This Doesn't Sound Good

Hasn't this been done a few times?

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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

LOL!!!

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Have you seen the box-office receipts for WICKED, Taz?

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I don't remember who described 'Evita' as "country bumpkin sleeps her way to the top, dies", but it still makes me happy. :)

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You forgot the mentally handicapped fire hazard that travels with them.

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That was about actual bad ideas that worked. This is finding descriptions that make them SOUND LIKE bad ideas whether they were or not.

"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!

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

The lynching of Leo Frank

A musical about the Declaration of Independence.

lol love this thread

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Updated On: 7/13/08 at 09:28 PM