# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/21 "2012-10-26T22:56:09Z")
So it’s true. There really isn’t anything that can’t be Disneyfied. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/22 "2012-10-26T23:01:57Z")
Don’t ask me, I’m the guy who said a musical “Les Misérables” would flop. ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/23 "2012-10-26T23:48:38Z")
I’m thinking this might be the only music-related event or side project Dave Ghrol would vehemently say no to. If fact, he may just try to set the whole affair on fire. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/24 "2012-10-27T00:03:05Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > If we all chip in $20 or so, can’t we buy Courtney Love enough heroin and make this all go away? Be cheaper to buy heroin for all of us. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/25 "2012-10-27T15:41:51Z")
There’s so much wrong with this that I don’t even know where to start. I love musicals, but let’s face it, Green Day blew what little punk cred they ever had when they went big-budget Broadway. It would kinda break my heart to see that happen to Kurt. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/26 "2012-10-27T16:26:03Z")
_thump_ \<— sound of Kurt rolling over in his grave. She out of cash again ? ---
**Author:** ![Coustralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/27 "2012-10-28T14:12:31Z")
justin bieber will play cobain ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946/28 "2012-10-28T22:01:09Z")
1. The problem with a show based around Nirvana is the same as a show based around The Sex Pistols or Jimi Hendrix: _there isn’t enough music to choose from_. Say what you will about death elevating an artists status or whatever, it really puts a damper on what that person’s actually accomplished in life. 2. Even if you could find enough songs, the vast majority of them are _bleak as hell_. Great for encapsulating the concerns of one specific low point in a generation’s history, pretty lousy for a musical. Like it or not, audiences go for lively, energetic, and vibrant, and it’s a helluva lot easier to incorporate a dance number into as well. 3. Everything I’ve heard about the greatness of Nirvana is about the great importance and masterful songcraft and the perfect voice of a generation and how it destroyed the empty fluffy hair metal scene and had lots of cred and realism etc. etc. Are there a lot of people out there, right now, who _like the music?_ Because that’s what’s going to make or break this. Cirque Du Soleil could make a successful show based on the music of The Beatles because The Beatles had lots of very good, completely listenable songs. Even someone who couldn’t give less of a rip about their great cultural influence (like me) can enjoy that show immensely. 4. You can sell a story about the life of a good person. You can sell a story about the life of an evil person. The life of a disgusting and basically useless person like Courtney Love, well, good luck with that. I’m not too confident. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nirvana-the-musical/638946.md?page=1)