They are making a "FRIENDS" Musical!
They are making a "FRIENDS" Musical!
Stitzprobe
Swing Joined: 3/7/16
#1They are making a "FRIENDS" Musical!
Posted: 3/8/16 at 10:37am
A group in Chicago is actually making this! It's called "FRIENDS: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody)".
Do you think this is a good idea? Would you go see it?
Updated On: 3/8/16 at 10:37 AM
#2They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 10:42am
Well at this point. It's obvious you're involved with it so why don't you tell us.
#3They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 11:08am
I would not go to see it.
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#4They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 11:22am
Jordan Catalano said: "
Well at this point. It's obvious you're involved with it so why don't you tell us.
"
BWAHAHAHA....
#5They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 11:23am
I don't understand how you can make a musical based on a tv show. How can capture all those episodes within a 2 and half hour time frame. With movies it's easy, because movies are usually shorter than musicals.
#6They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 11:26am
Call_me_jorge said: "I don't understand how you can make a musical based on a tv show. How can capture all those episodes within a 2 and half hour time frame. With movies it's easy, because movies are usually shorter than musicals.
Same way you make a movie based on a TV show.
#7They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 11:52am
Stitzprobe said: "A group in Chicago is actually making this! It's called "FRIENDS: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody)".
Do you think this is a good idea? Would you go see it?"
A musical? Would the numbers be like "How you doin'?", "On A Break", and "BING!"? I'd like to see a parody, but more in a stand up/play sort of way. I don't know if a musical would work.
Not to mention that FRIENDS worked because of those actors. You cannot have Andy Karl play Joey Tribbiani (!!!) and get the same feels.
#8They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 12:29pm
Call_me_jorge said: "I don't understand how you can make a musical based on a tv show. How can capture all those episodes within a 2 and half hour time frame. With movies it's easy, because movies are usually shorter than musicals.
"
Addams Family, anyone?
Ummm . . . nevermind.
#9They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 12:41pm
I thought Adams family was based on the movie.
#10They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 12:47pm
Wee Thomas2 said: Addams Family, anyone?
Ummm . . . nevermind. "
Oh cm'mon. Nathan Lane was the only reason Addams Family was bearable.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#11They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 2:03pm
I thought Adams family was based on the movie
Oh, geez. You ARE aware that The Addams Family originated in The New Yorker. The 60s TV series was based on this as were the 2 film adaptations with Raul Julia and Anjelica Houston. The Broadway musical was based on the characters that originated in The New Yorker. Though the 2 films and the Broadway musical did incorporate the well-known theme song from the 60s TV series, none of the adaptations were based on each other but the original source: The New Yorker.
broadwaysfguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/14
#12They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 2:09pm
I think any almost any theme or topic "could" be an entertaining musical
a challenge with friends is I think the actors playing the friends characters made the characters more than
the written characters themselves
thewildcard90210
Swing Joined: 12/8/11
#13They are making a "FRIENDS" musical!
Posted: 3/8/16 at 2:21pm
I saw the preview they did a few months ago at Chicago Sketchfest and it was HILARIOUS! They didn't just poke fun at FRIENDS but at the whole genre of musicals! It also worked because they found a group of people who honestly seem like they were friends in real life! If it is anything like the preview it is going to be great! I found their facebook page...https://www.facebook.com/Theonewheretheysing/ but no press release yet?
#14They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 3:22pm
Saw the Facebook teaser for the table read. This feels like a funny idea, but again - I'd much rather see an improv version than a full-length musical. Having said that, the cast has a guy double as "Ugly naked guy" and "Fat Monica"? I don't know about this...
thewildcard90210
Swing Joined: 12/8/11
#15They are making a
Posted: 3/8/16 at 3:32pm
Who knows. I know one of two of those people are veteran improvisors. I have seen both of the guys playing Chandler doing music improv around Chicago
#16FRIENDS: The One Where They Sing
Posted: 3/8/16 at 10:59pm
are they implying that when Monica was fat she was the same level of attractiveness as an ugly naked man?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#17FRIENDS: The One Where They Sing
Posted: 3/9/16 at 2:32am
That's the way fat Monica was portrayed on the show.
#18They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 7:56am
They didn't just poke fun at FRIENDS but at the whole genre of musicals!
So, it's basically like all the other TV/Movie parody musicals?
#19They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 11:31am
dramamama611 said: "That's the way fat Monica was portrayed on the show.
As an ugly naked man?
WaltG2
Understudy Joined: 12/24/15
#20They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 11:42am
I guess I'll say it, since nobody else has.
"A FRIENDS Musical" and "An unauthorized musical parody based on FRIENDS" are not even close to being the same thing.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#21They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 11:42am
Lol.^ Ugly and geeky.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
billyelliotfan123
Leading Actor Joined: 10/24/09
#23They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 11:45am
Ugly naked man lived in the building next door. The running joke became them seeing him doing random things in his window
#24They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 11:59am
The actual running joke was that they talked about him but the audience never heard or saw him.
WaltG2
Understudy Joined: 12/24/15
#25They are making a
Posted: 3/9/16 at 12:01pm
Mister Matt said: "The actual running joke was that they talked about him but the audience never heard or saw him. "
False.
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