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#26

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/14/07 at 8:28am

I actually really want to adapt this kid's book called "Here Be Monsters" Tough plot to explain, but it seems like a lot of fun...if only I knew enough music theory.
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#27

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/14/07 at 8:35am

Husk, you don't need music theory to write.

Harvey Schmidt could not read a note of music.

I know many composers whose knowledge of "theory" is sub-par, and they write some of the best compositions i have ever heard.
....but the world goes 'round
#28

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:08am

My dad and I have been toying around the the idea of THE MATRIX: THE MUSICAL. Hahahaha. We've already got some of the songs planned.

Okay, not really.
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#29

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:17am

Husk, if you want to write it, write it. Don't let a perceived lack of knowledge get in your way. That was the advice that was given to me, I went with it and I've never looked back. And within 2 years I'd had two kid's musicals produced in New York, got pretty good reviews for them in the Times, met a few wonderful new collaborators and best of all I got an agent. So JUST DO IT!

Weird musical idea: a Swedish exchange student goes to LA to study. She's broke, and decides to sell her eggs. 13 times. CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL EGG DONOR. True story. I'm writing the musical version with a terrific composer lyricist. It's cracked. Pun intended.
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#30

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 1:14am

I actually think that has the potential to be a huge hit.
Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific
#31

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 3:43am

I could count I one hand the number of male fiction authors that I read and relate too...Chris Moore is up there; which book are you looking to adapt?
On a personal note I have to say that I believe he needs add a caveat on his website and admit that one woman; Laurie Notaro, has indeed mastered the art of being universally funny.

Speaking of Laurie (I'm having a stoke-- a stroke of genius)-- Idiot Girls: The Musical.

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life was her first book, she has six now I think.

That could really work. Hmmmm. Perhaps I will send her a note on My Space..
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#32

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 3:49am

If done correctly, I think The Time Traveler's Wife would be a perfect musical.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#33

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 5:39am

George Bush's Army Years - The Musical! Obviously it would be quite short and entirely lacking in incident, but the audiences could always lie about what happened when they got out...
#34

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 11:02am

RadiGal,

It's "Practical Demon Keeping"
....but the world goes 'round
#35

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 12:45pm

I had always joked around that I wanted to create the musical "Sybil: The musical". I had it all planned out. THe stage would be filled with different platforms, and different mirrors. When Sybil would be talking to one of her alters, she would be in front of a mirror, and instead of looking at her reflection it would transform into another actor on the other side, and then the would rotate, and the alter would come to life, and then when that alter was done they would go back to the other side of the mirror. I know it sounds sort of hokey, but at one time I thought it would have really been great.
#36

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 1:21pm

I love that one-- it was optioned by Disney (which was really odd) shortly after its release and never went anywhere...which is sad...I hope you make progress on it..it's one his the best I think the only one I don't just love is Bloodsucking Fiends, as a result I have not raced right out to buy Bite Me but I will get round to it.
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#37

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 1:46pm

I'm writing one now that one could consider weird. Not for subject matter or style or any of the other things one would hold as weird. What's weird about it is that it'll be the first jukebox musical that could really work with a subject matter that doesn't tell the stor of the band. I can't say whose music it is though cause I really don't want the idea to be stolen.
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them
#38

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 2:45pm

Joelbeans: That would have been a good idea if maybe Sybil hadn't been revealed as not truly having DID.

What about When Rabbit Howls instead? 94 personalities... you could employ a looot of actors with that. re: weird ideas for musicals
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#39

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 3:41pm

Shakespearean - no way! DAMMIT, I get into New York on Tuesday 20th! So near yet so far! You'll totally have to take a zillion notes and let us all know how it is!

husk_charmer - that's not the Alan Snow one, is it? If so, I might have to actually give it a read! It's been sat on my shelf staring at me for many a month now...
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#40

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 5:53pm

I've mentioned it before, but I always envisioned a dramatic musicalized staging of Stephen King's Misery. Not the film version, but something closer to the novel that would utilize both the story of the author and the nurse as well as the romantic Misery story he is writing, which could allow for a rich score varying in period, style and cultures as well as lending itself to really creative staging. It could be intense and stunning.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#41

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 7:25pm

I know there was one, I forget the name, about the guy who invented the toilet

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#42

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 7:30pm

Thomas Crapper?

(Not a joke, that was actually his name, he invented the U-bend toilet)
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#43

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 7:33pm

this is what they teach in those snobby private Irish schools Linnie?
....but the world goes 'round
#45

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 8:55pm

Weez-
Yes it is! It was one of the most brilliant kid's novels I've read in a LONG time. It's style is similar to the "Series of Unfortunate Events" only less depressing in tone. The thing just SCREAMS musical.
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#47

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 3/15/07 at 9:17pm

A musical version of Life is Beautiful There are so many moments in the film that just lend themselves to musical numbers, but the whole Holocaust subject matter might be a little touchy to musicalize.

Not that The Producers had any problem, but you know what I mean...
#49

re: weird ideas for musicals

Posted: 5/29/15 at 1:12am

Let's bring this thread back! I personally think it would be cool if they adapted the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla for the stage. It would be a musical (naturally), and the score would feature a mixture of rock/metal/classical music a la Evanescence, Nightwish, Sarah Brightman's Symphony album, etc. 


Probably wouldn't do so hot on Broadway, but I could see something like this doing well overseas. 

"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire

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