This Doesn't Sound Good
This Doesn't Sound Good
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#1This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 11:58am
The idea of this is to write a description of a musical we know to be successful that makes it sond like it would be really bad.
For example, we're going to take Romeo and Juliet, update it to New York in the 1950s, change the families to gangs, and add a musical score.
Or a musical about the life of a stripper.
Terrible ideas as described, but we know that they're both classics.
Make them sound like they'd never work.
Updated On: 7/17/08 at 11:58 AM
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:07pmHasn't this been done a few times?
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:07pm
A story about a barber that returns for revenge and his loopy, sex-starved accomplice. There will be simulated throat-slittings in the musical and cannabilism is also represented.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 7/11/08 at 12:07 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:09pm
How about a musical about a guy who starts threads on a theater board over and over- "What shows have shows within a show?" "What shows have bad premises?"
Updated On: 7/11/08 at 12:09 PM
#4re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:11pmTHREADSTARTER! The musical.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#6re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:23pmWho would pay to be annoyed though?
....but the world goes 'round
#7re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 12:24pm
Have you seen the box-office receipts for WICKED, Taz? 
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#8re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:06pm
Topic already discussed heavily last month in a 2-page thread:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=968984#3589231
#9re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:22pm
I don't remember who described 'Evita' as "country bumpkin sleeps her way to the top, dies", but it still makes me happy. :)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:37pmI love that movie musical about the juvenile delinquent who travels to another world and kills the first person she meets. Then, accompanied by a giant feral cat and an axe-wielding cyborg she sets off to kill again.
#11re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:40pmYou forgot the mentally handicapped fire hazard that travels with them.
....but the world goes 'round
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#12re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:43pmThat was about actual bad ideas that worked. This is finding descriptions that make them SOUND LIKE bad ideas whether they were or not.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#13re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 1:43pmThat was about actual bad ideas that worked. This is finding descriptions that make them SOUND LIKE bad ideas whether they were or not.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#14re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 2:35pm
A couple of guys try to put on a really bad musical.
Updated On: 11/24/12 at 02:35 PM
#15re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 3:16pm
"That was about actual bad ideas that worked. This is finding descriptions that make them SOUND LIKE bad ideas whether they were or not."
Timmer, now you've lost me. Care to explain the difference between the examples listed that were bad ideas that worked and your request for things that "sound" like bad ideas that worked or didn't? Are you suggesting that the bad ideas that worked listed don't "sound" like bad ideas? Or are you saying that those examples really were bad ideas that worked and you want ones that were good ideas that only sound like bad ideas? How do you distinguish between bad ideas that worked and ideas that sounded bad that worked? You are one complex guy!
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#17re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 3:50pm
That thread was about what were considered bad ideas that worked.
This one is simply to take shows we know worked (such as the ones I described) and essentially anti-market them (in a humorous way, perhaps.) That took what seemed like bad ideas that turned out to be pretty good ones. This is to take ones we know ere successful and describe them in the way that makes them sound bad.
For example, my previous descriptions:
We're going to take Romeo and Juliet, update it to New York in the 1950s, change the families to gangs, and add a musical score.
Or a musical about the life of a stripper.
A couple of guys try to put on a really bad musical.
And so forth.
Gothampc got it wih "A story about a barber that returns for revenge and his loopy, sex-starved accomplice. There will be simulated throat-slittings in the musical and cannabilism is also represented." (We know what show that is and it's a very successful, classic musical, but it sounds really dumb the way that Gothampc described it. That's the spirit, Gothampc!)
A bunch of people audition for a show.
A 35-year-old bachelor celebrates his birthday with his 10 closest friends.
That sort of description.
It's for fun.
Updated On: 11/24/12 at 03:50 PM
#18re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/11/08 at 8:02pm
Cats gather in a dirty alley, tell their stories and the most miserable one goes to heaven !
BAD idea, worse execution, yet it worked almost FOREVER ! 
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#20re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/12/08 at 9:41pm
Not necessarily a bad idea, Greekmusicalfan. In fact, I'm something of an Eliot freak, so it worked for me very well. But the way you describe it makes it sound really bad.
Which is the point of this thread.
Even as much of a T.S. Eliot fan as I am, I know that not everything of his would work, however. You just gave me an idea for the "Worst Musical Ideas" thread.
Updated On: 7/13/08 at 09:41 PM
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#21re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/13/08 at 5:37pmA musical about the Declaration of Independence.
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#22re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/13/08 at 9:23pmA story about teen angst in late 1800s Germany... Let's give it a modern-day rock music score to complement the storyline about sex, rape, and suicide.
#23re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/13/08 at 9:28pm
lol love this thread
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#24re: This Doesn't Sound Good
Posted: 7/13/08 at 9:46pm
With regard to the premise of this thread, I have one thought... Darwin was wrong.
Carry on.
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