Star Wars the Opera is a stupid idea of mine right?

[222disneyland]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 6:24pm

[Kimbo]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 6:28pm

Yes. As you’ll find out

a) when you try to get the rights

b) when you try to write it

c) when you try to find a producer

d) when they try to raise money for it

e) when the reviews come in

f) when you look back on this post should any or all of the above improbably come to pass.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 6:58pm

Right.

[Tom5]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 7:08pm

As a satire you wouldn't need rights (Otherwise MAD Magazine would be out of business). So maybe as a puppet show. Just be really, really, really funny.

[Broadway_Boy]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 7:41pm

I love the idea and I've never seen a Star Wars movie.  If it's parody, you don't need no one's permission.  

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 7:50pm

Well I think anything can work in the realm of opera. I mean if they did the Ring Cycle...maybe it could work.

But as a Broadway musical, no. Actually Charles Strouse tried writing one and it was like Bye Bye Birdie set on the Deathstar.

https://youtu.be/RL7XkvYIO-Q

[MannPhan24601]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 8:07pm

Here is a Star Wars musical .It's every musical pre 1996 combined ...(Well mostly Les Mis)https://www.youtube.com/user/BeeDub57

Updated On: 2/17/18 at 08:07 PM

[Fan123]

Posted: 2/17/18 at 9:18pm

There was that musical Christmas TV special. I haven't seen it, but apparently it was terrible and is despised by fans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy898D3FLy4

That said, I would have no particular objection to this space opera becoming... a space opera, if it was well-done. More improbable things have worked as musicals.

Updated On: 2/17/18 at 09:18 PM

[222disneyland]

Posted: 2/25/18 at 9:46pm

I am the op yes I know many accounts . Bad and annoying

I always thought Christian Jones would be good for set. Her American Idiot 'ABSTRACT' i am not sure if its abstract but anyway Set was intrtesting. I always wondered if they could design a space ship more 'abstract' then physically. I also wonder what Michael Mayer would bring. 

[PatrickDC]

Posted: 2/26/18 at 1:34am

The main themes in Star Wars most definitely fit into a grand opera framework. And it's often referred to as a "space opera" or at least it used to be, I don't hear/read the term much anymore. But should it be an opera? No...in my opinion. It belongs on a movie screen. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 2/26/18 at 10:47am

To me, I believe A New Hope COULD work as a musical, or even an opera. But what I'd rather do if I were given the reins was a "play with music" treatment of the first six movies. Small cast of actors, lots of low budget "theatre magic." Don't write anything new, just make cuts and transpositions to the existing texts so the two eras intermesh. It's an epic saga about the rise, fall and redemption of a prophet: treat it like Shakuntala, a work of cultural and religious historical import to a culture and religion that don't exist on this planet.

[kaykordeath]

Posted: 2/26/18 at 11:44am

Kimbo said: "Yes. As you’ll find out

a) when you try to get the rights

b) when you try to write it

c) when you try to find a producer

d) when they try to raise money for it

e) when the reviews come in

f) when you look back on this post should any or all of the above improbably come to pass."

I'm not sure. If for some reason you were able to accomplish A, and was done with even a BIT of talent, you would have no problem with B, C or D. And even E could create less of a problem than in some cases.