whatcha gonna sing?

[rmd]

so, as per usual this saturday morning, i'm listening to WERS's Standing Room Only showtunes radio show as i putter around drinking tea and folding laundry.

and suddenly it hit me.

ghostbusters: the musical.

it's got all the things broadway wants in their shows recently: based on a movie, big special effects, potential for re-use of pop songs from within the past few decades. rick moranis can sing (he was seymore in the movie musical version of "little shop of horrors"), so he could recreate his role from the movie. i can just picture a big production number with the three white ghostbuster guys singing about setting up shop, a ballad of unrequited love from the secretary...

Comments

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

That's awful.

I love it.

[mangosteen]

A separated duet between the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper...

A starting song from Venkman about being the misunderstood academic (who's in it for the girls).

A "The Music Man" style patter song while they're sitting in the jail cell talking about the details of the building.

So many possibilities....

[coraline]

that would be completely fabulous...

sadly, i think the people-i-know-who-wrote-a-musical are thoroughly burnt out on the concept right now though.

[geofizz.livejournal.com]

I could see ghosts done with Lion King style costumes. I look forward to the songs: A Disaster (of Biblical Proportions), Tell Him About the Twinkie and Don't Cross the Streams.

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

That icon... so strangely familiar.....

[geofizz.livejournal.com]

You wore the same dress? How embarassing.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I am sooooo there.

[guxx.livejournal.com]

Cute idea but not novel. Check out this link (http://www.leisuresuit.net/Webzine/articles/1984_musicals2.shtml) for a musical adaptation of Ghostbusters that someone beat you to writing...