What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
#1What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:38pm
Travesties
Imagine it:
One set and the male protagonist sings his songs from his prison in the fireplace! Oh, the choreography!
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#2re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:45pmEquus. Though it could be a trainwreck of epic proportions.
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:47pm
I know!
Or writing a musical about a man trapped in a cave! Imagine the choreography! Things like that would NEVER work, no. Only when you can imagine the choreography.
Yeah!
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:48pm
the glass menagerie (as far as i know that has not been made into a musical...i hope i am not wrong)
and i agree with equus
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#4re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/23/08 at 10:53pm
12 Angry Men
Bent
Summer and Smoke (oooh I bet that's been tried somewhere. In fact, I bet EVERY play has been badly musicalized somewhere)
like STREETCAR!!!
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:05pmThe Andersonville Trial
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:09pm
EQUUS! THE MUSICAL!!! Featuring the hit song "His Analyst Thinks He's Crazy But He's Hung Like A Horse"!
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:10pmI would say August: Osage County
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:19pmI must disagree... I think Summer and Smoke would make a fantastic musical!
#10re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:19pm
Take Me Out! Or...well...on second thought... 
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#11re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:21pm
Angels in America
Burried Child
Doubt
I kinda like the idea of an Equus musical...if only for the kitsch factor that would be involved.
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:26pmIf screenplays count, SUNSET BOULEVARD should never be a musical. If you won't take my word for it, take Andrew Lloyd Webber's.
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:28pmI think Equus would work as a Spring Awakening type musical.
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:31pm
DOUBT...definitely DOUBT and FROZEN. God, imagine FROZEN as a musical! No thanks.
TOP GIRLS as brilliant as it is should never ever ever be musicalized.
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:52pm
I have to admit, the Simpsons did rock the musical STREETCAR NAMED MARGE...
THe Children's hour....god those would be some boring songs...
Ballad on being a teacher
Ballad on lies
Ballad on maybe being a lesbian....
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
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Posted: 5/23/08 at 11:58pm
Oooooh! The Children's Hour!
Imagine a song called "Those Kids Might Have Licked Me, But I Never Licked Her"!
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#17re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:02amThe Boys in the Band
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#18re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:13am
I can't believe that it got all the way down to tobiasragg the ninthe post in this thread to say that Spring Awakening shouldn't have been made into a musical.
When I saw the title of this thread I said to myself I am sure that spring awakening is number one on the list.
That being said, I can't see anyone doing a musical of The History Boys or The Pillowman.
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Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:27am
Anything by Martin McDonaugh
Just picture the song list for "The Pillowman"
WARNING _SPOILERS!
Act 1
The interragation part 1
The Story of the Apple Men
Severed Fingers
Screams in the night
Killing the parents
Michael was a bit slow
The story of the Pillowman (or how kids commit suicide)
The story of the green pig
Smothering Michael
Act 2
The Little Jesus
The interragation part two
Electrodes
Confessions
Barganing
Ariel's abusive childhood
The little mute girl
Death of Katurian
Pillowman addendum
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
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#21re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:44am
Rabbit Hole...but then again, if Spring Awakening can do it...
I want to SEE Equus the musical...imagine the showstopper "Horsey Style"
How could I leave her?
Where would I start?
Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart.
My land's only borders lie around my heart.
#22re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 12:59amI think Take Me Out could work as a musical if they were low key type songs like in A Catered Afair. When I saw the play I felt like there was music missing.
#23re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 1:00am
MOOSE MURDERS
ME JACK, YOU JILL
#24re: What play should never EVER EVER never ever be a musical...
Posted: 5/24/08 at 1:16am
OMG MOOSE MURDERS!
Imagine it:
The Kick in the Crotch Ballet!
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Posted: 5/24/08 at 1:47am
Blackbird
The Shape of Things
Fat Pig
