Television Show Musicals!

[jarred03]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 4:10am

Okay, since they are turning every movie into a musical. I think it's about time they started turning tv shows into musicals. So, what shows do you think could be a good musical? I think Golden Girls and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air have the potential to be great musicals.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 4:13am

I just can't see the Golden Girls without Bea...man I love her. She's impossible to replicate :0)

[zoran912]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:43am

Rue McClanahan could play herself!

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:17am

Fresh Prince? A great musical?

You HAVE to be kidding!

[grizzabella]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:28am

While I don't think I really want to see TV shows turned into musicals,some possibilities come to mind:
Frazier
Cheers
Oh yeah, how about Law & Order? most of the cast is already here anyway.lol! Actually, pretty much the same can be said of Frazier.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:30am

I thought you were talking about TV Movie Musicals... like Once Upon a Mattres, but I think Lost would be a good show.

[MissElphie]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:31am

Buffy! It has already made a fantastic musical episode. I'd love a whole live show of it with Joss writing the music.

[jarred03]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:43am

NO, FOAnatic I am not kidding. If you really pay attention to the show then you can see that the storylines and the characters are very similar to theatre plots and characters. I'd give Will rap songs, but everybody else would sing. It would open with the Fresh Prince theme song, in a very similar fashion to Hairsprays Good Morning Baltimore. Uncle Phil would have a "proud fat man" solo. Aunt Viv would have a letting loose number since she's a professor who used to be a dancer. Hilary, the weathergirl, would sing a song about clothes and money. Carlton, would have a song about republicans, Princeton, and Tom Jones, and yes we would include the infamous "Carlton Dance". While Ashley would be the younger 13 yr old and would have a song about not being a kid anymor. As far as story goes we would mix stories, such as Uncle Phils running for Judge, his opponent would be the villian of the show, Aunt Viv's 40th b-day, Ashley's first date, Hilary getting her job as weathergirl, Carlton learning to live without Princeton, and Will would obviously adjust and fall in love. I don't know if this helps at all but if you could see what I picture in my head then I think you would like it.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:03am

Oh my God... Lost as a musical... I would die. DIE.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 7:30am

They DID do something based on The Golden Girls. It was a production a year or two ago and it was at "Rose's Turn." I never did get a chance to see it. I don't know if it was a musical or a play?

Desperate Housewives the musical! It can be all Sondheim. :)

[Jera]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 9:12am

I would love to see:

"Brady Bunch the musical" (more similar to the movies than the show, so it's funny."

"America's Next Top Model the Musical" (I can only imagine)

Hey, and here's one that actually is coming out in the Not-so-distant future:

"The Apprentice the Musical"

jera

[Stage Addict]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 9:22am

Apprentice the Musical...I dont know much about me but the thought scares me quite a bit...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 9:23am

Captain Planet

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 10:29am

Desperate Housewives. I'd die.

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:43pm

Three words:
WILL AND GRACE

...but they would have to get the original four, I don't know how it would fly after they left... that's the danger of a TV-Musical, everyone's already so attached to the actors as their character. What a challenge, but all four actors on W&G sing, anyway, don't they? Well, I don't know about Debra Messing, but the other three I know definitely do.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:46pm

They already did it. It was called "Cop Rock" It failed, misserably.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:52pm

FAME is a Tv show musical, its on some weird channel I came across it when i was at my grandmas house, it's like the old fame Tv show but better!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:58pm

What about a musical version of Antique Roadshow? Anytime a person is told that their item is worthless, they break out into a Lament.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:02pm

Fame was a movie first (and a very good one) and then became a lousy tv show and even more lousy off-Broadway musical.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:02pm

I've seen Cop Rock. It was possibly one of the strangest things I've ever seen on TV. I don't think it was really the singing that did it, more like the early 90s dance numbers. It sucked ubelievably, but I'm sure all the people here who covet flops would love it.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:23pm

I second Buffy the musical with Joss directing it!!!

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:15pm

"I second Buffy the musical with Joss directing it!!!"

Yeah, that was definately an amazing episode.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:28pm

All the Buffy fans should e-mail Joss Whedon and tell him he's bringing it to Broadway! tee-hee

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:57pm

I agree with grizzabella about Law and Order being made into a musical. It could work. What about Seinfeld? I mean Jerry Springer has an opera(my director said it was brilliant by the way) so I think Seinfeld should be a musical.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 8:01pm

I love Law and Order so I agree with that except Det. Brisco's part would be so sad now that Jerry Orbach is deceased.