Ideas for MUSICALS!
Ideas for MUSICALS!
#0Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:35pmHey, Im wanting to write a contemporary musical, for a small cast of mabye 2-4 but i need a seed to write a story. any ideas?
#1re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:45pmA bunch of homeless people wear trash, prance around, scream at the top of their lungs, and try to tell a story, but fall flat on their faces.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
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#3re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:50pm4 people stuck in an elevator....one is blind and fearless, one is klaustrophobic, the other two are fighting couple, about to get a divorce....GO!
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#4re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:01pmOoooh, I like that one! I say GO too!
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Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#5re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:05pmI have an idea that fits that description, but I refuse to share it! I've commissioned my sister, a playwright and songwriter, to write the book (at least), music and lyrics to this musical. It's actually a decent storyline, but I would hate to see someone else use my idea!
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#6re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:09pmsingingbackup--that would actually be very interesting!! Hahahaha.
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Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:11pmI agree, very cool story singingbackup.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:36pmPlum - Thank you, dear.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 8:50pm
I know this requires a bigger cast, but I've always wanted to see a musical version of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, perhaps with the new title, ELDERBERRY WINE.
I envision a Jerry Herman-like score and Carol Channing and Angela Lansbury as the two sisters, Eric McCormack as Mortimer and Alice Ripley as his love interest.
I can dream, can't I?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#11re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 9:29pmI really like that idea. I love Arsenic and Old Lace
JohnnysGurl
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/05
#12re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 9:33pm
Two of my ideas
A musical of The Nightmare Before Christmas, beautiful poems transform into beautiful music
Or, I started one about a hit band in the 1980s, sort along the same storyline as win a date with tad hamiltion
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#13re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/22/05 at 10:07pm
Nightmare Before Christmas is already a musical movie. Granted, it's animated, but it already exists. That might be cool to adapt to the stage, but only with $20 billion.
I also have an idea for a musical that I'm commisioning two friends to write. They've already written one song, but we don't have the rights to the property yet. I'm excited to see how it turns out!!
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#14re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:30pm
Ok, Awsome ideas! i just want to add that the theatre im going to be working in would be a small venue... really small, only 150 ppl. also, some of the actors i have interested in working with me are around 20 years old.
thnx again, and keep adding more suggestions!
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
Jwaa
Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
#16re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:04pm
I think a 'meet the parents' type musical would be awesome....
the couple and the parents, i think it would leave way for great humour and a great oppurtunites for duets etc....
woo i like my idea.
matthius202
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/05
#17re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:06pmlol..i'm laughing at munk :)
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
#18re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 8:42pm
These are great ideas!!!! KEEP'EM COMEING!!!!
-CLEMENS
#19re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 8:43pm
btw, i really like the "meet the parents" idea Thnx
Updated On: 2/23/05 at 08:43 PM
Ryan80
Swing Joined: 5/15/03
#20re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 8:59pm
How about a musical about a Broadway producer, a director/choreographer, and an author. They decide to produce a Broadway musical using the music of a well-known 80's band. It's a musical about nothing that takes place in California...sometime. Four small town grads set out to find true love, adventure, and ooooh, just maybe the biggest plastic wave of their wildest dreams. Anyway...the show is a FLOP and the character lose lots of money and credibility! They are ashamed to show their faces in town and learn a hard lesson...use ORIGINAL stories and ORIGINAL music. The names for your characters can be: Mr. Lesser, J. Giraffa, and Mr. Snott.
TOTALLY ORIGINAL stuff here!! :)
jefflang007
Understudy Joined: 6/13/04
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#22re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/24/05 at 7:05am
A musical about how movie stars behave off-screen.
Kind of like America's Sweethearts i suppose.
#24re: Ideas for MUSICALS!
Posted: 2/25/05 at 4:56pm
A Love square.
Better yet, Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice: The Musical!
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Updated On: 2/25/05 at 04:56 PM
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