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Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#150this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/18/14 at 4:15pm
A baker and his wife travel into the woods to reverse a spell laid on them by a Witch because, the baker's father stole some of her vegetable's.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#152this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/19/14 at 6:01pm
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman
she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
— 1970's Marin County newspaper TV listing for The Wizard of Oz
It's from 1998.
But Dorothy doesn't team up with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion "to kill again." She teams up with them to visit the Wizard. And even after the Wizard sends them to the Witch, it's to recover her broom, not to kill her. That may sound nitpicky, but the whole joke depends on that second part being accurate.
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#153this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/19/14 at 6:33pm
Thanks, Timmer.
Wicked:
A musical dedicated to give sympathy to the green witch who lurked in our nightmares, as children.
#154this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/19/14 at 10:13pmHow about we write a musical about two Mormon boys who get sent to Uganda and have to deal with female circumcision and AIDS. And let's make it a comedy too
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
mjohnson2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
#156this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/19/14 at 11:34pm
A lot of you guys are picking and choosing what you want to say about the plot of a lot of these musicals.
INTO THE WOODS could also be described as a musical connecting all the fairy tales and about what happens after happily ever after (which is a great premise). This could pretty much be applied to most of the shows listed here. I think what is really interesting is when you actually summarize the plot and it doesn't sound like a good musical at all, a story that seems to lack any reason to be musicalized, such a musical about 9 african-american boys being falsely accused of raping two women the the age of vaudeville in the south.
#157this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/20/14 at 3:08am
Winners:
Luvinbroadway- “20 dancers on a bare stage whining.”
thevolleyballer- “A fat girl gets to be on television and subsequently single-handedly ends segregation in Baltimore."
Laughed so hard at both of these.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#158this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/20/14 at 4:02pmA woman goes to the Far East to teach some children.
#159this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/20/14 at 4:10pm
"So it's the late 80's and everybody got AIDS and sh*t...."
Rock Of Ages?
Fan123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
#160this sounds terrible
Posted: 8/23/14 at 12:05am
I'd love to see some of these expanded and acted out staight-faced by actual show cast members, Drunk History-style!
To further nitpick the Wizard of Oz summary, technically Dorothy never "meets" the Wicked Witch of the East. Still funny though.
Since 'Shakespeare in Love' is now onstage, it's fair game for that old joke synopsis - 'Wannabe actress is so dumb she sleeps with a writer'.
A chick eats some fruit. Later, she eats some more fruit.
Some guys argue about signing a document, then sign it.
Some people in Washington Heights go about their lives.
An evil garden that killed a woman, suddenly starts using its powers for good to help heal the bereaved husband and son. (Actually, I'd see that.)
A young woman learns to see past a homely older man's looks and love him for his actions. The man learns to see past the young woman's actions and love her for her looks.
Skip2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/17/04
#161Blurbs
Posted: 8/23/14 at 12:35am
Horny cowboy takes a girl to a party. Horny girlfriend seduces another cowboy. Horny traveling salesman is forced to marry another girl. Aunt is horny for the first cowboy.
Horny, sophisticated, French murderer falls in love with unsophisticated American nurse on humid island during WWII.
Horny Asian King wonders what's under the bloomers of an English schoolteacher.
Horny, wealthy Sea Captain throws over rich middle aged woman for young, nubile postulate from local convent.
Notice a trend?
Updated On: 8/23/14 at 12:35 AM
#162Blurbs
Posted: 8/23/14 at 1:28am
An asshole phonetics professor teaches a flower girl how to speak proper English.
A bunch of horny German kids decide they want to have sex with each other.
A recently divorced woman moves to New York to do...things...with her life...?
German musical about vampires that uses Total Eclipse of the Heart as a love ballad.
Spider-Man: On Broadway!
#164Blurbs
Posted: 8/23/14 at 9:31pm
A British boy (who is forced to do boxing by his father) finds himself through the art of dance, and this is all during a miner strike.
A women has a four day love affair with a hunky photographer she just met because of the power of vegetable soup.
A town freaks out over a rock that spurts water when licked.
Berry Gordy writes a love note to himself.
Updated On: 8/24/14 at 09:31 PM
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#168Blurbs
Posted: 8/24/14 at 10:35pm
Bipolar lady imagines her dead, shirtless son is still alive, has electroshock therapy, and leaves home.
A snobby blonde witch meets a nice green witch who steals her boyfriend, but they become besties before the green witch makes a crap ton of enemies and fakes her own death.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
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