Warping Broadway Musicals

[Craig]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:19pm

Have a little fun with this one. Take two shows and weave them together.

I'll start with one a friend and I came up with when Susan Egan was cast in Millie, combining Cabaret and TMM

Sally Bowles, on a bender falls asleep dreaming what it would be like to come to NYC and be a legitimate actress. She "wakes" up in her dream to find she's Millie Dillmount. Cliff is Jimmy. Sally (Millie) takes up residence at Mrs. Meers (Fraulein Schneider) along with the other girls (kit kat girls).

Working for Trevor Graydon (Max) she is torn between her boss and Jimmy. Instead of having green painted nails, she's looking for a green glass love.

etc, etc, etc.. Millie is just about 180 degrees from Cabaret, but one can easily see how Sally would idealize being in NYC in such a way..

... your turn

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:25pm

This sounds a lot like what we did at Camp Broadway. We had to take two shows and combine them to make a short skit/song. My group did Chicago and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and performed "The Detention Tango." It was all the Peanuts gang complaining about how they got in detention.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:31pm

woa too much brain power usage!!! =P

[JeffG]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:53pm

Not the best idea, but Wicked and Hairspray

Two girls vie for Ms. Hairspray contest. One is beautiful, popular and blonde. The other is green. The green one befriends the animals who aren't allowed to dance except once a week on animal day. They help her win the contest which is crowned by the Corny Wizard.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 3:57pm

Funny.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:20pm

how would one do Mamma Mia and Hairspray?????????

[Craig]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:24pm

BG2

The point is for you to do it, not ask how! :)

[Phantom2]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:30pm

Sorry, I will teach Little Sprout the rules. He also steals the money in Monopoly! HAHA

[krisjoseph]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:31pm

Tracy Turnblad is being reared by Edna, who is working tirelessly as a single parent. Tracy longs to be a part of the domestic crowd, and convinces Edna to take her to a Greek island and be the subject of a reality TV show called "Take A Chance On Me". The show is aimed at helping Tracy discover which of three potential men is her real father. After a bender and a short jail stint, we discover during the strip search that Tracy's mother is her father.

Funnily enough, I can actually picture Jon Waters writing this...

Updated On: 2/16/04 at 04:31 PM

[Phantom2]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:32pm

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:34pm

How about Cats and The Full Monty...
The lovable kitties are shaved clean then have to dance for their kibble. Titles will be accepted via PM.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 4:35pm

I would post one mixing Nunsense and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but I'm afraid of being struck down by lightning. If someone else wants to do it though I think it'd be hilarious.

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 5:18pm

Why not two of the disney ones, Lion King and Aida.

Simba falls in love with a lesser animal(i dunno maybe a female Timone!)But he cant marry her because he is going to be king and needs to marry one of his own kind, and is engaged to a female lion already.(Nala)And then his uncle, Scar, tells him that it is forbidden, but it runs in the family lol (like uncle, like son?). Then Nala finds out and all hell breaks loose!

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 5:54pm

Long Days Journey Into Night and Movin' Out???

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 6:56pm

I'm not feeling particularly creative right now, but Craig I have to say I absolutely love your Cabaret/Millie combination. lol

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 7:02pm

Let's take Tracy Turnblad and her Mom of HAIRSPRAY and put them into the Nazi Germany of CABARET.

Broadway Bulldog Updated On: 2/16/04 at 07:02 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 7:11pm

Funny Girl Crazy

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 7:12pm

Great thought, Rox.


HAIRSPRAY CABARET

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 7:37pm

We aim to please, Mr Bulldog

The Music Man of La Mancha

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 7:54pm

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO 'NIGHT MOTHER

ooops!

Not musicals. ummmm

MY FAIR LADY BE GOOD Updated On: 2/16/04 at 07:54 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 8:13pm

hard working oil refinery roughnecks by day, fabulous costume wearing queens by night, welcome to the world of

taboot scootin' boogie

would you let you cap that well head?

see them sing karaoke while riding the bull in vera wang

(with apologies to the boys from the anvil)

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 8:20pm

How about RENT and La Boheme? Oh wait, they're basically the same show....

Back on topic:
Joseph and JCS becomes: Jesus and the Amazing White Dreamcoat.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 8:28pm

Aging cross dressing and transsexual performers visit the site of escapades of 30 years earlier on the night before demolition begins of the building is set to begin Visions of their younger selves intermingle with the people they are today and they analyze the choices they made in life.

TABOO FOLLIES

[A nod to papa for the spark that ignited this idea]

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 10:27pm

An entertainer comes to New York

Mr Wonderful Town

[Craig]

Posted: 2/16/04 at 10:31pm

I'm not a dictator, but people.. the point is to fuse plots - not just titles..

Go on.. try it.... :)