ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?- Page 5

[neddyfrank2]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#100

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:59pm

I was in Zombie Prom

[Mr Roxy]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#101

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:09pm

London Shows

Blockheads - About Laurel & Hardy
Mutiny - Mutiny On The Bounty
Lautrec - About Talouse Lautrec
A Clockwork Orange - Musical of The Movie
Isabels A Jezebel - Galt Mac Dermott/Herbert Kretzmer

US

Buzzsaw Berkley
Inner City
The Worst - Musical About Bad Film Maker Ed Wood
Chu Chem - Jewish/Chinese Musical

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Updated On: 10/30/06 at 07:09 PM

[wickedfiyeroofoz]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#102

Posted: 10/30/06 at 9:59pm

Prodigal (ahhh love!!!) and Bare...kinda...It isnt well known enough...I also think that "Man of No Importance" could be more well known.

How can they see with sequins in their eyes?

[carnimiriel]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#103

Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:25pm

I don't know if this was ever produced state-side, but "Robert and Elizabeth", about Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I have the CD and quite like it.

[brdlwyr]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#104

Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:27pm

I have a CD of a Canadian musical - Red Lips. The lyrics are horrible, but I love it!

[Unknown User]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#106

Posted: 10/31/06 at 12:02am

Working???

our school did that about a year ago!!! it was actually pretty good!

I don't know how 'unknown' it is, but I had never heard of it until recently....how about RUTHLESS?

my towns local theatre did that this past summer. it was good, but i ended up passing out shortly into the second act so i i didnt get to see the end lol



and heres one that i think a decent amount of people on here know, but i had NEVER heard of it til our school did it 2 years ago:

SMILE

not too bad of a show, just not great.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#107

Posted: 10/31/06 at 12:22am

Smiling, The Boy Fell Dead.









Professor Crocker-Harris
Eton, England

[husk_charmer]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#108

Posted: 10/31/06 at 12:41am

Yay! Working is getting noticed again!

Um...Most everyone has listed off what I know...there's "Oz!" by Tim Kelly, which is a charming version of the Wizard of Oz...and Grand Hotel!

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[timote316]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#109

Posted: 10/31/06 at 1:05am

My college did the North American premiere of DRAKULA: THE ROCK OPERA a few years ago. It was awful.

[RICRoyal2010]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#110

Posted: 10/31/06 at 2:23am

sugar babies- it ran in the 80s with mickey rooney and seesaw both have great music

"I'm that one in a million chance when the director says 'you', the small town boy who makes it big, the one that little children and grown men and women will adore, I'm that shot in the dark everyone talks about, you may not know my name yet, but you will, everyone will, someday."- Me

[Urban]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#111

Posted: 10/31/06 at 2:30am

"I, Nephi" - a musical based on the first two books of Mormon. Seriously.

Tune wise it wasn't that bad either (though parts did sound like they where 'inspired' by more famous shows).

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#112

Posted: 10/31/06 at 2:37am

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[FrontRowCenter2]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#113

Posted: 10/31/06 at 7:38am

Dr. Jazz
Kelly

[ErinDillyFan]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#114

Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:14am

Grand Hotel? Unknown?

Nominated for 12 Tonys, won 5.

I saw it on national tour.

I guess everything from the late 80s early 90s could be thought of as unknown because they were overshadowed by: CATS, POTO and Les Miz, A Chorus Line.

[Borstalboy]

re: ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#115

Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:10am

IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL?
RUNAWAYS (Ethan Morden writes rather scathingly about this one in his book about the 70's)
PIPE DREAM
Kopit/Yeston PHANTOM

Excellent: PRIVATES ON PARADE, THE GOLDEN APPLE

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[ErinDillyFan]

PRIVATES ON PARADE#116

Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:39am

How does the movie compare to the stage show?

[altoid06]

Oz!?#117

Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:48am

Oy...I've heard of a lot of these. I guess I really am a theatre nerd. Actually, my school did "Oz!" in Junior High. I think I've been scarred for life after doing that show.

One show that comes to mind for being pretty obscure is "Mario: the Opera" Apparently, a cast recording is now available (covering the first act).

Here are some lists of some obscure musicals with cast recordings. I didn't compile them, but one or two of them were unknown to me.

http://www.amazon.com/Totally-obscure-musicals/lm/D5VKBL30JAPL

http://www.amazon.com/Truly-Obscure-Musicals-Worth-Owning/lm/19RXTPGYOM924

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -- Maya Angelou

Updated On: 10/31/06 at 11:48 AM

[AugustBurns2]

Oz!?#118

Posted: 10/31/06 at 3:24pm

Wow...some interesting shows listed here, but most of them I have actually heard of...

I love CELEBRATION's score - really great songs!

I'm glad someone mentioned Metro - I've always wondered about this musical - wasn't it a hit in Poland and then translated into English -- I should do more research on it, but it lasted a month or two on Broadway, I think

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[Colle]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#119

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:19pm

"Yoduk Story" is new and basically unknown, though it is starting to get attention. It sounds like a emotional, powerful story. I have listened to some sound clips on an offical site, and I really liked them. I am hoping the show eventually makes it to Broadway. From what I have heard, I think the show would deserve it.
Yoduk Story web site

[NewMusical]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#120

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:23pm

it really is sad, when not only do you know them, already have the cd but even worse when you know the words!!

hands up here¬!

[Mattbrain]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#121

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:26pm

Metropolis and Bright Lights, Big City. And since I'm the official creator of the Ain't Misbehavin' community as well as the only member, I'm guessing that show hasn't stood the test of time very well.

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[bwaybud]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#122

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:29pm

What about
Cannibal
written and somewhat acted out by Matt and Trey writers of south park who are currently working on a new musical based around Mormons.

Cannibal has only been approved to be staged in a few places nation wide, its very ridiculas.

[notabb]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#123

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:40pm

A MOTHERS KISSES with Bea Arthur, saw it in Baltimore. I don't think it was the follow-up to MAME she was counting on.

[Trekkie2]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#124

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:58pm

Bring Back Birdie. My dad saw it opening night, also known as it's closing night.

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[Mr Roxy]

Re:ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?#125

Posted: 10/31/06 at 7:55pm

Brigham - Musical about Brigham Young starring Harve Presnell

I still have the LP . It has to be very rare. Have not listened to it in awhile but there has to be some real toetappers in the score

A few others:

Senator Joe
Into the Light
TThe Little Prince & The Aviator

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Updated On: 10/31/06 at 07:55 PM