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Ideas for a new musical?
So what...I sing
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
#50re: Ideas for a new musical?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:33pm
well, as a guy I don't have to 'wait in line' to pee....so I don't know that luxury...however this concept could be very good.
perhaps the concept would work well in other settings...not just the dentists office....suggestions?
So what...I sing
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#53re: Ideas for a new musical?
Posted: 6/21/06 at 12:11am
Highlights from EXORCIST! (The Musical):
"Devilish Doings in Georgetown"
"You're Gonna Die Up There"
"The Dimmy-Why-You-Do-This-To-Me Blues"
"It's Not Easy Being (Puke) Green"
"Help Me" (dream ballet)
"Girl, Get That Crucifix Outta Your Pussy And Getcha Self A
Job" (remix)
Burke Dennings
Hollywood, California
Updated On: 6/21/06 at 12:11 AM
I<3bway
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/06
#54re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 6/21/06 at 12:16amUmm, can you please tell me, how did Jersey Boys "fail" as a musical? I mean, you're just talking about a show that won four Tony Awards including best musical. Please tell me.
So what...I sing
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
#55re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 6/21/06 at 12:23am
Noone should be talking bad about Jersey Boys in this thread...do it in another thread.
All I want is help on my new musical idea.
Help me elaborate this Dentist Office idea....plot points, villian, Conflict?
I<3bway
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/06
#56re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 6/21/06 at 12:25am
How about a musical about twins!!
Or how about a musical about a dog show.
Updated On: 6/21/06 at 12:25 AM
So what...I sing
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
#57re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 6/21/06 at 12:31am
LOL! The Olsen Twins Musical!
I don't know anything about dog shows. So, that sort of makes it very hard for me to write about one.
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#58re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 6/21/06 at 1:34am
"5 People You Meet In Heaven. That would be intresting. It would have to be a multi-million dollar show though".
I'm not sure there is a musical on Broadway that isn't a multi-million dollar show
#59re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:06pmI also like the idea about the waiting room. I would write it as a straight play first to develop character and setting . . . then try to work music in.
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#60re: NathanLaneMusical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:09pmcall me old-fashioned, but i think anything written by roald dahl would make a great musical...
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#61re: Ideas for a New Musical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:18pm
I'm in the process of writing a musical with my best friend and now collaborator, and we have another noe on the shelf for when we're done. Both are based on books, and I have gotten the permission of both authors. The simple answer is, I don't think you can just sit down and start to write a musical, because no matter how much composing or writing talent you have, if you haven't got a good story that sings then you don't have anything.
Really, you can't just fish for ideas, when the right story comes along you'll know. I read the book to the first of my two musicals five years ago, it only hit me in February that it would make a great musical. I believe that if the story isn't really important to you or if it's just an idea somebody threw at you then it'll be an uphill battle to write it as a musical, because I really think your heart has to be in it.
I hope you find the story you're looking for, and good luck!
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#62re: Ideas for a New Musical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:33pm
Margaret!
The Musical
Bases on "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret."
#63re: Ideas for a New Musical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:40pm
So What:
First off, is this your first attempt at a show? If so, write whatever you want...just don't expect to get it produced, that's VERY rare. Write about what "sings" to you. If you can conceive a show, just start writiung. Maybe you'll discover you only have a good idea for a musical sketch. Then you'll have learned somrthing about either discarding unworkable ideas or writing one-acts.
If you have some past experience, try to avoid adapting newer materials. You'll only have headaches when the original authors slap you with a "cease-and-desist" order (I speak from experience.) Adapt a Shakespeare play, or a pre-twentieth-century novel, or a silent film. You'll be generally safe.
Read Lehman Engel. That's the best thing for any musical-theatre writer to do.
Write every day, even if it's crap.
Learn to read and write music, even if it's only to be able to notate your ideas.
Buy a really good rhyming dictionary.
Updated On: 9/26/06 at 01:40 PM
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#64re: Ideas for a New Musical
Posted: 9/26/06 at 1:41pm
i think it would be fun to adapt a musical from a book, or movie
or maybe from someone's life
that is one thing im gonna try before i die...
anyways, i think Bible stories would be interesting
there is this amazing book I read called THE LUCIFER DIARIES, which is sort of like a back-story on Satan- it doesnt sympathize with him, but makes you see from his point of view, and shows all the evil he does
i might attempt that sometime...
good luck!
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