Musicals based on pop songs

[BWayBoy88]

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.

[BroadwayDiva]

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.

[sean martin]

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. :)

[J.]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:40pm

All Shook Up, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Who's Tommy, The Civil War, Jesus Christ Superstar . . .

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:46pm

Don't forget..Leader Of The Pack.

[BroadwayDiva]

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.

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:48pm

I'm waiting for "Afternoon Delight" to be mounted.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 12:52pm

Wasnt Civil War by Frank Wildhorn? Last time I checked he writes musicals not pop songs.

[mominator]

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!
B

[J.]

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.

[Mister Matt]

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.

[Jon]

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.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 1:36pm

Lets not forget Beatlemania, for those of us of us old folks.

[secret-soul]

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.

[J.]

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.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:26pm

Boy meets piano. Boy loses piano. Boy gets girl in the end. :)

[J.]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:31pm

Sounds like a mental problem to me.

[secret-soul]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:35pm

And then there was CONTACT....I don't even know what it was really about...

[J.]

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.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 2:59pm

Poor BFO. They tried to be a book show, they really tried.

*snorfle*

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:00pm

LOL!

[J.]

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?

[J.]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:07pm

oh never mind. rob's on. I think he deleted it. lol

[bway_fanatic]

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".. :)

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:05pm

Waiting for "Afternoon Delight" to be "mounted..."

Oh, Eddie! What a wonderful phrasing... :o)