more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN- Page 3

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:11pm

yeah, i'm sure i REALLY want to watch a musical about a bunch of people that work in a pajama factory? um. who cares if you go on strike or not? as long as i get my damn pjs.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:11pm

Here's a real bad one- a failed screenwriter who becomes a gigolo for a faded silent movie star? Pathetic.

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:12pm

What about a story about a married couple who describe how their relationship falls apart FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS! meeting in the middle for a wedding ? DISASTROUS!

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:15pm

Yeah, i'm really gonna sit through 2 hours about two aging queens whose son is getting married to - GASP - A WOMAN?!?! please.

Updated On: 7/8/04 at 03:15 PM

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:17pm

What about a show about Jonathan Larson that seems vaguely familiar to his famous show ? Let's name it after a bomb sound for good ratings!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:21pm

While it's true that many a stupid idea has made for a good musical, there haven't been any succesful shows based on superheroes. Anyone remember "It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman"?

[mominator]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:23pm

How about a musical based on a beloved children author who wrote in rhymes?

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:24pm

A musical about the Pacific theater in World War II? How desperate is that?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:25pm

A rich man and his pal with too much time on their hands who decide to experiment with a girl from the streets to see if they can teach her how to speak properly. Who cares?!

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:26pm

"While it's true that many a stupid idea has made for a good musical, there haven't been any succesful shows based on superheroes. Anyone remember "It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman"?"

oh, so that's a great reason to never try again 40 years later...


the next thread could be bomb musicals that preceded successful ones that are sorta cut from the same cloth...but I'm afraid that would call upon we older folk, most of who think I'm a horror for writing a musical with a back-beat, so I don't anticipate much support...


Updated On: 7/8/04 at 03:26 PM

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:26pm

So, what, it's like Hamlet, right? Except it's all a bunch of animals, right?

Gedoudatown!

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:26pm

A hippie musical with anti-Vietnam sentiment and no discernable plot? Hooey.

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:26pm

I KNOW!!!!
A musical about a chess match during the Cold War...
Anyone?

[crickets]

Updated On: 7/8/04 at 03:26 PM

[mominator]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:27pm

What about a little orphan boy who only wants some more gruel?

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:28pm

An almost plotless musical about a guy who can't make up his mind about marriage and commitment? Worst. Idea. Ever.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:29pm

A filmmaker has a midlife crisis at a spa. And be sure and stunt cast it to make sure it bombs

[Poppy]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:32pm

A play about a flesh-eating plant...or a musical about a vampire who looks like the Joker and acts like an ass. I don't believe it!!!!!!!

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:34pm

mmm. the one about the trials and tribulations of a transgendered wannabe rock star with a one-inch penis? um. ew.

[JamieMcG]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:34pm

A con man who sells musical instruments to the kids of a small town in Iowa?

A singing family trying to escape from Nazi Germany?

A Carnival Barker who abuses his wife?

A mythical Scottish city that only appears every hundred years?

A bunch of high school kids of relatively no moral value who smoke, drink and moon each other and...what the hell IS the plot of Grease anyway?

All verifiable hits.

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:37pm

Two artists named George have crises trying to integrate their lives with their art 100 years apart? What kind of crap musical is that?

[Matt_G]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:37pm

A chubby girl who wants to dance on TV with her *gasp* negro friends. LOL. We should just give the tickets away now since nobody in their right mind would pay to sit through that!

[eyeonbroadway]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:39pm

How about a confused French kid who goes off to war, supposedly dies, and his best friend goes to his hometown and pretends to be him...and nobody notices?

Or...

A revolutionary gets thrown into a prison cell with a gay guy who fantasizes about being a female arachnid?

[Plum]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:40pm

A musicalization of Don Quixote sounds pretty bad.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:40pm

not just bad, it sounds disgusting.

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 3:43pm

i'm sure NONE of those songs will be popular from that show. urgh.