really scary shows
really scary shows
#1really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 6:58pmHow come there are no really scary, horror-genre musicals? I'm not talking "Phantom" or "Dracula" but like actual suspense and horror like a "Halloween" or "Silence of the Lambs". Do the two not mix?
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#2re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:00pm
I think it would be a bit odd to see a bunch of murderers frolicking about singing of how they are going to kill someone. Many plays, however, can be quite frightening. But musicals? I don't see it.
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#2re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:09pmUh, Sweeney Todd?
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#3re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:18pmhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=496530#496530
#4re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:20pm
Uh, Sweeney Todd?
I don't know if this was in reference to my post, the first post, or both. But for me, I guess I was just thinking more along the lines of axe murders chasing people down as opposed to demon barbers. Either way, touché.
Updated On: 1/30/07 at 07:20 PM
#5re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:22pmWhen I was younger (like 10) I used to be reall scared of "Tommy." I am not sure why...but I was.
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#6re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:51pm
Not sure if this counts... but Mary Poppins.
Just 'cuz Temper, Temper.
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#7re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:54pmAllentown, that thread had like, 3 posts on it, none with actual scary shows mentioned. I agree that it's hard to have someone brutally murder someone and then sing about it in the next minute. Sweeney Todd is really the only one I can think of.
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#8re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:54pm
wasn't carrie based on that horror movie?
or am i getting my wires crossed?
i don't know.. but, put it this way.. if silence of the lambs was a musical, i sure as hell would not go ahahah.
than again, i am also a big wuss. =P
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#9re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:55pm
f silence of the lambs was a musical, i sure as hell would not go ahahah.
Errrr...
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#10re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:57pm
Sweeney is not scary - it's creepy and beautiful.
I'm talking something tense and horrifying.
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#11re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:00pm
This probably isn't what you're looking for, but there is a long, historical tradition (particularly in France) of grisly, gory, realistic horror shows live on stage. These so-called "Grand Guignol" productions were especially popular from the 1890s through the 1950s. Some contemporary theatre companies have made a niche for themselves in trying to re-create this kind of production. Check out www.grandguignol.com for examples.
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#12re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:03pmactually there is silence of the lambs the musical, if you've never heard of it, well it kind of explains itself
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#13re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:49pm
silence of the lambs the musical is a parody.
and yes professor grand guignol is exactly the style i think they could bring something like "Halloween" to the stage with.
"Shockheaded Peter" was sort of Grand Guignol-ish, right?
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#14re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:53pmi could actually see a serious musical version of silence of the lambs.
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#15re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 12:19amI think something like a collection Brothers Grimm stories might possibly work. They sort of are childish stories that could be sung, and yet horribly creepy (at least in their original tellings).
#17re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:51am
actually there is silence of the lambs the musical, if you've never heard of it, well it kind of explains itself
Perhaps I linked it!
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#18re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 1:56am
EVIL DEAD!
(even though it just posted a closing notice)
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#19re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 2:07amCarrie, while a novel originally (and a bloody brilliant one), is really based more off of the film screenplay (Also bloody brilliant, and WRITTEN by the screenwriter) and was turned into a cult classic musical (Also bloody brilliant)
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#20re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 6:09am
From the forthcoming CHAINSAW!, the Act Two ballad:
I take up my chainsaw, and I
Cut you into pieces.
Yes, I cut you into pieces.
Yes, I cut you into pieces.
I rip your arm from its socket
So I can cut it into pieces.
Then I tear off your leg,
So I can cut it into pieces.
But the best is your head,
Because it splatters and it spews
And the bloooooooooooooooooooooood goes flying
While the braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain is dying
And while you watch
In those final seconds of your life
My chainsaw will crash through your skull
In rage and pain and thrill
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand
I'll cut you into pieces
Yes I'll cut you into pieces
Yes I'll cut you into pieces
And the pieces!
Will!
Be!
MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
(demonic laughter)
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#21re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 8:43am
carrie was based on a horror novel by stephen king but the director thought it would be best to drop a lot of the out and out horror and turn it in to some strange greek morality piece(hence lots of white sets)
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#22re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 10:01am
Actually, the scenes in Carrie between Linzi Hatley & Betty Buckley were quite moving. If they could have found a way to stage the scenes in high school some other way there could have been a show there.
Anyway, in re: to this topic, I am a huge horror buff. I have been trying to figure a way out for years to merge musical theatre and a slasher story effectively. I'm sure it can be done, I personally have not cracked the code yet.
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#23re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 10:04am
The scenes between carrie and her mother are great but that has nothing to do with the awfull staging of the show thats to do with the great music in them scenes and the mind blowing power of Hatley/Buckly
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#24re: really scary shows
Posted: 1/31/07 at 10:14am
Exactly. It was the kids doing a dance while they abscond and slaughter a pig in a song "out for blood" (which was the act 2 opening) that ruined it. It was Darlene Love breaking character to accept applause that ruined it. And it was all that smoke in the prom scene. I remember they lowered a plexiglass window in front of the entire proscenium so the smoke wouldn't choke the audience. It was like watching the show through a fishbowl! And the smoke still got out.
Now that's scary!
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