What Should Be the Next "American Idiot?"
What Should Be the Next "American Idiot?"
#1What Should Be the Next "American Idiot?"
Posted: 11/9/16 at 4:15pm
Or "The Wall," or "The Who's Tommy," etc....
By that I mean, what are some of your favorite pop or rock albums that you think could work well as a musical? My first thought is Kelly Clarkson's "Piece By Piece" but I could probably think of more.
You all?
#2What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/9/16 at 4:16pm
was The Wall ever a stage musical?
#3What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/9/16 at 4:17pm
No, but I used it as an example so folks wouldn't think I was just referring to jukebox shows.
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#6What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/9/16 at 7:05pm
gypsy101 said: "was The Wall ever a stage musical?"
It has been staged before, but never on Broadway.
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#8What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/9/16 at 10:13pm
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.
#9What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/10/16 at 10:34am
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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#11What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/10/16 at 11:28am
Adam Pascal was supposed to bring Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime to the stage...
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#12What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/10/16 at 11:50am
MinnieFay said: "The country just elected it."
Good one.
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#14What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/10/16 at 12:26pm
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.
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#16What Should Be the Next
Posted: 11/10/16 at 1:46pm
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.
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