This Doesn't Sound Good — Page 2

#26

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/13/08 at 10:33pm

A musical about lions directed by an opera director and produced by a mouse.

Or plainly:

A disney musical

Critically, they might not work, but...

#27

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/14/08 at 12:07pm

Well, not successful yet, but this description is hard to beat for something that "sounds" horrible. From the BroadwayWorld headlines "Brad Oscar to star in (W)Hole."


"In (W)hole, a kiss from the most beautiful woman in the world sinks a simple keysmith into a literal hole from which he cannot escape despite the efforts of his emotionally distant mother, his overbearing boss, and Germany’s leading eccentric quicksand expert.

#28

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/16/08 at 3:58pm

A guy makes a monster in his grandfather's castle.

Updated On: 9/18/08 at 03:58 PM

#29

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:11pm

Hey remember when this thread already happened at least twice before and someone already posted a link to the old thread? Oh wow that was awesome!

This thread = Lose!

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#30

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/16/08 at 6:44pm

To piss a few people off, I'm gonna add my idea for the hell of it.


The last seven days of Jesus of Nazareth, from the viewpoint of a person everyone believes was the bad guy.

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#31

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:33pm

Sad! ssooooooo sad!

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#32

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/19/08 at 1:38am

A guy declares himself a knight, fights for the honor of a scullery maid, and wears a shaving bowl for a helmet.

#33

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 7/25/08 at 12:45am

A stage mother pushes her daughters into show business.

#34

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 8/4/08 at 2:40pm

A guy sits in a chair and plays a Broadway show album.

#35

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 8/4/08 at 2:56pm

a rich guy leaves his wife for the sea, a black guy goes crazy in a new york library, a jew lies about being a "baron", a girl gets beaten to death by a cop, a car gets **** in, a baby gets left in a garden, and a slut sings a song on a swing.

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#36

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:30pm

A man tries to teach a young woman to speak properly.

#37

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 1:12pm

OK, so we're going to take the King Arthur legend, put a comedy take on it (and a rather absurdist one at that), then add some theatre music.

We'll take a Dickens novel and make a musical. (I leave you to guess which one.)

#38

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 1:17pm

A 1700 page novel about the wrong French Revolution.

#39

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 1:27pm

A musical about people about whores, gays and squatters, some of whom have AIDS. Yes, they sing, dance, and die.

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#40

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 1:38pm

A mother and her mentally retarded daughter leave their North Carolina home to take a vacation in Italy, and the daughter and a young Italian man fall in love and become engaged even though they speak different languages. The mother then frets about whether or not to tell the man and his family about her daughter's condition while contemplating ending her own marriage back at home. Oh, and people sometimes sing the semi-operatic score in Italian without supertitles.

#41

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 3:18pm

Hideous older masked-man who lives in the basement of the Paris Opera House falls "in love" with a beautiful young soprano who loves a handsome young aristocrat.

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#42

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 4:09pm

4 people whine on stage in unmatched chairs about wanting to be a success on Broadway with a (basically) mute keyboard player

#43

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 9/18/08 at 4:23pm

A whorehouse, a sherrif and a bunch of Aggies

#44

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 12:53am

A boy grows up in an orphanage, is apprenticed,becomes a pickpocket, and is adopted by a rich relative.

It's based on a novel.

#45

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 4:28am

"A stage mother pushes her daughters into show business."

"A boy grows up in an orphanage, is apprenticed,becomes a pickpocket, and is adopted by a rich relative."

How do those sound "bad"? I mean, that are Gypsy's and Oliver's basic plot lines. They don't necessarily sound bad, just boring.

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#46

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 4:50am

We're going to turn [insert name of popular film from the last 25 years] into a musical!

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#47

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 1:51pm

"How do those sound "bad"? I mean, that are Gypsy's and Oliver's basic plot lines. They don't necessarily sound bad, just boring."

Well, boring is pretty bad. Nobody is going to pay Broadway prices to be bored.

#48

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 2:00pm

"In (W)hole, a kiss from the most beautiful woman in the world sinks a simple keysmith into a literal hole from which he cannot escape despite the efforts of his emotionally distant mother, his overbearing boss, and Germany’s leading eccentric quicksand expert.

Patash, sounds a bit like the plot of an old foreign film, WOMAN IN THE DUNES.

"Nobody is going to pay Broadway prices to be bored."

Oh Timmer, if only!

#49

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/9/08 at 5:24pm

Fat girl dreams of dancing on TV show, dances on TV show, saves day

Three sluts dream of man whore, find man whore, man whore is Satan

Vietnamese girl becomes whore, sleeps around, gets pregnant, kills a guy, finds kids father, gives father kid, kills self

Everyone's Gay-Heterophobia!

Boy worships horse, straddles horse naked, gets laid, blinds horse

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#50

re: This Doesn't Sound Good

Posted: 10/10/08 at 11:12am

Those are great, luke-h!