the new golden era of musicals

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i. once more with feeling (=the buffy musical)
ii. the south park movie
iii. the opera ep of futurama
iv. COP ROCK!! (ok i never saw this but i REALLY REALLY WANTED IT TO BE TERRIFIC)

actual real new musicals as put on on broadway (or worse: in london) are generally miserably bad, surely

but if done by the back door of TV they are top!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

name more or shoot me down or whatever

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

haha cop rock's not very recent mark

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

it is if you've never seen it

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

the dude who did donnie darko's next movie is a musical. SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR STARS IN IT. STIFLER'S HER COSTAR.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

DID I BLOW YOUR MIND?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

those movies that got made into musicals (producers, hairspray) are being made into movies too.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

best musical past ten years: bring it on?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Ya know there's a musical version of War of the Worlds coming out? Maybe it's already out, I dunno. I work at a comic book company and I when I found out we got the licence to do a comic adaptation and accompanying swhag, I assumed it was for the movie. Nope. Musical.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm actually not that big of an smg fan outside buffydom

i wd walk a billion miles across molten glass to watch stifler eat a sandwich obv

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Velvet Goldmine
Moulin Rouge (okay, I don't think it's THAT great, but for some reason I know a ton of women who absolutely adore it. go figure)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

i really liked "grace of my heart" (partly bcz ileanna douglas is one of my favourite actresses)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

"Dancer in the Dark" was alright.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

DID I BLOW YOUR MIND?

Revenge of the Nerds (2006) - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
produced by freaks and geeks producer; directed by the director of the paris hilton sextape

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

does topsyturvy count? i really liked that too!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

o shit topsy turvy, bring it on's just #2 musical past ten years.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

jonathan is that a MUSICAL!!? awesome if so

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

lord of the rings musical to open in toronto!

― jones (actual), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

ok surely there are more TV-eps-done-as-musicals than the three i mentioned? (actually i'm gnna count SP as four since there's lotsa music in it anyway)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

oh oh the simpsons APE! musical: from chimpan-a to chimpan-zee

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

the war of the worlds music is old.
seann william scott is a genius.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

haha lord of the rings reminded me jones: "from uruk-hai to uruk-zee"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

simpsons does it like crazy obviously, drew carey did it too i think. daria had a musical episode.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

haha mark s, you should read the new Ethan Mordden!!

"Pop morons shit their pants and say, Look, it's my Broadway musical"

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

"those movies that got made into musicals (producers, hairspray) are being made into movies too. "

i feel these may go the auntie mame/mame route rather than the i am a camera/cabaret one

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

The new golden errors of musicals

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

what the hell's wah wah west doin in that list!!

also "the terrors of tiny town" is better than he says it is, though i don't remember the song

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Tim Curry in the Worst Witch and "Milkshake" in Can't Stop the Music are the WORST musical moments??????

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

hey actually Grace Of My Heart would have been a terrific tv pilot (especially if the i.douglas character was also a MASTER SLEUTH)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

tokyo r did you ever read the michael feinstein review (in the voice) of MISS SAIGON?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Tim Curry in the Worst Witch and "Milkshake" in Can't Stop the Music are the WORST musical moments??????

If not worst, definitely among the most unique.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

where's rattle and hum on that list???

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

haha i don't mean michael feinstein i mean michael feingold

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

the 'popular' musical episode obv!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

mark s: no

since i can only listen to tapes in my car, i listened to Miss Saigon for the first time in years, and it's so weird!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

it was the CRUELLEST, FUNNIEST bad review i ever read of a musical (or anything else, much): i wish i'd kept a copy

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Team America was kinda beautiful.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

For TV shows, check out the Clone High School musical episode from last year (I think). For stage musicals, one relatively recent one (96 or 97) that is just wonderful is Floyd Collins. Oh yeah, and Hedwig.

― no one in particular, Friday, 18 March 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

given that i REALLY LIKE musicals and am fascinated by them in regard to the ahem POLITIX OF FORM it is v.silly that i have not seen (even to dislike):
i. hedwig
ii. moulin rouge
iii. dancer in the dark

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

hedwig is fantastic, really great and fun. i still haven't seen all of moulin rouge, i'm not a baz luhrman fan and it looks just not ridiculous enough for me, i've been tempted to check it out though. dancer in the dark is manipulative as hell, quite daft in many places. i cried my eyes out every time i saw it and i saw it several times. guffman and a mighty wind should be noted on this thread too.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Hedwig is awesome, Moulin Rouge is alright if you like that kind of thing and Dancer In The Dark is flat-out brilliant.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

dan is there anything not here that ought to be?

also: is popular available on DVD yet?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

"Masked and Anonymous"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I don't know what your sense of humor is like, but I think this is fucking hilarious... maybe you have to know a lot about musicals...

Library Musical:
http://collegehumor.com/?movie_id=29428

Lecture Musical:
http://www1.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=132592

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah!

"a grand don't come for free"!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

The musical scene in Run Ronnie Run with Mandy Patinkin was the saving grace of that movie.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm telling you.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Y'know, the music for Avenue Q is actually worth giving a listen to. It's nice.
Another vote for Hedwig, tho.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

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