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How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them?
#25re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:59amWeez- At TKTS if you were to use those descriptions, the patrons would say, "That's a musical?"
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#26re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:11am
The only humorous description for one of my favorite musicals (Tanz der Vampire) is this:
It's like Phantom but with fangs and way better music.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#27re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:55pm
Singtopher - it's almost like you got my point. :) Challenging misconceptions, that's me!
How 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.
From my LJ the day after I saw it:
"So anyway, August: Osage County really IS all that and a bag of chips. The Westons are easily the least functional family I've ever seen onstage, and that includes not only the Hamlets of Denmark but also over eighty years of English monarchy as filtered through Shakespeare's propaganda machine. As dark comedies go, I don't think I've ever seen anything onstage that managed to be SO dark yet SO funny and also SO good. If you picture a Venn diagram covering "dark", "funny", and "awesome", then August is SMACK in the middle. :3"
So that's:
- All that and a bag of chips.
- The least functional family you'll ever see onstage, and that includes eighty years of English monarchy as filtered through Shakespeare's propaganda machine.
- If you picture a Venn diagram covering "dark", "funny", and "awesome", then August is SMACK in the middle.
Well, that's lovely then!
#28re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:24pm
I ramble, but usually it's like...
"It's about all these fair tale people (I list some) and A baker and his wife, and a witch, and they have to go into the woods for stuff. The second act is how not everything is happily ever after."
"It's about this guy who kills people and this lady who bakes them into pies."
"It's about...cats at a ball. They sing and dance about each other...that's about it."
"It's about a single guy and his different married friends. And his girlfriends."
"People with AIDS."
I only explain them like this because my friends are stupid about musicals, so I horribly dumb things down, especially 'Rent'.
#29re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 5:32pm
Next to Normal-"it's about this bi-polar mother, and how their family tries to deal with it."
White Noise(not a favorite but interesting)-"it's a anti-racist musical about a white pride band"
Aida- "It's like Romeo and Juliet, with one extra person."
#30re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:32pm
I have no idea how to sum up "Ragtime" in one sentence...
Les Miserables-- A guy steals a loaf of bread and runs away from a policeman for decades, and they end up getting involved in a revolution, but everyone dies.
The Scarlet Pimpernel-- A guy rescues people during the French revolution, but since he's married to a French spy, he pretends to be a flamboyant idiot so no one will suspect him.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#31re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:37pm
Ragtime:
3 groups of people living in the turn of the century. I guess it doesn't have to be TOO detailed.
Spring Awakening:
A bunch of horny teenagers rebel against conservative adults but end up dying, getting pregnent, committing suicide, and beating each other.
"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.
#32re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:39pmSee, for Ragtime, you have to get into the buried babies, domestic terrorism, and anarchists, and then explain that the whole musical is set to upbeat ragtime music.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#33re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:06pm
Ragtime - basically the Doctorow novel, but set to jaunty tunes. 8D
dramadude2
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/07
#34re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:36pm[It's a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical.]
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#35re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:32amIt's a musical about the joy that is pie. It had that old lady from "Murder She Wrote."
#36re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:58am
It's about hippies and dropping acid and LOVE.
#37re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/20/09 at 10:57am
It's about a fat girl who fights racism...don't remember that one? Well, it's the one where her mom's played by a woman. Yes, the movie had John Travolta. -Hairspray
It's a musical about an ugly guy in love with a teenager who's in love with a pretty guy, and it's all in an Opera House. -PotO
#38re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/20/09 at 12:55pm"its about a barber getting revenge by killing people and baking them into pies. BEST MUSICAL EVER!"
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
fgreene1938
Leading Actor Joined: 10/25/06
#39re: How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Hea
Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:18pm
1.) "It's about two seasoned customer-service professionals in an over-populated city who help decrease the surplus population by opening up a new restaurant for carnivores."
2.) "It's about a nun who overthrows the Nazis with a guitar and some old curtains."
3.) "It's about an actress who breaks character a lot and screams at the audience...oh, and a stripper's in it, too."
4.) "It's about a refrigerator that farts show people who sing kinda funny."
5.) "It's about an ogre, a princess, a donkey, and flatulence."
Updated On: 7/20/09 at 02:18 PM
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