First R-Rated Musical

[ministryman]

@jackdavinci

@twickster

Fine, whatever. Saturday Night Fever is not a musical.

How about a “dansical”?

I think "Pop"sical would be closer!

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

@ministryman

@twickster

Guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

I am on your side..offered as proof:

Characters sing all of their lines = Opera (Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon)

Characters sing some of their lines = Musical (Oklahoma, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story)

Characters sing none of their lines = Movie

SNF is a movie. Hair (with Beverly D’Angelo) was a movie based on the Broadway MUSICAL of the same name. Same with Godspell, Annie, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Just to muddy your waters a little further - Characters sing some of their lines = Musical (Magic Flute, Carmen, Wozzeck) ?!?

Style has to come into it somewhere along the line…

[Czarcasm]

People break out in song and/or dance in public, and anonymous passersby join in-musical.
People break out in song and/or dance in public, someone gets hit by a truck, the police are called, and anonymous passersby yell “Shut the fuck up!”-not a musical.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

@bup

twickster, you are so wrong that when I read your OP I assumed a musical remake of Saturday Night Fever was coming out, because the 1977 movie is not a musical.

There actually *was *a musical of “Saturday Night Fever” that played on Broadway from 1999-2000. That version has not yet been turned into a movie and the original film is clearly not a musical.