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Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
#50re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:16pmThe trouble with Bowie's music for a musial would be that his lyrical style is built around non sequiturs and stream of consciousness musings... hard to fit into ANY situation.
#51re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:16pmThe trouble with Bowie's music for a musial would be that his lyrical style is built around non sequiturs and stream of consciousness musings... hard to fit into ANY situation.
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#52re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:58am
I'm talking out my ass here, but I'd love to see:
Impossible Princess - the Kylie Minogue musical.
Base the book on Taming of the Shrew (they did the Shakespeare thing with All Shook Up), add water, Kylie songs, and viola! Jukebox.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#53re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:51amI would like to see a Billy Joel musical that is not a dance production and where the characters sing his music.
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joanntom
Stand-by Joined: 4/17/06
#55re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 2:35amFor me... Cyndi Lauper, Cher and the Indigo Girls. I know the third is being worked on.
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stuckinoz
Swing Joined: 6/30/09
#56re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 2:41amas cringe-worthy as it would be, for some odd reason i can see a spice girls musical working.
#57re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 3:02am
I totally agree with a Celine Dion musical...I always thought "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was so Broadway, specially those opening chords.
How about a Barbra Streis--oh no wait...nevermind.
STEVIE WONDER!
or
MARIAH CAREY!
Is there a Barry Manilow jukebox musical?
#58re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 5:03am
Amy Winehouse's songs all seem to advance a story or heighten an emotion very well.
I've been working out how one would work in my head.
Though I do think that she needs at least one more good album before you can seriously consider her, as 2 albums and a bunch of B-sides does not a good jukebox musical make.
That made sense in my head before I typed it. LOL!
Unfortunately, even with her "rejuvenation" in the Bahamas somewhere, I think that she is too tragically a mess to complete a good third album.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#59re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:10am
choitoy, well if that show Glee has showed us anything it's that Winehouse's stuff is surprisingly musical.
Personally not a fan of the usual jukebox musical, though I do love the idea of genre extending to Crazy for You and 42nd Street. I suppose of all the ideas the suggestion I like the most is Savage Garden. Their music is pretty damn epic and can even tell a story ("To The Moon And Back"). Plus they already proved they can write great love ballads ("Truly, Madly, Deeply"). That being said, I'd rather they or the likes of Regina Spektor CREATE musicals. Their works are rather good, but not quite worthy of being the sole basis of a theatrical score. But the talent there (especially with Spektor) is so immense that I think creating a musical is well within their abilities. I mean despite what many think about Spring Awakening, who ever thought that the guy behind "Barely Breathing" would create musical theater?
#60re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:30amThere is a Barry Manilow jukebox musical, 'Can't Smile Without You'. The same producer, Bill Kenwright, is currently working on a show based on the life and music of Neil Sedaka.
#61re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:46am
This may be an unpopular choice, but...
I'd actually be interested to see a show created by Lady GaGa and her 'Haus'.
Not a musical, and not with her famous tunes, but rather a conceptual futuristic/electro/glam/pop/rock extravaganza with elements of burlesque.
The closest thing I can link it to would be something like 'Love' (The Beatles/Cirque Du Soleil show)...but without freaky clowns.
It would obviously have to wait till she's more established and has grown as an artist, but she definitely is very conceptual and is about the theatrical performance.
It would be so off the wall and it would probably only work in Vegas, but I kind of crave something along those lines...even if it wasn't by her.
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#63re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:58am
Coming from completely left field...
I often thought the music of "Scorpians" (the 70s/80s hard rock German band) would work quiet well into a storyline for a jukebox musical.
And while not a jukebox musical per se... I wait for the day Trent Reznor writes one. That guy can write anything :)
#64re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:23amCyndi Lauper
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#65re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:25amArthur Freed, Celine Dion and Meat Loaf.
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Greatwhiteway3
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/09
#67re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:36am
[i]David Bowie's music would also lend itself VERY well to a jukebox musical. [/i]
Agreed. Actually, last night...before I saw this thread...I was saying the same thing to my partner. We were listening to the David Bowie playlist on my iPod during dinner and I said that I'd love it if David Bowie wrote a musical or if there were at least a jukebox musical of his work.
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#68re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 9:41amI know Bowie had started adapting 1984 to a musical, but I believe the Orwell estate nixed the idea. The songs he already wrote went onto his Diamond Dogs album.
#69re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 10:13amFrank Sinatra? I know he did alot of covers for songs, but there are other ones that could work nicely.
#70re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 10:49am
Trent Reznor IS writing a musical- he's had Fight Club in the works for four years or so now.
U2 already wrote A Clockwork Orange the musical, and are now working on Spiderman.
The Indigo Girls have a jukebox musical- Everyman. It premiered somewhere in Pennsylvania, and the rights for a tour are still being negotiated as of last year.
Frank Sinatra has a bio-musical, "My Way: The Sinatra Story."
Ariella
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#71re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 10:52am
Not Queensryche.
Someone should tell Pascal.
#72re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:01amTechnically not a jukebox show- Mindcrime I and II was a rock opera from the beginning. The story's built in.
#73re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:08amNobody does.
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#74re: Who DESERVES a jukebox musical?
Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:19amYes, Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album
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