# Anne Frank: The Musical! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722 "2008-01-08T12:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/1 "2008-01-08T12:11:26Z")
OK, I don’t know if that’s what it actually will be called, but a musical version of \*The Diary of Anne Frank \* is indeed scheduled to open next month in Madrid, according to the [Guardian](http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2236516,00.html). I agree, it doesn’t seem like the most obvious inspiration for a musical, but then that must be why I’m not a show-business impresario. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/2 "2008-01-08T12:34:04Z")
The first thing that came to mind was [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGp0hCxSg98). It just seems that this musical would be just as popular. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/3 "2008-01-08T13:53:10Z")
Same thought here. And in that vein, why hasn’t anyone ever followed up on doing a musical version of Kafka’s _Metamorphosis_? “Gregor Samsa awoke one day to find that he had been turned into a giant cockroach.” Nah, too good. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/4 "2008-01-08T14:11:08Z")
To me, that’s just weird… I mean, Anne Frank - the Opera? Yes. Anne Frank, the Musical… just sounds so off. Then again, in a way, “Les Miserables, the Musical” also sounds weird when you think of it. I suppose Musicals are now becoming modern-day Operas. People just don’t want to deal with recitative anymore, is all. I mean, in many ways, Opera and Operettas have just evolved into “musical theatre” as we know it today – merging with the “musical comedies”, if you will. They’re not all light fare anymore. ::: shrug ::: I guess it will all depend on how things are billed. A big poster of “ANNE FRANK: THE MUSICAL” is just wrong 😉 on so many levels. I would picture tap dancing nazis shooting through ceilings. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/5 "2008-01-08T16:56:29Z")
> [@](#): > > And in that vein, why hasn’t anyone ever followed up on doing a musical version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis? La cucaracha, la cucaracha Ya no puede caminar ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/6 "2008-01-08T17:07:41Z")
It does seem of, besides simply taste: “Hey Fritz, what’s all that singing and dancing? We’d better have a look.” tagline: “Like Cinderella, but before she became a cinder!” (OK, that’s a bit evil) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/7 "2008-01-08T17:22:21Z")
Wow, a real-life _Springtime for Hitler_. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-frank-the-musical/432722/8 "2008-01-08T17:45:09Z")
I am the very model of a modern SS General…