The Lorax: The Musical?

[GetBackUp25]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 3:32pm

Yesterday I watched the new Dr.Seuss Lorax movie and it occurred to me that with a few script changes and some more songs, it could make a good Broadway musical.

Does anybody else agree?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 3:35pm

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty already wrote one. There was a LORAX subplot in SEUSSICAL that was cut, and I believe that MTI licenses that LORAX sequence as an independent musical (I think it's only 30min in length?).

[gchris11]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 3:36pm

and we could get Chris Siebert to play the Lorax and he could perform on his knees....Oh wait.... LOL

[GetBackUp25]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 3:56pm

I knew about the Lorax sequence in Seussical but I never knew it was an independent musical. If we gave it a different title, we could make one of the 2012 movie.
I really like the frame story it gives to the story we all know and love. A story of Thneedville, a walled "perfect" city where no one's seen a real tree or actual dirt for years; Ted, an ordinary Thneedville kid with an extraordinarily big heart and the determination to hear all of the Once-ler's story to find out how to save the trees and Audrey, Ted's artsy neighbor, who wants nothing more in this world than to see a real living tree and Ted's crush on her inspires him to seek out the Once-ler in the first place.
It's already got some songs in the movie like "How Bad Can I Be?", "Thneedville" and "Let It Grow" so if someone could write some more songs, it could work on the stage.

[Markecib]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 6:11pm

Here's the Lorax song and a little bit of the story of how it got cut.
The Lorax Song

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 7:59pm

Enough with the Kiddy musicals!