Would you ever want your comic to become a Broadway musical?

[abigaillmartin]

If you put it that way. Yeah, yeah that’s true. Sorry.

[abigaillmartin]

Okay what about you dude?

[allenT]

I don't want to, but i don't see why it can't be a musical. my drama story can actually be made into musical. (even a lot of shounen anime series had made into fun musicals as well)

I'm thinking a mixture of Les Misérables & Yentl, super sentimental.

Sanariya would never sing in the story, but she's probably a brilliant ballad singer in musical (even her name indicates that in Indian translate )

[abigaillmartin]

Speaking of Les Mis, I think Elsie would also work with their style of music. I love Les Mis.

[Vikthetoonaddict]

Eh, I could do a Chicago-meets-Beetlejuice-type of thing for The Blue Fedora.

[thepenmonster]

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.

[NickRowler]

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.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

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.

[abigaillmartin]

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!

[abigaillmartin]

HOWEVER....I do like opera. ^^

Rosemary is actually an opera singer in the comic!

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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.

[Iris-Grimoire]

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

[delladz]

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

[meap]

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

[Aeneas1]

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

[AmysGames]

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...

[KevinReijnders]

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

[morganicfoods]

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.

[UrMom]

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.

[UrMom]

Let Phantoms of the Opera explain it.

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

[LostKelp]

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.