Just for fun, of course. Nothing will come of it (probably). So, far this is all I got for the songs.
What Hope We Have-The Nickleby Family (Kate, Mrs. Nickleby, and Nicholas)
What Hope We Have (Reprise)-Kate and Nicholas
The Greatest Joy-The Squeers
With A Little Thought-Nicholas
A Lovely House-Kate
Never See Tomorrow-The Students
Lullaby-Smike
Memories-Ralph Nickleby
A New World To See-Smike & Nicholas
ACT 2
A Porcelain Doll-Mr. Mantalini
The Little Wonder-Mr. and Mrs. Crummle
A Lovely House (reprise)-Kate
A Dark Room-Smike
The Seduction-Kate & Sir Mulberry
A Home-Kate & Smike
Three Words-Madeline and Nicholas
A Miserable Boy-The Squeers
Three Words (reprise)-Nicholas
How Did We Ever-Frank & Kate
Loving Her-Smike & Nicholas
Haunted-Ralph Nickleby
Finale-Nicholas, Kate, Frank, Madeline, Mrs. Nickleby
If you want me to post a description on the songs, then I'll be happy to do that. I think it's wise of me to cut off the first act when Smike and Nicholas escape from the school. But I do think that I need to add more songs to the first act.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but NN has already been done...
To death.
Really? I heard about Smike, the modern rock-opera adaptation and of course I heard about the play. But that was just a straightforward play. I had no idea an actual Broadway musical existed.
It never made it to Broadway.
It's much too big.
Aww well...Thought it could be done. I mean Les Miserables made it, I thought this could to.
Who knows? Maybe it could. There's never been a musical adaptation of the material on Broadway, so why not give it a shot? It's not like Cyrano, which has had endless musical adaptations, all of which have flopped time and again.
I wouldn't trust the advice of anonymous posters on an internet message board. Everyone is going to have a different opinion on what makes a good musical. I think as long as you write a show that satisfies your initial concept and that you think people would want to see then it shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. You can't judge a show by a song list and trying to do so seems to be a simple desire to squash creativity.
I wouldn't want to squash anything...
Don't write ABOUT writing. Just write.
Otherwise, it's just masturbation.
I'll have to try that...
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Who cares how many versions are out there? There are two musical versions of "Phantom of the Opera" and there are two musical versions of "The Wild Party." Just write your stuff.
There's way more than two musical versions of The Phantom of the Opera. There's five that I'm familiar with and I'm sure there's a few more that I don't know of.
Smike is terrible - locked in 1970s mentality.
I was involved in a school production, and cringed my way through the official recording when I re-listened to it for the first time some months ago.
Brimstone and Treacle is a half-decent tune and that's about all that can be said for it.
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