Really Dark Musicals
Really Dark Musicals
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#1Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 5:59pmWhat are some of musical theatres darkest shows? I am looking for something to do for my directing class and I want to do a Tim Burton twist on whatever I do. Sweeney Todd seems to be obvious, but perhaps too easy. So, what musicals do you see as dark or possibly dark?
EganFan2
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#2re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:05pm
oh yes, very good, along those lines.
how about a contemporary peice?
Gothampc
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#3re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:05pmThreepenny Opera
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#4re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:06pm
Assassins
Kiss Of The Spiderwoman
Passion
Side Show-In its ways it can be dark.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Gothampc
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#5re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:06pmThe Life
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#6re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:10pm
Urinetown
Grand Hotel
Billion Dollar Baby
Follies
Pacific Overtures
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#7re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:20pmSomething with a little more Legit voices. I like the classical sound alot. As in Sweeney Todd and Jekyll
#8re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:56pmPassion is very legit...
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
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#10re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:07pm
Parade
The Wild Party
do those count?
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#11re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:09pm
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You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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#12re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:09pmI can't do Passion someone just did it last semester. Same with Wild Party.
#13re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:10pmMarie Christine
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#14re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:13pmBernarda Alba
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#15re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:14pmJane Eyre- I've never seen it, but I love the music.
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#16re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:19pm
I love that show too, I'd have to get a score and such.
Reefer Madness is being done here in town so thats a no too.
RentBoy86
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#17re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:23pm
See What I Wanna See - though I don't think the rights are available.
Why don't you just pick something you're drawn to rather than deceiding to make something dark for not real reason?
You could do "Songs For A New World" because it lends itself well to open interpretations, though I'm not a fan of the score.
RentBoy86
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#18re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:24pm
Pippin?
From what I've heard, it was conceived as a rather dark show, but toned down some. I don't really get the show though.
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#19re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:25pmNo I don't want to make something dark just for the sake of making it dark. And I plan to choose something I'm drawn to. But I want lots of options to let the perfect one speak to me. I want to take an already dark plot and put it together with a twisted visual look and sound ....aka making it my own.
#20re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:29pmwhat position are you in that you get to direct musicals? is it just me that's damned for all time?
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#21re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:33pm
Same with Wild Party.
Do the other one. 
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#22re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:35pmMarie Christine
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#23re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:45pm
The position I am in is that I am a music theatre major and I have to take a directing class...for that I have to put together a 15 min. scene from a play or musical...seeing as I am a Music Theatre major, I will probably do a musical.
What is Marie Christine...not familiar with it.
RentBoy86
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#24re: Really Dark Musicals
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:50pmJust check it out on amazon.com. It's a retelling of Medea by Michael John LaChiusa (See What I Wanna See, Wild Party, etc.). You could Lippa's "The Wild Party" though it doesn't involve legit singing. But it can be very dark and sexy.
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