Special thanks to the Producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the sponsors of this week's Sunday Giveaway. One of
you will get two free tickets to see B&C, which is one of the few new musicals opening on Broadway this year, and only one of two opening this Fall.
How do you win? I thought you'd never ask.
Bonnie and Clyde is a musical about a very famous couple 'o criminals.
What criminal would you like to see as the subject of a musical? Extra credit if you title it.
Comment your answer below and I'll pick a winner randomly and you'll head off to see the show.
Simple!
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He founded The Crips street gang, got the death penalty, and became an anti-gang activist while serving his time. Nominated for Nobel Prizes for Peace and Literature. Executed in 2005. Already have a name: LEGACY… and already in process of being created by my company!!
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TOT-MOM: The Casey Anthony Musical
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Michael Alig, the Club Kid murderer. I don’t think I can think of a better name than Disco Bloodbath (the title of the book about him) or Party Monster (title of two movies about him).
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Galileo.
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DEFINITELY Martha Stewart.
It’s A Good Thing: The Martha Stewart Musical
Billy the Kid. “Bank On It.”
Serial: The Tale of Jack the Ripper
A Lampshade Made of Lips: The Ed Gein Story.
You Dropped a Bomb On Me: The Ted Kaczynski Story
Decadence: The Garth Drabinsky Musical.
AL! (Capone, that is). The title should be in capital letters with that exclamation point. He was arrested finally not for his crimes but for tax evasion, so the big 11 o’clock number is a tap number called “Oh, Taxes, You Done Me In” or maybe “Deep in the Heart of Taxes”.
Mobster Owney Madden controlled the Cotton Club! And that alone brings in Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, showgirls, and assorted celebrtities. He also financed Broadway shows involving Louis Armstrong, Fanny Brice and others. A wealth of material to musicalize.
Nicky Arnstein–Fanny Brice’s husband. “Funny Girl” whitewashed him, made him an amiable gambler. But he served two jail terms for substantial crimes in the US, and there were arrest warrants for him in three foreign countries as well. His unpublished memoirs are a good starting point for the real story. And his life intersected with every big celebrity of his day.
If The Glove Fits: the O.J. Simpson musical. Or “Juiced: How O.J. got squeezed.”
Oops. Just saw Steven’s post below about GLOVE. So, I’ll try again. I saw the J. Edgar flick and he’s “a criminal of sorts” in his abuse of power. What about HOOVER: THE POWER VACUUM (a musical that doesn’t suck)?;)
Sea Side Story: The Robert Wagner story. (Too soon?)
Evasion: The Wesley Snipes Story
3 eponymous ones Pretty Boy (Floyd), Lucky(Luciano) Dutch (Schultz)
Leona Helmsley
Sorry I left out the Title
Leona Helmsley: Only the Little People Pay Taxes or Don’t Pad Your Tax Return with Your Girdle
Amy Fisher in “Once In Love With Amy”
A Helping Hand: The New Jack Kevorkian Musical
BYE,BYE BERNIE!…The Bernie Madoff Story OR Suicide Follies.
There can be no question…”The Teflon Don” = John Gotti
The Lorena Bobbitt Story – a cutting edge musical
John Gotti… Gotti’s Gotta Gun.
Bernie Madoff: What’s he Made Of?
Penthouse Arrest: The Bernie Madoff story
Tonya Harding! An ice queen’s capers in the ice capades.
SEND IN THE CLOWN: The John Wayne Gacy musical.
Thelma and Louise!
The Joe Adonis Christmas Spectacular
(Wikipedia on Joe Adonis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Adonis)
The Family Business – John Gotti
Dillinger Days, the story of John Dillinger
Lee Harvey Oswald
“Three Shots: The Lee Harvey Oswald Story”
John Dilenger
Rob Me A Bank
Public Enemy # 1- The Story of John Dillinger
Guess who’s coming for dinner – the Jeffrey Dahmer story
Cooking the Books – the Martha Stewart fiasco
Holy Rollers – the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker story
Trust Me – the Bernie Madoff story
Leslie Borden
41 Whacks.
I still think a musical about organized-crime kingpin Arnold Rotherstein–famous in his day as “the Man Who Fixed the 1919 Worlds Series”–would be fun. Ever since “Damn Yankees,” I’ve known I’d rather watch a musical dealing with baseball than actually watch baseball.
Lover’s Lane, about Son of Sam
David Berkowitz – Son Of Sam
Titled – “VOICES IN THE BARK”
Phil Spector: Wall of Sound Blues Behind Bars
I’d love to see a musical about the Son of Sam, but only if the dog gets the 11:00 o’clock number.
ROBIN HOOD: IS THAT AN ARROW IN YOUR TIGHTS OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?
Paterno and Sandusky , Diddlers on the Roof
Broadway Presents “A Bed-Time Lullaby Original Band: Jerry Sandusky and the Kid Kissers”
Oh Damn, Saddam
Lizzie Borden
Don’t Ax, Don’t Tell: The Musical
Title: Ma’ Barker’s Skool Fur Getun a Hed.
A New Musical about Ma’ Barker and her Barker Gang who she taught how to rob banks, rob trains, kidnap and extort with out being very schooled herself.
Hans Gruber from Die Hard
“Die Louder – The Musical”
(andn let’s get Alan after he is done with Seminar)
How about The Zodiac Killer
“Stars Aligning”
‘On the Bun: The Life and Crimes of the Hamburglar’
Stick Em’ Up
The Jesse James Musical
The Barefoot Bandit: One Step at a Time!
(Colton Harris-Moore)
“OSAMA!-You Can Run But You Can’t Hide”
You Ain’t No Dancer: The Manson Family
A story of the Manson “Family” pre/post Helter Skelter, with emphasis on members like Patricia ‘Katie’ Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins
The Trainwreck, or Who is Lindsay?
(the Lindsay Lohan story)
A musical about Josef Mengele, the man who inspired The Human Centipede. He worked in Auschwitz and experimented on children who called him “the angel of Death” We could call it “Angel of Death” or “In Stitches” (but then it’d be a comedy.)
The Pyramid’s Pharaoh; the Bernie Madoff Story
OJ: It Wasn’t Me
Ripped! You Don’t Know Jack!
Meter-Feeder: The Sylvia Stayton Story
I have to say… scrolling down, I saw some people had similar ideas to mine so in an effort to find somethng fresh, I wiki’d killers and got so distracted reading up on all these horrific crimes that now I lost “the funny”. All I can come up with is DIE BASTARDS DIE! I have a friend in Bonnie and Clyde- would love to see
Son of Sam – title – If I Only Had A “Great Dane”
Catwoman – title – Catwoman: Black At Heart?
Lizzie Borden – title – Lizzie Borden: The Chopped Suey Story…or…40 +41…..or…..71 whacks!
John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile, already immortalized in Dog Day Afternoon – call it DOG DAY MATINEE. Numbers would include Attica, Attica! and Let’s Get Away through JFK! Raul Esparza would be great in the lead and Faith Prince would be great as his ex-wife! It would also continue the trend of movies to musicals!
I’ll say Aileen Wuornos and call it “Monster: the Musical”. It’s perfect because since it was a movie already, it fits in with the current trend on Broadway.
Charlie and his Chicks: The Manson Musical
run, oj, run.
Judas
Hun Singular Sensation: Atilla
Shabtai Zvi– the 16th century Jewish False Messiah
Moon Over Manhattan– The Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Who’s Afraid of Martha? The John Mitchell Story
And finally– there’s the already written musical about Jack the Ripper–I’m sure that guy is gonna post–
Flashlights in the Hotel: The Nixon/Watergate Scandal Musical
How to Gas the Public: The Enron Story
Papa Can You Hear Me?: The Patty Hurst Musical
Oklahoma Tick Boom (Tim McVeigh)
He Madoff With Their Money: The Bernie Madoff Musical
Jeffrey Dahmer
DAHMER: A Dark Hunger. A Deep Attraction. a Demented Musical
Strike!: How the Writers Took Down Hollywood for 100 Days
The true crime to entertainment during the 2007 Writers Guild strike.
YOU EITHER GOTTI OR YOU AIN’T
And boys, he’s got it: The John Gotti story.
Osama Been Plottin’
Sirius black (Harry potter) “we Siriusly need help here!”
Hono[u]r. Benedict Arnold
Tonya Harding: The Musical
Scott Peterson; Kill My Baby!
Mustard Gas! Saddam’s Last Session!
Who Me? Yes You!-The one who stole the cookies from the cookie jar tells his story
All In The Family – The David Greenglass Story
Lorena Bobbitt stars in Castration Nation…
O.J. Simpson
O.J. Mostly Pulp
Ripper The True Story of Jack the Ripper
‘Don’t Ax Me Again!: The Lizzie Borden Story’
BABY, IT’S YOU!
The Casey Anthony Musical
Take The Money and Run
(Bernie Madoff Tells All)
Richard Speck- “oh Nurse!”
Casey Anthony-”Gone baby Gone”
‘night, Michael: the Lullaby of Dr. Conrad Murray
Keeping Up with Jim Jones: A New Musical.
Ripped!: Jack the Ripper, the Musical
or
Jack the Ripper: A Rip-Roarin’ Musical Comedy
The Route to 666: The Story of Charles Manson
… great contest!
Well, let’s take something off the current events page: Corporate America – Robbin in the Hood or Occupy Broadway. LOL
Or we have the Walmart shopper with Pepper Spray starring in I’m getting nothing for Christmas.
John Dillinger: Why Musicals are better than movies
Whitey Bulger: How I almost got away with it
Michael Corleone
“Today I Settled All Family Business”
Martha Stewart “Modern Living: In Prison”
John Wayne Gacy —- CLOWNTIME IS OVER
Music and Lyrics by Elvis Costello
Ameila Dyer….. Rock a Bye Bye Baby
Al Capone: “My Bloody Valentine”. Cause he was known for the Valentines Day massacre.
“The Railroad Killer, A New Run-Away Musical!”
Guess Who’s Being Served for Dinner?: The Albert Fish Musical
“That’s Where the Money Is” – The Willie Sutton Musical
Dahmit, Jahnit: The Jeffrey Dahmer Picture Show
The Unabomber – Bombs Away!
Oklahoma!..city: The Timothy McVeigh Story
or
Madoff With the Money: The Bernie Madoff One-Man Musical
Blame it on the Vain: The Milli Vanilli Experience
Just kidding…
I’ve always thought Carrie Nation would make a great musical. She would roll into saloons in the years leading up to prohibition, with a slew of women singing hymnals as she smashed bar fixtures and bottles of liquor with a hatchet. Se did this 30 times between 1901 and 1910.
“How to Ruin the Ending Without Really Trying: The John Wilkes Booth Story”
Madoff with Millions!!!
Oh! So many possibilities. I’d love to see Lord Voldemort’s ascension spun into a musical…the abandoned, misunderstood kid who grew up to be the wizarding world’s most heinous and evil wizard.
It’s be called Dark Lord The Musical or possibly Once Upon a Horcrux: The Tom Riddle Story …or maybe, just maybe, Riddled! The Musical That Must Not Be Named.
“Mummy in My Closet” (The case remains a mystery, and there was an article with a similar but slightly different title, but drag queen Dorian Corey)
“Nothin’ Can Be Meana that a Marriage to Lorena” (Bobbitt)
“Shop! Shop! Shop!” (Winona Ryder)
“Murder on a Diet” (Jean Harris)
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to South Beach” (Andrew Cunnanan)
and also Richard Hauptman (the Lindberg kidnapper…can’t think of a good title, well I can but I’m not going to print it. It’d make a great opera)
Jessie James
Death of a Nation: The Criminal Congress
Rip It! The story of Jack the Ripper!
Dusk! The story of Jerry Sandusky!
Charlie Manson: Helter Skelter
If the Glove Fits, the O J Simpson story
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE MA BARKER ,I WOULDNT WANT TO SEE ANYTHING INVOLVING KIDS OR BABIES BEING KILLED ,AND TO MAKE IT A MUSICAL ,NO WAY SORRY,
“the Preppy Killer, the musical” an ode to Robert Chambers.
“Never Kid A Kidder!” – The Hilarious New Double-Barrelled Billy the Kid Musical!
Norman Bates–”Hotel Madness, The Musical”
The Joker (Batman’s Nemesis) –”Not Playing with a Full Deck”
Dr. Fu Manchu–”Fu-ey on You, the Nefarious Musical”
Rasputin (from Anastasia)- Rumor in Saint Petersburg
Bad Teacher- The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
Jesse James Avenger or Murderer?
Tom Ripley (Character from the Patricia Highsmith novels and the films based on him)
“A Musical Talent Show of Impersonation, Forgery, Deception, and Murder!”
Pretty Boy
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Wench: The Story of Anne Bonney.
Hot for Teacher: The Mary Kay LeTourneau 6th Grade Love Story
Sing, Sing, Sing: The Joe Valachi Story (with music by Benny Goodman)
OJ Simpson
George W.ar Bush
The OJ Trial, the musical!
Charles H. Keating, Jr.
“Banking On Charles”
The Bo Peep and her Sheep, A Tragic Love Story?
Bumpy Johnson – “The Harlemnites”
So many people chose Madoff…so I decided to try again.
Iago–”Iago, The Green-Eyed Monster Musical”
I would like to see LINDSAY LOHAN produced into a musical. As unattractive as her career has been, I can see some great rock numbers! A lot of crazy sets and sexy costumes. The Ensemble will be 30+ people and be incredibly fierce.
Title will be “The White in My Nose” or “Was The Necklace Worth It?”
I want a musical version of ‘Heavenly Creatures’, the Peter Jackson film about teen murderesses Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker – it’s already a fantastic story with songs and heightened emotions, romance and drama that would lend itself perfectly to musicalization!!
Hardtime – The Garth Drabinsky Musical.
In 1998 Father rebuilt a theatre at the crest of Broadway
and 42nd st in New York, New York, and it seemed for
some years thereafter that all the threatre communitys’ days would be
warm and fair…
I’d love to see a musical about Al Capone. And since he was considered one of the most dangerous criminals in Alcatraz, they could call it, “AL Catraz” or something along those lines.
Long Dong Silver: The Clarence Thomas Story
Sydney Biddle Barrows-The Mayflower Madam
Love this one!
Al Capone
“Scarface!” The exclamation point allows for the use of Jazz Hands.
“These Booths Were Made for Walkin (or Abe Lincoln VS Student Rush Seats)”
The Zodiac
“Keeping Score”
hh holms.
Devil in the White City, like the book. OH shit that would be a good one.
Gotti Dance!
The all singing all dancing John Gotti spectacular.
Oh, Patty!
the story of Patty Hearst.
Martha Stewart
“JUST CLICK AND SERVE”
Bernie Madof – My Fair Bernie
OJ Simpson – Oh, Jay! Or the Juiceman Cometh
Any president – 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (sorry, already been done)
“Pretty Boy Floyd”
That would be both the subject and the show title.
The casting is what will make it or break it. I’m thinking possibly Hugh Jackman, Hugh Panaro, Hugh Grant…
Hey, why are there so many pretty boy Hughs?
“Cosa Nostra”, how Joey Bannanas becomes Capo di tutti Capi!
Everyone loves a good Mafia story, in fact the country is facinated by it! and with the give families, it can take on a West Side” on crack feel… Maybe the guys won’t be dancing, but they love to watch dancing woman…
The perfect backdrop… Maybe I’ll start writing today!
Blood Brother: The Menendez Brothers’ Story
Dick Cheney – Cheney Get Your Gun!
“Just kidding”– Stalin
Caligula – Fiddler on the Ruins
Bernie Madoff
“Damned Love”–about “honeymoon killers” Ray Fernandez and Martha Beck and their murderous spree in the ’40s.
Lizzie Borden. I know there are musicals out there but one hsa yet to land on Broadway.
Extra Cedit: “To Mom and Dad, With Love, Lizzie” (creepy)
I gotta say Jack the Ripper…I haven’t come up with a title yet, but you can bet that I want Stephen Sondheim on my creative team!
The Torture Doctor (same name as the book by David Franke about H. H. Holmes)
Whitechapel the Murder Musical (Jack the Ripper)
The Body Snatcher (Ed Gein)
Heidi Fleiss: Call Me Madam of Hollywood
Balloon Boy the musical…
What parents will do to become famous.
Charles Manson: The Savior
Casey Anthony – “Liar, Liar, Liar”
Valerie Plame “the spy”
Plamegate
Nursing a Grudge, the Richard Speck Musical
What a Bomb! the Tim McVeigh musical
“Tate, Tate, Doom” -Charles Manson
“Johnny Loves Jodie”- John Hinckley, Jr.
On the Inside: The Martha Stewart Story
“Ponzi! The Bernie Madoff Musical”
“Madoff With Our Money!”
or how about…
“Obama vs. Osama: The Navy Seal Musical”
Everything else being taken how about a musical about the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping?
It could be called Crime of the Century