Arsenic and Old Lace--The perfect source for a musical

I saw this on TV this weekend and enjoyed it yet again.

Now I wonder, why on earth hasn't this ever been a musical.

--A duet by the Two Aunts about their Lonely Gentlemen Callers

--Mortimer singing about embracing the married life

--Jonathon and the Doctor singing about their sinister plan.

--The policeman reading his play (while Mortimer tries to signal there's a problem.)

--A song about bodies appearing and reappearing.

--Uncle Teddy and the Panama Canal and the Yellow Fever victims.

--The staff from Happydale coming to cart folks off.

I think it would be grand...

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There have been attempts at musicicaliztion of this wonderful play, but none successful (so far).

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Hmmmmm ..... I guess it's possible, but it's such a perfectly constructed small play that I wonder whether music could possibly add anything to it. I don't think expanding it into a musical would make it better, but hey who knows?

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I just saw so much in my mind's eye...wish I were a composer, lyricist... :o)

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But who would have thought Lee Harvey Oswald, a canibilistic barber, Commodore Matthew Perry or LRRH's wolf could so easily burst into song?

You never know what will work until you try.

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Updated On: 12/13/04 at 10:45 PM

Exactly, SticktoPriest...I think Mortimer's excitement at getting married...and then his confusion about his aunts, etc would be very "doable" as musical numbers.

The movie is so funny...but there are some dark parts.

I wonder who would be a good Jonathon...or Dr. Einstein...

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Who do you want for Mortimer, then?
(Everyone knows my usual vote!)

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