A 'Star Trek' musical theater play possible? [Broadway]

[Shatnertage]

In the Cirque-style show I imagine for "Spock's Brain," there's a huge production number with dozens of dancers for "The Givers of Pain and Delight."

There's also a dramatic fight scene set to the music from "Amok Time," but that goes without saying.

Also a number called "Worse than Dead!" where McCoy gets to take center stage.

 

[xortex]

Don't give Abrams any ideas please.

 

[NickInABox]

Deep Space 9 needed a musical episode.

A legitimate musical episode. Not a Vic Fontaine musical episode.

 

[Sci]

Deep Space 9 needed a musical episode.

A legitimate musical episode. Not a Vic Fontaine musical episode.

I don't really think a musical is compatible with the creative conceits upon which DS9 and the other Trek shows are based.

 

[scotpens]

. . . Who would've figured you could get a hit musical out . . . .

1) an old Roger Corman movie about a man-eating plant?

2) the charismatic wife of Juan Peron of Argentina?

3) a serial-killing barber who bakes his victims into meat pies?

4) a bunch of old poems about cats?

5) a former nun escaping from Nazis?

Or an Italian movie about a street hooker? Or the figures in a nineteenth-century French painting?

Musicals are using projected video and computer animation already...so I think it´s possible. And seeing that we had a plot with people showering naked...how about a virus that makes people sing?

Naked is how people normally shower. “The Naked Time” had a frozen dead guy who’d been showering fully clothed.

OT: That reminds me...anybody ever read the bloody awful lyrics to the Star Trek Theme? I can’t imagine anybody really singing this with a straight face: “His journey ends neeeeeveeeeeer.....his Star Treeeeeeeeek goes on foreeeeeeveeeer”....

Yes, G.R.’s lyrics are pretty bad. He only wrote them to get a co-writing credit on the theme so he’d receive half the royalties. A shitty thing to do to composer Alexander Courage, especially since the lyrics were never used in the show.

One can almost hear McCoy singing about Spock's Brain. It's like it's already written. And maybe a few nurses in an ensemble.
nurses: Brain!
McCoy: I can't connect this bloody thing!
nurses: Brain!
McCoy: So many sutures it's insane!

Or a plot with Kirk getting captured by Klingons:

Oh, so you’re Captain Kirk, you’re the great Captain Kirk
Prove to me that you’re the best — show us all your brawny chest!

 

[Shatnertage]

^ That's it! A mash-up of "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Spock's Brain!" It'd be perfect, considering both of them are already comedies. You'd just have to add the "musical" part.

 

[lurok]

Definitely opera...

 

[Owain Taggart]

More than a decade ago, one of our local school drama teams did put on a Star Trek musical. It was based on TNG's A Frame of Mind. I can't remember all that much, but what I do remember was that it was really well done. They went all out, from what I remember. They dressed up part of the school as a starship, so when we went down hallways, they looked like hallways on a starship. First, you bought your ticket, and then you'd be escorted by an actor in uniform into the elevator dressed up as a turbolift, and then they took you down to the auditorium where it was dressed up to look like the bridge. They pretty much recreated the episode but added songs to it. I remember being quite in geek heaven that day. They really made you feel like you weren't just part of the audience, but part of the action as well by dressing part of the school up like that.

 

[GNDN]

^Sounds like ST:The Experience

Also, I could easily see Koloth breaking into song and dance.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Trek improv comedy - portland

Trek improv comedy theater
Portland, OR
June 2011 friday and Saturday's

http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/features/story.php?story_id=130695279486030100

 

[jefferiestubes8]

“Mirror, Mirror” stage play in Portland, OR July 9-31

This is the third year of Trek in the Park (at Woodlawn Park). The shows start at 5:00pm Saturdays and Sundays from July 9-31. All shows are completely free.

“Mirror, Mirror” is the episode this summer, where a bizarre transporter malfunction sends Kirk and the gang to a savage parallel universe. Instead of the peacekeeping Starfleet, the alternate universe is run by an evil Empire that believes assassination and revenge are the means of command! This summer, Kirk and his crew must race against time, space and an Enterprise bent on brutality to save the final frontier in both universes.

Portland actors, accompanied with live music and effects, bring this classic piece of television to life in a way you’ve only hoped possible.

‘Trek in the Park’ – Portland’s Free Star Trek Stage Show

Trek in the Park (at Woodlawn Park).

500PM (4 weekends! 8 shows total!)

stage actors & live music?! cool.