Dave craps on a stage musical idea: a musical no less

[Dave (imported)]

>>I almost didn't believe my eyes when I read this.

>>Pan's Labyrinth isn't a happy fantasy. It is a fantastical tale about a young girl becoming a princess of some glorious realm.

>>But it's got really nasty Nazi's fighting a WW2 resistance and killing and quite possible torture and rape (I think I remember things that cruel in it)...

>>Someone is sniffing the bad air, huffing their shorts, and smoking the ugliest chewing tobaccy in a moldy pipe.

>>There's a wind whistling from parts of these people's anatomy that will remain unmentionable in polite company.

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Too Much Awesome In One Sentence! Guillermo Del Toro And Paul Williams Come Together To Make A Stage Musical From PAN'S LABYRINTH!

Published at: Dec 06, 2012 4:24:19 PM CST

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59904

Nordling here.

Yeah, I love Guillermo Del Toro, and I'm onboard for anything he does. He originally brought PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE to the very first BNAT, and it's obviously a movie that Del Toro has loved for a long time, and especially the music of Paul Williams. Williams has experienced something of a renaissance this year with his new documentary PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE, and any geek worth a damn loves his contributions to movies and music. I'd drive 18 hours to Boston to bring the man some clam chowder if he asked for it.

So the idea of the two teaming up,according to Deadline, to bring PAN'S LABYRINTH to musical life makes me pretty damn giddy. I hope the songs are as spooky as the movie, and I'm very curious to see how this translates to the stage. I'm thinking some crazy set design and incredible costume work, and between the two of them they should make something appropriately dreamlike and surreal. Gustavo Santaolalla (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) will be writing the score, and Williams will be penning the lyrics.

No date on when this will show up on stage, but Guillermo has been quietly working on this for almost four years now. Really looking forward to see what's in store with this.

Nordling, out. Follow me on Twitter!

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>>I almost didn't believe my eyes when I read this.

>>Pan's Labyrinth isn't a happy fantasy. It is a fantastical tale about a young girl becoming a princess of some glorious realm.

>>But it's got really nasty Nazi's fighting a WW2 resistance and killing and quite possible torture and rape (I think I remember things that cruel in it)...

>>Someone is sniffing the bad air, huffing their shorts, and smoking the ugliest chewing tobaccy in a moldy pipe.

>>There's a wind whistling from parts of these people's anatomy that will remain unmentionable in polite company.

>>

>>

Too Much Awesome In One Sentence! Guillermo Del Toro And Paul Williams Come Together To Make A Stage Musical From PAN'S LABYRINTH!

Published at: Dec 06, 2012 4:24:19 PM CST

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59904

Nordling here.

Yeah, I love Guillermo Del Toro, and I'm onboard for anything he does. He originally brought PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE to the very first BNAT, and it's obviously a movie that Del Toro has loved for a long time, and especially the music of Paul Williams. Williams has experienced something of a renaissance this year with his new documentary PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE, and any geek worth a damn loves his contributions to movies and music. I'd drive 18 hours to Boston to bring the man some clam chowder if he asked for it.

So the idea of the two teaming up,according to Deadline, to bring PAN'S LABYRINTH to musical life makes me pretty damn giddy. I hope the songs are as spooky as the movie, and I'm very curious to see how this translates to the stage. I'm thinking some crazy set design and incredible costume work, and between the two of them they should make something appropriately dreamlike and surreal. Gustavo Santaolalla (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) will be writing the score, and Williams will be penning the lyrics.

No date on when this will show up on stage, but Guillermo has been quietly working on this for almost four years now. Really looking forward to see what's in store with this.

Nordling, out. Follow me on Twitter!

Remember. The Sound of Music & Caberet, two of the most successful movie musicals of all time had pretty much the same back story.

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[Dave (imported)]

One can only hope that you are right. Perhaps my fears are misplaced but I have my doubts.

[Riverwind (imported)]

And never forget that great musical staring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in 'The Producers' which had the song Spring time for Hitler.

River

[Dave (imported)]

I know River, but THE PRODUCERS was a comedy and PAN'S LABYRINTH is not a comedy.

[A-1 (imported)]

And never forget that great musical staring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in 'The Producers' which had the song Spring time for Hitler.

River

Sieg heil! (Who in the FUCK came up

with that silly-assed salute the Germans used to use?)

I know River, but THE PR

ODUCERS was a comedy and PAN'S LABYRINTH is not a comedy.

No, Labyrinthitis (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002049/) can make you deaf...

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Sieg heil! (Who in the FUCK came up with that silly-assed salute the Germans used to use?)

The salute gesture is widely believed to be based on an ancient Roman custom. However, no surviving Roman work of art depicts it, nor does any extant Roman text describe it. Jacques-Louis David's painting Oath of the Horatii (1784) seems to be the starting point for the gesture that became known as the Roman Salute. The gesture and its identification with ancient Rome was advanced in other French neoclassic art. This was further elaborated upon in popular culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in plays and films that portrayed the salute as an ancient Roman custom. This included the silent film Cabiria (1914), whose screenplay was written by the Italian ultra-nationalist Gabriele d'Annunzio, arguably the forerunner of Benito Mussolini. In 1919, when he led the occupation of Fiume, d'Annunzio adopted the style of salute depicted in the film as a neo-Imperialist ritual; and it was quickly adopted by the Italian Fascist Party.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute

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[Dave (imported)]

You do understand that when Mel Brooks wrote THE PRODUCERS, the entire premise of a musical "Springtime for Hitler" was farce and absurd humor. IT was supposed to be a play so bad that it would fail the second it opened. It made fun.

My comment about Pan's Labyrinth is still true. the movie contains themes and elements that are are not normally found in popular stage musicals. There is no happy ending to the story. The emotional elements of the story are resolved by a retreat into fantasy with death left behind in the real world.

Those themes have been found in Opera but not musical theater... Opera is condensed and heightened drama while musical theater (broadway) is light, airy entertainment. This is true from the earliest forms of music onstage -- Mozart wrote serious drama for the royalty (Figaro and Don Giovanni) and foolish silliness (Magic Flute) for the commoners.

It's the reason that Previn could write an opera of "Streetcar Named Desire"... but not a stage play.