Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Good ideas for jukebox musicals
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#2re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:18pm
I don't think her catalogue is big enough yet. Besides with her impending legal/copyright troubles, I doubt any producer would want to touch that.
I have said for years that The Smiths music had strong potential for a jukebox musical and then just last year one was announced that's in the works.
#2re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:28pmI aways kinda wanted to see a fleetwood mac/Stevie Nicks musical, but part of me feels like it would end up being craptastic.
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#3re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:29pm
not a jukebox per se, but I've always thought there needed to be a Cy Coleman revue. Such fantastic, stylistically varied scores.
Opening number: Cy-a-mania! (Willamania, with slightly reworked lyrics)
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#4re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 9:32pmJohann Sebastian Bach
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#6re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 10:01pm
I always thought that Duran Duran have a decent catalogue for a musical but I have always imagined it like Mamma Mia! type plot.
#7re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:00pmMost of Pink Martini's songs aren't in English, but I think their style is good for musical theatre.
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#8re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:14pm
Bring back "OUR HOUSE"!!!!!
...the Madness musical
...and the best jukebox musical that ever was
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#9re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/12/07 at 11:15pmI, for some reason, always thought of one with the music of Huey Lewis & The News. I actually thought up a whole plot and was gonna write the show for fun. That never happened. LOL!
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#12re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:40am
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#13re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:55am
I always thought the Alan Parsons Project was very theatrical, especially with the Edgar Allen Poe and the Guadi inspired albums.
I can see that catalogue on stage sooner or later.
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#15re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:14amI think a Whitney Houston musical would be brilliant!
#16re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:17amI definitely second Rufus Wainwright. But he's got his opera that he's working on now, so I guess we'll have to be satisfied with that for now.
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#17re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:11amSpice Girls!!!!
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#19re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:25am
The Beatles.
It's been done, but not on stage. Or at least I don't think so...
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#20re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:45am
The Beatles never done as a jukebox musical? Are you kidding? Beatlemania is the ORIGINAL jukebox musical. It's even in wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatlemania_%28musical%29
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 04:45 AM
#22re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:04am
Pink Floyd
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#23re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:17am
I like the Ben Folds suggestion.
Also, has anyone ever heard of the Canadian (sometimes) a cappella band Moxy Fruvous? I've always thought their stuff would be great in a theatrical environment.
Last, maybe Colin Hay or the Decemberists?
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#24re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 8:50am
The Rolling Stones
And there already is a Cy Coleman musical. I've forgotten the name but I saw it in Los Angeles a couple years ago. It was a multi-media review of Coleman's songs nobody ever heard of. I didn't like it much.
#25re: Good ideas for jukebox musicals
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:05amI generally abhor jukebox musicals, but if pressed for a suggestion, I would say the music of Styx would lend itself to a production. Their style has always been theatrical, and there are common themes across many of their songs.
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