Post by mattperiolat on Jun 28, 2017 9:27:50 GMT -5
And heck, in fairness, how did many musicals become hits based on their premises?
- Cheesy 50s b-movie take on Frankenstein but with transvestites and rock and roll.
- A dark look at the evolution of Nazi Germany... With fun musical numbers performed by an amateur!
- A version of Oliver Twist that cuts out all the actual reasons why things happen.
- Romeo And Juliet but with more Puerto Ricans and 50s slang.
- Villain AU fanfiction of The Wizard Of Oz.
- An adaptation of a 1900+ page French novel where pretty much all the characters die.
- Serial Killing Barber whose accomplice made meat pies out of his victims, potentially based on a real story.
To say nothing about one guy who wrote music for the following:
- An Old Testemant story about a family that wasn't nice to one of their brothers because he wouldn't shut up about his dreams.
- A 70s take on Jesus of Nazareth and the last seven days of his life, making his relationships and divinity more complex
- The wife of a South American dictator
- Kitties
- Trains
- A deformed obsessed psycopathic savant who lives under a theater in Paris
- The VERY complex love lives and relationships of five people
- A remake of a classic movie.
And those are the famous ones!
But to bring it back - Hamilton works because it's a Schoolhouse Rock version of a story people don't know well. They learn, they love the songs and the people it's based on. As a history major and Broadway lover, I'm elated by the success.
