# The Last Starfighter To Be A Musical **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561 "2004-09-28T21:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/1 "2004-09-28T21:26:57Z")
[If anyone doubts that folks are running out of new ideas, this should convince you.](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=89&ncid=789&e=10&u=/playbill/20040921/en_playbill/88513) > [@](#): > > The Last Starfighter, a world premiere science fiction musical inspired by the 1984 screenplay of the motion picture of the same name, will open the 2004-05 season of Off Broadway’s Storm Theatre, Oct. 15-30. I can’t imagine why anyone would think that this would be a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/2 "2004-09-28T21:57:25Z")
Everything you say is true. I still want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/3 "2004-09-28T22:08:47Z")
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh…fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. That was the sound of myself and all of my good friends - all of us theatre nuts - officially conceding that Broadway has officially gone to hell. Although I am looking forward to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as my favorite boy is in it (Norbert Leo Butz). If anyone hasn’t seen him, get thee to the show. I first saw him in The Last Five Years and fell in love, then saw him in Wicked and fell harder. Maybe this is just a small speedbump on the road back to making Broadway palatable again for those of us who don’t like Disney, Billy Joel, or The Producers. Ava ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/4 "2004-09-28T22:19:01Z")
> [@avabeth](#): > > Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh…fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. > > That was the sound of myself and all of my good friends - all of us theatre nuts - officially conceding that Broadway has officially gone to hell. > > Although I am looking forward to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, as my favorite boy is in it (Norbert Leo Butz). If anyone hasn’t seen him, get thee to the show. I first saw him in The Last Five Years and fell in love, then saw him in Wicked and fell harder. > > Maybe this is just a small speedbump on the road back to making Broadway palatable again for those of us who don’t like Disney, Billy Joel, or The Producers. > > Ava [Would an Elton John/Bernie Taupin musical based on Interview With The Vampie be more to your liking?](http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79407.html) > [@](#): > > The new musical will feature a book by Linda Woolverton (“The Lion King,” Beauty and the Beast, Aida) and be directed by Robert Jess Roth (Beauty and the Beast). Producer Emanuel Azenberg is also involved as a producer for Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures. Then again, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/5 "2004-09-28T22:21:28Z")
Meh. I knew it was over when I saw that Police Academy 9 was in production. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/6 "2004-09-28T22:22:18Z")
I guess the producers figured that they could not do the musical “Springtime for Hitler and Germany”. The real question is how many performances will they do before the show closes. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/7 "2004-09-28T22:25:09Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Meh. I knew it was over when I saw that Police Academy 9 was in production. I blame the Stone Cutters. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/8 "2004-09-28T22:28:26Z")
It all depends on the quality of the music. Who knows? A musical about a serial killer is the greatest musical in the history of the American stage. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/9 "2004-09-28T22:29:19Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Would an Elton John/Bernie Taupin musical based on Interview With The Vampie be more to your liking?](http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79407.html)Then again, maybe not. _snort_ No. I will never, ever see a Broadway show with Elton John’s name anywhere in the credits. I’m a Broadway purist - I have very few _new_ shows that I truly love. Give me some Sondheim or Rodgers and Hammerstein any day. However, I do love Avenue Q, Wicked, and several others in the past years - and my husband and I are going to see Wicked and Avenue Q at Christmas (I’ve seen them, he hasn’t) and I’m planning to go see Little Women in the spring. But mostly, I stick to revivals because a lot of the stuff on Broadway right now is crap. I guess I’ll be watching my tapes and DVDs of shows a lot more. Ava ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/10 "2004-09-28T22:31:05Z")
Greetings starfighter, You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Zur and the Kodan Armada. [sub] Whadda you mean I’m a geek, just cause I remember that after 15 years[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/11 "2004-09-28T22:38:29Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I blame the Stone Cutters. Shhhhh ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/12 "2004-09-28T23:58:16Z")
Hey, if **Debbie Does Dalls** can be a musical (_sans_ sex, even), why not **The Last Starfighter?** It’s certainly a movie that’s held up better over the years than **Star Wars** … And **wolfman,** that’s supposed to be “Ko-Dan.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/13 "2004-09-29T00:08:56Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > It all depends on the quality of the music. Who knows? A musical about a serial killer is the greatest musical in the history of the American stage. Jesus Christ Superstar 2: Serial Killer Boogaloo? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/14 "2004-09-29T00:39:15Z")
[Hmm…](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030810) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/15 "2004-09-29T00:59:41Z")
I have advanced tickets for _Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Faces of Death_. > [@](#): > > \*Ready, aim, fire! > Nice shot, Mr Dwyer! > > You ate that gun, > It looked like fun, > What a great way to expire! > > (We all must soon retire…) > (And join that ghostly choir…) > > Nice shot, Mr. Dwyer!\* ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/16 "2004-09-29T01:10:44Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I have advanced tickets for _Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Faces of Death_. Buddy Boy is saving a seat for you in Hell, **Larry** … _runs to a corner and breaks down laughing_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/17 "2004-09-29T01:24:37Z")
Ok sportsfans, what’s _your idea_ for a new and original musical? And don’t say The Wrath of Kahn, cause that’s **mine!** ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/18 "2004-09-29T04:08:11Z")
One of these is an actual musical in production (touring, not on Broadway, yet). Can you guess which? * * * Brady!: A Very Brady Musical (starring Pia Zadora) The Ten Commandments: The Musical Spectacle (starring Val Kilmer) Go General Lee! (based on Starsky and Hutch, starring David Hasselhoff) Reefer Madnessmania! (starring Paul Reubens [aka Peewee Herman]) * * * Peace, the musical. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/19 "2004-09-29T04:12:30Z")
Maybe somebody saw Robert Preston’s name and figured that if he was in it it must be a musical. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561/20 "2004-09-29T05:05:16Z")
Alex’s first solo number: \*The trailer park holds me My mother, she scolds me But I know there’s a place beyond. Far from the dust And the trailers that rust It’s like my whole life I’ve been conned. The flashing lights call From that game by the wall In its grip I’m a virtual hero. It calls me away And as I start to play No longer am I a mere zero.\* Chorus: _Play the game, play the game, escape your dull life Play the game, play the game, escape all this strife!_ And so forth [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-starfighter-to-be-a-musical/266561.md?page=2)