Why anyone would want to turn this horrible play into a musical is beyond me. Horrible people being even more horrible to others, what a fun night of theatre that would be.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
Sondheim gets approached to adapt plays into musicals all the time. Neil Simon approached him to adapt "The Front Page." He reports Sondheim asked: "Why do the Characters sing?"
I think that Virginia Woolf is one of the best plays in theatre history. It's angry, funny, and sad. It leaves a LUMP in the throat. It's WAY too serious to be a musical, though. That would just defeat the entire purpose of it.
George:
Rubbing alcohol for you, Martha?
Martha: Never mix, never worry!
I don't really think ANYTHING is "too serious" to be made into a musical. Some of my most favorite musicals are dreadfully serious...
While I don't think VW would translate well into a musical, I don't think that it would be an impossible feat to do. It would be hard, sure, and I think the overall story would lose something, but it could be done!
Albee is an enigma. His works are like musicals themselves in the dialogue, the way of speech. Musicals...without music. Or something.
I say leave Albee alone. And he probably feels the same way.
"While I don't think VW would translate well into a musical, I don't think that it would be an impossible feat to do. It would be hard, sure, and I think the overall story would lose something, but it could be done!" _______________________________________________________________ But why BOTHER? If the story is going to "lose something" then maybe it shouldn't even be attempted. And it never will, so why am I even worried about it? Let's just turn Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & Suddenly Last Summer into musicals, as well.
George:
Rubbing alcohol for you, Martha?
Martha: Never mix, never worry!