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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies: The MusicalAlert regular Timmy asks:
Oh I think “Fugitive Alien: The Musical” is already half-written. But the budget would be taken up buying blonde wigs. 58 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies: The Musical”Commenting at Satellite News
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Tormented would make a good musical with Tom Stewart playing jazz on piano and Vi singing about how he killed her. Will Smith could play the boat captain/blackmailer and do a rap number with little Sandy and the blind lady.
“Pod People: The Musical”. After Rick sings “Idiot Control” the crowd gets to join in shouting IT STINKS!
Taking Sampo’s lead –
Any given Japanese movie in the MST oevre. You could set the crowds of running Tokyo-ites to a synchronized dance number with children in upsetting shorts taking the lead.
High School Big Shot is definitely a musical in the making. The jaunty scholarship song from the dead eyes teacher, the duet between the shlub and the love interest, the hilarious safecracker song. But the real star will be the dad, the greatest parent since Mama Rose. “Loan Me Some Scratch, Son” (I’ve Got A Date), “Lost My Job Again”, and of course, Tony insta-winning classic “It’s Gonna Get Better From Here”, the heartwarming, soul stirring ballad he sings as he ties his noose. Audiences will leave the theater ecstatic to not be like the characters.
Mr B. Natural the Musical. I knew your father would be interesting song.
Hired! The Musical, of course.
its been done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaduCx4Dkgg
Track of the Moon Beast: The Musical! With the dance number on the Sandia Peak Tram, “Don’t Fall on a Cactus”; the hit song “Moon Rocks Keep Fallin’ on My Head”; and the finale, “Great Lizard Boogie.” Every program would be printed on paper that looks like pink terrycloth and include the names of the cast, crew, orchestra members…sigh…conductor….
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” would make a great musical. Dr. Cornter could sing about how body transplants can be more common thanks to his experiments, then “There Are Ways” in his quest to find a new body for his girlfriend.
The big song will be “Jan In The Pan” (I may be Jan In The Pan, but I think I can stand tall in my mind). We’d also get Kurt attempt a love song with Jan (“We’re just a few parts away from our love”) and the girl with the scarred face. Maybe we can have one about the guy who’s “behind that door”.
Fugitive Alien, the Musical. Obviously the big show stopping number is “Kill Me With a Forklift”. There’s also the great power ballad “You’re Stuck Here”.
Definitely “I Was a Teenage Werewolf.” It’s already got a jaunty title that would appeal to the young’uns. There would be lots of “Kind of White” music, and the early fight scene would be choreographed to be more ballet-like, a la “West Side Story.” No shortage of lavish musical numbers: “The Depressing Dad Song,” “Milk,” and “Eenie, meenie, minie, WHOA!” Plus, you already have the high school gymnasts as the chorus.
Sadly, the major roadblock to producing it would be getting the rights. Curse you, Susan Hart!
Of course, this would be in danger of becoming a jukebox musical, because of that big hit song, “California Lady.” The Band That Played California Lady would demand that their other hits be included as well, and in an ABBA-esque way the name of the musical would get changed from “Track of the Moon Beast” to “Yah-Ta-Hey!” or something like that.
Ro-Man: Is love in the protocol?
Chase Winstead: How singing whenever he sang, sad little mushrooms, hot rods, and barn rock and roll saved a small town from a Giant Gila Monster.
The critics claims it has a knee up on other musicals.
Norman: A two days in the life of UGGGGGH!.
The various predicaments Norman endured over the course of four shorts are reused and rearranged into a flow narrative about Norman Krasner traveling to a major hotel and convention center to give an important speech at a business merger that could very well save millions of jobs at his company, returning with the news of how it went,and ending with him locked in a bathroom stall on the final day of business. Sort of like what BEAN:The Movie did with the original Mr. Bean skits.
either of the Godzilla movies could work. you have romance, intrigue, massive fleeing hapless Japanese chorus line opportunities and you’ve already got a title song thanks to Blue Oyster Cult. everything that ‘Oklahoma!’ failed to deliver on and more.
Does the Rimsky-Korsakov opera “Sadko” count, since “Magic Voyage of Sinbad” already uses music from it?
That viking music ftw
I suppose you could re-work “Bride of the Monster” into a musical. There’s Vornoff’s heart-rending solo “Forsaken Jungle Hell”, and Lobo’s soliloquy about he’s devoted to a boss who beats him. Janet’s entrance in the bridal gown is now a full musical number, with a chorus and dancers dressed in angora sweaters with atomic symbols. The octopus gets its own song, just like Audrey II in “Little Shop”. And the big closing number has the whole cast (including the octopus and the dead hunters) singing about how fun it is to tamper in God’s domain.
Now playing at the Winter Garden Theater. Bargain seats still available. “I laughed, I cried, I put on platform shoes and danced in the aisles.” (Ben Brantley, New York Times)
Related. The Film Crew’s The Wild Women of Wongo. Picture a bizarro West Side Story
with the ugly guy’s tribe battling it out with the cute girls’ tribe. Omoo and Gahbo’s
touching duet (I’m Just a Prisoner of Love) is counter pointed by the vicious spear fight
where the ugly guys get splinter cuts and start crying. Censors were shocked by the blatant
carnality of the marriage DANCE!!! DANCE!! DANCE!! while teenage boys bought print copies
so they could blow up the swimming scene.
Please, not “Riding with Death”!! PLEASE!!!!!
Oh, c’mon, Albuquerque Turkey! Give it the old college try!
That’s only the first half. You’d need to adapt the rest, including the show stopping number But He Bought the Friggin’ Car.
City Limits could be done as a sort of post-apocalyptic West Side Story.
Prince of Space: The Musical. “Your songs have no affect on me!”
Shouldn’t that be, “Your songs are useless!”
The Horrors of Spider Island;The musical. We’ve already got the dancers, a woman-hating manpig and the musical number GAAAAARRRRYYYY!!!
Hmm, how about a modern update of “I Accuse My Parents”, where a certain entitled segment of a generation blame their helicopter parents when they turn to a life of (unrealized) crime when they find doing actual work for a living is too difficult. Songs could include: “Mommy, talk to my boss”; “Daddy, pay my rent”; “Trump won- I need two days off sick from class”; and “I didn’t know it was drugs!?”
“Hobgoblins”: Featuring original songs “It’s The ’80s”; “Fish Picker”; and “Garden Tool Party”. Also remakes of “Chevy Van”; Aldo Nova’s “Fantasy”; A-Ha’s “Take On Me”; and Loverboy’s “Workin’ For The Weekend”. Guest star cameos: Robert Plant; David Lee Roth; Paula Poundstone; and Pee-Wee Herman.
Rocket Attack USA. There’s the amazing dance number “Commie Scat”, the humorous, yet ominous song “Missiles are Stupid”, and the bouncy, upbeat “Running with a Bomb”.
Speaking of which, I was kind of surprised that M&TBs never sang, or mentioned, the “Gary, Indiana” song from “Music Man” during those scenes.
Eegah: The Musical. watch out for snakes would be said by an unknown person at a random point in the musical.
Squirm! The Musical. A sample of 2 songs:
Make me an Egg Cream, Make me an Egg Cream :
Can you make me an egg cream?
Will you make me an egg cream?
I want an egg cream!!
Try not to put worms in it.
I don’t worms in it.
NO WORMS IN MY EGG CREME, PLEASE
and a sample of Now you are the worm face:
I don’t want to be a worm face.
Never wanted to be a worm face,
If all my plans go right
and I win this Georgian fight
You will be the worm face
NOW YOU ARE THE WORM FACE
It has potential.
Warrior of the Lost World.
Featuring, among other favorites:
Paper Chase’s Guy’s “Ahhh Dawnt Guv a S*** Awbt Yuur Waaawr”
“Bad Mothers, Geeks, & D***heads, Oh MY!”
And of course, the haunting “Megaweapon Theme”
Slightly off topic, but Earth Vs. Soup would make a great musical.
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:musicnote:Oh Porgy! Oh my dear heavens, no, no, no, no, no, no, no… :musicnote:
:musicnote: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no……:musicnote:
You get the idea…
‘Outlaw: The Musical…’
It’s Cabot, it’s Cabot, oh yes it’s really Cabot
It’s Cabot, it’s Cabot, yes Cabot has returned
What, Cabot? Not Cabot! Oh, is it really Cabot?
That Cabot? THE Cabot? Yes, Cabot, it’s confirmed!
Oh Cabot! Yes Cabot! Dear Cabot! Our Cabot…!
And then it just kind of goes on like that.
Fun question. I think a case could be made for nearly any episode.
What about what movie wouldn’t make a good musical? “King Dinosaur” and “First Spaceship on Venus” came right to mind.
TEEN-AGE STRANGLER: THE MUSICAL. Of course, the standout out song would be “He Didn’t Steal No Bike Neither, I Did,” but just imagine the possibilities.
Possible musical numbers: “He’s a humorous killer, isn’t he?” “Am I Blooming?” “Mom’s won some dirt-bike trophies.” “Kids, is all.”
Since Mike gave us the Janitor song, maybe this thing is already half written, I don’t know.
Coming to Broadway this Christmas:
“BEAUTY AND THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS”!
Belle travels to the irradiated wasteland of Yucca Flats and falls in love with Dr Joseph ‘Tor Johnson’ Javorsky.
Includes the songs “Flag On The Moon”, “Shoot Our Guest” and Javorsky’s heartfelt paean “uuuUUUAGGGGHHhhh!”
The Day the Earth Froze –
Chorus:
“The gosh darn Earth has froze,
And I can’t feel my toes.
There’s stuff inside my nose,
And the Sampo isn’t working!”
I envision an all African American cast in period costume.
If you want to be really lazy, just take the non-show portions of the Incredibly Strange Creatures ect and rework them into songs and viola – musical.
But I thought the caveman opening of Cave Dwellers was supposed to be West Side Story: “Unh…I just met girl named Unh.”
Let’s see. If “The Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild [x5] World of Batwoman” were to be made into a musical maybe I could understand what the hell’s happening. Or maybe it’d be turned into a Russian Futurist Opera, and thereby double its dadaist pain quota.
Then, in “Monster A-Go-Go, The Musical” we find out at the very end that there was nothing. No music, no thing called “the libretto” to be followed!
somewhat like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y
I’d forgotten that Darth Vader was in that movie!
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: The Musical!
With stirring songs such as:
Jonathan’s “I’ll Shut You Down”
Madeline’s “To Have a Child (reprised as I Have a Child later)”
And star Merlin’s heartfelt “Have You Seen My Monkey?”
I’m picturing Rowsdower singing the showstopper BEER ON THE SUN in front of a kick line of masked cult members.
There won’t be a dry eye in the house when Troy sings the heart rending ODE TO LARRY CSONKA.
Untamed Youth seems a natural adaptation.
MONSTER A-GO-GO
“but there was no music…”
A musical version of “The Day the Earth Froze” would HAVE to include the “He’s A Failure” song.
Here’s an idea: You could retell the story ala “Wicked/Maleficent”. Give the witch an elaborate backstory to make her the sympathetic character who was mistreated and abused, and make the villagers look like a bunch of cruel jerks who deserve everything she does to them.
On second thought, let’s not.
If you’ve seen Shrek The Musical (and you should) then you know what to expect with… GAMERA: The Opera!
Oooooooh…TooooooOooo keeeeEEEEppp HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM! Oh tiiiiibbbyyyy… !!
‘Mutiny in space.’ might be a nice change of pace to have the lead man hitting those ultra high octaves during the fight scenes.
“Horror of Party Beach”. It’s practically a musical already. Just add a few more songs, such as the ever popular “Sodium”, the wistful “How do I get to the freeway?”, and the haunting ballad, “It’s the Voodoo!”
My favourite episode. I actually like the Del Aires tracks. Just a great 60’s monster movie.
Boggy Creek II –
An all banjo score with Mel Brooks directing. Instead of a broccoli rubber band Old Man Crenshaw sports a yarmulke and the scene where the mohel performs a bris on the little creature will bring the house down. Oy!