Queen the Musical
Sat, 10 Mar 2001, 09:20 amGrant Malcolm7 posts in thread
Queen the Musical
Sat, 10 Mar 2001, 09:20 amIs anyone able to confirm the details of the following:
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
Grant MalcolmSat, 10 Mar 2001, 09:20 am
Is anyone able to confirm the details of the following:
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
"The songs of Queen are to be turned into a stage musical.
Guitarist Brian May said the band was working with playwright Ben Elton on the show."
Eliot? Amanda?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
AngeliqueMon, 12 Mar 2001, 03:31 pm
RE: Queen the Musical
I did hear of this on the radio one morning. Whether it is true or not, I don't know.
Amanda ChestertonMon, 12 Mar 2001, 05:01 pm
RE: Queen the Musical
Absolutely true. Lyrics by Ben Elton and everything.
I don't know whether to laugh, cheer or cry...love Queen, love Ben Elton but to watch the humiliation of a musical with huge potential to bomb...
Oh well, I'll still love Brian May the next morning :-)
Amanda
I don't know whether to laugh, cheer or cry...love Queen, love Ben Elton but to watch the humiliation of a musical with huge potential to bomb...
Oh well, I'll still love Brian May the next morning :-)
Amanda
Walter PlingeMon, 12 Mar 2001, 09:50 pm
RE: Queen the Musical
...or, further travesties in Western Civilisation.
This is news to me. The kind of news you get when you DON'T want to hear that one of your close relatives has just died in a freak gardening accident.
I personally hope this flops like a high jumping bastard. I cannot see this working at all. Aside from some lurid party exploits and the tragic ending, there ain't much story...but it's true that's never stopped musical writers before. I mean, c'mon, be honest! Starlight Express?!?
And that FOUL urchin Elton writing LYRICS?!?!?! How the hell is he going to fit "Oo-er! Little bit of Politics!!" into a song??
No, no, no! This mustn't happen. It's bad enough the Taleban is blowing up Buddhas in Afghanistan, but this is the end of our world...
Eliot
Amanda Chesterton wrote:
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Absolutely true. Lyrics by Ben Elton and everything.
I don't know whether to laugh, cheer or cry...love Queen, love Ben Elton but to watch the humiliation of a musical with huge potential to bomb...
Oh well, I'll still love Brian May the next morning :-)
Amanda
This is news to me. The kind of news you get when you DON'T want to hear that one of your close relatives has just died in a freak gardening accident.
I personally hope this flops like a high jumping bastard. I cannot see this working at all. Aside from some lurid party exploits and the tragic ending, there ain't much story...but it's true that's never stopped musical writers before. I mean, c'mon, be honest! Starlight Express?!?
And that FOUL urchin Elton writing LYRICS?!?!?! How the hell is he going to fit "Oo-er! Little bit of Politics!!" into a song??
No, no, no! This mustn't happen. It's bad enough the Taleban is blowing up Buddhas in Afghanistan, but this is the end of our world...
Eliot
Amanda Chesterton wrote:
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Absolutely true. Lyrics by Ben Elton and everything.
I don't know whether to laugh, cheer or cry...love Queen, love Ben Elton but to watch the humiliation of a musical with huge potential to bomb...
Oh well, I'll still love Brian May the next morning :-)
Amanda
Walter PlingeTue, 13 Mar 2001, 01:15 am
RE: Queen the Musical... you can all relax.
Relax Eliot and Amanda... not to mention all the others out there (including myself) who had thought this to be a musical _about_ Queen. (where the hell would they find a Freddie, anyway?)
I found this article at the Albemarle site (www.albemarle-london.com), and from what Brian May says, it appears that the show is to be merely a musical _by_ Queen. Or rather, by the surviving members thereof.
"Following his musical collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game, the playwright and novelist Ben Elton's next musical project will feature the songs of the pop group Queen. Speaking in a radio interview recorded for Capital Gold, Queen band member Brian May said: "The rumour is that we're doing a musical, which is true. Ben Elton has written us a fantastic script. We've actually been working on this damn musical for about four years and been through various ideas, some of which were biographical which in the end we didn't want to do. But now Ben came up with this great idea, so we've been workshopping it privately and possibly by the end of this year or the beginning of next year we hope it'll be on in the West End." May added that "There'll be a lot of Queen songs with some new ideas in there." The cast of this as yet untitled musical is not expected to feature any Queen band members."
peace,
David M.
I found this article at the Albemarle site (www.albemarle-london.com), and from what Brian May says, it appears that the show is to be merely a musical _by_ Queen. Or rather, by the surviving members thereof.
"Following his musical collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game, the playwright and novelist Ben Elton's next musical project will feature the songs of the pop group Queen. Speaking in a radio interview recorded for Capital Gold, Queen band member Brian May said: "The rumour is that we're doing a musical, which is true. Ben Elton has written us a fantastic script. We've actually been working on this damn musical for about four years and been through various ideas, some of which were biographical which in the end we didn't want to do. But now Ben came up with this great idea, so we've been workshopping it privately and possibly by the end of this year or the beginning of next year we hope it'll be on in the West End." May added that "There'll be a lot of Queen songs with some new ideas in there." The cast of this as yet untitled musical is not expected to feature any Queen band members."
peace,
David M.
Walter PlingeTue, 13 Mar 2001, 07:29 pm
RE: Queen Musical- thank the many arms of Vishnu
Meddoes!!!
You are SO mint!!!
You have single-handedly improved my day!
Sanity restored... thank you everyone for putting up with it all... I was VERY tempted to audition for the role of Freddie.... madness...
El
You are SO mint!!!
You have single-handedly improved my day!
Sanity restored... thank you everyone for putting up with it all... I was VERY tempted to audition for the role of Freddie.... madness...
El
Walter PlingeTue, 13 Mar 2001, 10:14 pm
RE: Queen Musical- thank the many arms of Vishnu
> Meddoes!!!
> You have single-handedly improved my day!
I do what I can.
> I was VERY tempted to audition for
> the role of Freddie.... madness...
Well, _I'd_ cast you!
David M.
employee of the "Arms of Vishnu" chain of spiritual fast-food restaurants (newly promoted from elbow wrinkle to knuckle!).
> You have single-handedly improved my day!
I do what I can.
> I was VERY tempted to audition for
> the role of Freddie.... madness...
Well, _I'd_ cast you!
David M.
employee of the "Arms of Vishnu" chain of spiritual fast-food restaurants (newly promoted from elbow wrinkle to knuckle!).