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Sep 2023

If you're asking what type of musical?

None. Musicals are one of the few genres of music/ movie/ play I dislike. (Cabaret was okay) Something I'd only visit upon my enemies. Like so...

BUT!

If it was Book of Mormon type funny, and they paid me enough, I'd gladly retire to my new hot tub and let them have at it.

I don’t like musicals but I would be open to a musical mostly for the novelty of it.

So, there was a musical made for the US newspaper comic called Doonesbury. The comic was originally about college and the musical was supposed to end the college plot so the characters could move onto non-college story lines. But the whole thing is so freakin awkward. There is a rap sung by the one character who I would never imagine rapping.

So I want my musical to have an awkwardly placed rap song that’s sung by an unexpected character.

So my first thought was "ugh, but I don't LIKE musicals...!" Which is generally true...I'd much rather listen to the songs from a musical in isolation than actually watch the whole performance. I just think they have a tendency to come out cheesy and cute, which works great for high-energy stories and genres that fit into that, but the stuff I write is pretty low-key, so...I don't think it would transition very well. =/ You'd have to simplify it a lot, at the very least...

HOWEVER....I do like opera. ^^ And I know musicals that emulate operatic style exist, so...I feel like a musical with the right direction might come out pretty cool. Something that feels a little more like one big immersive composition, rather than normal dramatic scenes that suddenly burst into song.

Opera is really awesome! I think Elsie would work as an opera too. Maybe like Phantom of the Opera or something!

Rosemary is actually an opera singer in the comic!

Also in Elsie’s time they wouldn’t have sang all fancy or skillfully as we think of opera today. They actually would’ve sang normally and with less effort. Well, they would’ve had put lots of effort but not as elite as we think of opera as today.

Let Phantoms of the Opera explain it.

Unfortunately, it's the same problem as a movie adaptation - just not enough time, so I'd rather not.

As someone who has written and produced a musical ITS HARD but also really fun! 7ssc is certainly not suited for the musical medium, but if I've definitely written character songs for a handful of characters. I've thought a lot about how the OST would sound, and its definitely a merge of classical acoustics with the house-electronica chord colors. so like the japanese rhythm game sorta vibe lol

If my comic had a musical I would base it on the 1st season and give it pop punk songs since it was inspired by 00s cartoons

I would very much prefer Nixvir to be adapted as more SERIOUS theatre, like Shakespeare.

Can't say I've ever thought about it, haha. I'm not against musicals—I've occasionally written musical-style songs about my stories—but I feel like Niji Chikara specifically would be pretty difficult to adapt. Although, if it was one of those musicals that had an original storyline instead of trying to adapt the entire plot, that might work...

I honestly don't think Trespasser could work as a musical haha. It would be funny to see it though, but more in a "haha look how bad" kind of funny :sweat_smile:

I don't think my comic would work at all in that format, and its due to the fact that there's already songs in it. Said songs are in a constructed language, and don't quite work the same in any other language. But I'd like to see someone try. lolol

My comic is also a very slow paced drama that would be quite hard to condense into a musical anyways....

However, most of the characters are singers, so they could hypothetically take part in a musical inside of the story. It would kinda be story-ception, a musical in a comic, story in a story.

As much as I love musicals I've never once seen a Broadway play in-person. My knowledge is limited as sad as that is, although I always thought if my comic got turned into an animated film or something by some blue moon, having it being a musical would be sick as hell.

Honestly the only one I could compare it to would be Les Mis or (1938) Gas Light, since they're the most similar plays I can think of, despite the latter not being a musical as far as I remember. I couldn't say what the style of music would be since I lack the experience to know, but the songs would probably be mental health related, stuff that would move the story along, Julian's "I Want" song probably won't come about till halfway into the show, Apollo's a third or forth of the way in. There will probably be a lot of sad music, stuff like that. A rock opera would be pretty awesome if that could be pulled off.

Gosh! I thought I knew something about music, but these videos have me over here wondering me liking John Holiday's rendition of Ah, ch'infelice! means my ears are garbage. x'D

I like musicals well enough. particular favorites include the guy who didnt like musicals, trail to oregon, hadestown, mean girls, six and little shop of horrors (though it does have its problems). I think STS would make for a weird musical, but not impossible. The story is pretty dramatic, I think several moments could be made into an aria or a musical montage. It could be done. But I wouldn't do it.

I kinda have mixed feelings about mine. I'm the type that is sometimes annoyed by Disney, but remembers specifically enjoying a Lewis and Clark production in grade school.

For my current comic, Friar Chicken, a musical based on the moral/ethical troubles of a man, who suspiciously looks like a beloved fried chicken mascot, running a poutlry-slaughtering business. I could get behind that, though I don't know enough of musicals to describe how it would be structured.

But, on the other hand, seeing the other protag running around looking something like this:

Not sure why, but it's a turn-off for me. Maybe because I hadn't been exposed enough to animal-featured shows, or the costumes are just cringe.

I don't know. Maybe it'd work for others, in theory, but I'd be damned if I had to sit through my own work on display.

I mean realistically speaking if someone came up to me and asked if they wanted to make a broadway musical I'd take it. Free money. I feel like my comic would make it very unconventional. Like... what the Hell would the stick figure costumes even look like????

I think it'd be funny if they made Naota from a musical world like Enchanted. I'd probably want all my Isekaiers to act like weird theatre kids and make a commentary about that whole community. The joke in TSFI is that the Isekaiers come across as weeby, so it'd be real funny to have the stick figures act like regular people.

In fact, screw my characters. It's (going to be) established that there's multiple units like Naota, Nikado, Quincy, and Eve helping people return to their world. I'd make a new unit set in the same journal from worlds based on musicals and just critique theatre kids like how they do flashmobs on TikTok or Disney mascots or how Phantom of the Opera sorta sensationalizing the villain. I watched the 1920 movie and I did NOT know that guy was originally a straight up creep (also apparently that play is straight up hated by hardcore broadway fans).

I could easily imagine MK's Jekyll and Hyde as a musical and I originally scripted it to be one. I even made up songs. I even think Cupcake War Machine could make a fun one because it is a family friendly story about family unity and love through the art of baking.

Word is the Bird would be challenging because it's a comic strip so it would probably work if it was a holiday special of some kind or a show unique the Broadway musical.

Psychoborg would never work as a musical at all because it too serious and dramatic. I could picture it as a play in theater though.

I couldn't imagine any of my comics being a musical they are too serious. I'm with some of the others who metioned their comics might be better suited to theater, especially The Masked Truths, Dreams of Feathers and Wings, and The Birthmarks of the Dark World.

Not too familiar with musicals, but it might not be a bad idea actually to express some of the coming long-winded philosophical/etc rants in the form of songs XD I've been writing some songs for bitwam which was probably the first time I've expressed in an actually readable way some of the ideas I've been wanting to convey without losing the nuances :stuck_out_tongue: