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Timmer

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joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/13/08 at 05:19pm

"The Poseidon Adventure"

Timmer

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joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/13/08 at 05:26pm

"The Dog and Pony Show"

No, really. All the characters are dogs and ponies.

(Well, "Cats" worked, didn't it?)

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 05:26 PM

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/16/08 at 03:41pm

A musical based on the songs of the Starland Vocal Band.

I<3bway

Broadway Legend
joined:3/14/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/16/08 at 03:43pm

Cast Away: Wilson's Story

phan24

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Understudy
joined:6/26/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/17/08 at 06:28pm

YouTube: The Musical

with such hits as
-Chocolate Rain
-Evolution of Dance
-Please Subscribe

Mr Roxy

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Broadway Legend
joined:5/17/03

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/17/08 at 06:54pm

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - The Musical
L.A. Confidential - The Musical
The Birds - The Musical

Is it true cannibals do not eat clowns because they taste funny? George Carlin

Updated On: 7/17/08 at 06:54 PM

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 01:45am

"Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - The Musical"

Well, the chorus ought to be fun!

luke-h***

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joined:4/4/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 09:27am

Cujo: The Musical

2012: Company (Sheffield Crucible) 4/5 - Rock of Ages (West End) 4/5 - Oliver! (UK Tour, Cardiff) 4.5/5 - Master Class (West End) 5/5 - Matilda (West End) 4/5 - Strictly Gershwin (UK Tour, Bristol) 3/5 - The King's Speech (Bath, Pre-West End) 4/5 - The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse) 5/5 - The King and I (UK Tour, Cardiff) 3/5 - Top Hat (UK Tour, Bristol) 4/5 - An Inspector Calls (UK Tour, Cardiff) 3/5 - Grease (UK Tour, Bristol) 3/5 - Gypsy (Leicester Curve) 5/5 - Abigail's Party (Bath, Pre-West End) 4/5 - I Dreamed a Dream (UK Tour, Bristol) 1/5 - In The Next Room (Or The Vibrator Play) (Bath) 5/5 - Antigone (National Theatre) 4/5 - The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour, Bristol) 5/5 - South Pacific (UK Tour, Plymouth) 5/5 - Sweeney Todd (West End) 5/5 - Matilda (West End) 5/5 - Detroit (National Theatre) 5/5 - The Last of the Hausmans (National Theatre) 4/5 - Gatz (West End) 5/5 - The Little Mermaid (Dutch Tour, Amsterdam) 3.5/5 - Legally Blonde (UK Tour, Cardiff) 2/5 - Carousel (Barbican) 4/5 - Ghost (West End) 5/5 - The Tempest (Bath) 4/5 - Carousel (Barbican) 5/5 - Singin' in the Rain (West End) 5/5 - Jumpy (West End) 5/5 - Berenice (Donmar Warehouse) 4/5 - The Lion King (UK Tour, Bristol) 4/5 - American Idiot (UK Tour, Cardiff) 5/5 - 9 to 5 (UK Tour, Wimbledon) 2/5

ko74612

Chorus Member
joined:6/22/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 03:31pm

Wicked 2.0: A Black Light Revolution.

The audience is encouraged to wear white t-shirts and Elphaba glows in the dark.

Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution?
Tick Tick BOOM

Updated On: 7/21/08 at 03:31 PM

Lizzya9

Broadway Star
joined:10/14/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 03:49pm

"Catcher! The Musical" - a musical based on J. D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" = )

Patash

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Broadway Legend
joined:5/27/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 04:39pm

"The Poseidon Adventure"

Oh, Timmer. Now you've filled my head with this incredible image of Shelly Winters in a Little Mermaid costume "swimming" in a sea of blue light. That's not an easy image to get rid of. Thanks a lot!

madame_no

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joined:3/25/07

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/19/08 at 05:47pm

Harry Potter: The Boy Who Sang

Or even worse: Twilight, The Musical.

Lucille: Look what they've done, Michael! Look what the homosexuals have done to me! Michael: You can't just comb that out and reset it? Lucille: Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire.

b=[^.^]=d

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joined:5/9/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/21/08 at 04:45am

From a guy that knows (kind of... not really) the producer of Watching Paint Dry: A Silent Musical comes:

DIAL-UP: a musical recollection of the internet's humble beginnings

Everyone onstage is dressed as old computers and every dance number includes doing the robot at least once. The set design is full of ethernet cords, networks, computer terminals and the floor is littered with millions of AOL discs.

The orchestra pit is full of members and roadies of Styx.

Featuring the hit songs: "zzz" "Come on" "Come on already (Reprise)" and "Load, load"
Styx gain back the lime light with the curtain call "Mr. Roboto"

"We're all just children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks." - Tennessee Williams

levitatingcow11

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Swing
joined:7/12/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/22/08 at 01:39pm

The Matrix Musicalized.

Featuring such hits as:
Boom Boom Chikka Ow, Life of the Agent, and Don't be the Human

WATCH IT HAPPEN.

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/25/08 at 12:27am

"Hollywood Squares"

TheaterBaby

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Broadway Legend
joined:5/11/03

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/25/08 at 11:37am

"Jersey Girl: The Musical"

But only if J-Lo is in it

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

JenNYferTheatrical

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Stand-by
joined:7/25/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/25/08 at 12:10pm

toanythingtaboo,
forgetting sarah marshall- that part with the dracula musical made me cry in hysterics as well! my friends and i found it surreal. hahahaa

worst idea:
"Blair Witch Project"- the musical

practically_perfect

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Understudy
joined:12/29/07

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/25/08 at 01:20pm

"Hello, Miley!" the musical starring Miley Cyrus. She performs act one as herself, and then act two as Hannah Montana.

TonyVincent

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joined:2/25/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/25/08 at 01:51pm

"Yeah!" the heartwarming tale about Lil' Jon, featuring his greatest hits and his triumph from featured performer to leading artist.

LePetiteFromage

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joined:1/19/08

Posted: 7/25/08 at 02:00pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 02:00 PM

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/28/08 at 01:04pm

"Atlas Shrugged" (featuring the new smash hit song, "(Who Who Who) Who Is John Galt?")

"Bleak House" (including the song "Jarndyce v. Jarndyce v. Jarndyce")

choked_on_tittup

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Chorus Member
joined:2/10/08

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 7/30/08 at 01:55pm

Lord of the Rings the Musical

Good thing they already made that mistake

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 8/4/08 at 03:24pm

Some of these are "Producers"-esque (i.e., they are so classically bad that they might actually be good in a campy/horrible sort of way.)

"Fantasy Island"

"Tony and Cleo" (the musical of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra")

Timmer

Broadway Star
joined:2/21/06

re: Your Worst Musical Ideas
Posted: 8/4/08 at 03:27pm

"Star Trek: The Musical"

Featuring the hit song "He's Dead, Jim"

"He's dead, Jim.
Definitely dead, Jim.
They killed him
And now he's dead, Jim."

And/or a chorus of Borg singing "The Assimilation Tango."

Slogan: "Where no musical has gone before."

"Resistance is futile. Set your phasers on stunning and trek on down to the theatre to see this show! It takes musical theatre to a new galaxy of excellence." -- David Manning, The Ridgefield Press

Updated On: 11/8/08 at 03:27 PM