Other extremely violent musicals aside from Sweeney Todd?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:38pm

Meh?

[Pippin]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:39pm

genghis kahn: a musical romp

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:41pm

Cannibal: The Musical

(Yes, it's a movie- it does really exist)

[Craww]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:45pm

Shpadoinkle!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:47pm

Carrie, OK its not mega violent but it has the highest body count of any musical, everyone is dead at the end except sue and the orchestra

[nealb1]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 8:48pm

"The Life" is very violent in one scene in the bar in Act 2.

[MCfan2]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:08pm

"West Side Story" comes to mind, although of course it's on a whole other level from "Sweeney." But there are fights and deaths, so I suppose it counts!

[Craww]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:09pm

I (unfortunately) didn't see it, but I'm assuming Evil Dead had some violence in it? Yes? Yes.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:15pm

...but it has the highest body count of any musical

I would think Titanic would get the highest.

[jpbran]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:20pm

Was Jeckyll & Hyde violent? (I left after the pony-tail-releasing transformation.)

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 9:24pm

I guess it was violent. He did kill. But they didn't go blood and gore with it.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 10:25pm

In My Life.

Except it was the audience who was violent and who ended up dead, not the performers.

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/21/08 at 10:32pm

Was Jeckyll & Hyde violent? (I left after the pony-tail-releasing transformation.)

The reason why you left is why I would consider it EXTREMELY violent.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:29am

There's "Eating Raoul" based on the cult movie about a married couple who murder swingers.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 1:39am

Oliver can get pretty darn violent towards the end.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:17am

Bat Boy has its share of violence and blood-letting.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:19am

Little Shop of Horrors

[tazber]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:25am

The Evil Dead

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:29am

I think all of Boublil and Schoenberg's shows include a good bit of violence -- although it is rarely ever 'graphic' violence. Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and I assume The Pirate Queen all had their shaere of fighting and death. Of course none are on the level of 'gore' as Sweeney.

Craww -- Evil Dead: The Musical did have a good bit of gore involved, hence the 'splatter zone' seats in the first few rows where the audience could get splashed with blood.

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 9:29am

"Into the Woods"

One character is stabbed and skinned, two are devoured alive, three have their eyes gouged out, two of those have another body part mutilated, two are killed by a severe cranial injury and, depending on how you want to interpret it, somewhere between three and nine characters are killed when every bone in their body is crushed. Oh, and two drop dead of old age.
Updated On: 2/22/08 at 09:29 AM

[Shapusen]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 11:44am

Reefer Madness has got its fair share of cannibilism and hacking hearts out of chests. (Both the movie and the staged versions)

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 11:51am

Were any of the recent vampire musical flops (DOTV, Lestat, Dracula) especially violent and/or gory? Even for comic -- or un-intentionally comic resons??

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:07pm

Calvin -

Who gets eaten alive in "Into the Woods?" And, beyond the Mysterious Man, who else dies of old age?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:11pm

"Who gets eaten alive in "Into the Woods?"

Doesn't the Narrator get eaten alive by the giant?

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/22/08 at 12:14pm

Actually, I was referring to Red and Granny. I counted the narrator as one of the crushed, although I guess his method of death-by-giant varies by production.

And the other old age victim is Milky White (OK, it's usually a prop, but I'm counting it )