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Post by stagebyte on Jul 4, 2021 21:48:53 GMT
Composers Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, schumann’s protégée.
It’s got it all going on. Music, prodigies, unrequited love (or maybe not), madness,psychotic melancholia.
Prime for an epic sweeping musical about three music geniuses in the romantic era.
Andy call me babes
I’ll write the book.
Let’s get Tim or Don in for the lyrics
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Post by chernjam on Jul 5, 2021 3:54:24 GMT
It was rumoured (quite a while ago - possibly before/after The Women in White?) that he was doing something around The Master and Margarita - it would be fascinating to see what he (or indeed anyone!) would make of that… I had brought that up but for some reason my post never ended up (I must've screwed something up when I thought I posted it) I'm thinking that was sometime after Sunset/ around WDTW time that he was publicly talking about doing that adaptation. There was some follow up that he had abandoned it saying it was a bit too complicated to stage. Just reading the synopsis of it - it sounded pretty philosophical. Curious about what it was that caught his attention initially. I remember ALW talking about something surrounding a game show - and before Cinderella he had talked about another idea that had some connection to a real person/incident that he hoped to have gotten their approval in order to proceed. Which obviously didn't happen as he never mentioned it again and then started talking about Cinderella |
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Post by viserys on Jul 5, 2021 8:57:54 GMT
Master & Margarita has some great scenes that actually "sing" (unlike so many books or movies that just don't sing and seem odd choices for musical theatre adaptions - Woman in White being a good example) and a rich seam of dark humour. Sadly, unless ALW would get together with Tim Rice again, I don't see any of his woeful book and lyrics attempts in the last 20 years to be a match for Bulgakov's great writing.
An opera version will be opening here next spring and I think I may check it out, even though German Regietheater in opera means it will probably be horrible.
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