Sondheim should write "Virginia Woolf" the musical

listening to the London version of "Follies" it struck me that, during the song "Country House", that Sondheim really has a grasp on marital dischord.

using "Country House" as a jumping off point, "Virginia Woolf" would be spectacular in Sondheim's hands.

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Yeah, but no.

I love you, Hunty!

Sondheim gets approached to adapt plays into musicals all the time. Neil Simon approached him to adapt "The Front Page." He reports Sondheim asked: "Why do the Characters sing?"

I wonder, why would George & Martha sing?

I agree with pretty much everythig Chason said.

No one could capture the nuance and complexity of those themes in a musical without corroding the original intent.

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I don't really think ANYTHING is "too serious" to be made into a musical. Some of my most favorite musicals are dreadfully serious...

While I don't think VW would translate well into a musical, I don't think that it would be an impossible feat to do. It would be hard, sure, and I think the overall story would lose something, but it could be done!

Albee is an enigma. His works are like musicals themselves in the dialogue, the way of speech. Musicals...without music. Or something.

I say leave Albee alone. And he probably feels the same way.

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I never said DO IT, I just said it could be done. And lots of stories are adapted and get lost, it happens all the time.

But without doing it, you can never tell. Some things are adapted and gain! And are you ever really able to know before you start?

And if you're going to bring up Williams into musicals, let us not forget the chilling opera version of STREETCAR. That worked!

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Albee would slash Sondheim's throat if he even laid his fingers on that play.

That said, I would actually love to see what LaChiusa would do with that. Though Sondheim writes bitter women and bottled up men remarkably well.

I just want to hear just one solo for Martha, though.

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