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

[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.

[2DLenzy]

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.

[powerplantanimations]

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).

[MK_Wizard]

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.

[Kirara312]

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.

[TheLemmaLlama]

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

[darthmongoose]

I don't think Errant would be easy to stage, just because it has such big sequences involving effects, I can't help but feel it'd go the way of Spider-man: Turn off the Dark, and be over-blown, over-budget, look terrible and cause cast injuries.

Now an animated musical, like Encanto or Steven Universe? I could see that. The obvious musical style for Errant would be classic Punk, Britpop and 00s indie rock. It just fits the vibe and the Northern English setting. A lot of classic Britpop kind of tells a story and would fit in a musical.

A lot of musical theatre is kind of bad though, so it'd definitely be one of those, "are you sure?" things. Singing a story is a bit like manga; do it right and the melodrama is glorious, do it wrong and it's ultra-cringe. I wouldn't want to have the next Bad Cinderella on my hands.

[stiatent]

If a company offered to make it a musical, sure why not, do action-horror musicals exist? I'd go see it XD

I'd prop leave it to the Broadway experts, structured is good but guess they will have to cut lots out to the basic story and powers/virus mechanics. Shoegaze, dark wave and creepy ambience are usu my jam making this bit don't think it would work as Broadway.
Would be funny and cool watching Evan singing, accidentally infecting his backup dancers, maybe they have some cool vfx transition to make them transform into monsters (cool prosthetics too). Then he'd sing and dance about killing them with spit XD Guess it could work as a dark-humor themed musical like Shaun of the Dead meets the acrobatic action stunts of Spiderman.

On another thought, it would make a great Halloween Escape room or Haunted Attraction maybe - with the human players in the shoes of the MCs having to avoid infecting cast-members, rescue them from danger without infecting them, figure ways to kill the already infected, accomplish other goals and find a way out.