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Post by jakobo on May 8, 2020 17:51:18 GMT
Has anyone ever experienced having this strong visceral feeling that the piece you're watching/reading would make an amazing musical? Like Lin-Manuel Miranda while reading Hamilton's biography or Dave Malloy with War and Peace. I had this kind of revelation when I was watching Trainspotting. I can imagine it as a really audacious, cool and exhilarating show set to mix of rap/pop/electro music, a cross between Great Comet and Hamilton maybe, but with some dirt and rawness. I'm curious if other people get ideas like this, please share your thoughts.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 18:10:24 GMT
Yes, was reading a biography of Elizabeth Woodwille and couldn’t help but think she’d be an amazing musical part for someone to play.
Her first husband died fighting against the King, a man she would then go on to marry in secret and become Queen of England. She saw her husband defeated in battle, sought sanctuary in Westminster Abbey then waited for him to take his throne back. She was wife to a King, Mother to the next, Sister-in-law to the one after that, mother-in-law to one after that one then finally grandmother to a 5th King of England. Her sons were the missing princes in the tower, her mother was arrested as a witch and she plotted against everyone and anyone to restore her husband’s line of succession. As Queen she married most of her 13 siblings off into the nobility (including her 19 year old brother to an extremely wealthy 65 year old). She did all this against the backdrop of the War of The Roses, saw that came to an end then moved into an Abbey to only go and die of plague.
Game of Thrones has nothing on this woman, and her bloodline survives in the current Queen. There’s a musical in there somewhere, and it annoys me no end she’s reduced to a footnote in Shakespeare’s history plays.
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Post by crowblack on May 8, 2020 18:43:16 GMT
I thought The Ferryman felt like a musical without the music, with the various characters doing their little bits of business - waxing lyrical about a kite and cow gum, the angry woman and her politics, the old woman's speech to the kids about a boy she once knew. I think there may have already been a musical of Great Expectations, but not one that's made much of an impression so far. There's a classic 1940s/50s chiller which I think would make a great spiky, dark comic musical but I won't say which because I might actually pitch it at some point!
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on May 8, 2020 18:50:55 GMT
Yes, was reading a biography of Elizabeth Woodwille and couldn’t help but think she’d be an amazing musical part for someone to play. Her first husband died fighting against the King, a man she would then go on to marry in secret and become Queen of England. She saw her husband defeated in battle, sought sanctuary in Westminster Abbey then waited for him to take his throne back. She was wife to a King, Mother to the next, Sister-in-law to the one after that, mother-in-law to one after that one then finally grandmother to a 5th King of England. Her sons were the missing princes in the tower, her mother was arrested as a witch and she plotted against everyone and anyone to restore her husband’s line of succession. As Queen she married most of her 13 siblings off into the nobility (including her 19 year old brother to an extremely wealthy 65 year old). She did all this against the backdrop of the War of The Roses, saw that came to an end then moved into an Abbey to only go and die of plague. Game of Thrones has nothing on this woman, and her bloodline survives in the current Queen. There’s a musical in there somewhere, and it annoys me no end she’s reduced to a footnote in Shakespeare’s history plays. The queens of this era were so cool! Margaret of Anjou was such a proactive figure as well. My favourite War of the Roses tid bit is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things but I just find it kind of darkly funny - Dowager Countess Anne of Warwick was declared legally dead (despite being very much alive) in order to strip her of her inheritance and give it to Edward IV's brother. |
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Post by jakobo on May 8, 2020 19:02:46 GMT
There's a classic 1940s/50s chiller which I think would make a great spiky, dark comic musical but I won't say which because I might actually pitch it at some point! Come on, no one would dare to steal it from you  |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 19:05:38 GMT
My favourite War of the Roses tid bit is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things but I just find it kind of darkly funny - Dowager Countess Anne of Warwick was declared legally dead (despite being very much alive) in order to strip her of her inheritance and give it to Edward IV's brother. Well... they say the victors do write history! |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 19:13:42 GMT
Actually I watched Steel Magnolias recently and I’m surprised they hasn’t been adapted into a musical (considering it started life as a play anyway). Great character plot for a strong female cast of performers, yet fairly straight forward story wise too.
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