Live Performance Ideas You're Sure Only You Would Like

Batman & Robin: The Musical

Would it make the Spiderman musical look like Le Mis? Probably. Would it be hilarious? Most likely.

edited 24th Dec '11 9:25:59 PM by Mort08

A Mars Attacks-based musical.

A production of the Reefer Madness musical where everything is played dead seriously, with no-one hamming anything up for comedy purposes, or using comedic timing, and some of the jokes (like the placard woman) get axed.

This isn't because I agree with the things the characters say. It's not because I think it deserves to get taken more seriously. It's to take revenge on people who make musicals I like as dramas into overt comedies.

edited 26th Jan '12 10:26:12 PM by PDown

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Musical.

I don't care what you say. I've already started working on it.

That made me laugh hard enough to snort in a public place. I say yes.

I had a dream a while ago where a voice compelled me to write a musical based on Cee-Lo Green's The Lady Killer. The story is a volunteer firefighter Broken Ace with a Gold Digger girlfriend falls in love with another woman and stressed over it as his girlfriend tries to seduce his friends and his rival, The Ace. I've never written anything beyong a 5 minute sketch (besides prose), but I woke up thinking it was the idea of the century and was determined to get started.

All of my friends laughed when I explained it to them.

I've had the strange idea of a musical set to Fall Out Boy songs detailing the utter pettiness of the US 2008 elections since... well, almost 2008. I'm sure I would be this musical's only interested party.

Okay, a production of Assassins performed at a major baseball stadium.

Classical Crossover artists doing The Desert Song or any operetta. Chloe Agnew from Celtic Woman as Margot Bonvalet, Lisa Kelly as Clementina, Orla Fallon as Susan, Meav Ni Mhaolchatha as Edith, and Lynn Hilary as Azuri with Andrea Bocelli as Pierre Birabeau/the Red Shadow. Get other male artists who can act to play General Birabeau, Bennie, Sid El Kar and Ali Ben Ali, as well as Hassi and Mindar (members of the Red Shadow's band). Assorted male and female choir members would play Riffs, French soldiers, soldiers' wives, guards and Ladies of the Brass Key. Operettas fit CC quite well as they're in the light classical music genre.

edited 9th Jul '12 8:13:40 PM by MorwenEdhelwen

A musical based on The Tempest but set on The Martian Chronicles' version of Mars.

A biopic musical in English about Fulgencio Batista, former dictator of Cuba, covering the period from his early life and military career to just before the Communist takeover, in a similar style to Evita. Anyone else like this idea?

In fact:

The money rolled in from side to side,

As Fulgencio's hands reached far and wide.

Cabarets, casinos added to the stash,

That's why Havana flowed with dirty cash.

Parody of "And The Money Kept Rolling In"

edited 23rd Aug '12 10:24:30 PM by MorwenEdhelwen

A musical tribute to BDSM that only masochists could watch. It'd be all Britney Spears music.

Game of Thrones: The Musical

I also would like one musical where the male love interest is baritone or base and gets to just dominate every song he's in, like Elphaba in Wicked.

CATS, but cutting a few of the songs in order to make room for a plot where Gus winds up going toe-to-toe with Macavity while progressively reconciling himself to the similarities between Grizabella and himself - redemptive capacity included. Growltiger's Last Stand gets performed in the climax.

I really think a play that starts out as this really dramatic, almost Shakespearean plot, but turns into a musical out of nowhere right before the second act would be pretty great.

One suggested at our last theater show was Titus Andronicus, as performed with profane hand puppets as in Avenue Q. I'm forseeing a bit of eyerolling when Lavinia draws her message out entirely using her mouth given the usual methods of sock puppets for such things...

A Trigun musical, with the first act being lighthearted, and the second act being darker, inspired by the structure of the anime.

I cast THREAD NECROMANCY!

Anyway, I'd love a musical adaptation of The Princess Bride. Also, DrNoPuma and I both want a stage musical based on The Flash (2014). Yes, they did a musical episode, but that's not the same.

I’d love a stage musical of the “Once More with Feeling” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I’m probably not the only one who would like this, but the target audience is small enough that it would never happen.

I'd like a stage musical/Performance for Kirby. I don't know why but I do.

I'm not sure even I would want to attend this, but a five act, five year play: the play takes place over five years of the characters' lives, each act represents one year, and there's effectively a one year intermission between every act. I.e. you'd go to the theater and watch act 1, come back the same date and time next year to see act 2, etc. The idea is everyone is aging in real life, sorta like the only way you could stage a live version of Boyhood. Maybe even incorporate a Writing by the Seat of Your Pants element so that the play can incorporate current events as they happen, or even significant things that happen in the actors' lives.

This one's stolen from a Mark Prindle observation: Comedy and horror have been compared to each other because both rely on the element of surprise, but there's no such thing as "stand up horror". Just, like, one person on stage with a mic using their words, their voice and their presence to scare the crap out of the audience for an hour or so. I think someone capable of a really intense stage persona could do it - whether there's an audience for it is another story.

Edited by MikeK on Mar 4th 2020 at 12:03:22 PM

Any number of Tsukino Empire sequels.

Or a return of the tengu from Kurenai Enishi.

Ehehehe it's not just me, a lot of people want more Identity V stage plays but I don't think we'll be getting them.

And I think a lot of people would want to see crossovers, but I don't think we'll get that unless Movic got the rights to do more IDV.