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30 Nov 05 - 10:47 AM (#1617236) Subject: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Donuel My old musician friend Muddy Lips Rivers taught me all I know. I once asked him what makes a Broadway hit. He said don't start with art, talent or greatness! Start with a demographic age group that has money to see something. With that median age count back to the years they would have been 15-25. With these years in mind , find a rock group in toothless decline or TV series / comedy to base a show. Make a slick TV ad far superior the the actual show and drag the act city to city. Old Muddy lips sure knew his shit. What we have mostly today are revivals on top of re-revivals. As long as you give it a slightly new twist you have a fair chance of success. I just happen to have a modest example here... "Airplanes and buildings and girls with explosives Bull dozers dozing old houses with roses Bethlehem burning as fire rains down Peace loving people now litter the ground When the bus blows when free speech goes when the press is blind these are a few of the hideous things when hatred is seen as fine." |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:06 AM (#1617253) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Wesley S "Hey Hey We're the Monkees Musical" "Kansas - A Musical in the Wind" "Boston - On Broadway" Coming to a theater near you ? |
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30 Nov 05 - 11:07 AM (#1617256) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Clinton Hammond " taught me all I know" And what did you do with the ramaining 23 hours and 58 minutes of that day? oh... right... you're doing it |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:15 PM (#1617315) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: M.Ted The formula these days is to take movies and music that were popular--well, look at the recent hits: Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Movin' Out(an ode to Billy Joel), and the show about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons that I can't think of the name of-- MY BIG IDEA: "Animal House, the Musical"-- |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:15 PM (#1617317) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Donuel Try wearing a wind breaker instead of being one. |
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30 Nov 05 - 12:24 PM (#1617321) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Clinton Hammond Too close to the truth eh Donuel.... Shall we call whine-one-one and have them send a whhambulance for you? |
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30 Nov 05 - 02:30 PM (#1617411) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Donuel revival of Cats as RATS. |
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30 Nov 05 - 04:51 PM (#1617509) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: Ebbie "Start with a demographic age group that has money to see something. With that median age count back to the years they would have been 15-25. With these years in mind , find a rock group in toothless decline or TV series / comedy to base a show. Make a slick TV ad far superior the the actual show and drag the act city to city." Donuel Many Amish, for instance, have plenty of money- that is your demographic group, and they range in age from 1 year to 95. Count back to when most of them were 15-25; that would mean hits from 1923 to 1933. Now go to work and make your film. They aren't going to see it. They won't even see the slick TV ads. Sorry. *G* |
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01 Dec 05 - 08:06 AM (#1618022) Subject: RE: BS: How to write a Broadway smash From: alanabit Mel Brooks "The Producers" showed the way. Write something in bad enough taste and success is unavoidable. |