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?
-- smendler, Feb 24 2009

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]

Pffft, those aren't heavy metal. I don't think this would go over well, anyway. It's just so...wrong.
-- Spacecoyote, Feb 24 2009


//Your Pfft is noted.//
sp. "Pffft"
-- coprocephalous, Feb 24 2009


I stand corrected. Mentally replace my "aren't" with "are barely...by today's standards".

//sp. "Pffft"// [citation needed]
-- Spacecoyote, Feb 24 2009


// //sp. "Pffft"// [citation needed] //
See [Spacecoyote]'s first anno, above.
-- coprocephalous, Feb 24 2009


I consider it artistic license, unless you find a reputable source of a standard spelling.
-- Spacecoyote, Feb 24 2009


Make it a Horror show, and I might be interested
-- Dub, Feb 24 2009


Ooo, I feel a time-warp coming on.
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Feb 24 2009


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?

On the other hand, a stage version of SPINAL TAP could work....
-- smendler, Feb 25 2009


I think this would be a great thing to not do.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 25 2009


[zen_tom] Queen is nothing like Heavy Metal
-- simonj, Feb 25 2009


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.
-- luxlucet, Feb 26 2009


I think the life and works of Alice Cooper would be a prime candidate.
-- gnomethang, Feb 26 2009


We'll know that metal has finally died when it hits Broadway. Therefore [+].
-- wagster, Feb 26 2009


[gnomethang] I agree. Alice Cooper was one of my favorites. Very theatrical.
-- blissmiss, Feb 26 2009


Well, as long as it makes you happy.
-- Jinbish, Feb 26 2009


On one foot no less.
-- blissmiss, Feb 26 2009


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.
-- lordoftheflood, Nov 18 2009


Having revisited this I have one Word:
Rammstein.
Make that two words.
Ram.
Stein
-- gnomethang, Nov 18 2009


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


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!
-- bungston, Nov 18 2009


I've recently attended a number of the live HD-to-cinema broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera (NYC), and find them very appealing. [link]

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.

I suspect this could be applied to any form of theatrical performance to good effect.
-- csea, Nov 19 2009


Stairway To Hell was done but I think that it was off-broadway.
-- outloud, Nov 19 2009


// chrome demon babes //

We have our title, I think.
-- smendler, Sep 29 2016


//Stairway To Hell was done but I think that it was off- broadway.//

But broad is the path that leads there, don't you know?
-- RayfordSteele, Sep 29 2016


Yes, and quite distinctive ... it's paved entirely with good intentions.
-- 8th of 7, Sep 29 2016


" 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 "

[lordoftheflood] created their account on November 16, 2009, annoed on this idea two days later, and then was never heard from again.

Washed away in the flood, perhaps, or maybe just a bit player in a heavy metal play.
-- normzone, Sep 29 2016


I'd love there to be a heavy metal opera on Broadway. I live in Cambridge.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 29 2016



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