Given the unlikely plays that have turned up on Broadway — Spamalot, Avenue Q, Urinetown, the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee — I'm wondering what won't make it to Broadway. Here's a few that show very little promise:
Pornographic Movie: A Musical Adventure. This has probably been done.
R. Crumb. Would like to see this just for the idea of a production number with a bunch of skinny cartoonists riding on the backs of full figured women.
Dexter. Based on the Cartoon Network character. Dexter takes his project to the Junior Academy of Sciences. Shades of 9/11. Can be seen as a kind of uplifting, Angels-in-America, type of play.
Paintball.
John Leguizamo Cooks. The talented actor does a tour de force by evoking multiple personalities cooking up multiple recipes on a television cooking show.
Delay: The Early Years. Captures how this cunning and charismatic congressman worked his way to a seat of power from the extermination business. Think dancers in jumpsuits waving metal spray wands.
The World of Henry Darger. The Mary Jane girls at the apocalypse. Pre-adolescent girls take on the forces of evil. I think this one has been done also.
Posted by mastr at June 3, 2005 11:51 AM