#1
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:24pm
How many musicals are they going to make out of pop songs. Mamma Mia, Movin Out, We Will Rock You, now Good Vibrations. What next a musical using the NSYNC catalogue of songs.
Musicals based on pop songs
#2
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:39pm
I believe it's called "All Shook Up" and it's going to be a musical based on the songs of Elvis.
And I've also heard that We Will Rock You is having a sequal.
And I've also heard that We Will Rock You is having a sequal.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#3
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:39pm
Hey, it could be worse. Out here in the hinterlands, we have to contend with two -- count 'em, two -- revues of the life and work of Patsy Cline, a dog of a work called Music for the Millenium, a couple of editions of The British Invasion.... it just goes on and on. :)
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
#4
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:40pm
All Shook Up, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Who's Tommy, The Civil War, Jesus Christ Superstar . . .
#5
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:46pm
Don't forget..Leader Of The Pack.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:46pm
J- I think BwayBoy means songs based on the music of other people. The Who's Tommy was done by the who- it was a rock opera, so the show was just a staged version of their album. JCS is all original music by ALW, lyrics by Tim Rice. I'm not sure about the others.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#7
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:48pm
I'm waiting for "Afternoon Delight" to be mounted.
#8
Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:52pm
Wasnt Civil War by Frank Wildhorn? Last time I checked he writes musicals not pop songs.
#9
Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:08pm
Hey EddieVarley haven't you heard the marvy news that the Starland Vocal Band (the one hit wonder that gave us that vintage hit) is mounting a come back?
One word EWWW!
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One word EWWW!
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#10
Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:11pm
What? Frank Wildhorn writes pop songs and musicals at the same time. He's written more pop singles for mainstream artists than songs for musicals which are usually pop songs themselves though I see your point. Erase Civil War, The Who's Tommy, and Superstar from my original list. Smokey Joe's Cafe works, right? Greatest hits of someone made into a musical, you mean? Sorry I misread.
#11
Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:17pm
In London, there is Tonight's the Night (Rod Stewart) and Jailhouse Rock (Elvis). I know in Germany there was Falco Meets Amadeus (Falco). There's also an upcoming musical based on John Lennon's music and there was a review of Lennon and McCartny in London called All You Need is Love. And don't forget the short-lived review of Bacharach last year, The Look of Love.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#12
Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:32pm
We need to distinguish between bok musical and revues. Smoky Joe's Cafe was a revue, along the lines of Aint Misbehavin' or Side bty Side by Sondheim. Momma Mia, Movin' Out, and the upcoming All Shook Up are book musicals, which invent characters and a plotline to string the songs together.
#13
Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:36pm
Lets not forget Beatlemania, for those of us of us old folks.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#14
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:17pm
"...book musicals, which invent characters and a plotline to string the songs together."
4 words: THE BOY FROM OZ.
4 words: THE BOY FROM OZ.
Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!
#15
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:25pm
Oh, yeah. We forgot BOY FROM OZ. That counts. Movin' Out has a story? What's it about? I've seen the show but couldn't see a story in there anywhere.
#16
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:26pm
Boy meets piano. Boy loses piano. Boy gets girl in the end. :)
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
#18
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:35pm
And then there was CONTACT....I don't even know what it was really about...
Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!
#19
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:40pm
I HATE THAT DAMN SHOW!!! I know 6-year-olds who wouldn't be on a swing that long.
#20
Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:59pm
Poor BFO. They tried to be a book show, they really tried.
*snorfle*
*snorfle*
#22
Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:02pm
hey broadwayguy, do know what happened to that Little shop post i started? Seriously, how could it have disappeared like that?
#23
Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:07pm
oh never mind. rob's on. I think he deleted it. lol
#24
Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:10pm
Ohhhh. thank god someone else didn't get Contact. I was so psyched to see it and then walked out of the performance going "what just happened".. :)
#25
Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:05pm
Waiting for "Afternoon Delight" to be "mounted..."
Oh, Eddie! What a wonderful phrasing... :o)
Oh, Eddie! What a wonderful phrasing... :o)
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