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Dear Broadway elitists, and wanna-be Broadway elitists (this means you "omg Rent, Spring Awakening, and Wicked are awesome, but Legally Blonde wtf?" types),
Who wants to write a musical about, and based around, the following subjects?
1. Gothic horror/mystery novel, poorly sold, made into a silent horror film years ago. Old man stalks young pretty singer.
2. Young girl gets knocked on the head and hallucinates/dreams she is in a mythical land and meets mythical creatures that look like people she knows.
3. Published fanfic for one of the most famous movie musicals ever made. Green woman is incredibly talented, but hated for her morals. She loses her true love, and dies... sort of.
4. Novella about the evil sides of human nature-somewhat of a take on "multiple personalities".
5. Novel about the reign of terror following the French Revolution.
Oh, and of course
6. book of poems. Set it to music. No plotline. or human characters.
Well damn, I just don't see how any of those would make it past the first year, do you? Especially that last one. There's no way that'll even get out of preview, will it?
C'mon guys. Spiderman the musical, Shrek the musical, Legally Blonde the musical, Spamalot, The Producers... it's a long trend. It makes money. And just because you don't see how it could be done... there's probably a reason you're not a famous composer or lyricist or book writer. How many of you have actually read Jekyll and Hyde? It's really really not set up to turn into a musical-it's less than 100 pages long in my copy. But the right amount of creative license and some good songs turned it into a rather popular musical.
Basically, if I hear one more person, especially one on a Legally Blonde thread, go "Spiderman the musical? wtf, who's dumb idea was that?" I might just go Hyde on someone.
Sincerely,
me
PS
This is not to say we should embrace and adore P:OUAT. There's a line between "Hm, interesting idea, maybe I could use it for a musical" and old man past his prime clinging to his younger days. Sounds hypocritical, but it's not, I swear.
anyone else feel like I've ranted about this before?
Who wants to write a musical about, and based around, the following subjects?
1. Gothic horror/mystery novel, poorly sold, made into a silent horror film years ago. Old man stalks young pretty singer.
2. Young girl gets knocked on the head and hallucinates/dreams she is in a mythical land and meets mythical creatures that look like people she knows.
3. Published fanfic for one of the most famous movie musicals ever made. Green woman is incredibly talented, but hated for her morals. She loses her true love, and dies... sort of.
4. Novella about the evil sides of human nature-somewhat of a take on "multiple personalities".
5. Novel about the reign of terror following the French Revolution.
Oh, and of course
6. book of poems. Set it to music. No plotline. or human characters.
Well damn, I just don't see how any of those would make it past the first year, do you? Especially that last one. There's no way that'll even get out of preview, will it?
C'mon guys. Spiderman the musical, Shrek the musical, Legally Blonde the musical, Spamalot, The Producers... it's a long trend. It makes money. And just because you don't see how it could be done... there's probably a reason you're not a famous composer or lyricist or book writer. How many of you have actually read Jekyll and Hyde? It's really really not set up to turn into a musical-it's less than 100 pages long in my copy. But the right amount of creative license and some good songs turned it into a rather popular musical.
Basically, if I hear one more person, especially one on a Legally Blonde thread, go "Spiderman the musical? wtf, who's dumb idea was that?" I might just go Hyde on someone.
Sincerely,
me
PS
This is not to say we should embrace and adore P:OUAT. There's a line between "Hm, interesting idea, maybe I could use it for a musical" and old man past his prime clinging to his younger days. Sounds hypocritical, but it's not, I swear.
anyone else feel like I've ranted about this before?