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The Greatest Show Never Made
« on: Apr 03, 2012, 11:41 am »
Who has a premise for a show that should never ever be made? Either for subject matter, technical reasons *coughcoughspidermancoughsplutter* or just plain bad taste?

Here's mine: YouTube: The Musical
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #1 on: Apr 03, 2012, 03:40 pm »
You know, I was having a discussion with my ASM last night about this...basically that the premise for most musicals sound pretty silly. A Titanic musical? Oh, ok. Jerry Springer? CATS?!


I'd be worried about a musical adaptation of Jersey Shore, mainly for the all-club-music cast album.
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #2 on: Apr 03, 2012, 05:05 pm »
September 11th - in any form of entertainment.



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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #3 on: Apr 03, 2012, 06:34 pm »
Quote from: missliz on Apr 03, 2012, 03:40 pm



I'd be worried about a musical adaptation of Jersey Shore, mainly for the all-club-music cast album.

Unfortunately, it looks like it has been done! When I was in Chicago a few weeks ago, I saw this poster for Jersey Shore the musical....

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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #4 on: Apr 03, 2012, 07:56 pm »
Ken Ludwig wrote Midsummer/Jersey, a mash-up of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jersey Shore.Review . Granted, it's not a musical.

There have already been two movies about 9/11 created. My wife and I started watching the Nicolas Cage one (World Trade Center) and after about 10 minutes, I couldn't watch it anymore. I've seen one staged reading of a 9/11 survivor's book, That Day in September.

James Bond, the Musical? Harry Potter, the Musical? iPad, the Musical?
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #5 on: Apr 03, 2012, 08:04 pm »
Harry Potter, the Musical has been done - it was done at UofM and Harry was played by Darren Criss (now of Glee fame) 
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #6 on: Apr 03, 2012, 11:49 pm »
There's also a Harry Potter show, Potted Potter, slated to open in a couple weeks in NYC.

So is it actually possible that NOTHING is off-limits? I feel like even an Angry Birds musical would stand a chance at this point.
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #7 on: Apr 03, 2012, 11:52 pm »
Since they're making an Angry Birds movie, the stage adaptation of it can't be that far behind  ::)
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #8 on: Apr 04, 2012, 01:16 am »
My friends and I used to joke about Snakes on a Plane: The Musical.
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #9 on: Apr 04, 2012, 02:12 am »
"Tweet! (Or, 133 very short songs about Sandwiches)"
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #10 on: Apr 04, 2012, 02:29 am »
Quote from: ewharton on Apr 03, 2012, 11:52 pm
Since they're making an Angry Birds movie, the stage adaptation of it can't be that far behind  ::)

Seriously?!

Air Force One - the Musical
Tracy Emin's Bed - the one woman show....
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #11 on: Apr 04, 2012, 02:47 am »
We wrote "Savage in Limbo - the musical" in the booth during the play. It was pretty funny.
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #12 on: Apr 04, 2012, 08:53 am »
Teletubbies, The Musical (though it wouldn't shock me if there were a TYA version out there)
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Musical
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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #13 on: Apr 05, 2012, 12:44 pm »
OMG...be careful what you deride as impossible.....Jersey Shore the Musical = Jersey Shoresical - make sure to check out the pix -

http://www.jerseyshoresical.com/

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Re: The Greatest Show Never Made
« Reply #14 on: Apr 07, 2012, 11:27 am »
The latest version of Blue Man Group features giant iPad like devices called GiPads.  Almost iPad the musical.
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