# Clearly needs to be a musical **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearly-needs-to-be-a-musical/585449 "2011-06-14T16:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearly-needs-to-be-a-musical/585449/1 "2011-06-14T16:20:27Z")
Local Onion twitter promo to win tickets to an improv hip-hop band: [link](http://www.avclub.com/philadelphia/articles/win-freestyle-love-supreme-tickets-by-telling-us-w,57491/). Whatevs. Funny idea, though. What clearly needs to be a musical: Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb The Donner party The 2012 election ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearly-needs-to-be-a-musical/585449/2 "2011-06-14T16:24:04Z")
Hmmm… The Inquisition? American Slavery? Wait…they called it Song of the South… No…here it is for the WIN: The Black Plague! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearly-needs-to-be-a-musical/585449/3 "2011-06-14T16:25:07Z")
Since seeing the musical Legally Blonde a few years ago, I can think of a few movies that need a stage treatment. Platoon Supersize Me The Blair Witch Project ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearly-needs-to-be-a-musical/585449/4 "2011-06-16T18:29:47Z")
[**The Bridge**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/)