Really Dark Musicals

#1

Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 5:59pm

What 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?

#2

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:04pm

Jekyll and Hyde is pretty dark.

#3

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:05pm

oh yes, very good, along those lines.


how about a contemporary peice?

#4

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:05pm

Threepenny Opera

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#5

re: 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.

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#6

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:06pm

The Life

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#7

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:10pm

Urinetown
Grand Hotel
Billion Dollar Baby
Follies
Pacific Overtures

#8

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:20pm

Something with a little more Legit voices. I like the classical sound alot. As in Sweeney Todd and Jekyll

#9

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:56pm

Passion is very legit...

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...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...

#10

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:05pm

Lestat!








just kidding

#11

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:07pm

Parade
The Wild Party

do those count?

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#12

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:09pm

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#13

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:09pm

I can't do Passion someone just did it last semester. Same with Wild Party.

#14

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Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:10pm

Marie Christine

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#15

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:13pm

Bernarda Alba

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#16

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:14pm

Jane Eyre- I've never seen it, but I love the music.

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#17

re: 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.

#18

re: 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.

#19

re: 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.

#20

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:25pm

No 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.

#21

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:29pm

what position are you in that you get to direct musicals? is it just me that's damned for all time?

#22

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:33pm

Same with Wild Party.

Do the other one.

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#23

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:35pm

Marie Christine

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#24

re: 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.

#25

re: Really Dark Musicals

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:50pm

Just 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.