Musicals Set In Los Angeles

[Phantom of London]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#1

Posted: 4/19/16 at 9:33pm

About 5 years ago, I did a thread on musicals set in New York City.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1038635

This time I thought it would be kind a fun to do this again, but this time Los Angeles, with all the film industry I imagine there would be one or two?

[MichelleCraig]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#2

Posted: 4/19/16 at 9:37pm

SUNSET BOULEVARD of course...

[Emmaloucbway]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#3

Posted: 4/19/16 at 9:43pm

City of Angels

[Hairspray0901]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#4

Posted: 4/19/16 at 9:46pm

Rock of Ages

[GavestonPS]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#5

Posted: 4/19/16 at 10:15pm

FADE OUT, FADE IN

RACHAEL LILY ROSENBLOOM (AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT)

EATING RAOUL

THE APPLE TREE (Act III only)

SINGING IN THE RAIN

MACK AND MABEL

THE BOY FROM OZ (at least in the number "Bi-Coastal"

[WhizzerMarvin]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#6

Posted: 4/19/16 at 10:21pm

Chaplin

 

Cagney

 

Scandalous (act two)

 

Passing Strange (good chunk of act one)

Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!

[Call_me_jorge]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#7

Posted: 4/19/16 at 10:51pm

What about movies set in New York?!

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[thestatisticianandi]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#8

Posted: 4/19/16 at 10:55pm

Xanadu!

[gypsy101]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#9

Posted: 4/19/16 at 11:23pm

when will Jorge start reading before posting...

 

A Day in Hollywod / A Night in the Ukraine comes to mind immediately. Little Shop of Horrors I could have sworn was originally set in LA but was changed for the film version.

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

[Phantom of London]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#10

Posted: 4/20/16 at 2:06pm

Thank you so far.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#11

Posted: 4/20/16 at 2:39pm

For about fifteen minutes, Merrily We Roll Along.

[After Eight]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#12

Posted: 4/20/16 at 3:33pm

Platinum/Sunset

The Vamp

[TrChSpHa]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#13

Posted: 4/20/16 at 3:37pm

Passing Strange.

[GavestonPS]

Musicals Set In Los Angeles#14

Posted: 4/20/16 at 8:50pm

gypsy101 said: "...Little Shop of Horrors I could have sworn was originally set in LA but was changed for the film version.

 

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The source movie may have been set in LA, but the show opens with a number contrasting "Downtown" with "Uptown".

LA does indeed have a downtown with its own skid row, but it has no "Uptown". It spreads out in all directions from Downtown.

I've always imagined it taking place in some northeastern or northern Midwest city.

Updated On: 4/20/16 at 08:50 PM