Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#0Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 12:42am
The movie by Terry Gilliam, based on the 18th century novel?
I think it would be quite eccentric or Pythonesque. They'd need someone big or eccentric to compose the songs. And who would play Baron?
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magruder
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#1re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 12:44amWell, the movie, for all of its visual brilliance and epic scale, is really tough to sit through, I think.
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rockfenris2005
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#2re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 12:49am
Absolutely. But it still, in ways, reeks of a massive mega-musical. It could've really been made into something huge in the 80s. It'd either be a mammoth Starlight Express or a spectacular flop. But I think it has the premise, the original novel at least, for a major musical comedy adventure
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rockfenris2005
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#3re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 1:09am
Maybe if Spamalot succeeds they can bring this out?
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capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#4re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 1:37amI resoundingly say, "YES!"
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 1:58am
I wanted to know your opinions, because I've been working on a version for over three years. I hope it gets done someday. It's amazing how no one else (to our knowledge) thought of doing this :)
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capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#6re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 2:00amfor the baron-maybe austin pendleton?
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#7re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:33amOOOh. That's good. Keep talking. More and more ideas plz !
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MaTakeALookAtMe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#8re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 3:33pmI love this movie...but I think it may be too involved to be made into a musical. It would require a lot of trimming back and I'm not sure it could survive...but, of course, they're trying a LOTR musical...
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#9re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 3:36pm
Oh my,Lord of the Rings?
really?
MaTakeALookAtMe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#10re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 3:40pmMuch discussion of the idea..don't kmnow it it'll happen or not. You're new, I guess you missed the threads about it a while back
#11re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 4:09pmI think it's a great subject that would fly over the heads of the standard Broadway audience (tourists). The ending would prove to be quite difficult to work out as well as Eric Idle's character (how do you stage someone who can run that fast?). The film was not very successful to begin with, but I've always loved it and would welcome a musical version.
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rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#12re: Would Baron Munchausen make a good musical?
Posted: 12/6/04 at 10:56pm
Cool. I'll get to it as soon as I've got this other one out of the bag !
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