Silence, the Musical

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That's Silence of the Lambs, that is.

http://www.silencethemusical.com

Dan Perry to thread IMMEDIATELY. "Put the Fucking Lotion in the Basket" alone...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 May 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Ferrino to thread, as well.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This is amazing stuff.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

NED RAGGETT I LOVE YOU

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Silence Of The Lambs, the adventure game.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"If I could undo who I am/I'd snap my fingers, brand new man/I want to smell her bearded clam/I almost can!"

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Garrison as Clarice!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Did your uncle ever molest your pubic hairs?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(Also bonus points rhyming Clarice's "is" with Lecter's "wish".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

OH GOD I WAS BORN TO PLAY BUFFALO BILL

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Play the hand you're dealt, as they say

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 23 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. I haven't even seen the movie, and. Wow.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 23 May 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS HAS MADE MY ENTIRE MONTH NED I BEQUEATH YOU MY FIRST-BORN CHILD

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Pikachu?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 May 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You mustn't shirk yr responsibilities to corrupt Pikachu, Dan.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 23 May 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, trust me, you were the first person I thought of when I heard this. You have to thank my friend Rich Amtower for sharing this love. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 May 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i woke up in the middle of the night laughing about this

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 24 May 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

This has inspired me to start work on that Hellraiser musical.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 24 May 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Based on the Sweet?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 24 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the "*contains pleasant major mode" bit.

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 24 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i woke up in the middle of the night laughing about this

The first thing I thought of this morning was this song (which was amazing because last night I couldn't remember how the tune to "Basket" went, but there it was, perfect for me in the morning).

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 24 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I am in love with the melody to "If I Could Smell Her Cunt". I want to record half of these songs.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 24 May 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(this is the best work of lit and/or film crit i have encountered since i can't remember when)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 24 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's truly astounding on all fronts. DB just downloaded it all and gave it a listen and was duly amazed.

And Nicole to thread too! C'mon, it's a musical!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. my. god. I heart this.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 24 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The bio on the page is great too -- I already liked these two guys' sense of humor, now I also admire their ambition and moxie...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the madness...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, I already sold Pikachu to the gypsies, you're gonna have to make another baby for Ned.

My favorite part of the bio is where they say that this production is a labor of love, "thank god cos we sure as hell haven't made this a labor of money".

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 24 May 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Dan should record the entire album, it would be a guaranteed classic.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Without question. And do all the funny voices! ;-) Overdubbed Dan singing "We're going INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN" in a manly man way = genius beyond description.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe it's time for Douglas Wolk to post the treatment for "Hatful!" which is a musical consisting entirely of Smiths songs

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 25 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe the time for that was like years ago, what is the big hold up here?! Now please.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 26 May 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

well actually it's on Douglas's site. Copying & pasting without permission, hope that's not some kinda etiqette violation -

Here's the prospectus for HATFUL!

Our hero, William, is a young Aryan student type with suspect "nationalist" tendencies and a thing about anonymous rough trade. As the curtain rises, his head is sticking out of the back window of a car on a hillside desolate, and he is singing ecstatically ("This Charming Man"); a chorus of bicyclists joins in. As he finishes his song, his companion pops out of the car; it is a young, suspiciously high-voiced young man named Sandy. William tells Sandy gratefully that, having recently gotten engaged, he was afraid that the anonymous-pickup part of his life might be coming to an end. De nada, says Sandy ("William, It Was Really Nothing"), but a man like you shouldn't be engaged. They exchange phone numbers. In the next scene, we see who William is engaged to: an older woman named Jeane, a petty criminal. William is pretty drained at this point and just wants to do his schoolwork, but Jeane has other ideas ("Handsome Devil"). William gets all sulky ("Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now") and realizes he has to see Sandy again. "There's a club, if you'd like to go," Sandy offers. They meet there, and Sandy (backed by a chorus of dancers) offers himself sexually in any way William desires ("Ask"). William suggests they adjourn to a nearby disused railway line, where it is dramatically revealed that Sandy is actually a young woman, Sandie, and what's more, she's been obsessed with William for years and figured that this masquerade was the only way to win his affections (the duet "Half A Person"). At this point, William has no idea _what_ his desires are, and announces that not only is he celibate now but that he has been for years. He packs his things to move out, confronts Jeane and rejects her dramatically ("Jeane"). Jeane, distraught, invites over a quartet of her best women-friends who have also recently been rejected by men they thought they could change, and for Act I's closer, they sing "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side," each attempting to top the others' high notes.

For the big Act II opener, William returns in despair to his old friends, now in the National Front, who suggest a little mayhem to pick up his mood. They burn a disco and lynch the DJ while performing an ensemble song-and-dance number ("Panic"). Jeane returns pathetically to William ("Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"), who snidely rejects her affections and her lifestyle but sleeps with her anyway ("What Difference Does It Make?"). Meanwhile, Sandie bewails her lonely fate ("Unloveable"). Fortunately, the triangle is resolved when Jeane goes to visit her friend Stephen, who tells her that William loves Sandie as he could never love her ("You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby"). Jeane wanders out into the street and is hit by a double-decker bus. William, distraught, goes to visit her in the hospital ("Girlfriend In A Coma"). Jeane sits feebly up in bed, sings her final tragic ballad ("Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"), and expires. William, at last, realizes that he didn't especially love Jeane in the first place, and heads over to Sandie's apartment to throw stones at the window. Sandie lets him in, and the lovers embrace as they sing a duet reprise of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want". As the sun rises, the entire cast returns to the stage, links hands, sways, and joins voices in glorious choral song ("That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"). Curtain. They'll be going out into the streets whistling "I've seen this happen in other people's lives/And now it's happening in mine," I tell you.

--Douglas Wolk

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 May 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 26 May 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. My. Lord.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 26 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Several parts of this sounds like the Muppets. This is in no sense a criticism.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 26 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I revive this for no good reason other than I want to revive this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And also because 20,000 is clearly not enough.

― Ned Råggett (Chris Piuma), Thursday, 31 July 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn Swedes!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bork bork bork!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Him and Beeker, my gods and saviours, I tell you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it! Anthony Miccio is Beeker! That's who he is!

Er, carry on.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

So wait, IS Anthony Beeker?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't you guys seen "Cannibal, the musical"?

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

there should be a silent musical

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as you can hum to it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I just listened to "Put the Lotion in the Basket" and am now literally in tears. "Mind the broken finger nail, the last girl climbed half way but failed"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 September 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

at work, people's itunes have started showing up on other people's computers. i hope it wasn't too late to delete 'if i could smell her cvnt'.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

But that's a beautiful contribution to world affairs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(You know, you can choose what files you want to share...)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Someone mailed me a link to It Puts The Lotion In The Basket, which is pretty cute and all but really only reminded me of this.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

The NRO folks have found out about this. Amusingly, they like it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

That Smiths musical is amazing.

I played It Puts the Fucking Lotion in the Basket for my roommate, expecting high-fives and OMGs and instead found out that he had never seen the movie before.

What the eff?

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 6 November 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen the movie either, but I suspect I still got all the jokes.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 6 November 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

OMG BONUS SONG!!!!!!!

http://dl.mp3lizard.com/silencebonus/02%5FFuck%5FMe.mp3

― Dan (So Happy) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.silencethemusical.com/nyc/

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Via Jesse of Chicago.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Are you so there? Is this better than Manos?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

If I got to see a double-bill of that I would die happy. (But not immediately, that would stink.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Opening in NYC full-on next month:

http://www.silencethemusicallive.com/

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 August 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

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