Maybe it’s just the blogs I read, but it seems to me you can’t swing a dead Grizabella the Glamor Cat without hitting a new ridiculous idea for a musical these days. Currently on Broadway, we have the Green Day musical (which I saw at Berkley Rep last spring – I mean, I like Green Day concerts, too, almost as much as I like plots) and an Enron musical. Ah well: it’s possible that a musical roughly about a 35-year-old single guy’s birthday seemed ridiculous at the time, too, but I can’t help but highlight these upcoming projects. In no particular order:
Dances with Wolves the Musical, via Playbill.
Some kind of Mormon musical from the creators of South Park, via Pitchfork.
A Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Flaming Lips musical, via BrooklynVegan.
Re: the Flaming Lips musical, a commenter notes:
It bears admitting that the first time I ever met Gabriel was at a workshop of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson at Williamstown, thought it was Pretty Ridiculous, and now it’s a smash hit in NYC, so I’ll stop judging, now…
I read somewhere
that Aaron Sorkin was attached to this to write the book. Which is just
ridiculous enough to be plausible. I know Mr. Sorkin liked his
psychotropics, so there might be that connection….