Getting friends in to musicals is hard because when they ask what it’s about you have to be like “15 year olds having sex” or “a plant from outer space that takes over the world” or “teenagers killing people for fun” or “Alexander Hamilton”
“7 minorities deal with crushing poverty and the looming specter of death by being a dick to their landlord”
“Sesame Street, but like… for adults”
“This one time in the 1830s a bunch of college students decided to fight the entire French government and…it didn’t go very well.”
“Argentinian gold digger teaches her country the joys of fascism.”
“Disfigured guy in the friendzone thinks his student owes him a relationship for teaching her how to sing.”
“Woman who sucks at being a nun becomes a homewrecker, flees from the Nazis with new family.”
“presidential assassins”
“The ridiculously complicated love lives of anthropomorphic trains.”
The Newsboys’ Strike of 1899.
The secret life of cats
A factory that makes shoes, for drag queens.
A dance audition where whoever has the best childhood trauma story gets a speaking role.
Organ repossession
Jesus’ Crucifixion, set to funky rock
The first two Evil Dead movies condensed into one coherent plot and you’re the one who gets sprayed in blood.
So there are these monks…
So these two guys are writing a musical and get two of their friends to take part in it…
Ok, so like everything above, and a lot of Shakespeare jokes, mashed together.
Hey kids, let’s put on a show in a barn
All the people who have ever tried to kill a President of the United States hanging out together.
Somehow a love triangle is more important than the entire French Revolution.
A hard-boiled crime novelist invents a really incompetent detective and then they yell at each other
Teen girl in the Wild West shoots lots of guns
Class differences in the colonial Caribbean leads to a girl turning into a tree
Jesus and friends set to lighter funky rock
An Aristophanes comedy but with references to the Bush administrations’ lies about the Iraq war
a con man successfully swindles an entire town out of their money for weeks and does not experience a single consequence
Some of my favorites:
Preislamic iraqi prince falls in love with a conman’s daughter because he likes shiny objects, this leads to a major political figure being drowned at a party.
Shakespeare, but with a lot of secret gay pining songs thrown in.
Vanilla kids accidentally crash a BDSM party
The entire works of the Grimm Brothers, happening at the same time.
Lovestruck idiots on a boat
Conman thinks he can scam a librarian. Failing that, he attempts to teach Iowans music.
…and that’s not even getting into the stuff that’s actually for kids, which is even weirder.
the annual spelling be at a local highschool
lions experience a fascist coup
Sensationalist media, but with jazz!
A comic strip nobody likes, and not even the parts that are actually in the paper, just the meet-cute origin that doesn’t have anything to do with fighting smugglers
Man attacks inanimate objects, hooker cringes with second-hand embarrassment.
The Bible, just the regular Bible like from religion
A futuristic world with a surgery obsession.
The villain from the wizard of oz is a poor little meow wow.
Choosing a white guy to lead your union will only lead to him fucking it up for everyone
A young woman follows her boyfriend to law school to prove she’s not stupid and ends up dropping him for her law degree.
Toy story, but in a museum.
So like there’s this cult thing? And they induct this guy in by making him the protagonist of all life?? And it’s like historical fantasy but theres also magic??? Maybe????
I did this musical in high school.
okay well newsies already got mentioned so pick your poison:
six dead teenagers have to have a sob story contest with each other over who most deserves to get revived. they bicker with the fortune telling machine (who is also dying, courtesy of a rat) thats going to bring the winner back to life as they do this. the tone fluctuates so insanely between comedic and normal you’re sure to get whiplash
a very understimulated and bored 11 year old girl essentially gets adopted by the immortals living in the forest that is basically her backyard, and has to decide whether she wants to live forever to stay with them or not. also the antagonist is a hammy old man in a bright yellow suit who manages to go from funny to seriously dangerous and threatening
both of these shows will make you think unreasonably hard about your mortality and what you’ve achieved/will achieve with your life. they make me cry
Gay and/or nerdy Mormons in Uganda what will they do
Some kid takes drugs so he can be cool. It’s a supercomputer that teaches him to get laid but he still doesn’t.
Gambling but the stakes are your religion and your crush
A gay Jewish man cheats on and leaves his wife, who married their therapist, all while their autistic child bonds with his new stepdads and the lesbians from next door, until someone dies
yeah no it’s a single chapter from war and peace in which a girl gets engaged twice and breaks up with both of them and by the end she’s in love with a secret third guy who’s already married
some kids at a high school dance trying to not get killed by the dj
Ignoring fascism by drinking & going to parties
Guy has an existential crisis about getting married
Therapy session with an obscure composer
Internet addicts meeting in a church basement
Spider-Man, but really campy and bad <3
A guy who gets arrested for buying weed
