Mondo Musicals

[filkertom]

Interesting idea for a site -- an idea I've vaguely considered for a long while now, but this fine fellow has gone and done it, and started out with an in-depth look at Little Shop Of Horrors. We've exchanged e-mail, and I'm probably going to write up Metropolis, Moby Dick, Weird Romance, and Flowers For Algernon for him over the next few weeks. When I can. Copious Free Time, y'know. ;)

Any fun or weird musicals you want to make sure we know about? Feel free to provide links.

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[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

You probably already know about this one since you're working on "Reanimator", but there's Shoggoth on the Roof (http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth/) - hilarious spoof of "Fiddler" by way of HP Lovecraft. At the end Cthulhu eats the theater Audrey II-style. The stage production was supposed to be cursed for a long time, until some brave Swedes recently broke the curse at a Lovecraft convention and did three shows without anyone dying or going insane. My school's gaming society was flirting with the idea of putting this on - I actually emailed Sean Branney a few times to make sure we had his blessing - but we were defeated by lack of funding and a decent venue that Cthulhu could eat.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Along similar lines was the Avenue Jew spoof.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Which, if you haven't seen it, is now available with subtitles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpa61yYEJ_8).

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

And it's on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKW7iL3r0_w) again! (It got taken down as a copyright violation of some kind over the summer.)