The Sunday Giveaway: Two tickets to Bedbugs Off Broadway!
Bedbugs. Gross. They are the 2014 version of lice.
There’s just something about ’em that says dirty, disgusting . . . and musical!
Bedbugs The Musical is a lil’ bit Little Shop and a lil’ bit Rocky Horror – in other words, it’s one of those rock camp horror musicals that our industry does so well (just look at the rave Bedbugs got from the NY Times).
It’s interesting, isn’t it?
The only “Horror” musicals that have really worked have been treated in a certain style . . . humorous horror if you will. But the wall of Joe Allen’s is littered with other attempts, from Lestat to Carrie.
So, if you’ve got a hankering for some blood and guts in your show, you better make sure it’s funny.
In fact, let’s play the adaptation game, shall we? Let’s say you’ve been given a movie to adapt into a musical (this was my favorite BMI exercise). But it’s gotta be a horror movie. Like Hellraiser. Or Dawn of the Dead. Or Ishtar. (Oh wait, Ishtar wasn’t a horror movie. It was just horrifically bad.)
What scream-inducing horror flick would you like to see made into a musical? Extra credit if you can come up with a new title.
Enter below and you could win two tickets to see Bedbugs Off Broadway!
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FUN STUFF:
Okay I’ll give it a shot. I’d like to see the adaptation of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and call it “1, 2 Freddy’s coming for you…” or just plain “Freddy” – taking elements of If/Then with parallel lives on stage, but it would be drawing parallels between the real world and the gorey dream world of Freddy. And of course bring on the camp!
I think the name is “Freddie” not Freddy. Oh and definitely
Include the scene where the mattress swallows Johnny Depp and blood splatters everywhere. And if Johnny can reprise his role that would be even better
horrifically bad: The Room
horror: Psycho (on stage shower effects … $$$$)
THIS ONE IS EASY….. ‘HOUSE ON THE HAUNTED HILL” (VINCENT PRICE)
HOUSE GUESTS: NATHAN LANE, MATTHEW BRODERICK, MEGAN MULALLY, STOCKARD CHANNING, F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, STOCKARD CHANNING, IDINA MENZEL, HUGH JACKMAN, & BARBRA STREISAND IN THE VINCENT PRICE ROLE….HAH
NEW NAME: SOCKO HIT…
Here are my titles:
Rosemary’s Sugar Babies
Sawsical
the Human Centipede. And, I wouldn’t change the title, because that title is going to mint cash!!!
The Orphanage!
Evil Dead
Why the Horror of Party Beach — half creature feature / half beach party movie. But, I think someone beat me to it…
Sleepaway Camp- one of my favorite campy horror flicks!
Devils Rejects! Already scary campy good blood and guts terror and fun with a killer soundtrack to boot 🙂
Ok, there are so many good and bad horror flicks but this could so work!!
Leprechaun!!
The name of the show would be: Musical about that B+ film from the 80s LEPRECHAUN! Starring Warwick Davis!
Amityville Horror.BOO!
There is nothing worse then bugs so how about THE FLY.
SPLAT. Gross.
In Spidey Turn Off the Dark, Mary Jane was in “The Fly”. lol
Hmmm. Alien?
The song could be called POPPIN OUT OF MY BABY….
How about Sharknado the Musical? The new title for it could be “Today’s Forecast Calls For Shark Fin Soup”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film) .
Cabin in the woods the musical
How about Psycho? New title “Life Sometimes Goes Down The Drain” the 11 o’clock number is titled “A Boy’s Best Friend Is His Mother.”
OK…how about “Chucky Goes To College”…he lives in a dorm and systematically kills the girls! Now that’s a musical!
Paranormal Activity
Title: Dance in the Dark
The Mummy. Or bring back Rocky “Horror” !
“Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Musical” – cause some Halloween costumes will never get re-used without a Movie-Musical revival??
The Woodsboro Ripper (based on the movie Scream)
The Blob
The title will be Amorphous Munchin’ of which there is a hit song with the same title that is a duet between Steven Andrews (played in the film by Steven McQ
OOPS! Clumsy fingers! Sent before completed.
The Blob as a musical, titled ‘Amorphous Munchin’ which is also a hit song from the show. It’s a duet sung by Steven Andrews (play by Steve McQueen in his debut) and his girlfriend Jane Martin.
Friday the 13th
How about “The Blob”. It can be called “Meet the Blob”. Stephen Sondheim has already written the title song.
The Shining! Here’s…………Johnny!
The Minority Report
retitled as The Minority Repertoire
ROSEMARY’S BABY, of course. 🙂 Possible titles: “Oh, Baby, Oh, Baby” or “666!”
Night of the living (and singing and dancing) dead.
Scream! (Could have a lot of high screlting in it)
The Texas Chainsaw Musical
Shining the Musical or Here comes Johnny!
Here’s one from the early 90’s that terrified me as a young teenager. The People Under the Stairs is my pick, and I think I would keep the same name (a cornier title could be The Stairs are Alive with the Sound of People). I think a talented set designer could really incorporate the spaces behind the walls and under the stairs to add a unique and visually stimulating dynamic to a stage performance. The witty, dark humor of Wes Craven’s script would also translate well into a creepy musical.
Stephen King’s “Misery”
I would call it, “Mister Man and His Number 1 Fan”
Hannibal the Cannibal
Back in the 1950’s, there was a very frightening horror film titled “The Incredible Shrinking Man.”
Idea: Bada Bing!
So, naturally, in today’s world of all things manly, the remake of this horror flick should be titled:
“THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN PART!”
Ohhhh!!!! Eeeee!!!!! Awwwwww!!!!!!
HALLOWEEN: The Night HE Came To Broadway!!!
Halloween candy (most likely candy corns) would be given out by the Ushers with each Playbill; the Michael Myers character would be walking…SLOWLY…up and down the aisles (sometimes holding his knife) during the performance and he would even turn on audience members to scare them before he continues going to/from the stage; and of course the classic score would be included…beginning as the Overture!!!
And…there would be a special added Late Performance on Halloween!!!
I love Twilight. A, very successful trilogy. Vampires and wherewolves.
There was a very funny movie spoof. Dancing vampires has never been a good way to go but with a the guy who wrote the spoof it could work like love at first bite or thigh hard.Bella’s revenge.
Twi-hard. BELLA’s, revenge
THE VAMPIRES SUCK TRILOGY.
1.TWI-HARDER
2.BELLA’S REVENGE
3.BLUE MOON- HOWLING AT THE MOON
THE VAMPIRES SUCK TRILOGY.
1.TWI-HARDER
2.BELLA’S REVENGE
3.BLUE MOON- HOWLING AT THE MOON
“Here Lies Lucifer” – a musical adaptation of “The Exorcist”, featuring music by the Rolling Stones.
One film that scared me when I was a kid was “Premature Burial.” I’d rename it “I’m Not Dead -The Musical.”
I’d have to agree with Psycho — maybe with a new title of, ” The Murders of Ed Gein” as Psycho was loosely based on the case of convicted Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein
How about “Jaws” renamed “Come for a Swim” …….with music by the B-52’s featuring an adaptation of Rock Lobster
Nightmare on the Elm Street Where You Live
“Frank and Stein” – a buddy musical in search of a new life force!
Grand Hostel.
They’re Hee-eere (Poltergeist)
There’s a great B William Castle movie that came out before Psycho. It’s called
Homicidal. It was the first gender bender I had ever seen. I was 8.
I would just call it Homicidal the Musical
You’ll Laugh Your Head Off!!!
Now for extra credit: I just got home from a musical workshop of my Bully Musical “Imaginary Boy”
I was in Norfolk Virginia and stayed at the Marriott, Courtyard Hotel.. And guess what was in my room??? BEDBUGS!!!!! That’s right. I was bitten from head to toe. And the Hotel claims I brought those vicious little creatures with me..I kid you not!!! They are itchy beyond belief. And I’ve not unpacked. Tomorrow the Bug sniffing K-9 will be in my house to make sure I didn’t bring home those nasty guests!
I would love to see Edward Scissorhands come alive on stage! And would title it “Scissorhands”.
The Devil’s Backbone.
“Backbone”
How about “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane”. It could have some great make-up!
“The Blob” renamed “How to Reduce a Big Fat Blob”
How about?…Forbidden Planet on Broadway!…Singing Cat People!…Les Misery!
The Stepford Wives. The title works as is, but it could also be a mash up as The Merry Wives of Stepford.
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” becomes “Don’t Go the F**k to Sleep.
No need for a name change: SSSssssssssssss
“Don’t Look Down the Orchestra Pit” featuring a cast of weirdos and ghouls. The highlight would be the pointy recept stacker gizmo sticking out of the main character’s eye as he ran around the stage and into the audience! Actors disguised as audience members would turn into ghouls and keep everyone alert as to who was going to change into a ghoul next!
Hitchcock’s Rear Window or Binoculars………
“Thriller!” Nuff said!
Actually..I have one that I wrote that I’m developing.
HYDE AND SEEK,
The Life and Times of Young Master Henry Jekyll. I will be posting of of the music soon.
Henry is 10 ..Hyde is the evil side of his split personality, The music is by composer Phil Goodbody who passed away in 1998. I am the book writer and lyricist.More to come