Stories that would make good musicals
So what are your thoughts?
I personally think that To kill a Mockingbird would be awsome as a musical. I am taking some time this summer to write an overture for it just to see how it goes. |
Hmm, I not the biggest fan of musicals, so I wouldn't know. Maybe Moby Dick. But if anyone makes Eragon a musical, I'll kill them in a tar pit.
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My life would make a good musical :).
It's got drama, humour, romance, confusion... and me! You've got the whole package! :D. |
The biblical story of Esther: it's a classic reverse fairy tale - the story begins with the girl marrying the king (against her wishes) and ends with them falling in love. Plus (if you believe certain commentaries) you've got a wonderful love-triangle with the man she was already engaged and/or married to before that.
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American Psycho.
Ohhhhhhh, Patrick! My heart beats aflutter When your lips they did mutter I want to make your body a habitrail. Ohhhhhhh, Patrick! My lips they did quiver when your mouth it did utter I want to put your brain on a scale. |
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Me neither. I may not know a lot of musicals, but my class and I have been in a musical or two. Instead of doing much more music theory, then we choose a famous musical, practice in three months or so and then we have the premiere. Ahh I love standing on the stage:happy: And yes I agree with ya, Eragon is too great to become a musical - I've heard that they're about to make a movie out of it. I've read the book and I've been begining to read the second one: I :love: those books! ~DS~ |
The best musical ever: The Little Shop of Horrors. Mmmm.
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Agreed, BM.
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I can't wait for the Eragon movie
I liked Phantom of the Opera *kicks Sekto Springs* and I'd think my life would be a nice musical sometimes. but an actual story. ODDWORLD: AO, a musical lol, not really but that would be hilarious |
Actually, Oddwolrd does have a good enough storyline to be shaped into a great musical, IMO. Adventure, terror, betrayel, the cliche good guy win ending.
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I couldn't see Abe singing. And if he did, I'm sure it would give you a headache.
And Abeguy, Andrew Lloyd Webber can lick my ass while I rape his mother. |
Um....The Count of Monte Cristo would be a good musical.
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Actually, come to think of it, it would. Good spot there, met.
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Rocky...and yes i'm serious
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The problem with that is that it would be hard to write some pieces that could work for only a story like The Count of Monte Cristo. The Scarlet Pimpernel failed in that very category which is porbably the cause of its short and painful life on Broadway. I have recently been enjoying the idea of a musical based off Alice in Wonderland. It could be great either as a musical based alone off the story or a completely different setting but with a similar situation, like Westside Story. |
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I just finished Stardust by Neil Gaimain (started and completed in one sitting). Not his best novel but a good, nice story and one that would work really well as a musical.
In case you've never heard of it, it's about a guy who promises the girl he loves that he'll go find a star that they saw fall in exchange for her hand. So he travels into the land of Faerie, has a bunch of adventures and finds the star, who happens to be a rather stubborn young lady. So now he has to grapple with her and compete against the other people who want to find her; a witch who wants to cut out her heart for a spell and a series of princes who must find her to claim their father's throne. Lots of good stuff there for the legitimate theater. |
I haven't read that one yet. I just finished Anansi Boys recently and thought it was brilliant. Neil Gaiman reminds me of Clive Barker if Clive Barker didn't suck.
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I love Barker's Hellbound Heart and the movies that follow, OANST. Other than that his works are generally more up-in-the-air Koontz excrement.
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I kept trying more of his books because he was so "celebrated" but each one was than the last.
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I think Stephen King's The Dark Tower would make a great musical :D. And has anyone seen the musical Cats? God that sucks! Badly!
OFF TOPIC: yay 300th post! |
It's not a story, but Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" would be a good musiacal, in my humble opinion.
Evolution by Natural Selection by Bullet Magnet What would you do if I out-evolved you, Would you crawl off and die out on me? Lend me your niche and I’ll eat all your food, And compete for the things that you need. Oh I get by with a little help from my genes, I survive with a little help from my genes, You will die with a little help from my genes. How can you live when you cannot compete Can you not win over the rest? Soon all your kind shall be gone from the Earth, I have proven that I am the best. Yes! I get by with a little help from my genes, I can fly with a little help from my genes, Will reside with a little help from my genes Do you need a theory? I need a theory of life. Try natural selection! Darwin’s theory of life. Now I can breed and produce many young, My offspring will be a success. Sadly your numbers begin to dwindle, Your line has met its recess. I get by with a little help from my genes, Ramify with a little help from my genes, Multiply with a little help from my genes Do you need a theory? We have a theory for life. Evolution by selection. Darwin’s theory of life. Oh we get by with a little help from our genes; We survive with a little help from our genes, We abide with a little help from our genes, Yes! We will thrive with a little help from our genes, With a little help from our genes! What do you think? |
Wow! That was great. Got any more little ditties?
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don't laugh, but after seeing FFVII advent children, one part of it I thought would've made a great song number.
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Cats especially. T.S. Eliot is probably turning over in his grave. |
Yes, well... this thread is about stories that would make good musicals. The problem (among many) with cats is that it doesn't have a story. It's just a song and dance show.
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As much as I loathe musicals (such a lazy way to convey story and emotion), why are you lot ripping on Cats?! I played Mr. Mistoffolees a fair while back; I rolled some dice, walked a tightrope and made a magical exchange of one ordinary, unimportant and disliked cat with the big leader-cat. It involved a see-through bed sheet and the longest drum roll you'd ever hear... or want to hear.
So, all in all, a tremendous success - my mum told me so. |
Cats is horrific, and I'm not just taking that stand as an Andrew Lloyd Webber-hater, but as someone who's well-rounded as far as musicals go.
It's aimless, amatuerish nonsense, and anyone could infer that for themselves after reading what you just described. It's poorly choreographed for one thing, some dances are completely inappropriate to what is occuring in a song, even though none of the songs make a lick of sense ("Jellicle" cats? What the hell is that supposed to mean?). To be blunt, Cats is an awkward musical that's a ringing pain to your eyes and ears. Webber just needed to pop one out and fast, so he stuffed an old poem into his metaphorical rubbish E-Z Bake oven and garnished it with his own basting - a big semeny glob of short-sightedness. |
Yes yes yes - but I was really good in it.
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Prove it. :dodgy: |