JukeBox Musical Ideas

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 11:50pm

What jukebox musical would you actually see... Like what artist would make a great jukebox musical?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/13/05 at 11:59pm

None.

There's no such thing as a good jukebox musical. Let a great pop songwriter (Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Prince, Paul McCartney etc...) write an original score in collaboration with a first rate book writer and creative team and perhaps a great musical might emerge. Retrofitting a book to bunch of pre-existing songs which were never intended to carry a story or develop and flesh out characters is probably always going to result in a crappy show.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 12:08am

Before the genre fades away, I would like to see:

DRUNK WITH LOVE: The Hard-Hitting, Hard-Bitten, Hard-Loving Miss Frances Faye

IVIE ANDERSON: LOVE IS LIKE A CIGARETTE: A Smoky Singer's Tragic Battle with Chronic Asthma

BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA: The Loud Lungs of Eydie Gorme

BOYS DO TOO CRY: The Johnnie Ray Songbook

Updated On: 5/14/05 at 12:08 AM

[hrh_annette]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 12:08am

Could you see a musical about Willie Nelson featuring songs that he has sung. What song should he sing while smokin' on the roof of the White House? when the IRS comes knocking on his door?

Updated On: 5/14/05 at 12:08 AM

[liotte]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 12:35am

Madonna

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 12:57am

God help us when there is a Spice Girls musical

[BEKA531]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 12:58am

madonna... now that's an idea.


all of the spice girls' songs are about the SAME THING.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:14am

lol now i respectfully disagree
"So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha."

How many other songs are there about ZIGAZIG HA...Lyrical genius

[BEKA531]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:15am

HA!

there sort of already was a spice girl musical... spiceworld the movie.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:21am

Well then...God Help us

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:22am

Patti LaBelle songs....trust me.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:27am

Get ready to picture this one lol American Idol...The Broadway Musical!!!

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:36am

Janis Ian

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:37am

BluCat - sad, but true, it's been talked about already.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:41am

NOOOOO! *relinquishes soul to the devil*

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:44am

...yeah yeah

been there, done that....

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:48am

Oh good...you can help me get the GOOD flaming chasm of fire

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:51am

Trust me, take tha bad. In a few years, with real estate the way it is (and all the new people soon moving in - Donald Trump etc.) I am happy in the bad section of town. Once the new ones move in - the good section will be a melting pot.

Trust me, I got insider tips...and they were only for a small price....I feel no emotion.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:54am

Ya and then where ever trump goes bill gates and martha stewart are sure to follow...It will just become a hellhole

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 1:55am

Trust me, Martha has been here for years. She live 'round the corner.

Gates also live down the street in the "good" part (soon to become a slum of course)...after this Apprentice, Trump will be here.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/14/05 at 2:14am

If these were to come to Bway I would weep for Bway:

Britney Spears (love ya but no)
Ashlee Simpson
Hilary Duff
Marlyin Manson