Prequels, Sequels, or Compainion Musicals You Wish Existed

[gleek4114]

I've been listening to the new Falsettos recording recently, and I absolutely love the lesbians from nextdoor. I think they're really fun and sweet, and I couldn't help but think that a companion piece to the Marvin Trillogy about Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia, written by Bill Finn, could be really great. It could even be a prequel about their love story and how they found each other, and could end with them moving nextdoor to the characters in Falsettoland.

 

Any one else have any ideas for musicals Prequels, Sequels, or companions that could actually be really good? 

[Emmaloucbway]

In a different thread someone once mentioned a prequel to Rent which sounded like a pretty good idea. 

[broadwayguy91]

I remember that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child initially started out as a prequel to the Harry Potter series, where the story would focus on Harry pre-Hogwarts. I wish that would still come to fruiton, someday.

[AEA AGMA SM]

I'm not sure what would be gained by a story focusing on Harry's life pre-Hogwarts. Two hours of seeing the Dursleys treat him like dirt? Not exactly an evening of great entertainment there, and of course even harder to build up any real tension in the story.

[Emmaloucbway]

I would love to see a different portion of War and Peace adapted as a prequel/sequel to "The Great Comet." 

[dramamama611]

Part of producing a good show is that the story is complete. As is.  There have been very few successful sequels on Broadway.  Particularly those that were not planned that way. 

 

Personally, I'm not a fan of most movie sequels, either. 

 

[A Canadian in NYC]

Hoping for a sequel to Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I've read reports that's it's an on again -off again proposal. Has anyone heard anything recent on this from John Cameron Mitchell? 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Jesus Christ Superstar 2: The Force Awakens.

[Valentina3]

Not a musical and not exactly a sequel, but after watching All The Way I have been very interested in seeing a fictionalized play where Obama is seen dealing with civil rights climate in the country under his presidency with Lyndon B Johnson's "ghost" goading, mocking, and eventually consoling him.

[Valentina3]

... just had the image of Obama in a spotlight on an otherwise dark stage belting "Let Me Be Your Star" with past presidents as Norma Jean whispering sweet nothings.

[Alex Kulak2]

Jekyll and Hyde 2: Electric Boogaloo

[newintown]

Mameleh! A prequel to Mame, in which we see her as a rich young girl in Chicago, at her scandalous coming out party, running away to New York, and getting laid by Mayor Jimmy Walker, Eugene O’Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Al Jolson, Eubie Blake, and Elsa Maxwell.

Yonkers, Schmonkers, Bonkers - which follows the lives of Cornelius, Irene, Barnaby, and Minnie several years after Hello, Dolly! Boredom and familiarity have inspired them to start the first swinger parties in the NY metro area. Horace and Dolly crash one, and hilarity ensues, until it stops.

How Darling! – an incredibly dull and inert play that explores all that happened to Wendy Darling between her return from Neverland up to Peter’s subsequent visit years later. Spoiler alert: very little happened to her. Written by Annie Baker.

Next To Nothing – what happened to Diana after abandoning her family in pursuit of mental health? Well, she sings so much over the course of this three-hour intermissionless one-woman musical, written by yet another young composer who doesn’t understand the human voice, that Alice Ripley not only goes completely laryngitic, she literally DIES at the end. For real. Spoiler alert: Diana never gets sane, but winds up a bag lady in Scranton.

[gypsy101]

Emmaloucbway said: "I would love to see a different portion of War and Peace adapted as a prequel/sequel to "The Great Comet." "

this. i've said (half-jokingly) that Dave Malloy should spend his career adapting different sections of War and Peace. i like Ghost Quartet despite it being a little convoluted and didn't like whatever his other show was (Preludes) but i love Great Comet so i would love to see what else he could do with War and Peace.

[Alex Kulak2]

^ I did the math on this. According to Malloy, Great Comet is based on 70 pages of War and Peace, which is 1440 pages long. The run time of Great Comet is 2 and 1/2 hours. Assuming that the stage time to page count ratio stays the same, a complete Malloy musicalization of War and Peace would be just under 51 and a half hours. That's 3 and a half times longer than the entire Ring of the Nibelung cycle.

 

Bring it on.

[StephieElise]

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see a full musical about it, but I'd love to know how Clara's life pans out after Light in the Piazza. I just felt really dissatisfied with the ending!

[ClumsyDude15]

Ever since we saw 13, a friend of mine has mentioned over the years that he wants a follow up about the characters at their 10 year high school reunion. 

[The8re phan]

Has Love Never Dies taught us nothing???!!?

[gleek4114]

The8re phan said: "Has Love Never Dies taught us nothing???!!?

 

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Has the Marvin Trilogy proved anything?

[A Director]

Robert Schenkkan wrote a companion play to ALL THE WAY. It's THE GREAT SOCIETY and covers the years 1965 to end of LBJ term of office.

[newintown]

[please just kill us] – Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell, and Heidi Blickenstaff find themselves 60 years old and still carting [title of show] around to increasingly smaller venues, the most recent being a Red Roof Inn in Paducah, Kentucky. Rooting through their decaying luggage, they find a suicide pact they made in younger, happier days, with a manifesto that they would end it all if they were doing the same old thing at age 60. Comically, all their attempts to snuff themselves are foiled by the three remaining posters at BroadwayWorld, who have been following/stalking them with pseudo-religious zeal over the decades.

Mississippi Moron. Johnny, Will, and Tunny head south and move in with the cast of Duck Dynasty, apply for public assistance, and do more of the same nothing for the rest of their lives. But they do it to really loud music.

Thoroughly Depraved Dorothy follows Miss Dorothy after her marriage to Ching Ho has fallen apart, mostly due to her nymphomania. She sells herself into white slavery and becomes the property of, variously, a Japanese shogun, an Arab sheikh, the Dalai Lama, an African warlord, and finally, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Women on the Verge of Finding an Audience sees Sherie Rene Scott, Patti Lupone, Laura Benanti, etc. in another meandering show that no one goes to see. The evening comes to life only once, during Lupone’s stunningly bitchy aria, “Sherie Rene Is A Talent-Free Nobody.”

[newintown]

Lucy Barker, the Downtrodden Belle of Fleet Street begins when Lucy’s husband, Benjamin, is shipped off to Australia on trumped up - or were they? - charges. Is Nellie Lovett’s description of what happened next entirely true? And what else happened over the 17 years before Barker’s return? A score by Michael John LaChiusa and a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will make you yearn to watch the original again.

Piano Bar (I know there’s already a tiny musical by this name, but no one ever does it) – Clifford Bradshaw returns to the U.S. after his simply marvelous stay in Berlin. Attempting to recreate his happiest moments, he opens a cabaret (piano bar) in Greenwich Village, hires an androgynous MC, and finds a cute young boy who he transforms (a la Vertigo) into a lookalike Sally Bowles. Surprise twist: the young boy really IS Sally, on the run and in hiding (from whom? I imagine you won't stay long enough to find out). The piano bar is finally shut down by the vice squad due to nuisance complaints.

Fast Times in Madison County. After saying no (eventually) to Robert, Francesca prepares to settle in and be a faithful wife and mother to Bud and the kids. But that inexorable, irresistible pull of quick sex with relative strangers - what Francesca likes to call “love" - is just too strong, and a string of one-to-three-day affairs with a colorful and fascinating array of people and animals leads to her being finally carted off, Blanch DuBois-style. The score features 45 new JRB songs, all really slow ballads, and closes after five performances (a JRB record).

[newintown]

Rent, the Next Day. Mimi dies for good. No recovery. No resurrection. Because that's what happened. Then Roger dies. Mark's "movie" is dismissed by everyone he submits it to as "a bunch of amateur home movie crap." He moves back to his home town to teach middle school. Joanne gets weary of funding Maureen's increasingly unpopular narcissistic evenings of "performance art" and moves on to a healthy relationship with a realtor, while Maureen relocates to LA and becomes Flo on the Progressive commercials.

[themysteriousgrowl]

 

Your snark is off the charts this morning!

[newintown]

Thanks, sweet growl, I thought I was just entertaining myself!