Ideas for holiday themed musicals on Broadway

[vtalum05]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 8:00pm

With the recent announcement of Holiday Inn next year on Broadway just curious what other "holiday-themed" shows would you like to see??  I was thinking Babes in Toyland, The Santa Clause, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Christmas With The Kranks, and The Polar Express.  Also, why didnt Emmet Otters Jug Band Christmas make it onto the great white way??

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 8:15pm

I have a question. Have their ever been holiday shows not open during their specific holiday season or have had longer runs than limited runs? 

[sephyr]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 8:16pm

A really well-executed adaptation of Home Alone (preferably the 1st one) could be HUGE! It's recognizable and fun, something different, too. I could see Stephen Schwartz making a great classic score for it.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 8:31pm

How about a holiday musical that's not about Christmas?

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 8:56pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I have a question. Have their ever been holiday shows not open during their specific holiday season or have had longer runs than limited runs? 

If I am thinking back to my long distance memory, "Here's Love" which was a musical adaptation of "Miracle on 34th Street" by Meredith Wilson of Music Man fame opened as a regular show, not a holiday limited run..

Don't think it was particularly successful...but I have heard the cast album and I could see some promise there under the right circumstances.

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[tazber]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 9:34pm

The Red Cup

 

Sort of a Red Shoes, but with baristas instead of ballet dancers.

Updated On: 11/19/15 at 09:34 PM

[evic]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 9:36pm

Showgirls

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 11/19/15 at 10:15pm

It's a Wonderful Life with music and lyrics by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie. 

[peapod41]

Posted: 11/20/15 at 12:24pm

I was going to say "It's a Wonderful Life"too. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/20/15 at 2:10pm

An annual live presentation of The Muppet Christmas Carol has always struck me as a good idea.

 

Mixed cast of Muppets and humans, as in the film (which allows former Avenue Q puppeteers the freedom to find another job, with the issue of voices being solved by prerecorded performances, which is how Frank Oz participated in some of the later Muppet films without being there to run "his" characters in person); rotating older celeb as Scrooge; rotating pop starlet as Belle for the one big number she gets in the score; throw in the numbers dropped from the film to fill out the score...

 

It could do better business than the Ahrens and Flaherty one.

Updated On: 11/20/15 at 02:10 PM

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 11/20/15 at 2:26pm

There are always "Elf," which, in the past, has had two North American companies (east and west) doing a 6-week tour around the holidays, and a zillion productions of "A Christmas Carol." Also, we now have "A Christmas Story," which has become a classic already.

As for other holidays, JCS is about Easter, but isn't viewed that way. The Stephen Spielberg animated musical, "An American Tale," opens with the family celebrating Hanukkah. I'd love to see it done as a stage musical. (If it were Disney, I'll bet it would have been produced already).

The Burl Ives "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer," the old TV special, would make an adorable stage musical.