Star Wars. Picture if you will Darth Vader coming out, singing "Luke I am your father, please do not be shocked, but Luke I am your father and that other guy is not!" Darth Vader starts to do a tap dance including jazz hands as Luke stands dumbfounded and moves to the middle of the stage for "A Jedi's Lament."
I think that there should be a musical version of the new Lifetime original movie Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life. Why doesn't Lifetime mount Broadway musicals?
On a slightly serious note, there is an actual musical based on NEPAD. What is NEPAD you ask? New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)is an economic development program of the African Union. I had the displeasure of actually sitting through this debauchery. It would've been more exciting to actually read the darn document then watching a musical about it.
It's not pitiful - the musical version of ANNE FRANK, called "YOUR'S ANNE" was one of the must successful shows our theatre ever did. It's not a "musical comedy" - it's a musical play like PASSION or LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. There are no tapdancing Nazis.
The last week in the life of Christ - now THERE'S a bad idea for a musical... try telling that to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A musical where all the characters are cats... trains... the characters in a famous painting... fairy tale characters, adults playing children...
There are no bad ideas - just good or bad execution of those ideas.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien