Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
#1Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 8:57pmI feel a lot of his music tells a story and could work (whether it'd be good or not is another story), am I the only one?
#2re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:15pmCould be....
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#2re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:22pm
Seems like it.
Though I know Garth Brooks I am not at all familiar with his music. Yes, I've heard it countless of times AND I can identify his voice instantly, but that's it. I don't know a single song tile nor a lyric of anything he's done.
I'm sure a Garth Brooks jukebox musical would work as a limited engagement at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, TN... not ON Broadway.
sccates
Swing Joined: 4/16/06
#3re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:25pmWhen is this trend of musicals based on one artist's music catalogue going to end? Have we lost all creativity in the musical theater? Whatever happened to originality? I would hope that we would be encouraging more shows like NEXT TO NORMAL, LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, RAGTIME, etc. Maybe it is just my opinion, but this is the type of musical theater that I want to see more of.
mr.cellophane
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:26pmThere aren't too many styles of music I dislike.....country is one of them.
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#5re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:01pm
Introduce Garth to somebody who can shepherd him through the ins and outs of writng a show, maybe find him a good property to musicalize, one that would generate some interest, and which would be served well by Brooks' unique combination of hard country rockin' and sentimentality, and let it workshop in the Midwest for a few months. Then, perhaps, Garth could produce a musical score that would satisfy the country fans as well as the New York snobs.
At one point, Garth was attached to a musical version of "Shane," if memory serves. Perhaps a more comic western like John Wayne's "McLintock!" (itself a western adaptation of 'Taming of the Shrew') would be more suitable to Brooks' talents.
Or perhaps a full-score version of "Cat Ballou?"
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#6re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:36pmI would love it, and I know a lot of people who don't really go to the theatre who would love it too.
tking001
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/3/09
#7re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:38pm
I think that a Garth Brooks musical would help bring people to the theater who don't usually go to the theater which in turn could then make them say "I saw one show(The Garth brooks one,) and really enjoyed that I might enjoy other theater, and then they'd see Bway shows and become regular theater goers.
Just an idea
HITcards
Understudy Joined: 6/19/08
#8re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 2:44amA jukebox musical of Garth Brooks' songs would be my favorite show of all time instantaneously (maybe a bit of an exaggeration but you get the point). The songs he performs would lend very well to a full laid out plot of romance found, lost, found again, destroyed, and probably found again in the after-life. It would do INCREDIBLY WELL in the South and Midwest, and national touring, but would probably flop on B'Way. A musical written by Garth Brooks would probably be not very good however, as Garth isn't much of a writer himself. Most of his best songs were written by other songwriters.
Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#9re: Am I the only one who would love a Garth Brooks musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 5:14pmyes, yes you are. lol
