Cannot believe I'm asking this

[Mattbrain]

Cannot believe I'm asking this#1

Posted: 4/20/08 at 9:32pm

If The Ten Commandments: The Musical had been a success (and I am more than aware that it is a bad musica. I have seen the DVD), would we have seen more transfers of French musicals?

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Updated On: 4/21/08 at 09:32 PM

[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#2

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:24am

Bump

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[Borstalboy]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#2

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:28am

French musicals such as....?

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[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#3

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:30am

Gone With The Wind
Spartacus
Cindy Cendrillon
Le Roi Soleil
Don Juan

stuff like that

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[philcrosby]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#4

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:31am

Les Miz was a French musical and that certainly didn't cause a tidal wave.

And the reason is ....

Musicals (as we know them) are not a particularly popular theatrical form in France. There simply aren't that many that get produced.

[shh282]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#5

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:31am

isn't gone with the wind around now?

[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#6

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:29pm

It's a different version of Gone With The Wind though.

This Gone With The Wind featured pop music, aerial acrobatics, choreography worthy of Twyla Tharp and a plot like a checklist.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#7

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:45pm

What kind of DVD are you talking about? Bootleg?

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[zepka102]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#8

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:46pm

Aerial acrobatics in Gone With the Wind? Really?

::bust a move::

[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#9

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:46pm

No. They taped the show and a DVD has been released commercially.

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[Mister Matt]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#10

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:55pm

If the French pop musical spectacles were ever going to take off in the US, it would have started with the most popular of them all, Notre Dame de Paris, which bombed in Las Vegas.

I do like Ali Baba, however.

This Gone With The Wind featured pop music, aerial acrobatics, choreography worthy of Twyla Tharp and a plot like a checklist.

You do realize that "choreography worthy of Twyla Tharp" is actually a huge compliment, right?

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[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#11

Posted: 4/21/08 at 1:06pm

I guess. I mean, I loved her choreography in Hair but the choreography in Gone With The Wind (not to mention the music) looks extremely out of place.

I was thinking the same thing, Mister Matt. Don't forget that Romeo and Juliet bombed in London as well.

I actually like the scores of some of these shows and wish more of them were on iTunes. But the physical productions are a joke. Very few of them resemble something close to a traditional musical.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[TooDarnHot]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#12

Posted: 4/21/08 at 2:47pm

there is an english version of ROMEO AND JULIET as well, though.

it's a rock opera written by Terrance Mann.

[Mattbrain]

re: Cannot believe I'm asking this#13

Posted: 4/21/08 at 3:12pm

Yeah, but that's a different show too.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."