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Good ideas for jukebox musicals

KuhnKrazy

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#2
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:18pm

I don't think her catalogue is big enough yet. Besides with her impending legal/copyright troubles, I doubt any producer would want to touch that.

I have said for years that The Smiths music had strong potential for a jukebox musical and then just last year one was announced that's in the works.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#2
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:28pm

I aways kinda wanted to see a fleetwood mac/Stevie Nicks musical, but part of me feels like it would end up being craptastic.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#3
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:29pm

not a jukebox per se, but I've always thought there needed to be a Cy Coleman revue. Such fantastic, stylistically varied scores.

Opening number: Cy-a-mania! (Willamania, with slightly reworked lyrics)

...this bird is singing.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#4
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:32pm

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#5
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:33pm

Sebastian Bach and Skid Row.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#6
Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:01pm

I always thought that Duran Duran have a decent catalogue for a musical but I have always imagined it like Mamma Mia! type plot.

Jellylorum

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#7
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:00pm

Most of Pink Martini's songs aren't in English, but I think their style is good for musical theatre.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#8
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:14pm

Bring back "OUR HOUSE"!!!!!

...the Madness musical

...and the best jukebox musical that ever was

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#9
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:15pm

I, for some reason, always thought of one with the music of Huey Lewis & The News. I actually thought up a whole plot and was gonna write the show for fun. That never happened. LOL!

Funny Face

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#10
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:17pm

Spice Girls!

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#11
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:29pm

None. I'm sick of them.

don logan

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#12
Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:40am

Metallica
weird al
spinal tap
borat
webern
ornette coleman
judas priest
handel

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#13
Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:55am

I always thought the Alan Parsons Project was very theatrical, especially with the Edgar Allen Poe and the Guadi inspired albums.

I can see that catalogue on stage sooner or later.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#14
Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:14am

Ben Folds or Rufus Wainwright.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#15
Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:14am

I think a Whitney Houston musical would be brilliant!

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#16
Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:17am

I definitely second Rufus Wainwright. But he's got his opera that he's working on now, so I guess we'll have to be satisfied with that for now.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#17
Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:11am

Spice Girls!!!!

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antonijan

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#18
Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:37am

Mariah Carey and Madonna!

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#19
Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:25am

The Beatles.

It's been done, but not on stage. Or at least I don't think so...

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#20
Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:45am

The Beatles never done as a jukebox musical? Are you kidding? Beatlemania is the ORIGINAL jukebox musical. It's even in wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatlemania_%28musical%29

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 04:45 AM

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#21
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:03am

They should revive Beatlemania!

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#22
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:04am

Pink Floyd
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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#23
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:17am

I like the Ben Folds suggestion.

Also, has anyone ever heard of the Canadian (sometimes) a cappella band Moxy Fruvous? I've always thought their stuff would be great in a theatrical environment.

Last, maybe Colin Hay or the Decemberists?

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#24
Posted: 7/13/07 at 8:50am

The Rolling Stones

And there already is a Cy Coleman musical. I've forgotten the name but I saw it in Los Angeles a couple years ago. It was a multi-media review of Coleman's songs nobody ever heard of. I didn't like it much.

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re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals#25
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:05am

I generally abhor jukebox musicals, but if pressed for a suggestion, I would say the music of Styx would lend itself to a production. Their style has always been theatrical, and there are common themes across many of their songs.

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