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A touring company that performs hit West End and Broadway musicals, word for word, but spoken, rather than sung.
You could probably get two shows in in a night and clear up.
Cop Rock
http://www.imdb.com...0098772/plotsummary
sounds horrible [calum, Nov 08 2004]
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Oddly, I agree with this concept, when Nemo came out I was greatly relieved there was little singing. |
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Some of the old musicals would be terrific stories without the dance numbers. like "The King and I", "South Pacific". but the 50's and 60's musicals were made to showcase a talent, rather than a story, all of Elvis's movies for example. |
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In "Grease" I would miss the music, because it had so much character of the times. My kids hate musicals of any sort. period |
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My idea is for a kind of play, one hamstrung by trite dialogue and stultifyingly simplistic plot lines which would require either radical restaging or a Herculean effort from the players to bring some sort of credence/verisimilitude to proceedings. |
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[Brau], I envisaged that the play would be performed in a naturalistic, possibly downbeat style, without any of the dreadful music, rather than speaking in time over the accompaniment. |
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so what musical were you dragged to this week [calum] ? |
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Miss Saigon. Emotional pornography of the most brazen variety. Significant Other got through a box of tissues and came out with eyes swollen wet and red, having enjoyed herself immensely. |
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Still, now I've got my rant off my chest, this may well disappear. |
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I read this as Talksticles, which scared me. |
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The opposite of this idea is intriguingly frightening as well. Take a perfectly repectable play, but sing all of the words. |
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which was baked by Steven Boncho in that cop show? |
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Had to look that one up. It's Steven Bochco, and the show in 1990 was called "Cop Rock". The comment in IMDb was: "Embarrassing to the point of blackballing." Heh - I'm not really surprised by that. |
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But then a show like that would be different in that the words were likely written to rhyme or at least have some semblance of cadance. Turning the text of a play into a musical without changing the words would not even have this going for it. |
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So, [BrauBeaton], if you're worried about musicals about rappers becoming Rapsicles, surely you've considered what would happen if talksicals were made about pop stars.....Popsicles. |
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