South Park Creators do a musical?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:10pm

I was skimming some things online and I came across this from today:

'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are working on a Broadway musical... about Mormons. Sources say the new show is currently being developed by the comic duo but is yet to be given a title.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:10pm

If this is so, I'm very happy.

South Park is entertaining, but TEAM AMERICA:WORLD POLICS was damn brilliant.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:11pm

This isn't really new news. They've talked about writing a stage musical since the film came out.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:11pm

I bet that'll be hilarious. I love their little mini-musicals...imagine it as a full-blown production.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:15pm

thats probably gonna be fabulous they're an ozome team

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:19pm

Sonds cool! I can`t see it ON broadway....more of an off-broadway show! I LOVE South Park (The show and Movie) but HATED Team America


"Words and Music. I love them. And especially what happens when you put them together into songs. And sing them, in a large building, in a central part of town, as part of a play, with a lot of people listening, who have all paid a great deal to get in." - Edward Kleban, composer/lyricist of A Class Act and lyricist of A Chorus Line

[goldenstate5]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:25pm

Wait, does it say they're doing it alone? Last time I heard they were working together with Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (of "Avenue Q" fame) on the project. If I'm correct Marx and Lopez were big fans of South Park before they struck gold with Q, and Parker and Stone really appreciated Q...and so forth.

Really, I think that Matt and Trey should go work again with Marc Shaiman. The songs he and Trey wrote for the South Park movie and Team America are hilarious and catchy.

(btw- side note, does anybody find it funny that Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, after writing a musical about puppet sex and internet porn, can only seem to be found doing family theatre work today[The TheatreWorks event, Finding Nemo at Disney World]?)

EDIT: Okay, I checked the articles and it indeed said that Marx and Lopez were writing the music. This is indeed combining the forces of my favorite Broadway show with the forces of one of my favroite TV shows...equaling a sure-fire plane ticket to New York... Updated On: 6/22/06 at 08:25 PM

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:28pm

I found a clip of the Finding Nemo thing! I`ll post it in a min!

The song is realy good!

"Words and Music. I love them. And especially what happens when you put them together into songs. And sing them, in a large building, in a central part of town, as part of a play, with a lot of people listening, who have all paid a great deal to get in." - Edward Kleban, composer/lyricist of A Class Act and lyricist of A Chorus Line

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:33pm

The music from Team America isnt that bad, take it I only like one song. The movie itself look kinda stupid I havent watched it yet but a lot of my friends are fond on of it

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:33pm

Hehe, my friend loves Cannibal! the Musical.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 8:36pm

What? Did they write the music to that too? I HATE that movie it`s to weird.


"Words and Music. I love them. And especially what happens when you put them together into songs. And sing them, in a large building, in a central part of town, as part of a play, with a lot of people listening, who have all paid a great deal to get in." - Edward Kleban, composer/lyricist of A Class Act and lyricist of A Chorus Line

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 8:50am

Apparently this is still happening -- from Rush & Molloy's column in the Daily News today:

"Broadway is preparing for some frat-boy funnies. "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker confirmed to celebrityweek.com's Sean Daly that they will be heading to Broadway, working with the guys from "Avenue Q."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/435899p-367295c.html

Updated On: 7/19/06 at 08:50 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 8:55am

I'm very happy about this!

[SeptemberKel]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 9:04am

I, for one, can't wait to see what they develop!

[Craig]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 9:10am

Margo - it was reported earlier online as well..

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=10538

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 9:10am

Have you seen "Cannibal"?

I find their work very uneven. Which I guess you would expect with the volume they produce. I didn't think "Cannibal" was very good.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:24am

I'm pretty sure Cannibal was done even before South Park, so maybe it can be chocked up to being "their first time was a little rough" if it's as bad as people say. I haven't seen it, but the people I know who have watched it love it.

[pab]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:52am

They have been talking about this for quite some time. I attended a function at the Drama Book Shop hosted by Lopez and Marx back in October of 2004 and they mentioned the possibility of working with Parker and Stone back then.

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 11:05am

Cannibal DOES have some pretty good songs. When I watch it (or when they use it at the end of South Park as their logo), I can't get the tune to Schpadoinkle out of my head!

Plus, it made for one of the all time greatest obscure allusions in Buffy history!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 11:08am

I personally wish they would turn South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut into a musical.

Shut your f**ing face, uncle f***a!!!!!!!!

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 11:13am

Isn't this the musical version of The Book of Mormon they were talking about?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/19/06 at 11:16am

I think so. That was the rumor going around about this project a while back.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 7:28am

If they turn the Book of Mormon into a musical, it better be pretty damn funny.

[tophertilson]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 8:51am

That NEMO song sounds like second-tier Menken. Everything they write seems so imitative. I guess that's the point, but they never engage me.

[sundaymorning6am]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 11:58am

I think South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut would be fabulous. Can you imagine the staging of 'Blame Canada'? Like it was performed at the.. Golden Globes..? that one year? It looked like a mock version of "One Day More." It'd be fabulous.