An episode of the UK series Skins featured the cast doing an original production of Osama The Musical, which was about 9/11.
What about:
Full Musical Jacket
With uplifting songs like:
You Are All Equally Worthless;
This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun;
Blanket Party Bingo (aka, “remember, it’s just a bad dream, fat boy”); and
Me So Horny (of course).
Mr. Bean: The Musical!
Don’t ask me. I’m the guy who said they couldn’t do Les Miserables as a musical.
If they can make a musical out of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, they can do anything.
And that is always the name of the show I draw when playing Charades.
May I suggest:
Killer Clown! The hysterically funny romp with John Wayne Gacy…
For a real idea, I think they should do I Love Lucy - The Musical!
They could have the back story (of their crumbling marriage) as a regular Broadway show with actors and dancers, but I think it would be cool to take a few segments from the old B&W TV series, and actually do those scenes in black and white! Meaning, ashen makeup and grey, black and white costumes and sets, so the entire effect is like watching a B&W TV on stage - live. Could be fun.
TRAAAAAANSYLVANIA where the vamps come swooping from the sky…
or Twilight…
I am seventeen going on one hundred and twelve
Hot on the heels of the runaway success Cats comes:
Springtime For Hitler!
There is nothing you can come up with someone won’t seriously try someday.
I perform standup comedy. A few months ago I was headed to a gig when I saw an ad for “The Book of Mormon,” the stage musical. I remember thinking what a silly premise for a musical it is and how Parker and Stone really need to consider getting therapy for their Mormon-related trauma, when it occurred to me it’d make a great joke, except I had to come up with something stupider.
So I hit upon a fantastic idea… “The Silence of the Lambs: The Musical!” By the time I got to my gig I not only had the joke worked out but I had some songs: “I Wanna Be A Lady,” which was sung to the tune of “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”; "“Buffalo Bill,” which is sung to the tune of “Oklahoma!”; and of course “Lotion in The Basket,” a parody of “Castle on A Cloud.” I did the bit and sang the songs to tremendous laughter and applause.
Afterwards the sound and lights guy comes up to me and says “That was a great joke, but I’m sorry to tell you, there actually IS a Silence of the Lambs musical.”
He wasn’t kidding:
http://www.silencethemusicalnyc.com/
Really, nothing in this thread is an unlikely candidate. Musicals are now just about the junkiest, most derivative and least innovative form of pop culture there is. Even the self-parodies are tired. Full Musical Jacket? I fully expect we’ll see it someday.
Sorry, Rick. I trump you with:
Pink Flamingos: The Musical
John Waters may wanna but he ain’t gonna.
Night of the Living Dead: the Musical
Milton’s Paradise Lost: the Musical
Dante’s Inferno: the Musical
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: the Musical
Poe’s Trio – one night, 3 one-act musicals: The Black Cat, Hop-Frog, Fall of the House of Usher
Change Showboat, the musical to Slowboat, the musical. Have a lot of slow fanning by the ladies sitting in the shade. All of the gentlemen play poker or stand by the rail and check their watches every couple of minutes. Change the songs to bits and pieces of things having to do with time/. All should have many verses and be sung very slowly. When the women speak or sing, they should all mumble and have vocal fries so that you can’t understand anything they say. Have the ship’s bell toll every 108 seconds. Have a large clock on the wall that moves very slowly or sometimes slips backwards. All shoulders begin to sag after a while. You get the idea.
Too late – It’s already opened in Boston:
The Aristocrats: the Musical
Waiting For Godot-The Musical
My Dinner With Andre-The Musical
My Left Foot-On Ice
Empire, The Musical - Andy Worhol’s Empire with one long song that goes the entire length of the film.
Koyaanisqatsi - Live!
I already suggested Andy Warhol’s Sleep: The Musical above.