Muppets Conquer Broadway

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 11:17am

How about these done by the Muppets?

J/H
Les Miz
Miss Saigon

[devonian.t]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 12:15pm

Spring Awakening
Rent
Hair

Miss Piggy would be great in Sunday in the Pork...

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 12:16pm

God, can you imagine...

I mean, I can't, but can you?

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 12:41pm

Does anyone know whatever happened to the planned musical, "Kermit: Prince of Denmark"? I thought it sounded like a fantastic idea.

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 12:53pm

I vaguely recall that we discussed Muppet "Rent" before...

Scooter - Mark
Kermit - Roger
Miss Piggy - Mimi
Fozzie - Collins
Gonzo - Angel
Janice - Maureen
Skeeter - Joanne
Sam - Benny

[Flaunt It]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 1:07pm

I honestly thought Fran and Barry might cast Miss Piggy as Rizzo in the last GREASE revival. It could have worked.

[winston89]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 3:13pm

I have always thouhght a broadway version of Muppets Take Manhatten.

I mean I think it could work and in my mind it is the most musical of all the muppet movives.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:26pm

Muppets' Christmas Carol is a fine musical.

[Theatreboy33]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:26pm

Someone correct me if im wrong, but weren't the muppets many years ago in talks to do a tv version of R&H's Pipe Dream? I recall reading somewhere (either in Mordden or mandlebaum) that one attempt to save the show some years later was to have the muppets perform it as a TV movie.

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:31pm

Someone correct me if im wrong, but weren't the muppets many years ago in talks to do a tv version of R&H's Pipe Dream?

You are correct, sir.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:36pm

What about the muppets Into the Woods? I could just picture miss piggy as the witch. I always saw the Great Muppett Caper
as a good broadway musical Ps:the kermit denmark musical was scrapped it was supposed to be written by the same team of
Avenue Q

Updated On: 12/15/07 at 05:36 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:51pm

How about a Sweeney Muppet version?

[TomMonster]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 5:57pm

Rentaholic: the "KERMIT PRINCE OF DENMARK" was the BMI workshop project that the AVENUE Q guys wrote. It was never planned to go anywhere else...but it got the guys interested in working with Rick Lyon again. That's what got them to write Q.

[Tkt2Ride]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 6:14pm

Interesting idea but it would be fun to see them tackle something new. Why should Disney have all of the fun? Though I have always seen South Park as a kind of warped version of the Muppets. A lot more so than say the Simpson's are.

The Actors did a great job with the material and puppets. The show was just too dated for me. I enjoyed the concept and some of Ave Q was funny. Making it more kid friendly will gain a larger audience but it worked well enough for a young adult audience.

Did it make a profit?

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/15/07 at 6:16pm

That's a shame...it sounded like a wonderful idea. The muppets would have a great time spoofing something as well-known and overly dramatic as Hamlet.

[ggersten]

Posted: 12/18/13 at 3:23pm

So, apparently, there was a planned Muppet Into the Woods film - and from the description (which apparently is at sondheim.com but I couldn't find it quickly) the script changes sound like the non-puppet version may have some similarities. I realize this is probably not news to many readers here - but it was new to me!
Muppets Into The Woods

Posted: 12/18/13 at 3:50pm

That Muppets PIPE DREAM sounds bizarre, was it meant to be done straight? Of all the shows out there that seems like a bizarre choice.

I remember someone posted a Sesame Street spoof of Les Miz a few months ago.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/19/13 at 4:34pm

I'd like to see an all Muppet version of THE LARAMIE PROJECT.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/19/13 at 10:13pm

The Muppet "Pipe Dream" was going to be a weird in-between thing. Based loosely on "Pipe Dream" and on Steinbeck's novels, it would be a comedic tale of Depression-era squatters, with Miss Piggy living in an abandoned sewer pipe. But it's actual plot and content would have little more than a faint resemblance to Steinbeck or "Pipe Dream," and it would include only a few of the songs, but add some new ones (presumably by Muppet and Carpenters songwriter Paul Williams).

The project fell apart, presumably because the actual material to make "Steinbeckian Muppets in the Great depression" work never materialized.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/19/13 at 10:52pm

J/H

[twinbelters]

Posted: 12/19/13 at 10:58pm

A Little Muppet Shop of Horrors! Puppets upon puppets! Frank Oz! The original ending! Wants!

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 12/20/13 at 12:20am

"How about a Sweeney Muppet version?"

Here you go, Mr. Roxy:

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/20/13 at 12:38am

Company
Follies
Pacific Overtures

Posted: 12/20/13 at 4:00pm

^^^^^^^^^^
Gonzo could play Bobby. Kermit and Miss Piggy could be Paul & Amy.