Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:40am
In light of recent events of copyright, infringements and contract breaking.....
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/150394-University-Production-of-Rent-Stirs-Controversy-With-Altered-Script
I'm asking all my creative and funny bugs out there to:
Take any musical or play and change the ending.
What would you re-write and why?
This of course would never be done in reality.
But curious to see who can have fun with this and Give us all a chuckle.
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example:
GREASE
Danny approaches Sandy in her black 'tough' get up and says 'Sandy??'
Sandy: What's it to ya? I'm with Rizzo now.
Sandy and Rizzo share a kiss and a cigarette.
They all sing a chorus of 'It Gets Better" instead of 'We Go Together"
and High schools across the country can teach tolerance
instead of the heinous message of having to change yourself for the love or approval of anyone.
End pose with a whole lot of jazz hands and Rizzo holding a can of Crisco.
Danny shrugs.
the end.
Updated On: 4/30/11 at 09:40 AM
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:58amI'll start with the obvious one. RENT. But I wouldn't have her die and then NOT come back. I'd cut the whole dying bit in the first place and keep her alive at the end anyway. It's dumb and trite.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:10am
Wicked, where she actually goes crazy and she and Fiyero both die.
I understand why it was changed, but it bugs me to no end. I did not like having my emotions toyed with like that in 2004.
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#3Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:13amDoesnt make a difference to the plot, just the way the show plays out, but I would make the final scene of LITTLE WOMEN, the one wih Jo in the attack and she sings Fire Within me, and then the Astonishing reprise.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#4Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:28amOklahoma Finale: I would switch the Ending Reprise of Oh What A Beautiful Morning with a Reprise of Oklahoma/People say were in love.
Orangesaretuesdays
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/10
#5Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:58am< I was in a production of Oklahoma a few months ago and we did just that!
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#6Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:08pm
Chicago- Roxie Hart is found guilty. It'll give a WHOLE new feel to Hot Honey Rag.
The Wizard of Oz- the bump on Dorothy's head actually triggers a mental disorder and causes her to hallucinate, thus her seeing Oz. This is revealed in the end, as the audience sees her strapped to a bed as the curtain falls.
Billy Elliot- gets rejected from the Royal Ballet.
Spider-Man: TOtD: Everything.
(In all fairness, I love all of the original endings. For the most part. Cough, cough Spidey.)
#7Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:47pmIve heard of productions doing this but change some of the people who make the show in A Chorus Line.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#8Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 3:17pmBennett used to change it every night before the show opened on Broadway.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#9Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 4:13pmWicked. Elphaba coming back at the end is beyond ridiculous. The biggest problem with that show in my eyes is that it did not stay more true to Gregory Maguire's masterpiece of a novel. The fact that Elpahba and Fiyero live really bothers me.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#10Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 4:31pm
Dreamgirls - The Dreams bring Effie out on stage where she then drops her pants and lights her farts for an amazed audience.
Company - Kill Bobby to make "Being Alive" ironic.
Caroline, or Change - Caroline puts Noah in the dryer and as the curtain falls we just see him go round and round screaming while Caroline laughs and throws change at machine.
#11Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 4:35pmJordan - there actually was a production of Company where Bobby killed himself at the end!
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#12Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:14pm
Dreamgirls - The Dreams bring Effie out on stage where she then drops her pants and lights her farts for an amazed audience.
Please tell me this is done at a horrible camp talent show a la Wet Hot American Summer.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#13Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:22pm
Company- I'd love to see a production in which the end is Bobby standing at the altar with some woman, maybe someone with the dress and veil, her back to the audience, so you don't know who she is.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#14Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:27pmand she turns around and lifts the veil and it's Arthur Laurents.
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#15Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 5:32pmI just DIED. Too funny, Jordan!
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#17Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 6:31pm
I actually like WICKED's ending...I think that by having her and Fiyero end up together but at the same time have Glinda and Elphaba forever apart kinda stirs up more emotion then just Elphaba dying if that makes sense. Like the audience is happy for them, and happy she is alive...but then realize that Glinda will always think she is dead and Elphaba will have to live with the fact she lost her only best friend. I think it adds a bit more emotion :P
I would however change the ending to ANNIE....something about them ending with "A New Deal" has always bothered me. Cant quite figure out why though.
Also the ending to "In the Heights"
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#18Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 6:35pm
I'd have Annie put a bugle up her ass and fart Revelry for Daddy Warbucks while Sandy licks peanut butter off of Grace.
Updated On: 4/30/11 at 06:35 PM
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#19Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 6:45pm
"Wow - what do you call that act?"
"THE ARISTOCRATS!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:25pmJordan enjoys stage farts.
#21Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:45pmMore than you know. Every show should end with the leading lady standing front and center, ripping a big one, have everyone on stage laugh and the show end.
#22Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:49pmAnd now that I think about it, it should be Pepper licking the peanut butter off of Grace, not Sandy.
#23Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?
Posted: 4/30/11 at 9:50pm
Sunset Boulevard:
Once everyone arrives back at Norma's house (during the final scene) the phone rings, and it is Cecil B. DeMille, who tells Norma he has just heard back from New York. They have decided to comply with Norma's "proposal" fully.
Max is set to direct the production. Before the first day of filming Sheldrick figures out about Joe's failure on car payments, and threatens to turn him in. Scared to loose Joe, Norma shoots Sheldrick (who falls into the pool). Joe in such a state of shock...makes the scene up to appear like "self-defense," as Sheldrick is discovered to have been a drunk.
If Joe leaves Norma, she will turn him in as a co-consiprator...so he decides to stay with Norma.
The (real) final scene begins with Norma descending the staircase...mentally stable. The press is there to "whisk" her away to her first day on the set. They are so happy she is okay after the "scare" the night before...and applaud her efforts to "stand up for herself." By the pool Joe sits, and Betty and Artie join him for the pool party.
Norma becomes the "greatest star of all," and ends with her oscar acceptance speech for Salome. She thanks everyone, but most importantly, her fans "out there in the dark" everyone laughs with her.
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