Animal Farm the Musical- Page 2

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:38pm

I am glad to be getting some support. And I know it already is a musical, but not a very good one. I want it to be a very serious musical. I can actually see the finale. Napolean walking onstage not dressed as a pig, but dressed as Stalin. I think it would be so fantastick.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 9:31pm

I want to talk about maybe possible songs or what could be done with the show? I mean I definitely have my own vision. But what are you seeing?

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 9:51pm

Sugar Candy mountain could be a production number. Maybe not a production number, but like a slight production number with the pigs in the background commenting on how this is helping them.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:53pm

come on: DISCUSS!!!

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/14/06 at 8:23pm

Singing animals doesn't have to always be done the way Disney did it.

[BlueStarGirl]

Posted: 8/14/06 at 10:18pm

I could be wrong, but I believe Jonathan Larson wrote a spoof of Animal Farm that can't be performed because Orwell's estate won't grant permission.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 8/15/06 at 6:02am

There are some things that just don't 'sing'. It's a great book and a passable film, but a musical? I just don't think that songs would add anything to it...

The Jonathan Larson spoof sounds interesting though...

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:24pm

discuss.

[WalkOn]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:28pm

I could see it as a musical. Nothing, perhaps, conventional. But in the right hands, it might just work.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:31pm

Thank you! I hate it when people sterotype musicals. Making them seem like they can't be serious or unconventional. It upsets me.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:33pm

This actually exists. The Seattle Children's Theatre did this a few years ago and it is truly awful. I believe it has been done in England as well.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:36pm

Well, this doesn't mean another version couldn't happen. Phantom did it.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:47pm

There are two Phantom musicals, really?????????? Wow that rock I've been living under is sooooooooooo annoying.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 9:30pm

I love almost every book I read, and this book just didn't do it. I found the satire to get old fast.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:37pm

BobbyBubby- were you kidding? Because, yes, there are.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 10/7/06 at 3:41pm

bump.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:00pm

I love the book. It would make a beautiful musical.

[sweeedboy]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:32pm

Just to clarify, Jonathan Larson wrote a musicalization of 1984, not Animal Farm. Orwell's estate wouldn't let him use 1984 so the musical underwent some changes and became "Superbia."

As for Animal Farm, I just cannot see it working very well as a musical. While I love the book i just think the barnyard animals would come off as ridiculous and if done too abstractly why not just come up with a new premise? I feel there are much better ways to convey the symbolism and idealogies.

[keely2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:03pm

I loved the book!

I could see it. But it would have to be done by a certain type of composer--for example, Jeff Bowen (as much as I love the guy) couldn't rock it out, but Sondheim or LaChiusa probably could. Maybe--just maybe--it would even work as a rock musical, I don't know.

But honestly. Those who are complaining about how it would never work? Yeah. Tell that to ALW next time your community theatre produces Cats.

Okay, bad example. But I'm just sayin'.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:35pm

saw the title of this thread and threw up.

terrible book, terrible idea.

good lord, please no. never never never.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 2:15pm

Threw up?

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 2:21pm

Haha. I made this thread like my first day of Broadwayworld... I was so naive.

[wendy kroy]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 3:13pm

What about LORD OF THE FLIES the musical? Now THAT'S funny.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 3:41pm

The book and movie were okay. I saw and read it for English I. I won't criticize it. But a musical sounds like a... kind-a good idea. I can see the opening number... "Long Live the Farm".

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 5:26pm

dear original poster,
you are out of your head!
it was torture when i went through it as a freshman in high school, why would you want to put an audience through that?! i would classify it as cruel and unusual punishment! oy!
love,
DQ2