A musical about Marie Antoinette would be very interesting. Imagine the customes possibility. Plus, chopping somebody's head onstage would be something to watch.
you know what i've always wanted. in the vain of 'altar boyz' i guess, a musical about an a cappella group where there's no orchestration throughout the whole show, the whole thing is a cappella. it tells their backstories, how the group formed, where the group's going. maybe it ends with a big competition performance or something. i don't know. it sounds dorky, but i would love it!
Why not write an original musical that hits you on a personal level? Or if you have a clever concept, make up a good story around it. Takes more time, but the result can be something truely special and all you. :)
I grew up in a place in Atlanta called Poole Creek. It was during the early 60's to the early 70's. It was a time when songs like "The Name Game" Soul Finger, Cool Jerk and etc. was on the radio. A time when shows like Petticoat Junction was on the tv.It was a world where women watched the stories (soap operas), and talked about them on the telephone as if the people were real. "Girl did you see what happened?" A place where people had princess phones (with the little light that illuminated the dial). This neighborhood is all but gone now. I wrote a bad play about the people in this community. Yet everybody who reads the play loves the characters. I have been trying so hard to get somebody to read this play, and maybe suggest improvements or add music to it. It was a black neighborhood, but my vision is that the songs would be in the vein of "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" a song I would hear on the radio at times when we happened upon a white station. There is another white song that makes me think of that neighborhood (walk away renee). "Stone Soul Picnic" is yet another (and by the way, why haven't anybody did a show on the songs that The Fifth Dimensions sang). I'm writing this because whenever I read this play and put it away, I go to my living room (and I'm not lying) it seem like the characters are standing there shrugging their shoulders asking "What are you going to do with us? We're ready.