The Nightmare Before Christmas...

I think the idea of it being portrayed as a musical has been brought up several times. But...we get Tarzan.

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But if we put it on Broadway, expect a big horde of "gothic" and "emo" audiences, since Jack Skellington has apparently become the icon of the Dark World nowadays.

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It's a musical that goth and emo kids can relate to. I don't think any group is inherently for or against seeing musicals, they just might not all want to see 'Oklahoma!' Goth and emo kids love music and 'Nightmare' is right up their alley.

One of the reasons it has yet to be done is because nobody knows quite what to do. The lead character has to be able to take off his head (and the head must be able to interact with the head-less body), the love interest must be able to take off her arm (and possibly other body parts, i don't remember).

These things 'can' be done now but on the stage it has to look VERY true, because the movie has such a following.

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^true, but i think it even if it didn't work PERFECTLY, it'd still be great on stage regardless.

I love Nightmare, but I see two big problems with turning it into a Bway musical. 1) So much of its charm comes from the lovely quirks of stop motion animation and the wonderful character designs, which would not be easy to transfer to live theatre, and 2) (and more importantly), it's so short. The movie is about 75 minutes (including credits), and trying to expand it to a 2+ hour show would just make it feel really padded out. I just can't see it working as a full-scale Bway show - although some sort of concert presentation of the score would be great.

Disney really needs to do a good, de-kiddified rethinking of their version of "Hunchback of Notre Dame" as a Bway musical.

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