Would South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut work on stage?

[Parks]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:44pm

I was just listening to my iPod and La Resistance Medly came on...and I was thinking, could South Park BL&A ever be brought to the stage?

I, personally, would love to see it performed live. I think it could work.

What is your opinion?

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:45pm

It's a bit too raunchy for the stage, I think. But if they can magically do it, whatever.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:46pm

You know, I was SERIOUSLY thinking about this a few days ago.

So much of the movie is a Les Mis spoof that I imagine if they went towards that style they could pull it off with tremendous hilarity.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:46pm

I don't know. Making a cartoon work onstage is difficult, but we've seen that it can be done by Beauty and the Beast and Lion King (and soon Tarzan). Sondheim did say that the South Park movie was the greatest musical of the last 20 years or something.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:56pm

It would be expensive given the amount of characters and landscapes they cover. But the material's fine for stage, as much as anything else, anyway.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:02pm

My dad and I once did a hypothetical cast of this...

the only one I remember was Harvey as Big Gay Al.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:05pm

While future puppet flicks seem out of the question, there is the possibility of “South Park” on Broadway. “We just hooked up with the guys that did ‘Avenue Q,’” they said. “We have been kicking around stuff with them because it would be fun to do something on Broadway and especially because we will never ever make a movie again.”

http://www.broadsideonline.com/article.php?date=10-18-2004§ion=style&article=TeamAmerica.txt

[Parks]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:16pm

Haha, I could see Harvey as Big Gay Al.

Things would probably be changed, of course. DRS had several changes--characters and settings. They could probably do that for South Park

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:31pm

Definitely not. Unlike Disney, "South Park" is not a cartoon that you can replicate in real life.

[jynni]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:47pm

You know - it might make a good puppet type show. Perhaps bits of the movie (possibly the dialouge parts) could be viewed as a movie with the musical numbers actually performed.

I'm kind of imagining a "Rocky Horror" type experience.

Don't know if it would work as mainstream Broadway though.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:53pm

They'd have to lengthen the show by about an hour, which opens up a whole new set of problems right there...but, yeah, I think it could work...possibly...

[bjivie2]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 6:11pm

All Broadway musicals don't have to be 3 hours long. It's already 90 minutes (I'm assuming), and with an intermission that's almost 2 hours. I say add 15-30 minutes MAX, because too much South Park IS possible.

The only way I would like to see it is if Trey and Matt were in the cast. But they'd have to get someone really great to direct it.

[jam_man]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 6:51pm

It would be really hard stylisticly, since the animation, though actually done with computers, is supposed to look very crude. They've called it, "...like using a bulldozer to make a sandcastle."

The material, though could definetly work. Dan Fogler as Cartman, anyone?

And an extended Shaiman score is always a good thing.

[AvenueQPat]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:37pm

I Love South Park. It already has so many references to Musicals in it I think it would be great on stage.

My favorite part - Uncle F*CKa Ending that Parodies the end of Oklahoma :)

[Cutielyricist]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:17pm

I was thinking of this a while back..I dont know if it would work as a stage show...but as a concert reading for actors fund...it would be hillaaaaaaaaaarious. And more actors would be dedicated to it if the commitment was only one night.

I see ........
Micheal Arden as the Mole
Mary Testa as Kyle's Mom
John Tartaglia as Stan
Dan Fogler as Cartman


you need someone incredibly famous to play kenny for the sight gag alone...

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:45pm

OMG! It WOULD be great as a concert...

But what about now that Saddam Hussein has been captured? Would that change anything?

... I personally think that this would be hilarious onstage. I don't think the crude animation aspect would have to be preserved, except for probably the sets. It could be done like YAGMCB with the actors just dressed in costumes like in the cartoon.

Personally, I'd love to see Chef have a song. How about a duet with the clitoris (which would be a giant talking puppet in the vein of Audrey II). That's 5 more minutes right there.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:09pm

Um, it could work, I just don't think it could work as well as the movie did. I dont see it selling out every night or anything. I mean look at all the backlash Jerry Spring got. I think it would work well off-bway maybe. Although I hate when cartoons are brought to stage because it just looks cheap and kiddy and a little too "theme-park" ish .

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:04pm

Did any of you see "Blame Canada" when it was performed at the 1999 (might have been 2000) Acadamy Awards? (It was nominated for best song). Robin Williams sang it and they did this really inspired staging and the chrous was dressed and made-up to look like paper cut outs, and they had women dressed as Mountees. It was actually really good (besides being hilariously funny).

So I could see it working.

[Radioactiveduck]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:28pm

All the highbrowed critics for the (treason) Times would **** square ones, and that alone justifies a production for me.

[Urban]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:49pm

I think it would work really well actually. I don't think it would even need alot of elaborate sets. Remember a part of the quality to "South Park" is its cheapness. Bad backdrops would work half the time.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:39pm

if the sets were constructed to look like giant construction paper cut outs, and the movement was like totally coreographed to look jerky and crude... it would be hilarious.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:35pm

I just finished watching the movie and it credits Marc Shaiman for 'additonal lyrics/music". I was under the impression he wrote all the songs for the film. If thats not the case than does anyone know what song he contributed to? Thanks!

[bjivie2]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 3:58am

No, Trey Parker and Matt Stone officially wrote the words and music, but that could mean anything. They could have written and melody and some lyrics, with Marc providing the piano accompaniment and made it into a real song. He probably added a verse or coda or something onto one or two songs also, which explains the lyrics part of that title. I think he mainly expanded what they wrote and added his own flair when he had the chance. But I don't know, maybe he'll answer and tell us...

[Grommetik]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:05am

Yes buit would it really work without Matt and Try's voices sounding almost exactly the same for each character? To me, that's part of the humour. I vote Kathy Bates to play the enormous Clitoris.

[toodramatic]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:15am

hehe...harvey as big gay al and kathy bates as the clitoris that is so f***ing HILARIOUS.

Um I'm not so sure the Time's critics would s*** a brick seeing as I believe that same paper said something like it was: 'the best movie of the summer and the best movie musical in years.'

I have always wanted to see this onstage...Ive thought of it from every angle and just don't see it working...but hey if it ever makes it ill be there orchestra center...