Awful Musical Ideas — Page 3

There actually is a Helen Keller Musical!!!

And...I wonder if anyone has ever heard of "The Club". 5 women playing men in a turn of the century men's club; featuring songs like "Pinky Panky Poo". Worst. Musical. Ever.

MASK the musical which has already been written.

Poseidon: the musical

Schindler's List- the musical epic by the creators of Les Miserables starring Nathan Lane and Bernadette Peters

This is real Horror. Though those Exorcist songs sounded, humm...reasonable.

I was wondering how Evil Dead could be done but a little imagination gets real out of control.

Jaws brings back memories. I put him on my Senior Float. I might like the soundtrack, just to annoy my friends.

Christine though could be a Musical, just use a little more imagination. "It" would be just...well...weird and everyone will complain about the Killer Clown. Though I won't and I'd go and see it. "Needful Things" has some potential as well.

Try one of my favorites, "In the Mouth of Madness". That would be a wicked farce indeed!

Though on the more series side, I am still waiting for Joe's Apartment.

Carrie seemed like a bad choice to for a musical. I would like to see some more Musicals set in the 40's that are not Guys and Dolls. It is a good musical but pleeze, something new!

Love "1984" idea too. Though I see it better as a drama. Some things, it seems are too much of a stretch to really be taken well as a musical. Though the Police in sequins, sounds more like Sgt. Pepper. Where is Sgt. Pepper these days?

Apparently there is a musical version of A Clockwork Orange.

I was talking with someone at an audition and she mentioned the production she was in.

umm - in college, I wrote a libretto of a musical version of 1984. It was much more along the lines of Les Mis style than 42nd Street. Somehow I never quite worked out how to do the rat attack scene...

lol I'm actually impressed that you really got that far in writing it. Dramatic style sounds a lot better for it than my freakishly over-the-top glittertastic production! It actually sounds like it could be kind of good if it was done the way you described it!
For the rat scene, I'm thinking maybe some dancers could come out in fullbody rat costumes, a la CATS, and dance around Winston in a circle chanting. And then right as they're about the pounce on him, Winston bursts into song and sings "JUUUUUUUULIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Do it to JULIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
That sounds like a powerful moment in theater. lol


Okay, here's a great idea. BEOWULF: The Rock Opera! Ohhhh yeah. Adam Pascal would play Grendel, the hideous monster of the deep. And then Anthony Rapp comes out in his sequined viking armor and slays the monster, all while rocking out to an infectious pop-rock song.

Or here's a really brilliant one.
JURASSIC PARK: The Musical!!
The dinosaurs would all be interpretive dancers, covered in-you guessed it!-SEQUINS!!!

How about a Pinter musical?

Or, since jukebox musicals are all the rage, [i]I Am I Said: The Neil Diamond Musical[/i].

A Clockwork Orange-the musical was presented by the Royal Shakespear Company at Londons Royalty theatre. It was stunningly staged but didnt catch on and dissappeared rather fast.

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Flavor of Love - A New Musical

My dear wife suggested a Gilligan's Island musical.

Or Petticoat Junction: The Musical

How about some of these?

Sufferin' Succotash: The Daffy Duck Musical

Green Acres: The Musical (starring Rosie O'Donnel as Arnold Zifel.)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: The Musical (Rosencrantz sings, Guildenstern dances -- or else the other way around. Don't worry...they don't know either.)

Or perhaps one of the all-time worst ideas for a musical , if I do say so myself:

Mr. Ed: The Musical.

(You knew he talked. Now he sings and dances. A real Broadway hoofer. Don't let the "neigh" sayers keep you from seeing it.)

"The Love Boat or Fantasy Island...can you imagine the plane landing?"

You can finesse that, Deena.

(Offstege sounds of a plane landing.)

TATTOO (pointing offstage). Ze plane, Boss, ze plane.

(Enter several people with suitcases.)

ROARKE. Welcome to Fantasy Island.

Or at this point, Roarke could begin singing:

Welcome to Fantasy Island
Where all of your dreams come true.
Whatever it is that you wish for,
I'll make it happen for you.