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How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#25re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 3:06pm
Opening number:
HERE'S HELEN WHO'S BEEN MOST EVERYWHERE
FROM THE WATER PUMP TO THE TOP OF THE STAIR
BUT HELEN'S NEVER SEEN THE SIGHTS
A GIRL CAN SEE FROM BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
SHE CAN'T EVEN STARE
SHE'S A DEAF MUTE
THAT'S RIGHT SHE'S A DEAF MUTE AND SHE'S BLIND
SHE TRIPS A LOT SHE FALLS A LOT
SHE WALKS INTO THE WALLS A LOT
YOU COULD LOSE YOUR MIND...
'CAUSE HELEN... IS DEAF DUMB AND BLIND!
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#26re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/5/08 at 3:08pmActually, the director at my school did tell me that there was a play that was a follow up to The Miracle Worker. He said that it is called Tuesday afther the miracle and it is about Helen's later years with Anne Sullivan while she is at college. And, the two actually fight over a guy.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#27re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 1:34pm
I see Celia Keenan Bolger as Helen, I think she'd be smashing! She might be a bit old though.
And maybe Judy Kuhn as Anne Sullivan?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#28re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 2:16pm
Actually, it's called Monday After the Miracle. It flopped on Broadway (seven performances!). Jane Alexander was Annie Sullivan. Karen Allen played grown-up Helen.
Updated On: 8/6/08 at 02:16 PM
#29re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 8:15pm
Did TheaterMania or somewhere run a contest for the work musical ideas ever? And didn't this one make it? This would have been,maybe, five years ago or so, but it does sound familiar.
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#30re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 8:30pmHilarious, only because there are so many Helen Keller jokes out there in this cruel world.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#31re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 8:46pmDeaf West meets Theatre for the Blind meets Jeanine Tesori.
#32re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 9:51pm
What if the musical incorporated all of those horrible jokes?
Her dog died when Helen took him sky diving with her.
She broke her arm reading a stop sign at 50mph.
She punctured her ear when she tried to answer the stapler.
She punctured the other one when they called back.
She drives herself crazy trying to read a stucco wall.
She burns her face bobbing for french fries.
Her parents punish her by leaving the plunger in, rearranging the furniture, put her in a round room and told her there's a penny in the corner, wash her hands with soap, give her bird-seed to read...
She discovers her sexual self by masturbating with one hand and moaning with the other.
She falls down the well and screams her fingers off.
She falls down the well again, but no one can her because she is wearing mittens.
She wears skin tight pants so you can read her lips.
Someone hands her a cheesegrate, and she says "that's the most violent story I ever read!"
she gets purple hands from hearing it through the grapevine.
The book practically writes itself!
#33re: How does everyone feel about a potential Helen Keller musical?
Posted: 8/6/08 at 10:45pm
Hey guys, why couldn't Helen Keller drive?
BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN.
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