What Should Be the Next "American Idiot?"

was The Wall ever a stage musical?

Ben Folds, "Rockin the Suburbs"

gypsy101 said: "was The Wall ever a stage musical?"

It has been staged before, but never on Broadway.

jacobsnchz14 said: "A Panic! At the Disco album.



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Absolutely yes. Man, I haven't heard their name in a while. But I'd see that in a heartbeat.

And I know we've already got Waitress, but a musical of an already existing Sara B. album would work perfectly.

The country just elected it.

MinnieFay said: "The country just elected it."

Good one.

The "Madness Trilogy" by Alice Cooper would make a good one- Welcome to my Nightmare, Go to Hell and From the Inside all tell the vaguely connected story of a troubled man-child imprisoned in his own nightmares, the afterlife, and a mental institution respectively.



Also: "Golden Age of Wireless" by Thomas Dolby. You'd have to find a plot thread, but it's a concept album of mood pieces about an alternate-history steampunk Britain in the 1980s, in a world where World War II never ended.

I was thinking something by Fountains of Wayne too. All (or at least a vast majority) of their songs tell stories with interesting characters. But, I think that if I had to pick one I'd go with Welcome Interstate Managers. The songs on that one all share the common theme of working in the business world/ an office 9-5 job.

As for Pink Floyd's The Wall. After it was recorded, they brought it out on tour as a massive stage show. Literally building a wall in front of the band and having various projections on the wall among other things. The songwriter Roger Waters did a tour of the wall with his own band a few years back. It was the same show that was done when Pink Floyd did it initially. As a rock music fan, and of course not having been born yet when the original tour happened, I will say that seeing it at Yankee Stadium was one of the most amazing concert experiences ever. if I had to make a comparison to music today, it would have been like a Madonna concert or a Lady Gaga show where they tour with a show rather than performing a various setlist of songs.