propitlikeithot: lies: propitlikeithot: propitlikeithot: en-rich-ment: It would actually be…
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It would actually be terrible if all the world was a musical. Like how would you get places? I bet people would spend most of their time trying to not get sucked into a musical number.
Someone write this musical.
Frick I think I have to write that musical…
Do it!
I actually see it in my head: it would either be like a zombie apocalypse with a group of people who try to resist the dominating power of ensembles and group choreography while several of them get sucked in one by one
OR
One man against the world of song and dance. Man succeeds, but at what price? I think this one would lack a finale because there would be no one to sing it.
Both would feature endless and not always subtle Broadway references.
Heh. There would be so many cool ways to play with the meta.
A main character who’s like Tom Aldredge in Into the Woods or Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, in the sense that he (or she) doesn’t actually sing, though surrounded by characters who do. Which would make it kind of great if/when they did sing.
What happens to the “I want” song? Does the main character not actually want anything? Are other people singing about what they want, or about what the main character wants? Does the main character just want to escape all this gosh-darned singing?
As you say, If the hero(ine) succeeds at vanquishing all singing, where does the finale come from? Maybe the main character finally sings then? Maybe you could bring back vanquished/departed characters from the shadows to gradually build the finale, like Sunday in the Park?
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