING ON A MUSICAL IN HIGH SCHOOL
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A play about a pregnant woman who kills herself

[dramaqueen2]

a musical about naive, hormonal, angsty german kids in the 19 century having sex to rock music by a past tense indie musician. using a classical book and a cast under 23.

actually, i know many people who would be interested based upon that.

a danced musical with no story using billy joel music!

or

a musical about a girl whose mother slept around and who now wants 1 of 3 men who may be her father to be in her wedding all tied together using abba music!

[Mister Matt]

Women discussing their vaginas.

[Zeitoujo]

a girl on a cherrypicker complains about being ugly and wants to win the heart of a guy.- wicked
a bunch of muppets singing about how much life sucks- avenue Q

[Mealz1042]

"a musical about a girl whose mother slept around and who now wants 1 of 3 men who may be her father to be in her wedding all tied together using abba music!"

already did that one.

[Timmer]

Great ones so far.

How about a musical about a flying boy?

Miguel Cervantes reads and acts out his novel "Don Quixote" in his prison cell.

A feuding actor and actress who used to be married are teamed in a touring production of "The Taming of the Shrew."

A composer and a lyricist are paired by their agents.

Let's keep it going.

[Timmer]

A bunch of performers in a cabaret in Weimar Germany.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Let's have a circus, use giant balloons, light-up moons, michael arden, flashlights, no plot, and a guy dressed as a dog. And for kicks, why don't we set it to Bob Dylan music? Even though he only mentions a circus maybe three times in his entire career of music? Oh, and better yet, let's have Twyla Tharp choreograph it!

[Timmer]

Good one!

[Timmer]

Those are good.

How about:

Three stories in one musical including Adam and Eve and a 1960s rewrite of the Cinderella story.

A con man comes to a small town claiming he can make rain.

Another con man comes to a small town claiming he's a music teacher anc can put together a band. He falls in love with a librarian.

[Weez]

Country bumpkin sleeps her way to the top, dies

Now THAT'S awesome. XD

[kyleorlando]

Its a musical about nothing.... nothing but prostitutes!!!!!

Take your pick:
Tenderloin
Irma la Douce
Sweet Charity
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
The Life
et cetera & ad nauseum

[jv92]

A musical based on a short lived George Abbott directed comedy about murder in corruption in Chicago that tries to make a statement about this country...right after Watergate.

"The Life"
Times Square might have just gotten cleaned up, but we're putting on a show about what it was like fifteen years ago anyway!