musical sequels????

#1

musical sequels????

Posted: 3/22/05 at 2:29pm

I was just wondering if there are sequels to musicals. For a show that was really successful. I'm sure it's a stupid question but I'm on sprng break and have a lot of time on my hands so i was just wondering...thanks!

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#2

re: musical sequels????

Posted: 3/22/05 at 2:30pm

ANNIE 2 and BRING BACK BIRDIE come to mine.

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#3

re: musical sequels????

Posted: 3/22/05 at 2:32pm

Several...

Annie had Annie Warbucks
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas had The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
The Marvin Trilogy: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland

Those are the most obvious...

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#4

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 3:15pm

There was Grease 2, but that was a movie, and not performed on stage, so maybe that doesn't count. Then again, it probably shouldn't count, anyway. *Shudder*

#5

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 3:37pm

Every so often ALW threatens to write a "Phantom 2". (Apparently he realized he didn't steal all of Puccini's music on the first attempt).

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#6

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 4:20pm

I completely forgot the entire "Nunsense" franchise.

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#7

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 4:56pm

MTI has two other versions of Forever Plaid.

#8

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:53pm

but different versions don't necessarily mean sequel...right?

#9

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:52pm

I actually don't know if they are different versions or what.

#10

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Posted: 3/22/05 at 9:24pm

The Boyfriend by Sandy Wilson has a sequel. It's Divorce Me, Darling!

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#11

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:07pm

Wow, thanks! Any news of sequels to new musicals like wicked or ave. q?

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#12

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:09pm

Well, it isn't a sequal - but Wicked is a prequal (kind of the same thing in terms of making one show based off another).

A sequal to Wicked? Dear, g-d, no!

#13

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 5:59pm

"Let 'Em Eat Cake" was the Gershwin's flop sequel to "Of Thee I Sing".

No Broadway sequel has ever been a hit.

The Plaid spin-offs arwe not really sequels. "Plaid Tidings" uses some material from the original Forever Plaid, and adds a whole bunch of Christmas songs. "Sounds of Plaid" has the songs from the original, rearranged for a larger cast of boys and girls - in other words, it's designed to be done by high school groups who could never find four amazing guys to learn all that harmony. It's more of a "swing chior" show.

#14

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:08pm

How about Funny Lady? Eh?

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#15

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:29pm

hehe.

#16

re: musical sequels????

Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:01pm

Wicked has a sequal....it's called The Wizard of Oz

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#17

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:48pm

technically "the wizard of oz" cannot be considered a sequel to "wicked". "the wizard of oz" is a sequel to nothing, it's the first in a long series of classic books by l. frank baum. it was later adapted into various stage and film incarnations. "wicked" the book and the stage show are among those variations on the oz theme. but "wicked" is not a *true* pre-quel to "oz".

#18

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 8:49pm

woah there, calm down all

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#19

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Posted: 3/23/05 at 11:50pm

Disney is bringing Lion King 1 1/2 and II to the stage. Then they are brining Cinderella II and 101 Dalmatians VII the following year.

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--Aristotle

#20

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Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:01am

wait, their making a show out of lion king 1 1/2??? oy...

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#21

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Posted: 3/24/05 at 11:10am

Snoopy- The Musical.

Whether it's intention was or was not, it says in the CD booklet that "Snoopy is the musical sequel to 'You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown."