What would be the perfect show?

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 6:02pm

There have been many threads like this but none the same.
Anyway, what would be the perfect show? What would it be about? Who would write the music? lyrics? book? design sets/costumes/lighting? Star in it?

It doesn't have to be humanly possible, this is just theoretical.
Updated On: 10/29/06 at 06:02 PM

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 9:00pm

Bump

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 9:03pm

See, I feel like there a number of perfect shows out there. Sunday in the Park With George coming to mind first. I HATED it at first, everything about it. And then I became obsessed with it, and it really perfectly gets inside the mind of an artist, not just a painter. It is astonishingly beautiful. Some hate the book, I think it's not the most conventional, but it works so well.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 9:05pm

A Wildhorn score

He He He

[Lizzya9]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 9:07pm

That'd be cool if they made a musical about Clue the board game! Susan Egan would make a great Miss Scarlett. Donno about the others yet. But I think Hamlisch (or however you spell that) should do the music. Or Kander & Ebb.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:49pm

In my opinion, the three main components for a musical would the the score, story (book) and choreography. The best example that comes to mind of all three being as perfect as possible is West Side Story. The story, the music, the lyrics and the choreography cannont get any better.

[catstagestud]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:51pm

There is a Clue-The Musical. It's hilarious. Mrs. White is supposed to be played by a guy in drag.

Cheers,

Christopher

[Amneris]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 10:51pm

something that wasn't a movie or a # 1 pop album..

[FoscasBohemianDream]

Posted: 10/29/06 at 11:59pm

Some scholars call the original productions of A Chorus Line, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd examples of what a perfect musical is.

[Julian2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 12:09am

There is definitly a few out there considered the perfect musical, in addition to those three. But, IMO, West Side Story is the greatest triumph of the artform and truly the best.

Updated On: 10/30/06 at 12:09 AM

[livelife]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:03am

Moulin Rouge...

*loves*

[Urban]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:15am

Honeslty Audra McDonald standing on a stage is half way there for me personally. She could be farting for all I care.