What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined? — Page 2

#26

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:16am

"When I was in college a friend of mine and I tried come up with a concept for a deconstructed A Chorus Line set in a concentration camp. We were high."

I just read this fully. Maybe they could be auditioning for Hitler's Birthday Pageant, and those not picked would obviously be killed, with those who survive the cut performing in Nazi uniforms in front of a giant blow-up of Hitler? It might rip-off "Springtime for Hitler" a little bit, but it sounds more entertaining than Mario Lopez as Zach.

#27

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:31am

Hey now! Mario Lopez could be my Zach any day of the week.

#28

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:41am

A Chorus Line, but instead of actors they're cats.

#29

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 2:45am

How about NO STRINGS staring RuPaul and John Barrowman with disco arrangements?

#30

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:11am

Oh! Good one! GRAND HOTEL set at a Day's Inn!

Folding chair
Fridgidaire
Purple hair
And some throw up

Neon lights
Wedding nights
Where the groom's
Dick won't go up

Trashy gowns
Redneck towns
Circus clowns
On a rest stop

Porno shoots
And army boots
You're in
The Bad Motel!

#31

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:15am

Chess, but replace the chess games with hockey games, and change the cold war to the Civil War
Evita in a post-apocalyptic world reminiscent of The Hunger Games
Finian's Rainbow with the guy becoming a lesbian instead of black
In the Heights on Mars
Nine with nine different actors playing Guido at the same time
Rock of Ages in the 1940s
Titanic ending with everyone waking up on the boat realizing it was just a bad dream

#32

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:17am

New song for the Lesbian FINIAN: "When I Don't Eat Out the Girl that I Love, I Eat Out the Girl That's Near"

#33

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:26am

How To Succeed set during the Great Depression, with parallels to Occupy Wall Street

Sister Act set in a mosque.

City of Angels set in Bollywood.

#34

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:31am

OK, one more and then I'm calling it quits:

SEUSSICAL with a production design paying homage to Maurice Sendeck

Goodnight!

#35

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 3:55am

This is why I love the BWW forum, you all make me laugh just when I need it!

How about Ragtime set in modern times with vintage costumes?? Oh, never mind. Maybe Eve Ensler could rework Book of Mormon about women on a mission who are all going through different stages in their lives titled "The Book of Estrogen". It could be set in a monestary. With Julie Taymor directing of course!

Updated On: 8/1/12 at 03:55 AM

#36

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 4:11am

Into the woods set in The 1980s in San Francisco.

#37

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 4:11am

Into the woods set in The 1980s in San Francisco.

#38

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 5:57am

Spider-Man presented as a figment of Julie Taymour's imagination... Oh wait...

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#39

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 6:02am

The fact that I missed this thread last night when I was baked is perhaps the singles greatest regret of my life.

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#40

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:34am

The Scarlet Pimpernel as a witty romance

#41

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 9:56am

The Sound of Music done straight except ending like Dialogues of the Carmelites, with the nuns being executed one by one as retribution for aiding the Von Trapps. They can file off singing "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" punctuated by gunshots, until only the Mother Superior is left to sing solo as she strides proudly towards her doom.

#42

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:13am

CABARET set in a nightclub

Updated On: 8/1/12 at 10:13 AM

#43

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:15am

I would prefer keeping the "Climb Every Mountain" finale. The Von Trapps are climbing over the mountain to Switzerland while the nuns are climbing aboard a train headed for Auschwitz.

Since the script already takes huge liberties (such as climbing over the mountain to get to Switzerland, and even the year in which they left Austria) we can push the concentration camps forward a bit.

#44

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 10:23am

Equus Jr.

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#45

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:08am

I have an idea for a dark version of of Suessical. Where Jojo is in coma, from being sexual assaulted by his uncle,who doubles as the Cat. People would double from reality and then the worlds of Jojo's mind. It is pretty messed up.

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#46

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:16am

Pippin set in a rich, Republican white-bread New England suburb, where the Leading Player is the news media and Catherine is a poor maid for a neighbor

#47

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:31am

"guys and dolls" where sky is a butch lesbian and adelaide is a drag queen. those hot box scenes are basically drag numbers already. like some others in this thread, this was also an idea conceived under the influence.

also (from the same brainstorming session), pantsless sondheim: stage totally traditional productions of his shows, except everyone is naked from the waist down.

Updated On: 8/1/12 at 11:31 AM

#48

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:34am

I seriously want a drag queen Steel Magnolias

#49

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:35am

In the Heights set in Flushing, NY with an all Asian cast.

#50

What Shows Do You Want To See Re-Imagined?

Posted: 8/1/12 at 11:55am

PACIFIC OVERTURES will an all Jewish cast, with Jackie Mason as The Reciter