Nirvana. The musical?

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So it’s true. There really isn’t anything that can’t be Disneyfied.

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Don’t ask me, I’m the guy who said a musical “Les Misérables” would flop.

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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.

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Be cheaper to buy heroin for all of us.

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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.

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thump <— sound of Kurt rolling over in his grave. She out of cash again ?

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justin bieber will play cobain

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  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.