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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 17:26:25 GMT
How do you feel about the concept of a musical getting a sequel? My heart says Wicked should get a sequel, but my head says it would probably end up like Love Never Dies. Why is it that musical sequels generally flop? Have there ever been any successful sequels to musicals? And to what musicals would you like to see a sequel? And to what musicals do you think a sequel could actually work?
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Post by The Matthew on May 21, 2016 19:24:22 GMT
I think sequels are always difficult to get right. The demand for sequels comes from the fact that people are passionate about the original and want to see more of the same, but they can't get more of the same because that story is finished. It's often the case that the appeal of a story comes from the way in which a problematic situation is overcome, and the fact that the situation has changed makes it impossible to recapture the same elements that created the appeal in the first place. The end result is a clunky attempt to take characters that were created for one story and shoehorn them into another one in the hope that the audience will overlook the poor fit. Most of the time they don't.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 19:36:41 GMT
How do you feel about the concept of a musical getting a sequel? My heart says Wicked should get a sequel, but my head says it would probably end up like Love Never Dies. Why is it that musical sequels generally flop? Have there ever been any successful sequels to musicals? And to what musicals would you like to see a sequel? And to what musicals do you think a sequel could actually work? Surely The Wizard of Oz is the sequel to Wicked? |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 19:40:41 GMT
I think sequels are always difficult to get right. The demand for sequels comes from the fact that people are passionate about the original and want to see more of the same, but they can't get more of the same because that story is finished. It's often the case that the appeal of a story comes from the way in which a problematic situation is overcome, and the fact that the situation has changed makes it impossible to recapture the same elements that created the appeal in the first place. The end result is a clunky attempt to take characters that were created for one story and shoehorn them into another one in the hope that the audience will overlook the poor fit. Most of the time they don't. That actually makes a lot of sense. I think it might be able to work if they took a supporting character from the original musical and made that character the lead in the sequel. It would be kind of a spin-off sequel |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 19:42:07 GMT
How do you feel about the concept of a musical getting a sequel? My heart says Wicked should get a sequel, but my head says it would probably end up like Love Never Dies. Why is it that musical sequels generally flop? Have there ever been any successful sequels to musicals? And to what musicals would you like to see a sequel? And to what musicals do you think a sequel could actually work? Surely The Wizard of Oz is the sequel to Wicked? Actually they run parallel for most of the second act of Wicked and then they end almost simultaneously. |
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