HATE REVIVALS? NEW MUSICAL IDEAS?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 12:25pm

What do you think would make for a great new musical? Any particular topic, story line, social event, biography, movie adaptation, etc?

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 12:27pm

Superstar: The Musical. (The lovely story of Mary Katherine Gallagher and her troubles through adolescence...!)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 12:55pm

That's a funny idea. The props people and set designers would go crazy replacing broken tables, chairs and walls after every performance. Who would play her?

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 12:57pm

Not unless they just appear to break and are designed to where the pieces fit back together

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 1:02pm

true, true...........Who would be the perfect composer for that score? I can already picture the big production number ending ACT 1 that surrounds her and a chorus of armpit sniffing chorus girls in girlscout uniforms.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 1:05pm

Tim Acito maybe? I might get shot for this, but I liked Zanna don't even if it was bubble gum music, for some reason he just seems like he would be good for this kind of show to me.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 1:08pm

starring Shoshana Bean!!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 1:10pm

That's a pretty cool idea. Shaiman comes to mind too. I wonder what he's got up his sleeve. Ya know he and Wittman aren't gonna stop with Hairspray.

[Elphie]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 3:22pm

I'd like to see Disney try out Mary Poppins on Broadway or Newsies or something! I always thought Dirty Dancing would work as well as a musical. The music on the movie's soundtrack fit very nicely into the plot of the movie and moved it along quite smoothly.
What do you all think?

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 3:31pm

SUPERSTAR THE MUSICAL starring Molly Shannon. She's not a bad singer. At least not from what I heard on SNL.

Afterall, wasn't Ana Gasteyer on Broadway?

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 3:39pm

You know what story I'd like to see some composer tackle...again? The whole Nicholas/Alexandra/perhaps Anastasia story re: the Russian Revolution, etc. I know that previous attempts to musicalize this have been lack-luster, but talk about a plot that is ripe for musicalization...by the RIGHT person, that is.

[BillFinn]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 3:58pm

I think they should turn "Finding Nemo" into a musical. They'd probably have to expand on some characters for time length. It'd be interesting to see how they'd give dimension to Marlin's spouse or Doree's past.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 4:04pm

Yes! Finding Nemo would make a very good musical. It would be kind of hard to do, though. Like, all the underwater scenes are just so amazing, so maybe a stage production would take some of the magic out of it.

SUPERSTAR should definately be a musical.

I think that Disney should try to make Pochahantas (sp??) into a Broadway musical, alongside Lion King and BATB. I just love the story, so I think that bringing it to Broadway might be kind of cool.

Updated On: 12/26/03 at 04:04 PM

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 5:31pm

Updated On: 7/12/04 at 05:31 PM

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 9:52pm

Bud- Superstar the musical would be funny!!


Maybe more Disney movies should be made into Broadway shows?! What about Sleeping Beauty?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 10:02pm

sonn,
maybe Disney could hire uber-twinkish 18-19 year olds.....

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:06am

"Twink-ish" ?

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:27am

A musical based on the life of Frank Sinatra that weaves his popular numbers into different songs. It would not be a cycle of his songs but the themes would be prevalent.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:41am

I just came up with another one. A musical based on the life of the guy who played Pee Wee Herman, hahah that was a joke. I would be scared if anyone ever did a show like that. Broadway does need some original shows. While watching the Tony's one year my cousin and I decided we could make our own musical and call it Cousins The Musical. It would be about a small town in the country where everyone is related. People have to go to the big city to find girls to marry because they are all so closely related and they have to save up for several years to make the trip. There are two people from the town who marry each other (They're cousins and they have a kid named Cousin Earl, let's just say he's not all there.) Then to add to the drama a family moves in with a girl and all the cousins are fighting over which of them gets the girl. ANyway it turns out she is adopted and is their long lost cousin which throws another wrench into the plot, and the cousin she falls in love with. I thought it would be funny to have about twenty kids per parent, i thought tha would be hilarious, its just an idea, We thought it was funny because I get along so well with two of my cousins that people think we're dating, it's happened with my sister too. People always feel really stupid afterward, but my sister and I look nothing alike, but what I think broadway really needs right now is more serious musicals, it hasn't had any that have been really successful lately it seems to me, but I am also stuck out here in the Midwest so I don't hear everything. I hope this post is coherent my thoughts sort of blend together, it made sense in my head

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:43am

I didn't even read the whole post, but a firm "no" is in order.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:44am

he he he he


Son,
I take it that in your pic, your South Pacific shirt is from when you did the show.. what was your role.. wether onstage or backstage??

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:46am

He works for a company that makes T-Shirts for Community productions of overdone musicals

[Phantom2]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:50am

Rough crowd...

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:57am

It was in high school, i was Commander Harbison, I made the best of it but I was upset, we were at a school where they based everything on seniority and not by talent. Not saying I deserved a bigger part because I sucked up my audition, I have a habit of getting sick before an audition, I think it could be psychosomatic, but I'm getting over that. Anyway back on topic, the guy who had Emile never came to rehearsal and was completely ununderstandable he was horrible, he didn't deserve the part, he only got it because he was a senior.(We did it for the Roger and Hammerstein anniversary.) But last year I was Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, and I worked my butt off in that role.

Updated On: 12/27/03 at 12:57 AM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:59am

woohoo!

I did Guys and Dolls in high school.. I was Benny Southstreet and served as scenic/costume designer and "musical theatre advisor"/ semi-assistant director..

I actually had NUMEROUS people say I should have playd nathan, but hell.. I was sooo busy.... lol