The Lorax: The Musical?

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The Lorax: The Musical?

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?

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?).

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

The Lorax: The Musical?

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

The Lorax: The Musical?

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.

The Lorax: The Musical?

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

The Lorax: The Musical?

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

Enough with the Kiddy musicals!

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