I saw this when it was shown in the Fringe festival. Very funny. very well done.
I just finished a run of The Crucible and it occurred throughout it would be a great musical, particulary with an all Muppet cast (though it bogs down as to whether Miss Piggy should play teen-temptress Abigail or long-suffering Goodwife Elizabeth). But the songs practically write themselves:
Salem Village (where the witches come sweeping through the kids)
I Could Have Danced All Night (with the Devil)
I Whistle a Happy Tune (with the Devil)
When You’re a Witch You’re a Witch All the Way
I’ve Got Rhythm (but no truly reliable means of birth control)
This Is What We Call the Poppet Show
Yellowbird Calypso
Ain’t No Hell in Bar-ba-dos (to the tune of No Mountain High Enough)
Confession Session (What’s Your Lesson)
Proctor Proctor Gimme the News
Some Enchanted Evening (with the Devil)
Climb Every Scaffold
Psst – see posts #35 and #36 above.
As I note, this ran for a tryout in Boston under a different name before hitting broadway. It shouldna closed after one performance. I’ll have to check on it.
It bore repeating. :smack:
There is a musical version of Confederacy of Dunces also. It premiered in New Orleans and was a joint production of a local theater company and Tulane. As amateur/college theater companies range the gamut from “indistinguishable from professional productions” down to “slightly less talented than a professional regurgitator” and there’s no commercially available recording I’ve no idea how good or bad it was, but I definitely think with the right creative staff it could work. (As I’ve mentioned before, I would love to have the rights to produce a musical of Fried Green Tomatoes [at the Whistlestop Cafe] as I think it would lend itself really well to musical adaptation.)
One of my favorite musicals that most people have never heard of is Fair & Tender Ladies. It’s a B’way quality [imo] bluegrass musical that’s based on the novel of the same name by Lee Smith and has a cast of three actresses (one plays heroine Ivy Rowe from adolescence to senility, the other two each play a host of characters) and three musicians (all of whom play multiple instruments and multiple characters). Really excellent.
Dolly Parton is currently adapting 9 to 5 as a B’way musical and while I thought the movie was cute and Dolly is a demigoddess I don’t have high hopes at all for that production. It’s to remain set ca. 1980. Also under consideration for B’way productions are John Waters’ Cry Baby (same creative musical team as Hairspray) and Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles- I think the former may work better than the latter.
'sokay. I didn’t know (or forgot) about Mitch Leigh’s involvement. And I had no idea Joan Diener was his wife.
I Found this on the IMDB page from Yul Brynner, which validates both our posts: