How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
untitled79
Swing Joined: 2/12/08
#1How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 1:57am
Sweet Helen and friends the musical!
Updated On: 8/5/08 at 01:57 AM
#2re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:03amWow, actually, I think that's a brilliant idea.!
#2re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:06amwow, actually, I think that's an awful idea.!
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#3re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:19amHahaha, they already did that on South Park.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#4re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:22am"Talent for the deaf, dumb and blind maybe..." with apologies to GYPSY.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#5re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:25am"Water, Helen, Waaaaaateeer"
#6re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:31amOh I can just hear Helen's heartwrenching end of 1st act solo!
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sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#7re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 3:08amHow would they justify her singing, unless they did it a la Little Mermaid?
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thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#8re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 3:09am
Wonder of Wonders, Miracle of Miracle Workers!
Ugh. Grow up.
#9re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 4:51amOh my God, sporkgoddess!! I love that episode of South Park...too funny with the director that sings everything and Jimmy as Helen Keller. That episode had music in it...maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone should run with this!!
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SunnyDays
Swing Joined: 4/18/08
#10re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 9:04amThey also did it in one of the Sunset Island series' books by Cherie Bennett back in the 90s. In the book one of the main characters is cast in a new Broadway musical about Helen Keller. The descriptions of the show were hilarious (I don't remember the details, just that they were intentionally completely absurd) and the show closed after one night. Although it was a fiction book, I'm guessing the outcome would be the same if it were actually done.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 9:39am
"She Can't Talk And She Can't Hear But Boy Can That Girl Dance!"
"I Say Potato And You Say 'Wuuhhnh'"
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#12re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 9:51am
"That deaf dumb and blind girl sure plays a mean pinball."
Oh, sorry wrong musical.
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#13re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 9:52amAs is obvious by now, the property (possibly a musicalisation of "Miracle Worker") could go very bad. I think a whole lot of the dramatic tension would be caused by what Helen would sing or if she would sing at all when she makes the connection with what Annie is trying to teach her. I'd love to be optimistic and say that if done right and in not such an obvious way, a musical version could be something interesting. I'm thinking a more intimate simple show, frankly. But if there is nothing wrong with the stage play, which is still as visceral as it was fifty years ago, I say don't touch it.
musicalman2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/7/08
#14re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:02amactually, there is one in the works. I met an author who recently did a reading of one in NYC about Helen and Annie Sullivan's later years. I spoke with someone who attended and said there were many lovely moments in it, and it is moving forward.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#15re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:19amShuler Hensley could play Helen... he has spent a year moaning to song.
yankee_fan907
Leading Actor Joined: 10/14/06
#16re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:22am
I can just hear the opening song, "Blurghajownnn"
Which reminds me of a great Helen Keller joke:
Why did Helen Keller's dog run away?
You would too if your name was *insert random moaning and grunting here*.
#17re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:27amHaha! So glad someone mentioned the South Park episode "1400's! Alabama!"
#18re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 10:58amThere's many jokes to be made about what a deaf person singing. I'm just feeling too lazy and PC to think of any right now.
#19re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 12:21pm
I can see the tagline now...
"She Stumbles, She mumbles, she grumbles...It's Helen Keller, The Musical!"
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untitled79
Swing Joined: 2/12/08
#20re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 12:56pm
what if we threw other historic figures in the mix. It is "Sweet Helen AND FRIENDS". say... Anne Frank and maybe FDR or Rosa Parks. to name a few. and then take it completely out of reality and have them all together in a room a la Assassins style and see what happens. I was thinking maybe a Chuck E. Cheese's.
Updated On: 8/5/08 at 12:56 PM
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#21re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 1:05pmnow you're just killing the joke..
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#22re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 1:32pm
jeniferrenepatricia: And the director was like Colm Wilkinson 
"I cannot hear what they are saying... I cannot tell them how I feel... if only I could say the things that go on in my mind!"
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#23re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:17pmI'm speechless.
#24re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 2:47pm"Cool, clear, waaaaaaahwaaaaaahnnnn!"
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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