Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:39pmgenghis kahn: a musical romp
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#2re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:41pm
Cannibal: The Musical
(Yes, it's a movie- it does really exist)
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Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#3re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:45pmShpadoinkle!
#4re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:47pmCarrie, OK its not mega violent but it has the highest body count of any musical, everyone is dead at the end except sue and the orchestra
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#5re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:48pm"The Life" is very violent in one scene in the bar in Act 2.
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#6re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:08pm"West Side Story" comes to mind, although of course it's on a whole other level from "Sweeney." But there are fights and deaths, so I suppose it counts!
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#7re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:09pmI (unfortunately) didn't see it, but I'm assuming Evil Dead had some violence in it? Yes? Yes.
#8re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:15pm
...but it has the highest body count of any musical
I would think Titanic would get the highest.
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#9re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:20pmWas Jeckyll & Hyde violent? (I left after the pony-tail-releasing transformation.)
#10re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:24pmI guess it was violent. He did kill. But they didn't go blood and gore with it.
Broadway Shows I've Seen: Hairspray, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors (2003), The Wedding Singer, Spamalot, Riverdance, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Legally Blonde, Phantom of the Opera, Sweet Charity (revival), Drowsy Chaperone, The Lion King, Dreamgirls(2010 Tour).
#11re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 10:25pm
In My Life.
Except it was the audience who was violent and who ended up dead, not the performers.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#12re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/21/08 at 10:32pm
Was Jeckyll & Hyde violent? (I left after the pony-tail-releasing transformation.)
The reason why you left is why I would consider it EXTREMELY violent.
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#13re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:29amThere's "Eating Raoul" based on the cult movie about a married couple who murder swingers.
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#14re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 1:39amOliver can get pretty darn violent towards the end.
that's a really big mic...
#15re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:17amBat Boy has its share of violence and blood-letting.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:19amLittle Shop of Horrors
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#17re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:25am
The Evil Dead
....but the world goes 'round
#18re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:29am
I think all of Boublil and Schoenberg's shows include a good bit of violence -- although it is rarely ever 'graphic' violence. Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and I assume The Pirate Queen all had their shaere of fighting and death. Of course none are on the level of 'gore' as Sweeney.
Craww -- Evil Dead: The Musical did have a good bit of gore involved, hence the 'splatter zone' seats in the first few rows where the audience could get splashed with blood.
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#19re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:29am
"Into the Woods"
One character is stabbed and skinned, two are devoured alive, three have their eyes gouged out, two of those have another body part mutilated, two are killed by a severe cranial injury and, depending on how you want to interpret it, somewhere between three and nine characters are killed when every bone in their body is crushed. Oh, and two drop dead of old age.
Updated On: 2/22/08 at 09:29 AM
#20re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 11:44amReefer Madness has got its fair share of cannibilism and hacking hearts out of chests. (Both the movie and the staged versions)
#21re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 11:51amWere any of the recent vampire musical flops (DOTV, Lestat, Dracula) especially violent and/or gory? Even for comic -- or un-intentionally comic resons??
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husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#22re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:07pm
Calvin -
Who gets eaten alive in "Into the Woods?" And, beyond the Mysterious Man, who else dies of old age?
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#23re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:11pm
"Who gets eaten alive in "Into the Woods?"
Doesn't the Narrator get eaten alive by the giant?
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#24re: Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?
Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:14pm
Actually, I was referring to Red and Granny. I counted the narrator as one of the crushed, although I guess his method of death-by-giant varies by production.
And the other old age victim is Milky White (OK, it's usually a prop, but I'm counting it 
)
