Musicals based on pop songs

[BWayBoy88]

Musicals based on pop songs#0

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#1

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.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[sean martin]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#2

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

[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#3

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#4

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

[BroadwayDiva]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#5

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...

[EddieVarley]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#6

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

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

[BWayBoy88]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#7

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

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

[mominator]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#8

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

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[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#9

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#10

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.

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[Jon]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#11

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#12

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

[secret-soul]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#13

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.

Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!

[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#14

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#15

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

[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#16

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

Sounds like a mental problem to me.

[secret-soul]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#17

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!!

[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#18

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#19

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

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

*snorfle*

[broadwayguy2]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#20

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

LOL!

[J.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#21

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.]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#22

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

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

[bway_fanatic]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#23

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]

re: Musicals based on pop songs#24

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

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

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

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