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more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#100re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:39pm
In a world where homsexualality is the norm, a magical gay teen plays matchmaker and tries to pair up his friends in high school, but when two of his buddies discover that they're straight, all hell breaks loose and the kid has to switch the world around.
PUHLEZ!
#101re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:41pmyeah, like THAT could work!
There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#102re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:42pmJesus Christ in the disco era. Blasphemy!
#103re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:43pm
How about a musical about Charlie Brown and the Peanuts?? That would NEVER work!!! Who would pay to see that?
Just imagine if Cheno was in that and won a Tony!! Hahaha! But that would NEVER happen EVER....
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#104re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:57pm
My how rapidly this thread has grown.
How about...
Two guys with AIDS.
One an evil lawyer who spends his last days being visited by a dead woman and trying to manipulate a mixed up lawyer who comes out of the closet to have an affair with the committment phobic, politically vocal but ambivalent ex-lover of Guy No. 2 who is really funny & sweet and who meets the lawyer's wife during a mutual hallucination and becomes close friends with the lawyer's bewildered but stoic mother. Toss in Guy No 2's best friend (an ex-drag queen) who is the nurse caring for Guy No 1, a confused angel, a trip to heaven, a make-believe travel agent and references to Judiasm & Mormonism... and all with a total run time of 6 hours...
Any takers?
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
Updated On: 7/9/04 at 04:57 PM
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BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#105re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:06pmWow this has over 100 post in less than 3 hours
#106re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:10pm
A town in ruins because the people have to PAY to use the bathroom??
Sesame street all grown up? With puppets using words like "fu*k" and "gonorrhea"???????? Like that would EVER win a tony...
A show about some nerd and his man-eating plant and some blonde with an abusive boyfriend?
Or one where these two guys, one a nerd and one a sleazebag, come up with this over the top scheme to make a couple million dollars and escape to Rio?????? WITH NAZIS AND EVERYTHING??
A SHOW BASED ON A DISNEY MOVIE??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
You have GOT to be kidding me...
"And now for something completely different..."
#107re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:15pm
especially one with talking Lions!
I don't see HOW they made 3 musicals about witches, one good - one bad and how they are affected by (get this) a girl who ends up in their "magical" land care of a tornado!
Updated On: 7/8/04 at 05:15 PM
#108re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:15pmWho would ever see a show about people on a showboat? That musical would never work! That would go down as the biggest bomb in Broadway history!
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#109re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:22pmOr how about one involving a carousel, a wifebeater, and an ascent to heaven at the end.
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#110re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:29pmOk.. a bunch of hookers, a madame in love with a cop and a tv evangelist who wants to shut the place down.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#111re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:36pm
Here's a cost-effective one...
A cast of over 40 characters...but one guy will play them all!
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#112re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:39pmWho would want to see a play about a family in a cigar factory getting read a book? That would be a horrible show!
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#113re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:42pm"Look, bud, I'm tellin' ya -- vaudeville is dead. Dead, geddit? Dead as that doornail over there in the corner. No one's gonna come see a show about vaudeville, no matter how many dames ya put in it. And no, a title like that? SUGAR BABIES? What, we're trying to get a corporate tie in or somethin'? Getouda my office, ya bum! Come back when ya got somethin' I can sell, like a show about wife-swappin'!"
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
#114re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:58pmwell, I think we proved our point here...so, now...here's hoping the creators of a SPIDERMAN musical have all the success they may wish for...
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#115re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:03pmsure i agree, but i think that it will most likely flop.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#116re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:06pmgreat, ponine, great (reread this thread, darlin)
#117re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:12pm"Good Grief...I can't stand it, I just can't stand it!"
#118re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:29pmEw. A musical based about a guy like Elvis going to war, and all the people's lives he screws up in the middle of Ohio. Definitely DON'T want to see that.
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insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#119re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:29pmWait, what if there's a nun, only she sucks at it, so she has to take care of a bunch of kids and then falls for their father?
#120re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:33pmstudents, you are repeating yourselves...
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#121re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:51pm
I think I've got some new ones:
A stupid REVUE of songs that are connected by one theme? Sounds like egotistical crap.
A show about a jew in the South who is framed for murder, and is hung at the end? What a downer.
A show about a town where the leaders pretend water is coming out of a rock so more people will come to their town? Ich.
#122re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:55pm
A "musical" about dances that contains no sung songs...or even an orchestra! Preposterous!
How about a glorified magic show which stars a man that can't sing! NEVER happen!
A show about the life of Fanny Brice?! BOR-ing!
Nothing more duller than a show about King Arthur, Guenivere, and the knights of Camelot, huh?!
Why would ANYBODY want to see a Broadway show that has only SONGS in the first act and DANCES in the second?!
Hey! Let's make the opera CARMEN into a musical starring Blacks?! It will fail on opening night!
Instant failure! A show about Huckelberry Finn!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#123re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:57pm
An old woman who schemes to marry a cheapskate store owner.
HATED IT!
I starred in a short film called Magnetic Personality. Check it out!
#124re: more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN
Posted: 7/8/04 at 7:02pmWhat's more dumb than doing a mystery-musical about a book that WASN'T EVEN FINISHED by some Dickens guy?! Awww crap, I'm to lazy to think up an ending, let's let the audience do it! Stinkeroo!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Updated On: 7/8/04 at 07:02 PM
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