Change a Show's ENDING- What would you create?- Page 2

[trentsketch]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:00pm

In My Life:

Upon seeing how devastated Jenny is at the loss of her Tourette's stricken husband J.T., the angel Winston figures out the perfect ending to his opera for God. Jenny is run over by a giant lemon and joins her man in heaven, where she no longer feels the need to wash her hands every three minutes and he can go more than three words with cursing.

Assassins:

The balladeer, now Lee Harvey Oswald, hopes in his time machine with failed presidential assassins Guiseppe Zangara, Samuel Byck, John Hinkley, Squeaky Fromme, and Sara Jane Moore and helps them prove that everyone's dreams can come true by assisting in their thwarted assassination attempts. The company files on stage to sing about the value of the American dream.

The Frogs:

Dionysus stays with the frogs at the end of Act I, granting poor Xanthias his freedom. He goes back to the world of the living and writes a farce about a musical theater composer tricked into writing a musical set around a swimming pool at an Ivy League university.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:07pm

On the serious, I'm a big fan of that production of ANNIE they did at Trinity Rep in Providence that ended with Annie waking up alone onstage, still in the orphanage alone with Sandy, realizing that it was all a dream, and beginning to cry.

Updated On: 4/30/11 at 10:07 PM

[chewy5000]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:35pm

The TITANIC doesn't sink. Happy endings FTW!

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:37pm

...wait. That's the plot of In My Life?!

[romgitsean]

Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:16pm

Piguara, that's how I feel about Annie, to a tee.

-I never quite cared for the epilogue in Peter Pan. I would've had it end with Peter dropping off Wendy and leaving with a duet of Never Never Land.

-Loved the ending to Wicked in the workshops, but I don't think it could work staged and have it not be campy.

-THE ENDING TO PIPPIN. Don't even get me started. In the finale I think that Pippin has to go batsh*t. And have the Leading Player and players flip that he's not leaving. The ending would simply be him and Catherine alone and when Catherine asks, "So, Pippin, how do you feel now?" and then the lights go out. Because he's nor happy or trapped. Additionally, Theo should be played by a notably older actor, because Theo, like Catherine, is only another actor in the troupe. He's just playing a part. So he sould leave as well.

[pennydreadful]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:57am

There are two different endings to Phantom I'd like to see:

1. Christine starts to run offstage with Raoul, realizes she belongs with the Phantom, returns Raoul's ring to him with the sad music playing, runs back to the Phantom. They disappear together as the music swells and the angry mob rushes in. (Yeah, I'm a Phantom fangirl, but not a LND fangirl. I have limits.)

2. The Phantom and Raoul ditch Christine, and run off together. This ending stems from my intense desire to see Hugh Panaro and Sean McLaughlin make out on stage. Or anywhere. They're ****ing gorgeous. Woot!

[trentsketch]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 8:28am

bwayfan7000, that was the only aspect of the show I liked and remembered. Winston was fabulous; the rest of the show was a drag. And I'm not saying that because I only got to see the show because a friend was one of David Turner's high school teachers offered a handful of free tickets and a backstage tour.

That and the only thing I remember about what happened on earth was J.T.'s mother dying in the first ten minutes (and only because that was the best song in the show).

Urinetown: The true secret of Urinetown is revealed to young Bobby Strong: it is an elaborate water park with never-ending cocktails and the world's longest lazy river. People become so overwhelmed by the relaxation they never go back home to tell the people the solution to their water crisis. What? You didn't really think Cladwell was the richest man on Earth from dimes and quarters taken from the poor, did you?

Carrie: Margaret White is also a witch. She twitches her nose back and forth and lets Carrie step out of the way of the pig's blood before she slaughters the entire high school population. Carrie is embraced as the new queen of cool and everyone dances off into the sunset.

[ggersten]

Posted: 5/1/11 at 12:16pm

Ragtime:
Sarah doesn't die but is "merely" in a coma. Mother is nursing her back to health. When Coalhouse takes over the Carnegie Library, Sarah - now revived - goes in to talk Coalhouse out. He doesn't believe it is her, suspects a trap and starts the detonation process - but just before the building explodes he does recognize her - and just as they start the reprise of Wheels.."our son will rise" it's kaboom.
Mother and Tateh still end up raising all the kids and starting the Our Gang films

My Fair Lady:
Eliza walks through the door, but as Higgins puts his feet up, Eliza's soliciter comes through too and serves Higgins with a summons. Updated On: 5/1/11 at 12:16 PM

[Colle]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 9:19am

I would like to see a production of "Greece" where Sandy stays a goody/goody.

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 9:38am

Every time I've seen Pippin, the ending has been different, so I can't even be sure that my ideas are original. Is it typical for directors to toy with the ending. I guess there is a lot of room for interpretation.

It was said above but I've always wondered what it would be like if Christine stayed with the Phantom. The relationship intrigues me.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 9:41am

A Chorus Line: After the dancers are chosen, we segue into the opening night performance of the show, with star present, before segueing backstage, where it is revealed that the show received brutal reviews and will close immediately. Everyone loses their hard earned jobs. All is done with seamless transitions, a la Dreamgirls.

[BobRandomGuyMan]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 9:56am

People in the Picture should have ended in the lobby.

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 10:45am

In a production of JCS... They had the crucifixion (sp) before the Superstar number thus ending Jesus Christ Superstar on an upbeat ending. (like the reserection of sorts)...It was actually very very cool how they did it.

[Actor2]

Posted: 5/2/11 at 11:01am

The best so far:

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. <----(hilarious)

A Chorus Line: After the dancers are chosen, we segue into the opening night performance of the show, with star present, before segueing backstage, where it is revealed that the show received brutal reviews and will close immediately. Everyone loses their hard earned jobs. All is done with seamless transitions, a la Dreamgirls.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/3/11 at 12:03am

My Fair Lady: Eliza leaves Henry Higgins, and on her way out she gets trampled by a horse drawn carriage then dies. The curtain falls as Henry Higgins runs out and sobs while holding her body.