The Perfect Musical - Your Life- Page 2

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/17/03 at 11:43am

mine would have to be a workshop/concept approach, with the casting done by committee (with me the chair) from unknowns. Regular posters in this forum move to the front of the line...Stevo would make a fine love interest.

Songs composed by Sondheim, but with arrangements and orchestrations done by Marc and Scott.

Directed by Robby Marshall and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Joe Mantello returns to acting in a cameo.

William Ivey Long does all the design, but if we need puppets and/or masks Julie Taymor pitches in, and she oversees the "Making of" documentary which is shown on HBO and wins an Emmy.

Somehow I think the process would be more fun than the product. But we'd all make money for the rest of our careers based on the movie sale.

Updated On: 6/20/03 at 11:43 AM

[JakeB]

Posted: 6/17/03 at 5:11pm

What kind of plot would it be?

- Boy takes on world.

Who would direct?

- Matthew Warchus

Who would choreograph it?

- Stephen Mear

Who would write the music?

- Jason Robert Brown

Who would write the lyrics?

- Anyone but Don Black..

Love interests?

- Well, Sutton Foster would have to be up there as a g/f..

[Xman8]

Posted: 8/24/17 at 6:50pm

What kind of plot would it be?

My life in general. It would be a comedy for sure.


Who would direct?

Alex Timbers


Who would choreograph it?

Rob Ashford

Who would write the music?

Danny Elfman


Who would write the lyrics?

Me


Love interests?

Krysta Rodriguez

[thealtoslament]

Posted: 8/24/17 at 8:07pm

This sounds fun!

Plot

A comedy-drama, probably based on the two summers in college that I worked as a waitress at a restaurant in the Hamptons.

Director

Matthew Warchus

Choreography

Chase Brock

Composer

Tom Kitt

Lyricist

Tim Minchin or Joe Iconis

(all of that said, there must be a pas de deux between the heroine and the love interest set to "Cousins" by Vampire Weekend) 

Cast

Through open call, preferably unknowns. 

The Drama

Mainly the culture-shock of being a rich tourist working in a restaurant full of townies who resented the tourists who took over their town a quarter to a third of the year. Those two summers were a turbulent period in my personal life (I transferred colleges, a few family troubles, some medical issues) so there's plenty to be mined there as well.

Sample of the Songs 

The Café Sextet 

This Old Street

A Message from Massachusetts (Act I closer) 

A Message from Massachusetts (Reprise)/Medical Leave (Act II opener)

Tip of the World (11 o'clock number)

Updated On: 8/25/17 at 08:07 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/24/17 at 8:53pm

I actually gave some thought to this... 

 

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (AND HIS BRUSH WITH GREAT- NO, HIS BRUSH WITH OKAYNESS)

Six person cast, three men and three women.

Featuring songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin from the pre-pop Elton John Band albums.

Plot: Captain Fantastic is just another ex-liberal-arts student with college degrees he isn't using, working an office job by day and writing musicals and sketch comedy with his friends in their basement all weekend. When a one night stand with an indie pop singer leads to a spiraling series of events and connections, the Captain finds himself rocketing from basement joke writer to Off-Broadway writer and producer. As pressure mounts and the Captain is increasingly isolated from both his friends at home and New York personages he seeks to impress, will he find himself choosing to be a happy loser, or a frazzled success?

[After Eight]

Posted: 8/25/17 at 12:13am

Actually, the perfect musical of my life --- or at least, of the essence of my being --- was written almost 50 years ago: Dear World.

Composer/lyricist: Jerry Herman

Cast: Broadway cast

Songs: Two that mirror my thoughts exactly: Each Tomorrow Morning and I Don't Want to Know.

The show, the songs spoke to me radiantly then.

My God, do they ever speak to me now!

[10086Sundays]

Posted: 8/25/17 at 12:14am

NM

Updated On: 8/25/17 at 12:14 AM