How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them?
How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them?
#1How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them?
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:04pmQuick. You just mentioned a musical, and someone asked you what it's about. How do you describe it it a sentence?
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them?
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:07pmWhat musical?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#2re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:08pm"It's about a horny girl who got kicked in the head by a pony."
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#3re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:31pm
It's funny, because half of my favorite musicals are plotless. The one that I was shock people with is
"Oh, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it's about sexual freedom"
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"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#4re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:33pm
Ok, quick..... decribe FLAHOOLEY .....
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#5re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:43pmWell it's really hard to describe RENT, because people are always like "Oh the one about AIDS?" But I describe Urinetown usually as "brilliant satire of Broadway musicals." When I describe Hair, I usually describe more how it makes me feel then what it's more literally about.
Because I look different you think I'm subversive.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#6re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:45pmI do the same with HAIR, claud. I usually describe it as a 60's musical about the young people starting their own revolution.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#7re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:45pm
Just some guy, who got mad at another guy for calling him a Communist, decided to take out his fustrations at Hollywood by making a musical with his political views overshadowing the whole production. Oh and the musical has people with no life, puppets, and a magic Genie!!!!! And this is no Avenue Q.
For Times Square Regular.
Updated On: 7/18/09 at 10:45 PM
#8re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:46pmOr, you can say it's about Hippies.
#9re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 10:50pmIt's about a woman who yells at the audience.
#10re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:03pmYou know that painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte? No? Hmmm...
#11re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:07pm
For intelligent people: it's about an overbearing mother who forces her daughters into showbiz. One leaves and the other becomes a worldfamous stripper.
Abridged Version: it's about a stripper.
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#12re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:12pmIt's about the dangers of having sex--with microphones.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:17pm
It's about a woman who yells at the audience.
BKLYN The Musical?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#14re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:18pm
blaax,
I didn't think it was possible for me to love you even more...but that just made me love you even more.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#15re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:19pm
Blaxx,
Funny enough after I wrote that I immediately thought of Miss Screechin' Espinosa.
Great minds, honey... 
#16re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:22pm
"For intelligent people: it's about an overbearing mother who forces her daughters into showbiz. One leaves and the other becomes a worldfamous stripper.
Abridged Version: it's about a stripper."
^I was about to say almost exactly the same thing, LOL.
#17re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:23pm...with great enthusiasm and much gusto (if I loved the show)....if they've already bought tkts to a show I already know sucks, I never say a word, hopefully they'll still love it anyway.....
#18re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:24pm
"It's about the dangers of having sex--with microphones. "
HAHA. That's completely brilliant.
Because I look different you think I'm subversive.
#19re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 4:14am
"It's about a man who gets trapped in a cave and dies."
"It's about murder, cannibalism, and vengeance."
"It's about assassination attempts on various US presidents."
I just like to boil it down to the simplest sentence that makes it sound least like "and everyone sings because they're in love, and the whole town knows the choreography, and there's jazzhands, and happy endings". I don't like to encourage people's uneducated views on what makes a musical.
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 04:14 AM
#20re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 4:29am
I always have to do this "it's about a black maid in Louisiana who works for a Jewish family" and I get blank stares, then I add "but there's singing appliances" and they get excited because they think it's just like BEAUTY & THE BEAST.
Lol to both GYPSY references (the screaming woman and the stripper) and the brief description of LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA by Jordan was hilarious.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#21re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:27amHow does one describe August: Osage County to someone? I never know what to say when people ask me because there's just so much that goes on, haha.
frapperia
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/09
#22re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:46am
"It's a reversal world where everyone's gay and it's frowned upon to be straight, and there's a magical matchmaker who can help people fall in love, and it's about what happens when a girl and a guy fall for each other...IT'S AWESOME, THE SONGS ARE INCREDIBLE."
(it is!)
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 05:46 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#23re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
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