This Doesn't Sound Good- Page 6

[brooklynbecca]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 4:21pm

Rebelling teen moves to small town and gets so mad he just has to dance. One person tells him no and he gets even madder and dances anyway. He gets everyone equally mad and they all... just... have... to... DANCE!

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 4:59pm

Middle-aged, affected musical theatre fanatic sits in an armchair and gushes as the cast of his favorite musical burst out of the record player and into his apartment.

[Timmer]

Posted: 11/19/07 at 12:37am

A Far Eastern king hes an Englishwoman to teach his kids.

An English professor tries to teach a Cockney girl how to speak.

[jwsel]

Posted: 11/19/07 at 2:09am

It's based on a cult-classic movie that most people have watched under the influence. It's about King Arthur who runs around using coconuts to make horse sounds, and Galahad is gay, and one of the Knights of the Round Table is a coward. And there's a scene where a guy is supposed to be dead with the plague, but he keeps insisting he's not dead yet. And there's a role for a soprano, but she mainly whines about not getting enough stage-time. Oh, and there's a song that'll probably offend half the audience because it's about how you need Jews if your show is going to do well on Broadway.


There's this mermaid who's a really good singer, but she wants to be human, so she makes a deal with a real bitch who tells her that she can attract the man of her dreams if she just doesn't talk -- or sing. She's helped by a singing crab. At least she doesn't die like in the original story.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 12/17/07 at 6:45pm

i know this was already done, but now with someone with a severe mental illness twist (me) .....

Mamma Mia

A girl who has a wedding and wants to know who her father is.The father thing could have been solved by being on Montel, Ricky Lake,or the ,Who the hell is my father cause my mom is the whore of the family, show. but anyways before the wedding her mom has a fetish of dancing up in spandex and disco's about Mamma mia ,which is already Super Mario's line, or lets pretend we hit a iceburg and sing SOS,. Has a nightmare of scuba divers chasing her. And to top it off if sophie said "lay all your love on me" here in america it would be "jump on me and make some sugar mama love" cause she says dont go wasting emotions or sharing devoutions, so no feelings so Lets Just Get Physical.

i know i phailed

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 12/17/07 at 8:57pm

The tragic tale of an overweight teenager with an overly religious mother who overcomes her classmates taunting by killing them all with her telekinetic powers at the prom.

A musical about a crummy regional theatre trying to save their show, and maybe their lives, with the help of a homicide detective who just happens to be a musical theatre buff.

Six people with Crayola-inspired names kill their host, and the ending changes every time you see the show!

A Swedish orphan is taught how to sing by a deformed man living beneath the opera house she works in.

One bachelor...three girlfriends...five couples...and no plot!

[roquat]

Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:54pm

In Diana Rigg's book "No Turn Unstoned", she describes "The Critic's Device", in which a critic summarizes the plot of a play, without comment, letting the thing "hang itself." She provides several witty examples, but concludes that it is possible to make some of the best plays (and musicals) in the world sound ridiculous by a deadpan rendering of their plots.

Like:

A bunch of aging showgirls stuck in bad marriages stage a reunion at their crumbling old theatre to reminisce and try to figure out exactly where their miserable lives went wrong.

A slutty untalented actress seduces and marries a fascist pig, winning the hearts of the peasants of Argentina by singing hollowly inspiring songs and throwing her arms up a lot.

A psychopathic stage mother manipulates and uses up everyone around her, including her own children.

A singing Russian Jewish milkman who talks to God incessantly loses his three daughters and gets driven out of his own home.

And so on...

[jagfkb]

Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:54pm

A musical about a flop! And it's got Nathan Lane as a straight guy, with dancing Nazis!

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 12:22am

Let's write a musical based on a story in the Weekly World News!

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 12:52am

How about we write yet another one of those murder mystery musicals where we let the audience decide whodunit?!

Anyone get that one?

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 1:55am

an orphan in cockney 19th century london runs away from the orphanage he's kept in only to meet up with a band of theieves and a prostitute whom he falls in love with... steals from a man who happens to be his grandfather although he was living half way across the country... goes to live with this man only to be stolen back by the prostitute and her boyfriend who later kills her for trying to bring the boy back to his grandfather resulting in the boyfriend/murder's death off the back of London Bridge while the king of that particular band of theives walks off into the Sunset and the boy re-unites with his family with some pretty hefty psychiatry bills on the horizon.

Oh and it's Dickensian.

GREAT. WHERE DO I SIGN?

[maya5892]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 1:56am

Julian....I LOVE your avatar

Posted: 12/18/07 at 4:23am

A musical about the rise and fall of a marriage. It'll go in reverse, but only for one character. You know, the needy, insecure actress whose husband just won't support her. You can see the story from beginning to end from the perspective of her cocksure, cheating husband, who even manages to make you feel bad for him during his infidelity!

A musical about a stripper and her stage mother.

Singing, dancing newsboys who just aren't going to take it anymore.

Charlotte Bronte wrote a gothic romance. Let's do it!

There's this pajama factory...

[Princeton78]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 2:28pm

Let's dress Jesus up as a clown and electrocute him on a chain link fence.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/18/07 at 4:28pm

no.

[Timmer]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 12:12am

A woman goes to teh Far East to teach some children of a king.

[MadPhan]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:53am

These are funny! They remind me of the time when I was home over break when, passing a theatre in Minneapolis where Spring Awakening is coming on tour, I said "Oh, Spring Awakenings coming" and, when aked about it by my parents, the first thing I said was, "It's about a bunch of horny teenagers." I, of course, went on to mention about the time period and the whole society and repression aspects of it, but still...

Also; Sweeney Todd. A musical about a barber that goes insane and kills people and the women obsessed with him who makes meat pies out of the remains... Sure sounds like a crowd pleaser!

[gleek4114]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 11:01pm

A musical about a young girl who quickly discovers she has telekinetic powers. Soon after she uses them to Wreak havoc on those who treat her badly.

Could work for Carrie or Matilda.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 11:47pm

You know, when I see that Reese Witherspoon movie about Harvard and UPS guys, it really sings to me.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 2:27am

So it's the late 80's and everybody got AIDS and sh*t....

[The Josh]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 2:59am

A group of men have a gambling addiction.

[NoName3]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 3:07am

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman
she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

— 1970's Marin County newspaper TV listing for The Wizard of Oz

[Showface]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 4:15pm

A baker and his wife travel into the woods to reverse a spell laid on them by a Witch because, the baker's father stole some of her vegetable's.

[Timmer]

Posted: 8/19/14 at 5:52pm

I like that, Showface!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/19/14 at 6:01pm

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman
she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

— 1970's Marin County newspaper TV listing for The Wizard of Oz

It's from 1998.

But Dorothy doesn't team up with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion "to kill again." She teams up with them to visit the Wizard. And even after the Wizard sends them to the Witch, it's to recover her broom, not to kill her. That may sound nitpicky, but the whole joke depends on that second part being accurate.