# Nirvana. The musical? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946 "2012-10-26T16:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/1 "2012-10-26T16:23:50Z")
I’m not even sure where to go [with this.](http://www.broadway.com/buzz/165036/will-a-nirvana-musical-about-courtney-love-and-kurt-cobain-rock-broadway/) > [@](#): > > Music manager Sam Lutfi revealed that he and Love “are currently working on a possible motion picture or Broadway musical based on the Nirvana catalogue, based on her life and Kurt Cobain’s,” reports the New York Daily News. Mamma Mia! These days anything goes. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/2 "2012-10-26T16:25:50Z")
I’m sure the “Rape Me” interlude will be magical. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/3 "2012-10-26T16:29:17Z")
I really hope they go in a Gilbert & Sullivan direction musically. ---
**Author:** ![inedible\_knapsack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/4 "2012-10-26T16:34:34Z")
I was a big fan of Nirvana back in the grungy days of my youth. That said, I don’t see how one could make a musical that would be taken seriously about Kurt and Courtney; what range of emotions would you portray? Were they ever anything but sarcastic and disenchanted? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/5 "2012-10-26T16:40:47Z")
The stage interpretation of Heart-shaped Box would be beautiful. \*I’ve been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks. I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap, I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black… \* ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/6 "2012-10-26T17:50:17Z")
If we all chip in $20 or so, can’t we buy Courtney Love enough heroin and make this all go away? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/7 "2012-10-26T18:01:12Z")
Those opera glasses are going to get in the way of a proper mosh pit. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/8 "2012-10-26T18:05:04Z")
I can see it ending on a downer… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/9 "2012-10-26T18:10:06Z")
> [@A\_Nested\_Thorn](#): > > I was a big fan of Nirvana back in the grungy days of my youth. That said, I don’t see how one could make a musical that would be taken seriously about Kurt and Courtney; what range of emotions would you portray? Were they ever anything but sarcastic and disenchanted? I think the ultimate :facepalm: feeling I get comes from the irony of it - the guy took his own life in part because he couldn’t reconcile his requirement of punk/indie authenticity with the commercial success he realized…and that is being marketed as a Broadway show. …having said that, the only way I see this working is if they break out the Kurt Cobain hologram. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/10 "2012-10-26T18:22:10Z")
No. No. No. A thousand times No. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/11 "2012-10-26T18:23:48Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > No. No. No. A thousand times No. Or you could decline [old school](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Thanks!:_The_70s_Punk_Rebellion). ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/12 "2012-10-26T18:42:14Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > I can see it ending on a downer… I have a feeling it will end with a bang. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/13 "2012-10-26T18:48:51Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I have a feeling it will end with a bang. Ouch. But if you think Courtney Love will allow the curtain to fall at Cobain’s death and NOT get her scene where she reads the letter he left…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/14 "2012-10-26T18:55:44Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I think the ultimate :facepalm: feeling I get comes from the irony of it - the guy took his own life in part because he couldn’t reconcile his requirement of punk/indie authenticity with the commercial success he realized…and that is being marketed as a Broadway show. That might be a little reductive. He did struggle mightily with that even though he courted popular success, but he took his own life because he suffered from extreme depression and drug addiction. That to one side, this sounds grotesque. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/15 "2012-10-26T19:30:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That might be a little reductive. He did struggle mightily with that even though he courted popular success, but he took his own life because he suffered from extreme depression and drug addiction. That to one side, this sounds grotesque. All fair. And while it is clearly reductive, it is the…hmm, the narrative?..of his life that is portrayed. Poor little authentic kid had too much talent and got too famous and couldn’t handle it. We killed him, with our crushing love. Or so it goes. He was clearly ambitious - I found his cover of the Rolling Stone where he wore a hand-lettered “Corporate Magazines Suck” t-shirt do be hilariously silly. But - they \*made \*me be on the big bad magazine cover - I couldn’t do anything about it! But I maintained my cred, man…with this t-shirt. He was a great songwriter and his voice was a unique-sounding instrument that was perfect to capture the angst his generation was feeling. After that, it gets complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/16 "2012-10-26T20:00:29Z")
I’m sorry, but the idea of Nirvana with jazz hands really gives me a headache. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/17 "2012-10-26T20:45:16Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Ouch. > > But if you think Courtney Love will allow the curtain to fall at Cobain’s death and NOT get her scene where she reads the letter he left…😉 It would end with the narcissistic bitch crying with the fans as she gave away his clothes… ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/18 "2012-10-26T22:19:40Z")
Nvmd. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/19 "2012-10-26T22:33:32Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Nvmd. Well played. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/20 "2012-10-26T22:35:21Z")
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