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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie to Broadway?Longtime MSTie Charlie asks:
Hey, if “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” can be wrestled into acceptable form, lots of other movies might be adapted. My pick would be “Teenagers from Outer Space.” You got the sensible heroine, the misunderstood hero, the wacky grandpa and the terrifying lobster creatures! I smell a hit! What’s your pick? 121 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie to Broadway?”Commenting at Satellite News
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I would say The Beatniks or perhaps Wild Rebels.
MST3K: The Movie.
The girl in the gold boots
Space Mutiny. Big Large McHugh, Captain Santa, 1st Officer Sting, the Stevie Nicks look-a-likes, lots of railing kills for excitement, and tons of 80s big hair. Just add in some power ballads and 80s Starship and you’ve got a mega hit.
Creeping Terror the Musical!
A musical along the lines of Little Shop of Horrors. Nice slow numbers though for people escaping and being consumed by the Terror.
I Accuse My Parents.
I always thought The Brain That Wouldn’t Die would make a cool musical. Kind of on par with Little Shop of Horrors. Plus, who wouldn’t pay to see Jan in the Pan as a belter!
The Skydivers. There’s already a musical number in place, and even now I can see the skydiving scenes set on a stage….
I Accuse My Parents. Pure theater gold!
Jack Frost, as adapting it into a Broadway musical is probably the only way to make it even goofier.
Hired! the Musical…
But as for full movies into Broadway, I think that someone should bring the Big Green Guy to the Great White Way. I now present to you,
Godzilla vs. Megalon, the Musical!
What do you think, sirs?
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies – The Musical! I could see Paul Ruebens assuming the role made famous by Cash Flagg. The guy from “The Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials would make a fabulous Ortega!!
I would turn VIKING WOMEN VS. THE SEA SERPENT into a hit musical. Think of the chorus girls, with the furry bathmat viking girl outfits… Grrrr!
Once Upon A Honeymoon: it already has singing and Wilbur is just to fabulous not to be on broadway.
“Horrors of Spider Island.” They already have the “dancers.” The endless refrain, Gary, Gary, Gary, the two french guys, and BABS!
NINETY DEGREES! It’s 9:15 AM and it’s already ninety degrees outside-Oh, a musical? Let me see. . .Hmmmmm.
“BRIDE OF THE MONSTER”
I can see Lobo’s charming soliloquy of regret for not helping the pretty lady sooner: “Lobo could have been contender instead of bum what Lobo is.”
Henry Rollins as Dr. Eric Vornoff
David Hasselhoff as Lobo
Hugh Jackman as Lt. DICK Craig
Anna Paquinn as Janet
E. Emmet Walsh
or Brian Dennehy
or Wilford Brimly as Captain Tom Robbins
Will Ferrel as Kelton
Judd Hirsch as Dr. as Prof. Vladimir Strowski
Cathy Bates as Tillie (with and without pencil)
Lady Gaga as Margie
And Artie Lange as The Drunk
The answer is obvious, of course.
Hamlet.
“Untamed Youth” practically already is a musical.
Girl’s town! Of course you would have to replace the deadly dull songs like Ava Maria. Lindsey Lohan as Silver Morgan,
Justin Bieber as Jimmy Parlow, and instead of the Platters the Black Eyed Peas are the entertainment at the club.
MITCHELL!
Can you picture the scene where Mitchell and that hooker are making out (UGH), and there’s a chorus off to the side singing, “Oh my, my,my, my Mitchell!”
My, my, my, my Mitchell!
Great minds…
Gunslinger. You already have the dancing girls and maybe have people singing during the bar fight.
I immediately thought “Jack Frost”. The play would be a costumer’s dream; Hunchback Fairy’s house on chicken legs would be a marvelous set design, as would Frost’s house; you could appropriate the great Russian music soundtrack for much of the play; and a lyricist would have a blast converting that goofy story to song. And it would make for a great street show at the Macy’s Parade – can you imagine Ivan dancing with Hunchback Fairy and the Talking Trees doing their big showstopper, “I’m Going to Eat You”! ! It’s Big, it’s Bold, it’s Brassy and Sassy, it’s a Musical Humdinger!
@ JK Robertson,7
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die HAS been made into a musical
http://headthemusical.com/
Though technically not broadway buuuuut
Fugitive Alien. Can’t wait for the big closing number- “They tried to kill him with a forklift” Any ideas who might play Captain Joe the lush?
GAMERA THE MUSICAL!!!!!
Pumaman!! One of the songs could be sung to the Doors tune “Backdoor Man”.
An obvious choice would be Catalina Caper. It’s already music based, even if the music wasn’t so hot. The whole movie is a lame excuse for a lame musical dance party. Write some better music for it, or deliberately comical songs of higher quality than the original and you’ve got a show.
A less obvious choice would be, oh I don’t know, say, The Crawling Hand. Imagine songs expressing the emotions of a severed limb and its uncontrollable desire to kill, kill, kill! And the movie did have a romance plot between the young main character and his girlfriend. It would be klandinktu!
Tormented. ( srsly )
“The answer is obvious, of course.
Hamlet. ”
Great Idea, the Gilligan’s Island episode could provide a good starting point.
TM @26 I would recommend Gary Oldham. He can do the sudden emotional changes real well. See The Professional
Eegah! the Broadway Musical! Please, no Arch Hall, Jr. songs in this one!
#17, Nah, it’d never work.
I LOVE the idea of MST3K: The Movie turned into a musical. The song about Tom’s underwear collection would be epic!
The Day the Earth Froze. Can’t you just see the giant show-stopping number? “We failed to bring back the Sampo! We will die of starvation! Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, failure…”
Manos has already been used as a play, no reason it shouldn’t be taken to broadway!
The Screaming Skull.
It was a rainy night, and he shot her.
It was a rainy night and she got dead.
Too easy, really, since there’s only five characters and you’d only need one set.
Mickey! We’re looking for Mickey!
San Francisco International, just for the climatic finale where Pernell signs the stupid kid down.
Oops, that’s “sings”…
Samson vs. the Vampire Women could be very operatic. Heck, are there any MST3K movies that *wouldn’t* make a good Broadway musical? Well, I guess Squirm would present some serious technical challenges.
Clark Stooksbury says:
“The answer is obvious, of course.
Hamlet. ”
Great Idea, the Gilligan’s Island episode could provide a good starting point.
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That’s exactly the thought that came to mind. I remember that episode vividly (and pathetically). Great…now I have the whole Harold Hecuba thing stuck in my head!
Castle of Fu Manchu.
Well, we’ve already seen a preview for Teenage Strangler, with Mike Nelson’s “I’m a Janitor” performance sure to be a highlight.
For high-wire wrestling action, I’d like to suggest Racket Girls.
But I really think The Sinister Urge would make for a truly surreal experience, with lots of dramatic musical numbers where the characters each lament their descent into porn…
Well, the answer is obvious for the first one! Fugitive Alien!
And it even has a great song already ready to go!
This is the song written for the train chase.
This is the chase, Rocky and Ken.
He tried to kill me with a forklift.
Olé!
Now strap in tight; let’s get set for action;
To launch the ship up off the sand.
He tried to kill me with a forklift.
Huzzah!
Next, Werewolf, which already has two great songs going. “Where or Werewolf,” and of course “TUSK!”
Then, we have Pod People, with a great song by the Joel and the bots with a memorable hook line that will become a sensation! “IT STINKS!” Later the crowd will be brought to tears as the spotlight hits Joel and he belts out “The Clown in the Sky!” Joel will bring the house down!
Finally, I give that Christmas Classic that will leave children traumatized for all time, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. There’s only one song in this musical, but it goes on forever and you will think it will NEVER stop!
S-A-N-T-A, C-L-A-U-S
Hooray for Santy Claus!
You spell it S-A-N-T-A, C-L-A-U-S
Hooray for Santy Claus
Hooray for Santy Claus
Yay yay for Santy Claus
He’s fat and round, but jumpin’ jiminy
He can climb down any chiminy!
When we hear sleigh bells ring
Our hearts go ting-a-ling
‘Cause there’ll be presents under the tree
Hooray for Santy Claus!
Now all year long at the North Pole
He’s busy making toys
But he knows just what you’re doin’
So you better be good girls and boys!
Hang up that mistletoe
Soon you’ll hear Ho Ho Ho
On Christmas Day, you’ll wake up and you’ll say
Hooray for Santy Claus!
Yay yay! Yay yay!
Yay yay! HOORAY!!!
Hang up that mistletoe
Soon you’ll hear Ho Ho Ho
On Christmas Day, you’ll wake up and you’ll say
Hooray for Santy Claus!
S-A-N-T-A, C-L-A-U-S
Hooray for Santy Claus!
You spell it S-A-N-T-A, C-L-A-U-S
Hooray for Santy Claus!
Hoo-raaaaayy forrr Sannn-tyyyy Clauuuusss!
Hooray for Santy Claus
CHA CHA CHA!!!!!
I second TEENAGE STRANGLER. Mikey was born for the stage and “Yike Stripes” will have them dancing in the aisles.
Teenagers from Outer Space: SpaceLobsterFest! starring Neil Patrick Harris as Derrick and Winona Ryder as Betty, Ed Asner as Grandpa and Kevin Spacey as Thor!
I think I Acusse my Parents would work the best. They’ve already got songs wihtin the movie.
Oh, come on people. The best one would be “The Final Sacrifice”. It screams musical.
The obvious choice: “The Girl in Lover’s Lane”. Half “Zorba”…half “Best Little Whorehouse In Texas”?
Meanwhile….
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die HAS been made into a musical
Though technically not broadway buuuuut”
Thanks for the link but…WTF with these guys??? “…based on Roger Corman’s 1962 gore-fest The Brain That Wouldn’t Die..”
I had more to do with that film than Corman…and I was three years old when it was made. This is like everyone on the internet thinking that all parody songs were written by Weird Al.
# 49 – Sounds good, but only if they change the ending and Kerri lives, right? Otherwise it would be too depressing!