more 'ridiculous' ideas that pre-date SPIDERMAN- Page 5

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:39pm

In a world where homsexualality is the norm, a magical gay teen plays matchmaker and tries to pair up his friends in high school, but when two of his buddies discover that they're straight, all hell breaks loose and the kid has to switch the world around.

PUHLEZ!

[starlyricist]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:41pm

yeah, like THAT could work!

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:42pm

Jesus Christ in the disco era. Blasphemy!

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:43pm

How about a musical about Charlie Brown and the Peanuts?? That would NEVER work!!! Who would pay to see that?

Just imagine if Cheno was in that and won a Tony!! Hahaha! But that would NEVER happen EVER....

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 4:57pm

My how rapidly this thread has grown.

How about...

Two guys with AIDS.
One an evil lawyer who spends his last days being visited by a dead woman and trying to manipulate a mixed up lawyer who comes out of the closet to have an affair with the committment phobic, politically vocal but ambivalent ex-lover of Guy No. 2 who is really funny & sweet and who meets the lawyer's wife during a mutual hallucination and becomes close friends with the lawyer's bewildered but stoic mother. Toss in Guy No 2's best friend (an ex-drag queen) who is the nurse caring for Guy No 1, a confused angel, a trip to heaven, a make-believe travel agent and references to Judiasm & Mormonism... and all with a total run time of 6 hours...

Any takers?

Updated On: 7/9/04 at 04:57 PM

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:06pm

Wow this has over 100 post in less than 3 hours

[Broadwaybaby614]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:10pm

A town in ruins because the people have to PAY to use the bathroom??

Sesame street all grown up? With puppets using words like "fu*k" and "gonorrhea"???????? Like that would EVER win a tony...

A show about some nerd and his man-eating plant and some blonde with an abusive boyfriend?

Or one where these two guys, one a nerd and one a sleazebag, come up with this over the top scheme to make a couple million dollars and escape to Rio?????? WITH NAZIS AND EVERYTHING??

A SHOW BASED ON A DISNEY MOVIE??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

You have GOT to be kidding me...

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:15pm

especially one with talking Lions!

I don't see HOW they made 3 musicals about witches, one good - one bad and how they are affected by (get this) a girl who ends up in their "magical" land care of a tornado!

Updated On: 7/8/04 at 05:15 PM

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:15pm

Who would ever see a show about people on a showboat? That musical would never work! That would go down as the biggest bomb in Broadway history!

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:22pm

Or how about one involving a carousel, a wifebeater, and an ascent to heaven at the end.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:29pm

Ok.. a bunch of hookers, a madame in love with a cop and a tv evangelist who wants to shut the place down.

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:36pm

Here's a cost-effective one...

A cast of over 40 characters...but one guy will play them all!

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:39pm

Who would want to see a play about a family in a cigar factory getting read a book? That would be a horrible show!

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:42pm

"Look, bud, I'm tellin' ya -- vaudeville is dead. Dead, geddit? Dead as that doornail over there in the corner. No one's gonna come see a show about vaudeville, no matter how many dames ya put in it. And no, a title like that? SUGAR BABIES? What, we're trying to get a corporate tie in or somethin'? Getouda my office, ya bum! Come back when ya got somethin' I can sell, like a show about wife-swappin'!"

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:58pm

well, I think we proved our point here...so, now...here's hoping the creators of a SPIDERMAN musical have all the success they may wish for...

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:03pm

sure i agree, but i think that it will most likely flop.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:06pm

great, ponine, great (reread this thread, darlin)

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:12pm

"Good Grief...I can't stand it, I just can't stand it!"

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:29pm

Ew. A musical based about a guy like Elvis going to war, and all the people's lives he screws up in the middle of Ohio. Definitely DON'T want to see that.

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:29pm

Wait, what if there's a nun, only she sucks at it, so she has to take care of a bunch of kids and then falls for their father?

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:33pm

students, you are repeating yourselves...

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:51pm

I think I've got some new ones:

A stupid REVUE of songs that are connected by one theme? Sounds like egotistical crap.
A show about a jew in the South who is framed for murder, and is hung at the end? What a downer.
A show about a town where the leaders pretend water is coming out of a rock so more people will come to their town? Ich.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:55pm

A "musical" about dances that contains no sung songs...or even an orchestra! Preposterous!

How about a glorified magic show which stars a man that can't sing! NEVER happen!

A show about the life of Fanny Brice?! BOR-ing!

Nothing more duller than a show about King Arthur, Guenivere, and the knights of Camelot, huh?!

Why would ANYBODY want to see a Broadway show that has only SONGS in the first act and DANCES in the second?!

Hey! Let's make the opera CARMEN into a musical starring Blacks?! It will fail on opening night!

Instant failure! A show about Huckelberry Finn!

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:57pm

An old woman who schemes to marry a cheapskate store owner.
HATED IT!

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 7:02pm

What's more dumb than doing a mystery-musical about a book that WASN'T EVEN FINISHED by some Dickens guy?! Awww crap, I'm to lazy to think up an ending, let's let the audience do it! Stinkeroo!

Updated On: 7/8/04 at 07:02 PM