Original Musical Ideas

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:08pm

So I've been reading many posts here about people who want to choke the next person who says that a movie will be made into a Broadway musical. People want NEW original ideas. So I decided to make this post where you can tell us your ideas that you think can be a smash hit musical.

So what would you like to see?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:23pm

How about a musical version of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:32pm

I'd see a musical about your original post, I guess.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:37pm

You mean like four people who are creating a new musical in time for a festival?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:40pm

Why would someone that has truly spent any time developing an actual idea share it on a public discussion board? And it's not like you could easily explain your idea in a sentence or two.

I'm not AGAINST movie musicals, per se -- I'm just against stupid popular movies being turned into musicals that are ONLY trying to cash in on the success of the name. Really looking forward to seeing Once (both off and on Bway). From what I know, this is the perfect marriage of ideas.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:42pm

I have two that I'm fairly certain I won't be using (anytime soon, anyway) so I'm just going to say them in a nutshell and if someone steals them out from under me, so be it, I wasn't that attached to them.

1: After spending their formative adolescent years in a theatre charter school, two best buddies, now out of college, return home to work as teachers in the performing summer camp, where one of them becomes tempted to break rule number one: no romance with underage campers!

2: When an aging stage legend decides to return to Broadway for a return performance in his most famous role, his producer will do ANYTHING to ensure that the show goes on, keeping them both from bankruptcy. But the legendary actor dies, and the shady producer hires a sketch-comedy impersonator to not only fill the role, but pretend to BE the late star in public, to keep the show from closing.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 3:53pm

Isn't the 2nd idea just a twist on Dave? (Which I liked very much, btw.)

And the first idea has a whole sordid "ick" factor.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 4:03pm

lol yes, I'm with dramamama on both counts.


And, Jordan, no, I mean a musical using no new material outside of what's in the OP. 135 minutes long, music by Michael Stipe, book by David Lindsay-Abaire, starring Christina Applegate, directed by Sam Gold. Bill Irwin gets the supporting Tony nod.

Done.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 4:06pm

But will there be underage sex with campers?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 4:18pm

There will be underage sex with Pampers.

[ChenoKahn]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 4:23pm

Roman Polanski: The Musical that is my idea.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/30/11 at 4:26pm

Based on a real person. Not original enough.

[random person 112]

Posted: 8/4/12 at 10:17pm

I would love to see a musical, or possibly a series of musicals chronicling the lives of Dianna Princess of Wales, Sarah duchess of york, and Sophie Countess of Wessex. For Sarah i was thinking Sherie Rene Scott for her life once she is divorced from prince Andrew. For Sophie i thought of Kelli O Hara. Dianna would almost have to be an unknown i think. Music by Micheal John Lachiusa,Tom Kitt and Brian yorkey, or Jason Robert Brown.

Updated On: 8/4/12 at 10:17 PM

[chewy5000]

Posted: 8/4/12 at 10:41pm

The Daring Adventures of Frank the Farmyard Chicken - A New Musical in 3 Acts.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 8/4/12 at 10:43pm

Can we write a musical about a faith healer who watches The Music Man and decides to do that to a town?

[TimesSquared]

Posted: 8/4/12 at 11:39pm

Booze & Soil: A Susan Boyle Story

Not a bio-musical about Susan Boyle, but a wholly original, fictional new adventure featuring the character of Susan Boyle as an alcoholic farmer. Score by Hal Hackady and Elton John. Starring Kelli O'Hara.

I imagine there would be two sequels.

[wicked1492]

Posted: 8/5/12 at 1:10am

#horrified: a twitter twat debacle

[rhdery]

Posted: 8/5/12 at 12:56pm

What strikes me as borderline looney is that people are taking mediocre movies and making them into musicals. But here's the thing: it's not even smart marketing. Millions of people love Oz, and so being tied into Oz was great for the book Wicked as well as the show.

But in my life I have never met anyway who cared about Leap of Faith, the film, so having a tie-in with a mediocre film no one really cares about doesn't fill the house. Maybe it helps get investors, I don't know, and maybe the show was good, but here's how it played for me. Hmmmnn... Spend 150 dollars to see a musical based on a movie I thought was lame? No, thanks.

My idea for a musical is based on another musical. Sheep's Eye and Licorice Tooth: Arvide's Sinful Past.

[rjm516]

Posted: 8/5/12 at 6:43pm

"Booze & Soil: A Susan Boyle Story

Not a bio-musical about Susan Boyle, but a wholly original, fictional new adventure featuring the character of Susan Boyle as an alcoholic farmer. Score by Hal Hackady and Elton John. Starring Kelli O'Hara."

Hysterical