What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
PReeves2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/20/10
#1What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 12:10amForgive me but, I'm tired of hearing how it's time for a revival of "...". Let's try not to live in the past. New shows equal new audience members right? New creativity equals new opportunity and opinions. SO what subjects, persons, characters, historical times, themes would be best for NEW concepts as a show?
threetwoone
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/09
#2What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 12:11amThe book of Muslim: The Koran. (Quran? Qur'an?)
PReeves2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/20/10
#2What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 12:38am
Zena the whore mistress?
seriously though, Cirque Du Soleil can buy Radio City and put up a show that will ultimately have NO story and look like almost every other show of theirs. How creative is that? It is just a formula that works for them. With all of the creative types on this website I'm sure there is a stronger and more legitimate show that has a true story to tell.
#3What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 1:11am
Multiple personality disorder... just no rock score. Something subtle but really different.
How bout a musical about Mary Magdalene? I vote Kacie Sheik.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#4What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 1:40amA musical about Michael Reidel. In the style of Phantom of the Opera, featuring a bunch of horrible song and dance numbers.
#5What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 1:50am
I would love to see Tuck Everlasting go to Broadway in some way. I know there are a few versions floating around on YouTube. I love the story.
I think Frank Sinatra needs some sort of musical about his life or something about the Rat Pack.
I would love to see musical versions of a few Shakespeare pieces: King Lear, the Scottish Play and Othello, namely.
Miss Congeniality is another movie I'd like to see on Broadway at some point.
I'd love to see a musical on Abe Lincoln's life.
These are just a few ideas. I know they are not all subjects or characters, but just wishful thinking!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 2:06am
New doesn't equal better, good, new audiences or any of the things you suggest -- as a given. Sometimes it can happen. Book of Mormon and Spiderman are doing that, but Scottsboro Boys and Bloody Blookdy could not.
Just because something is a revival does not preclude those things from happening either: South Pacific, and Hair spring to mind as doing many of those things.
Lastly, those folks that truly have fabulous ideas might thing twice about throwing them on a publlic forum where someone else might take the idea and run with it.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#7What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 2:19am
Is that a hint? =D
Updated On: 6/3/11 at 02:19 AM
#8What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 11:39am
Tammy Faye Bakker (Chenoweth says she's tied to a project on her). but, like a good bio-musical, much would have to be fictionalized. Nothing more boring than a bio-musical that tries to stick to the truth.
I think a musical with an underlying theme about America's developing imperialism could be fun; but the theme would have to be underlying, of course. Something like Assassins.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#9What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 12:12pmI'd like to see more shows with characters in their 40's and 50's, so our favorite leading ladies don't have to play roles they are too old for.
#10What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 1:55pmI would love to see a musical about King Henry VIII and the Boleyn sisters.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#11What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 3:02pmJulia Child.
#12What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 6:23pmbwayphreak, No doubt you're too young to remember the musical REX from the mid-70's. Not the Boleyn sisters, but Henry, daughter Elizabeth and a couple of wives. One of Richard Rogers' last scores with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Should a' been a winner but sadly the great pedigree didn't guarantee a fun night in the theater-- long and dull with a few stand out tunes.
#13What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 8:28pm
A Judy Garland bio including classic songs and original numbers
Harriet Tubman
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Sense and Sensibility
And I would love to see someone successfully musicalize a Daniel Pinkwater book like Alan Mendelson, the Boy From Mars or The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death. I think the man is a creative genius and I loved his books when I was a kid. I'm frankly surprised he never reached the ranks of Dahl, Baum or Seuss. Could be a good project for William Finn.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#14What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 8:44pm
Harry Hay.
Matt - I like that "Sense and Sensibility" idea.
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#15What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 8:56pmSarah Palin: American Evita.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#16What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 9:03pmThe "American Evita" is Nancy Reagan ("Don't Cry For Me, California!") And, come to think of it, perhaps that's the way to go!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#17What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 9:06pmThe Kray Twins - British gangsters
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
baritonepride
Swing Joined: 5/6/11
#18What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 10:21pm
I would love to see an autobiographical Sondheim musical -- telling his story (life or professional), with a brand new score penned by the master.
And a Theodore Roosevelt musical would be great fun too. The man was rather eccentric, very loud, brash, and larger-than-life -- not to mention a flair for dramatics.
#19What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 10:37pm
I was going to say Harriett Tubman!
Drop Dead Gorgeous: Classic Off Broadway Camp.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#20What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 10:47pm
LOL. I'd argue for "Don't Cry for Me, Wasilla." And "Rainbow High" came to my mind with her wardrobe scandal.
And since I'm already thinking political, Bill and Hilary the Musical. That would be juicy.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
Updated On: 6/3/11 at 10:47 PM
PReeves2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/20/10
#21What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 11:29pmDrop Dead Gorgeous combined with Sarah Palin as Evita is perfect Broadway camp!!! Someone please write that show. I want 60% and I'll produce! I'm copy writing the show now.
#22What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 11:37pm
Three different Woody Allen movies would make AMAZING musicals if he would let anyone write them:
Purple Rose of Cairo
Bullets Over Broadway
Midnight in Paris
I'd nominate Scott Frankel and Michael Korrie for the job.
PReeves2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/20/10
#23What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/3/11 at 11:42pm
Bullets Over Broadway.
the script doesn't need any adjustments. copy and paste.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#24What subject or person/character would you like to see a NEW MUSICAL written for?
Posted: 6/4/11 at 12:00am
Matt, a musical version of Sense and Sensibility exists.
http://www.senseandsensibilitymusical.com/Sense_and_Sensibility/The_Show.htm
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