Posted: 9/1/17 at 5:38pm
Hello, all! Just for kicks and giggles. What album do you think would make a great musical? This has been done so much recently, with Lazarus and the recently announced Jagged Little Pill and of course the classics like Jersey Boys and Mama Mia. Just curious on people's thoughts.
Posted: 9/1/17 at 6:03pm
Lemonade, with Titus playing all the parts.
Posted: 9/1/17 at 6:34pm
I think Amy Winehouse's Back to Black would be great. I also think, eventually Florence + The Machine and Ingrid Michelson could write some beautiful musicals.
Posted: 9/1/17 at 7:01pm
Coloring book or Melodrama.
i also think same trailer different park would be cool.
Posted: 9/1/17 at 7:02pm
In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs (or else Natalie Merchant just writes a musical. That score would be so gorgeous).
Posted: 9/1/17 at 7:03pm
I echo Joanne by lady Gaga.
Honestly I would NOT mind seeing a solo show done by her similar to Bruce Sprinsting's show coming up. Since seeing her perform the other night at Citi Field I've been saying that she and her story can make a cool show.
Posted: 9/1/17 at 7:27pm
Azealia Banks - Broke with expensive taste
Sza - CTRL
Posted: 9/2/17 at 12:53am
Pedro The Lion. His albums are concept albums so there is a narrative and I love his writing. If you like acoustic/singer-songwriter stuff check it out.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 1:05am
Adele's 21 or even 25. I think a story could definitely be told through those songs. It'd be a certain mood, but still amazing. Also agree with Joanne.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 1:25am
Most of my top ten favorite albums wouldn't make very good musicals. The albums I can think of are already soundtracks to movie musicals:
1. Yentl
2. The Wall
3. Purple Rain
Oh, and:
1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Garbage - Garbage
Updated On: 9/2/17 at 01:25 AM
Posted: 9/2/17 at 1:46am
Adam Pascal was developing Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime into a show, but not sure whatever happened to that...
Posted: 9/2/17 at 2:08am
Joanne would make for a terrible musical...and album....
I'd actually LOVE to see a Shania Twain musical.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 8:56am
I'm going to go back further in time (I may be older than the average poster here) but I would say 2 Donna Summer albums, both 'concept' albums she wrote or co-wrote:
1. Bad Girls (1979)
2. The Wanderer (1980).
Both have a story line running through it, both have engaging tunes you'll be humming on the way home, both could have a limited cast of characters, staging, costumes.
Of course, these would be VERY DIFFERENT from the jukebox musical 'Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" which will kick off in CA later this year, and hopefully land on B'way in 2018-19.
Summer was quite an incredible talent, opening the doors for Madonna, Janet Jackson, Lady GaGa and many others along the way, Sad she didn't get the real recognition she deserved until she passed away in 2012.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 10:48am
Ashford & Siimpson's "Street Opera". Not saying it should, but would see it if it ever was.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 11:03am
How about "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac with the addition of Stevie Nicks' song "Silver Springs" which they left off the Rumours album because they ran out of room.
I think that album could tell one hell of a story...
Posted: 9/2/17 at 12:01pm
Hazards of Love by The Decemberists. Mariner's Revenge Song would also be cool.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 12:30pm
I like the idea of previously mentioned albums:
- Bad Girls
- Rumours
- Little Earthquakes (maybe also Under The Pink?)
Posted: 9/2/17 at 12:51pm
Janelle Monae's Electric Lady and The ArchAndroid both have a storyline and are intended to be listened to in one sitting, with each song leading into the next.
They're both screaming to be made into musicals.
Updated On: 9/2/17 at 12:51 PM
Posted: 9/2/17 at 1:34pm
Also:
Peace Beyond Passion - Meshell Ndegeocello.
Bitter - Meshell Ndegeocello.
Posted: 9/2/17 at 1:36pm
Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia are jukebox musicals, not albums turned into shows...
Posted: 9/2/17 at 2:29pm
The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - Ben Folds Five
Posted: 9/2/17 at 3:04pm
Hall & Oates - Rock and Soul Part 1
Posted: 9/2/17 at 5:18pm
CorkySt.Clair said: "In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs (or else Natalie Merchant just writes a musical. That score would be so gorgeous)."
She wrote a song cycle of children's stories and it is absolutely gorgeous!
