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A "jukebox musical" featuring the music of a popular heavy metal band. In the grand tradition of "Jersey Boys," "Movin' Out," and "Mamma Mia," someone takes a bunch of songs by, say, Metallica, and strings them together using some kind of plot device. I don't enough metal to pick which band would be
best or which songs, or what kind of story one might make, but it would be LOUD.
And did I mention that it would probably make a lot of money?
Operation Mindcrime
http://en.wikipedia...peration:_LIVEcrime
[jaksplat, Feb 25 2009]
ITV: Mighty Boosh could pen Alice Cooper Musical?
http://www.itv.com/...ical-909068887.html
"Welcome To My Nightmare is basically about as close to a musical as you can get". Yep. [jutta, Feb 26 2009]
Brutal Legend
http://www.brutallegend.com/home.action
YEAH! [bungston, Nov 18 2009]
Met Opera in HD
http://www.metopera...events_current.aspx
Pretty much the ultimate in theatrical heavy and metallic. [csea, Nov 19 2009, last modified Dec 26 2009]
Rock of Ages: The MUSICAL
http://www.RockOfAgesMusical.com
a*hem* [smendler, Mar 13 2010]
[link]
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Pffft, those aren't heavy metal. I don't think this would go over well, anyway. It's just so...wrong. |
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//Your Pfft is noted.//
sp. "Pffft" |
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I stand corrected. Mentally replace my "aren't" with "are barely...by today's standards". |
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//sp. "Pffft"//
[citation needed] |
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// //sp. "Pffft"// [citation needed] //
See [Spacecoyote]'s first anno, above. |
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I consider it artistic license, unless you find a reputable source of a standard spelling. |
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Make it a Horror show, and I might be interested |
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Ooo, I feel a time-warp coming on. |
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While conceding that true metal affici - afician - enthusiasts would pooh-pooh Metallica as not heavy enough, I'd think that anyone much heavier wouldn't be able to attract folks to Broadway. I'd be surprised if one could build a viable vehicle around System of a Down or Tool... "OZZY - THE MUSICAL" maybe? |
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On the other hand, a stage version of SPINAL TAP could work.... |
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I think this would be a great thing to not do. |
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[zen_tom] Queen is nothing like Heavy Metal |
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Close but not exactly the same cigar: Zappa's Thing Fish. It was pitched as a Broadway musical, but no one bought it. The CD is great, IMHO, but true Zappa fans say that it is mostly just a compendium of Zappa works published in other albums. Still, I loved it and listened to nothing else for about a month after a friend gave it to me. |
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I think the life and works of Alice Cooper would be a prime candidate. |
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We'll know that metal has finally died when it hits Broadway. Therefore [+]. |
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[gnomethang] I agree. Alice Cooper was one of my favorites. Very theatrical. |
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Well, as long as it makes you happy. |
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MaxwellB: I don't not disagree, I think this would not be a great thing to not do, so I will not use my dullest tools to dash off an inane libretto or two... but do check me out. |
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Having revisited this I have one Word:
Rammstein.
Make that two words.
Ram.
Stein |
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Hasn't the German language had enough exposure in musical
theater (300 years of opera)? How about something in English,
please, for Tool's sake? |
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I like this using the Brutal Legend vision of Metal: Frank Frazetta inspired / album cover art / chrome demon babes / technodark ages Metal. Now that would be Opera! |
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I've recently attended a number of the live HD-to-cinema broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera (NYC), and find them very appealing. [link] |
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I actually don't like Opera much, and prefer singing / perfoming it to watching from an audience. But the addition of multiple camera angles, closeups, subtitles, backstage interviews, etc. is a great improvement. |
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I suspect this could be applied to any form of theatrical performance to good effect. |
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Stairway To Hell was done but I think that it was off-broadway. |
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We have our title, I think. |
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//Stairway To Hell was done but I think that it was off-
broadway.// |
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But broad is the path that leads there, don't you know? |
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Yes, and quite distinctive ... it's paved entirely with good intentions. |
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" Hasn't the German language had enough exposure in musical theater (300 years of opera)? How about something in English, please, for Tool's sake?
— lordoftheflood, Nov 18 2009 " |
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[lordoftheflood] created their account on November 16, 2009, annoed on this idea two days later, and then was never heard from again. |
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Washed away in the flood, perhaps, or maybe just a bit player in a heavy metal play. |
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I'd love there to be a heavy metal opera on
Broadway. I live in Cambridge. |
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