my new musical ideas

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:27pm

hey guys i thought of several new musical ideas!! just let me know what you think of them...
1) a woman is a sex-addict....not much more than that
2) a boy has a very low self esteem and can only make himself beautiful through his wonderful singing voice---sounds corny...
3) MEN-THE MUSICAL-what men like to do, lives of men, what men worry about
I had some other ideas...i just don't remember what they were...lol..i have it written down someplace...i'll get that to you guys later....thanks!
ric

[KelRel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:30pm

Men could be hilarious if the little weird things guys do..like check their butts in the mirror, etc... like the secret life of men (if you use that title I so claim royalties!) lol

[bjivie2]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:34pm

I just started writing a play a few months ago about a man who lives through his insanely gigantic Original Broadway Cast Album collection, and he becomes friends with Ethel Merman, Jennifer Holliday, Zero Mostel, Anthony Rapp, Carol Channing and Mandy Patinkin. It's called "Cast Album." I'm having fun writing it.

[KelRel]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:37pm

That sounds awesome!

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:42pm

ha! I love it!! Damn i still can't remember what those ideas were....urghh!!!
ric

[Kevo711]

Posted: 4/4/05 at 6:53pm

that sounds like itd be some much fun! i'd love to write a musical some day!

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 12:43am

okay i remember now...the rest of my ideas
4?) a girl discovers her boyfriend is gay...very good basis for a comedy...
5) a spoof on those old 70's movies with women w/huge afro's and they were cops or something....

[Juliet2170]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 12:57am

haha afro cops...i like the Men idea!

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 1:47am

I just finished writing an opera, called Entertainig for Sputum, where this man (cabaret singer) narrates the lives of four people, and manipulates them. They are his, without their knowledge, string-puppets. In the end they try to rebel and it's a terrible tragedy. I see it as some kind of psycho-drama, like we're all acting on someone's stage. I am really interested in producing it as a major production. I think it could work like Follies or Cabaret

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 2:15am

can't believe this topic vanished

[VivLaVieBoheme]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 11:29am

Loved the cops in afros idea, but I think the MEN one would be great. Actually, maybe you could title it "battle of the sexes" and have it include women and the **** we do too. That'd prove for some interesting songs heh.

[inishmore]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 11:35am

Charles Strouse wrote something similar to MEN recently called Real Men. It played down in Florida but it needs some more work. I think it focused more on a bunch of different aged guys' takes on relationships.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 2:21pm

Has anyone here ever read the novel JOE AND THE SHOW QUEEN?

It came out about 15 years ago and tells a tale of a young "straight looking/actng" college jock who rents a room from a slightly older Broadway-obsessed guy. Each Chapter is named aftera show and the titular show queen has a habit of quotibng songs from obscure shows.

I always thought this would make a great PLAY (not a musical) but using snatches of the different OCR's the show queen is constantly playing.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:30pm

i love these ideas....i would love to write these musiccals...you have no idea!!
ric

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:46pm

I had a few ideas for musicals.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:48pm

Well if your ideas for musicals are anywhere near the complexity and clever wit of your posts, please, don't share them with us.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:52pm

That was very insightful.

I hope you didn't hurt yourself trying to write that...

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 6:54pm

ouch....that one really scarred me...it really did...but no need i won't poke fun at anyone's ignorance..munk

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:05pm

I think he was talking to me...

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:08pm

oh god i am stupid!! so sorry munk...i apologize..

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:16pm

There is no reason you have to apologize for stupidity

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/6/05 at 7:22pm

lol...okay...that makes me feel better....
ric

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/7/05 at 2:01am

I love the woman is a sex addict one! Though it's kinda been done, many seasons ago on Off-Broadway. Jim Steinman and Michael Weller wrote a musical called More Than You Deserve, which is famous for its discovery of Meat Loaf (Steinman met him at the auitions). It also starred Stephen Collins, Dad from Seventh Heaven. It was about an incompetent commander, in the Vietnam war, who falls in love with a reporter / nymphomaniac named Fiona. In the scene of her big gang-rape, she sings a song with a bunch of soliders called "Mama You Better Watch out for Your Daughter". It's not as bad as it seems. I have heard a tape of the musical, and it's like a show of Rodgers and Hammerstein - South Pacific in Vietnam. It's crazy stuff. The song that Michael Crawford sang in Dance of the Vampires, which critics accused of sounding like MUSIC OF THE NIGHT, originated from this show - as a paean to love and sex, (Come With me and we Know Love), which is a really powerful, enticing, seductive song. Steinman also re-uysed the melody for For Crying Out Loud, The Future Ain't What it Used to Be, Tonight is What it Means to be Young (the Let the Revels Begin section) and Carpe Noctem. But... sorry to have trailed off. More ideas?

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 4/7/05 at 2:02am

Falling in love for the very first time...