"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Actually, in Donald Margulies great play "The Loman Family Picnic" a twelve year old boy tries to do a musical of Death of A Salesman...with a duet for Biff and Happy called "Dad's A Little Odd"
"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
That project should belong to Tommy Tune! Hopefully, he'll get Jerry Herman for the score. Or perhaps they can set the story to the catalogue of Tony Orlando and Dawn hits.
Liliane Montevecchi should play Linda Loman.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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Death...is one of those musicals generally thought to be fairly unadaptable...and why would you want to? Could the story become better by eliminating dialogue and adding songs? At any rate, Death is one of the projects in the first year of the BMI workshop. I've sung some people's projects (along with, inexplicably, musicalized scenes from Heaven Can Wait, It's a Wonderful Life and Overboard...yes, the movie with GOldie Hawn) based on Death and they're often great. But I don't think anyone much sees the point of a musical version of it. OH, another rumor that always tosses around is that someone will write The Princess Bride. Apparently, the Goldmans hold that book close, close, close and let no one touch it. But it'd be a fun musical.
I don't think anyone's seriously considering it, right?
But that's really cool, that the BMI workshop uses it as an assignment for students: to write the unwriteable musical. Even though it probably can't be done, I'd love to hear how different people approached it.
Oh, and another song title, sung by the mother: "Damn These Stockings!"
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
No, the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Anywho, this thread caused me to have a silly dream last night where it was announced that several composers were revealed to have written thesis projects in college that were lost but now found, including Sondheim's adaptation of Death of a Salesman. Kander and Ebb had one in my dream too, but it's too vague for me to remember what it was. IT was probably the Musical of Musicals or something.
the big finale would have the entire cast doing a kick-line, going "attention must be paid! yea-yea-yea-yea! attention... must... be... paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid!"
