Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
#1Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:16pmSeth McFarlane, writer, comedian, voice actor and singer of Family Guy fame, is a devotee of the great Broadway musicals, an incredible character actor, and a surprisingly great vocalist. I think it's time he did a show on Broadway, though exactly what part he's perfect for, I don't know.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#2re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:23pmI agree! But he is having so much success with his shows on TV, do you think he'd consider coming to the Broadway stage?
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:48pm
Seth is a huge Broadway fanatic (think of all the references in his show: the Annie number, Kirk Cameron as Jean Valjean), and has repeatedly expressed interest in a Broadway version of Family Guy. I'd like to see him devote his time and energy to THAT instead of the embarrassing American Dad.
Come on, producers! That's a sure thing in this economy! Look how well Will Ferrell's show is doing! Here, I'll even cast it for you:
Peter Griffin: Seth MacFarlane/Oliver Platt
Lois Griffin: Alice Ripley
Stewie Griffin: David Hyde Pierce (uh doi)
Chris Griffin: Dan Fogler
Meg Griffin: Sarah Jane Everman
Brian Griffin: Craig Bierko
Cleveland Brown: Norm Lewis
Glenn Quagmire: John Lloyd Young
Joe Swanson: Eric Gunhus
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#4re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 12:54pm
Meh, I hear enough of his singing on Family Guy, thanks.
And I actually think that American Dad is much, much better than FG as of late.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#5re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 1:05pm
Ooh, a Broadway version of Family Guy? I can't tell if that would be amazing or horrible... I'd see it either way!
I haven't caught Family Guy in the last few months... I need to make a TV watching schedule for myself. I never even catch 30 Rock when it's on!
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#6re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 1:12pm
turning Family Guy into live-action is probably the worst thing you can do...
that's a terrible idea, Pirag.
what he REALLY should do is create an full length feature musical "special". air it on television, of course, but also sell it as a DVD.
Family Guy should never see the Broadway stage. It would completely lose its humor and charm.
But Seth SHOULD start getting involved in playwriting and, perhaps, some music. He's very talented.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#7re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 2:58pm
I agree as well, Charleston... A full length feature musical special would be amazing. They could make fun of Broadway while honoring it ala Forbidden Broadway...
But yeah, Family Guy live wouldn't be nearly as great as the TV show unless they did a 39 Steps style show with Seth doing his usual characters...
(Do NOT take this seriously! Just kidding...)
#8re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 3:29pmSeth MacFarlane has spoken recently about making a full-length Family Guy musical movie. I could get behind that- Family Guy's musical numbers, particularly their original ones, are always highlights of the show.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#10re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 3:32pm
do you have a source, Kad?
That would be absolutely AMAZING
#11re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 2/5/09 at 3:36pm
"MacFarlane, despite being 35 and looking like an average dude, possesses the musical inclinations of a septuagenarian drag queen. A significant percentage of Family Guy episodes feature extravagant Broadway-inspired song-and-dance numbers (because, really, why have the cartoon doctor tell his patient he has end-stage AIDS when a barbershop quintet can break the news via song?), and only some of them are sacrilegious or scatological. Among the features of his new contract with Fox is a Family Guy movie he imagines as "an old-style musical with dialogue" in the vein of The Sound of Music, a poster of which hangs above his desk. "We'd really be trying to capture, musically, that feel," says MacFarlane, whose father moonlighted as a folk singer. "Nothing today feels like it'll play 50 years from now, like Cole Porter or Rodgers and Hart." "
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/130/family-values.html?page=0%2C0
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
ifuweregay93
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
#15re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 7:03pmThis is the first time I ever agree with TDH. On stage, as awesome as it would be, it would lose some of the charm.
scaryclowns2232
Stand-by Joined: 6/18/08
#16re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 8:20pm
Seth McFarlane could do a brilliant one man show.
He would be breathtaking- so much talent, so much experience, so much potential material.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#17re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 8:23pmBlegh, that's one show I'll have to avoid.
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#18re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 8:31pmI one man show could definitely work. But could he pull off a one man musical? (He NEEDS to show off his voice.)
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#19re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 9:39pm
"(He NEEDS to show off his voice.) "
Agreed.
#20re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/1/09 at 11:56pmA full-length Family Guy movie musical would be AWESOME! At the very least, MacFarlane should put together a solo CD or release a soundtrack of all the the musical numbers from the show. He's got such a wonderful voice!
#21re: Seth McFarlane needs to hit Broadway
Posted: 3/2/09 at 12:10amMovie and one-man show would work, but having real people would sort of nullify some of the comedy.
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