Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
#0Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 2:23am
Thinking about the Boy from Oz, what real people would make a good musical?
I was thinking Lady Jane - the Nine Day Queen
I dont think that the movie in the 80's was factual, but I think it could translate well.
Any thought?
LostLeander
Broadway Star Joined: 3/18/05
#1re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 2:40am
I gave my life story to LaChiusa.
He'll have a musical based on my life out and produced by next week.
Should be brilliant.
Look for it, it's called, "Who's Afraid of Ethel Merman",
Personally, I think I have too much bloom.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#2re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 6:30pmBump
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#3re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 6:37pm
Carol Channing.
We could get the skeleton from In My Life to play the lead
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
mediakilled
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
matt schneider
Broadway Star Joined: 7/3/06
#5re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:02pm
any person who servived the halochust.
May be too depresing for a musical though, A play mabey.
Posibly elvis
The bushes of Tex were nervous recks because their son was dim, But look what happened to him~Dirrty Rotten Scoundrels~all about Ruprecht
They say the thoughtful musicals dead on broadway~forbiden broadway : SVU~The crime scene
Never say never, there's always one more person you can hit up~avenue Q.~the money song
Life sucks, get a pacifyer~my own saying
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#6re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:04pmKing Henry VIII?
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:10pm
Ron Jeremy.
[/sarcasm]
Could you imagine?
#8re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:45pm
Britney Spears... Oh wait they did one on her already, The Great American Trailer Park Musical. LOL, j/k.
How about Princess Diana?
#9re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:48pm
Princess Di is a good one.
Julie Andrews or Oprah.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
eve harrington2
Stand-by Joined: 7/18/06
#11re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:52pmRichard Simmons.
eve harrington2
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#12re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:53pmHenry Kissinger.
eve harrington2
Stand-by Joined: 7/18/06
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
Up In Lost
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
#16re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:25pmSammy Davis, Jr.
Well, I'm glad he got away with it.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#17re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:29pm
Ron Jeremy.
[/sarcasm]
Could you imagine?
Hahaha!
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:34pm
"Sammy Davis, Jr. "
Already been done. SAMMY & ME written by and starring Eric Jordan Young. Tried out in Buffalo, NY last Spring and Ithaca, NY this summer.
#19re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:36pm
Oprah is actually a good idea.
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 11:36 PM
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#20re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:44pm
fiorello h. la guardia
gypsy rose lee
eva perón
jesus christ
#21re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:47pm
"Julie Andrews or Oprah."
I read that as Julie Andews AS Oprah and died a little inside.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#22re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:56pmMarquise, all of your suggestions have already been done. Unless, of course, you were being sarcastic. If that's the case then please disregard this post.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#23re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/7/06 at 12:46amBelieve it or not there already is a Princess Diana: The Musical. Not that it's very good. Actually it's wonderful if you love terribly lyrics that are so good they're bad.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Actual People whose lives would make a good Musical
Posted: 8/7/06 at 12:56am
Oprah?
She could produce, market and star in it herself.
I wouldn't go see it no matter what. I think we have enough Oprah in our lives. Now if it was about Orfeh, maybe I'd go to that.
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