The trouble with Bowie's music for a musial would be that his lyrical style is built around non sequiturs and stream of consciousness musings... hard to fit into ANY situation.
The trouble with Bowie's music for a musial would be that his lyrical style is built around non sequiturs and stream of consciousness musings... hard to fit into ANY situation.
Base the book on Taming of the Shrew (they did the Shakespeare thing with All Shook Up), add water, Kylie songs, and viola! Jukebox.
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Amy Winehouse's songs all seem to advance a story or heighten an emotion very well.
I've been working out how one would work in my head.
Though I do think that she needs at least one more good album before you can seriously consider her, as 2 albums and a bunch of B-sides does not a good jukebox musical make.
That made sense in my head before I typed it. LOL!
Unfortunately, even with her "rejuvenation" in the Bahamas somewhere, I think that she is too tragically a mess to complete a good third album.
choitoy, well if that show Glee has showed us anything it's that Winehouse's stuff is surprisingly musical.
Personally not a fan of the usual jukebox musical, though I do love the idea of genre extending to Crazy for You and 42nd Street. I suppose of all the ideas the suggestion I like the most is Savage Garden. Their music is pretty damn epic and can even tell a story ("To The Moon And Back"). Plus they already proved they can write great love ballads ("Truly, Madly, Deeply"). That being said, I'd rather they or the likes of Regina Spektor CREATE musicals. Their works are rather good, but not quite worthy of being the sole basis of a theatrical score. But the talent there (especially with Spektor) is so immense that I think creating a musical is well within their abilities. I mean despite what many think about Spring Awakening, who ever thought that the guy behind "Barely Breathing" would create musical theater?
There is a Barry Manilow jukebox musical, 'Can't Smile Without You'. The same producer, Bill Kenwright, is currently working on a show based on the life and music of Neil Sedaka.
I'd actually be interested to see a show created by Lady GaGa and her 'Haus'.
Not a musical, and not with her famous tunes, but rather a conceptual futuristic/electro/glam/pop/rock extravaganza with elements of burlesque.
The closest thing I can link it to would be something like 'Love' (The Beatles/Cirque Du Soleil show)...but without freaky clowns.
It would obviously have to wait till she's more established and has grown as an artist, but she definitely is very conceptual and is about the theatrical performance.
It would be so off the wall and it would probably only work in Vegas, but I kind of crave something along those lines...even if it wasn't by her.
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[i]David Bowie's music would also lend itself VERY well to a jukebox musical. [/i]
Agreed. Actually, last night...before I saw this thread...I was saying the same thing to my partner. We were listening to the David Bowie playlist on my iPod during dinner and I said that I'd love it if David Bowie wrote a musical or if there were at least a jukebox musical of his work.
I know Bowie had started adapting 1984 to a musical, but I believe the Orwell estate nixed the idea. The songs he already wrote went onto his Diamond Dogs album.
Trent Reznor IS writing a musical- he's had Fight Club in the works for four years or so now.
U2 already wrote A Clockwork Orange the musical, and are now working on Spiderman.
The Indigo Girls have a jukebox musical- Everyman. It premiered somewhere in Pennsylvania, and the rights for a tour are still being negotiated as of last year.
Frank Sinatra has a bio-musical, "My Way: The Sinatra Story."
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