Different shows with similar plots- Page 2

[SharksVsJets]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 9:09pm

I like where this thread is going. Now please, someone explain to me how Cabaret and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee are the same.

[RumTumJM]

Posted: 8/19/19 at 11:40pm

The Music Man & School Of Rock.

(Think about it! A con man enters a very straigh-laced, traditonal scenario. While the con man is, eventually, revealed to be a fraud, everyone quickly realizes that his outsider/non-traditional ways had a positive impact on the people.)

[PeterJCasey]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 12:05am

SharksVsJets said: "Now please, someone explain to me how Cabaret and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee are the same."


A motley crew of performers attempt to entertain the audience while under the increasing control of outside forces they cannot escape. The fourth wall is often broken, there are unfortunate erections, and the audience is made complicit in the mistreatment of several Jews.

Updated On: 8/20/19 at 12:05 AM

[RunningThatRoad]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 4:05pm

Urinetown and Newsies have a lot of parallels.

An evil corporate overlord is oppressing a community of poor folks living in squalor, and when he cruelly raises the price of the basics they need to live, they rebel. The police, who are in the corporate overlord’s pocket, beat up the protestors at the end of Act I. The charismatic young leader of the resistance meets and falls for a young woman, who is later revealed to be the corporate overlord’s daughter, leading to tension and mistrust. The resistance leader is brought to meet the overlord, where the overlord tries to buy him off, but the resistance leader refuses. The resistance persists and eventually beats the corporate overlord to get the prices reduced.

Updated On: 8/20/19 at 04:05 PM

[copskid949]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 4:53pm

PeterJCasey said: "SharksVsJets said: "Now please, someone explain to me how Cabaret and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee are the same."


A motley crew of performers attempt to entertain the audience while under the increasing control of outside forces they cannot escape. The fourth wall is often broken, there are unfortunateerections, and the audience is made complicit in the mistreatment of several Jews."

This works almost too well.

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 4:57pm

I haven't seen either, but there are 2 versions of 'The Wild Party'. Not sure how similar they are but are based on  the same source material.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 8:49pm

dramamama611 said: "Well it's said that all stories can be sorted into 3 basic conflicts:
Man v self
Man v man
Man v nature

So, if looking for it, you will easily find similarities."

There's another critical scheme that lists five instead of three. The additional ones are:

Man v society (which is seen as distinguishable from Man v Man)
Man v. supernatural

Or:

Man v. woman
Youth v. age

The latter two are often added in discussions of ANTIGONE, which then manages to incorporate all five.

Of course none of this challenges your basic point that there are only so many conflicts and repetition is inevitable.

[OKBroadwayFan]

Posted: 8/20/19 at 9:37pm

haterobics said: "La Boheme basically stole the plot of Rent."

LOL