I vaguely recall posting, on Thought Experiments ages ago, something to the effect that these days all art (using the term very loosely) aspires to the condition not of music but of the musical. Until it's reduced to bad song-and-dance and corny dialogue and is putting bums on seats in what would otherwise be deservedly empty theatres, it doesn't really, fully exist. Everything, it seems, is destined to end up being turned into a musical - even a film about the making of a musical (The Producers) ends up as a stage musical, which is then itself filmed. However, even I was surprised by this one. I don't, though, see it hitting the West End any time soon. Not a lot of scope for boy-girl romance, big routines, showstopping tunes - oh I don't know though, Nothing To Lose But Your Chains would make a good chorus number...
Meanwhile, some films come ready named for the musical stage. I'm thinking Milk - how long before Milk! hits Broadway?
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Das Boot would make a good musical romantic comedy, I feel. It should last for 8 hours and be performed inside an actual submarine.
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Hmmn, I thinking Tommy or Gordoon Broon Superstar. Lenin on drums, Uncle Joe on bass, Fidel on the bongos, The Chairman riffing on his axe, and Karl doing the Jethro Tull thang on vocals, as they belt out "C'mon Baby Light My Feuerbach".
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