# Let's play Bialystok & Bloom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028 "2005-07-18T20:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/21 "2005-07-19T13:01:56Z")
These days, any musical starring vampires seems to be doomed: Cite [city](http://www.frankwildhorn.com/projects/dracula/) & cite And they’re going to do “Lestat” next year! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/22 "2005-07-19T15:47:49Z")
Why pick on Charles Strouse? Of the nine musicals [Larry Grossman](http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=11797) has written music for, none has run longer than four months – and those were limited run star vehicles. Strouse has at least two major hits. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/23 "2005-07-19T16:07:24Z")
How about Comma! A fascinating musical about the world of copy editing. Such show-stopping tunes as “Who Left the Quotes Out?” and “The Devil’s In the Possessive Case.” The “Final Proof” finale as the copy goes off to press with each character signing off on it in turn will have your audience agog! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/24 "2005-07-19T16:32:30Z")
A staging of _Ain’t Misbehavin’_ set in an abandoned grain elevator after a nuclear holocaust and performed entirely in Welsh. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Eboshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lady\_Eboshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Eboshi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/25 "2005-07-19T20:05:35Z")
Suddenly I am reminded of the “Robot Chicken” clip featuring Kaneda on an opera stage. “TEEEETSUUUOOOOOOOO!” \ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/26 "2005-07-19T20:19:30Z")
“When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, he found himself transformed into a giant cockroach.” Naah. Too good. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/27 "2005-07-19T22:48:15Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > How about Comma! > > A fascinating musical about the world of copy editing. Such show-stopping tunes as “Who Left the Quotes Out?” and “The Devil’s In the Possessive Case.” The “Final Proof” finale as the copy goes off to press with each character signing off on it in turn will have your audience agog! Sadly enough, I’d probably go see it. And be rapt. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/28 "2005-07-19T23:07:22Z")
> [@BayleDomon](#): > > Sadly enough, I’d probably go see it. And be rapt. Sure, Mom, but I doubt if you could get Dad to come along. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/29 "2005-07-20T04:58:58Z")
Okay, so just to clarify, we’re actually trying to think of a terrible idea for a musical, terribly cast, and terribly written. If that is the case, I’ll offer the following: Koresh – The story of one man’s journey to Messiah-hood and Martyrdom. The finale’s great, but they can only do it once. (see Daffy Duck). We need to pick an aging rock star who was once respected to write it like, oh, Paul McCartney and the book needs to be by someone who has never written a play before like Stephen King. Star Power, a compelling story, and catchy yet frighteningly inappropriate tunes. It will be so bad, it will be good. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/30 "2005-07-20T11:27:41Z")
_Jonestown: the musical_. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/31 "2005-07-20T12:02:37Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > How about Comma! > > A fascinating musical about the world of copy editing. Such show-stopping tunes as “Who Left the Quotes Out?” and “The Devil’s In the Possessive Case.” The “Final Proof” finale as the copy goes off to press with each character signing off on it in turn will have your audience agog! Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the Musical? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/32 "2005-07-20T12:34:52Z")
Well, I saw the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s _Phantom of the Opera_ the other day and then read on the IMDb that John Travolta was considered for the role of the Phantom, so that’s a good start right there. Let’s put Charlton Heston in the role of young prettyboy Raoul, an undubbed Renee O’Connor as budding opera superstar Christine, Haley Joel Osment in drag as Madame Giry and last but not least… ooh, let’s say Baby Spice as Carlotta. Naah, people’d still show up. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028/33 "2005-07-20T14:17:32Z")
> [@scott evil](#): > > _Jonestown: the musical_. Oddly enough there is an opera based on this – really. The compser is John Eaton. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-bialystok-bloom/313028.md?page=1)