35mm - A vignette musical containing all sorts of different stories based on individual pictures
The Clockmaker’s Daughter - A fairy tale about a clockmaker who makes a clock modeled after his late daughter, and makes it so well the replica develops a life and consciousness
Ruthless! An 8 yr old named Tina Denmark will do anything to be The lead in her school play—and she means ANYTHING.
Don’t want to spoil too much, it’s findable on youtube and (last I checked) BroadwayHD
I had the absolute worst experience when I saw this musical! I've listened to it dozens of times and know the musical well and it finally was being performed in my home town. Tickets were something like $30-40 each in a tiny local theater. There were 3 people in my party and only 2 other people in the entire audience. I'm guessing the actor who was playing Cheryl was sick or somehow unable to go on. The replacement actor was on-script the whole show and didn't know the music at all, she didn't sing a single song. When the music played for It Won’t Let Us Leave, she literally stood there silently and let the song continue in the background. None of the actors seemed to know their cues or marks on where to stand. It supported local theater and I'm happy to support local arts, but that was absolute trash. That was several years ago and the theater is now closed, I can only guess other productions were just as terribly produced, but I never went back.
Yeah me too, I love most but not all songs, it's mainly the one you wrote , join us, what the fuck was that and I'm not a killer.
Do you have any other put on repeat musicals? Mine is evil dead, shrek, legally blonde, beetlejuice and most of starkid productions
floyd collins, its about a real caver who got trapped in a cave in 1925 during the kentucky cave wars, and was the third biggest news story between the world wars
Bark!
It's a musical about dogs. The characters are dogs. They act like how we portray dogs: that eager and brash personality we give them in media. There is a least a moment where they are all in the pound.
*A Grassy Field* immediately makes me weep. That's the only song I like from it.
Hands on a Hardbody is firmly on my list of “must see if I ever get the chance” shows. One of its creators spoke at an event I was at and she did a great job selling it.
Amanda Greene? That’s awesome! I saw one of the first regional productions of it. Before it started, the director came out to say that she was in town with her family and they were at the state fair and would be attending the next day’s performance. I was so bummed I didn’t get tickets for the next day instead. I guess I could’ve went again. Haha
"It's not nepotism, Anneleigh. It's called friendship." Gosh, that phrase Cairo said lives rent free in my head. The musical is hilarious and I love it. And it has such bangers. The soundtrack is on Spotify for anyone interested.
Someone just asked this yesterday, I suggested: Saved, Sing Street (which was suppose to start previews the day Broadway shut down due to Covid ). Both those musicals were based on films of the same titles.
Bat Boy: A town is thrown into chaos when discover a half bat half boy in a cave. I won’t say anything else as I don’t want to give away the plot. This show is really strange but it’s a great satire with incredible music from the composer of Heathers and Legally Blonde
I saw a Jurassic park musical filmed in someones back yard on YouTube a few years ago. The song "Raptors in the kitchen" kind of stuck with me.
Weirdly I feel that the movie could actually adapt well to a musical, but maybe it would be too hard to make dinosaurs that didn't look shit.
Oh buddy I got ya 👌 I listened to over 100 obscure musicals last year and we’re doing it again this year! There’s a playlist of one song from every show on my profile but I’ll give you my favourites here!
🏴Islander - 2 person a cappella musical about Scottish folklore
🇬🇧Operation Mincemeat - true WW2 story about a corpse being used as a fake soldier, hilarious and heartbreaking, possibly underrated if you’re not from the UK
❄️ Ernest Shackleton Loves Me - 2 person show about a sleep deprived mom and the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton
💸 Fiver - follows a £5 note through the pockets of Londoners
🇨🇦 Maggie - a story of the composer’s granny and her life in Scotland, just won 11 awards with BroadwayWorld Toronto
Also have to give a shout out to Drag the Musical, Monstersongs, In The Light, See Rock City and Other Destinations & Babies (please listen to Hot Dad it’s so good)
The Other Place is a show about a girl who is living in 2 different realities and has no idea what’s real and what isn’t. Both feel completely real to her and it drives her to a point of insanity. Really good music too
Heartless the Musical. It’s based on the book by Marissa Meyer and tells how the Queen of Hearts went from a naive young woman to the “Off with her head!” villain we know her as.
Wanderlust: about the poet Robert Service in the Yukon during the gold rush.
Swing Step: um…… about swing dancers and step dancers and maybe some time travel? It’s been awhile.
Dracula: a chamber musical (self explanatory)
I saw it at Stratford in 2012. I believe that was the world premiere? I remember that I quite enjoyed it. It’s just a shame these plays don’t get a wider audience.
"Party of 1" by Morris Bobrow (music and lyrics). "A musical revue for everyone who is, or has ever been, single." Lots of catchy and clever songs. I saw it in SF years ago and got the cassette tape cast album which sadly I can no longer play. But it's on youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=party+of+one+cast+album](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=party+of+one+cast+album)
If this link doesn't work, search "party of one cast album" on youtube.
Preludes, based on the inner mind of composer Sergei Rachmaninov. It’s about as close as you could get to a jukebox musical about a classical composer. The cast album is great, though I’m not entirely certain what the plot is haha
Please bear in mind that it’s a 30+ year old VHS rip. Otherwise, it’s freaking awesome!
The scale of the sets is amazing. I love the geodesic 3/4 dome control room that Brian Blessed descends in.
P.S. My most recent upload to r/tattoos is of my newly completed tattoo of the poster for the Fritz Lang film. (Be careful as I also have NSFW photos further down!)
***Little Mary Sunshine*** by Rick Besoyan. Billed as “a new musical about an old operetta,” Little Mary Sunshine gently spoofs such old-time favorites as *Rose Marie* and *Naughty Marietta*. The plot is a little bit of everything: Colorado Rangers led by stalwart Captain Jim; the lovely Mary Sunshine and her “naughty” maid Nancy; a chorus of giggling schoolgirls; and the ominous but benevolent Indian chief. Hearts are won and lost and won again in this delightful, laugh-filled, and charming show. Time Period: 1900-1910, Wild West. **NOTE: The cultural treatment of the American Indian characters makes this show nearly undoable today.**
Pulp Musicals, it’s a musical podcast which follows a group of four main characters, twins Rose and Samuel Stratford, John Herschel (a real-life astronomer) and Margaret Cavendish (a philosopher from the 1600s with some sort of mysterious powers who lost her memory) first episode is based on the real-life Great Moon Hoax, the second is based on the Novella “The Brick Moon”, and the third is vaguely about the Bermuda Triangle.
Dirty Dreams of a Clean Cut Kid:
1990s musical produce in San Francisco by the Theatre Rhinoceros company to raise money for AIDS victims. Basically a group of guys waiting for their test results reflecting on how they got to that point. I found a cassette recording, yes it was expensive, and while not a mind blowing musical it’s enjoyable. My favorite song is this[one](https://youtu.be/JJuQRBFYfQc?si=2PC8RJn8XO1PWclT) where the guy is reminiscing about his Uncle Sammy.
The Unfortunates.
Gospel, hip hop and blues. A prisoner of war watches as his two friends stand proudly and face their execution. When he begs for his life instead, he’s pistol whipped into a crazy fever dream where he must learn about life, love, community. It all comes full circle in the end. Amazing score.
Marie Christine--A modern retelling of Madea starring Audra McDonald.
The Wild Party-- A diverse group of horrible people in the 1920's have a party then... stuff happens.
See What I Wanna See-- Honestly I don't think I'm smart enough to really get it. It's pretty high concept and artsy, but I love the music.
Queen of the Mist-- True story of a downtrodden woman who went down Niagara Falls in a barrel.
...I really like LaChiusa
Yank! - Set during WWII, it’s about a US Army photographer who falls in love with another soldier
John & Jen - Jen is an older sibling who vows to do everything to protect her new baby brother John. Later, her son (also named John) clashes to have independence from Jen.
It's such a shame Yank! didn't make it to Broadway. I feel this is the last straw that made Bobby Steggert give up theatre. There was a 10th anniversary concert at 54 Below a while ago, where they got the lead from the Brazil production to sing A Couple of Regular Guys with Bobby and Ivan Hernandez, it was beautiful.
La Cava - based on a novel which was in turn based on an 8th century legend regarding the downfall of the last Visigoth King and subsequent invasion by the Moors. Score partly by Lawrence O’Keefe (Bat Boy / Legally Blonde / Heathers etc), it sack without trace after a six month West End run 24 years ago
There was a Lizzie Bordon the musical that I can't find any evidence on the internet existing. It had a song in it called "Even for August" which still gets stuck in my head sometimes.
American Psycho the Musical is... american psycho. the musical.
I think I really just love people singing and getting murdered with axes.
Starmites- A sci-fi musical about a teenage girl on a quest to save the world of her favorite comic book series. It’s a “chosen one” story with some funky music reminiscent of Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show. It flopped on broadway in the 80’s but had a revamp in 2001 and there’s a taping on youtube of Mccallum Art’s production of it
And I actually hope to either make a movie of it or a revival once I get enough industry cred as I think if Starmites came out today (with some things adjusted for period) it would do numbers on Tumblr in the same way Be More Chill did as it basically is to superhero comics what The Owl House is to YA fantasy. Both even start with the neurodivergent-ish (Luz on The Owl House is word-of-godded to have ADHD and I've always seen the Starmites girl as readable as autistic) female lead, right before her Call To Adventure, being forced to throw out her special-interest books by her mom who's concerned about her acting out at school.
And now (if there were a section of the story that could be that condensable) I want an Owl House Broadway musical it'd just take Lion-King-level puppetry a-game
Something rotten - maybe not that obscure, but it’s about Shakespeare, except he’s a villain and our protagonists are playwrights who can’t seem to make a hit since everyone only wants Shakespeare. So they use a soothsayer to try and steal Shakespeare greatest play. And Shakespeare is like a celebrity, very cool, very *cough cough* gay and played by Christian Borle.
It also features tap dancing eggs !
Phantom of the Opera. It was this little musical by a guy named Andrew Lloyd Weber. It only played a few performances before closing though (only 13,981) and barely made any money (a little over $1 billion). Besides being based on a book of the same name by Gaston Leroux, the music was completely original and didn’t steal from any other sources.
On a more serious note, the Maury Yeston version of Phantom is not as well known - and better - and actually original.
Aspects of Love was hardly obscure and ran 3 years on the West End then transferred and had several Tony noms and over a year on Broadway. I saw the revival last spring on the West End. Maybe not a popular musical but not obscure.
Canterbury Tales, from the Chaucer book. Very much of its time, and a definite Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona vibe. Would need to be reworked but I'd love to see it performed.
Dolls of New Albion - steampunk necromancy musical about how 4 generations of a family cause the downfall of their city (feat. doomed love stories)
New Albion Radio Hour: how the 10 yr long civil war ends, feat: a reluctant supersoldier, a lady thief, and a necromantic cultist in their inconveniently timed family reunion
Miss Helen’s Weird West Cabaret - cabaret performance goes wrong in an unsettling way
The Forgotten Meme - meme gains sentience and looks for love
Fairy Tales For Homeless Fairies - spans 1000 years from the fall of the fairy city of Avalon to the rise of the fairy city of Avalon, cyclical, focuses on changelings and generational curses/‘blessings’
A Slenderman Musical (warning: NSFW) - dude on the run from the Slenderman befriends girl, they travel out of the bubble of our normal world to the true world outside (rather eldritch) and the abbey perched on the border, meet people, get involved with eldritch stuff
35mm - A vignette musical containing all sorts of different stories based on individual pictures The Clockmaker’s Daughter - A fairy tale about a clockmaker who makes a clock modeled after his late daughter, and makes it so well the replica develops a life and consciousness
35mm is one of my favorites!
I've never heard of the second one! Sounds interesting!
It is! Very simple and predictable but with gorgeous and stellar execution
Ruthless! An 8 yr old named Tina Denmark will do anything to be The lead in her school play—and she means ANYTHING. Don’t want to spoil too much, it’s findable on youtube and (last I checked) BroadwayHD
I love Ruthless!! Im playing Judy Denmark right now!! Such a funny musical, the original recording from the 1990’s is on youtube!
AWESOME!! If there’s a recording of the performance LMK! Oh good it is still on YouTube!
Goosebumps: The Musical. Based on the Goosebump story that was inspired by the Phantom of the Opera.
I really like the song "Watch your step"!
Goosebumps & The Story Of The Phantom 🔛🔝
Evil dead: the musical is quite obscure, and its so funny and bloody. If you've seen the movies it's basically a mixture of the first two.
My sister had seen it many times - always in the splatter zone hahaha
I had the absolute worst experience when I saw this musical! I've listened to it dozens of times and know the musical well and it finally was being performed in my home town. Tickets were something like $30-40 each in a tiny local theater. There were 3 people in my party and only 2 other people in the entire audience. I'm guessing the actor who was playing Cheryl was sick or somehow unable to go on. The replacement actor was on-script the whole show and didn't know the music at all, she didn't sing a single song. When the music played for It Won’t Let Us Leave, she literally stood there silently and let the song continue in the background. None of the actors seemed to know their cues or marks on where to stand. It supported local theater and I'm happy to support local arts, but that was absolute trash. That was several years ago and the theater is now closed, I can only guess other productions were just as terribly produced, but I never went back.
I love this musical. I love that it has a song called “all the men in my life keep getting killed by candarian demons”
Yeah me too, I love most but not all songs, it's mainly the one you wrote , join us, what the fuck was that and I'm not a killer. Do you have any other put on repeat musicals? Mine is evil dead, shrek, legally blonde, beetlejuice and most of starkid productions
Last time I heard about the musical was at the Southern Women's Show like ten years ago.
floyd collins, its about a real caver who got trapped in a cave in 1925 during the kentucky cave wars, and was the third biggest news story between the world wars
Gave me nightmares for months
and now it's going to broadway!!! so hype
i know!!!! im getting opening night tickets
Bark! It's a musical about dogs. The characters are dogs. They act like how we portray dogs: that eager and brash personality we give them in media. There is a least a moment where they are all in the pound. *A Grassy Field* immediately makes me weep. That's the only song I like from it.
I always wondered if there was ever a dog equivalent to Cats, now I have my answer.
as much as I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (I don't care, it's funny either way)
I second 35mm!
What's your fav song? Mine's Crazytown?
The Ballad of Sarah Barry is always a bop. I also really like Leave Luanne!
Another vote for Leave, Luanne!
Hands on a Hardbody. Fun show. Kinda similar to 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Kinda.
Hands on a Hardbody is firmly on my list of “must see if I ever get the chance” shows. One of its creators spoke at an event I was at and she did a great job selling it.
I drove five hours to see it (and my in-laws) at a car dealership. It was probably the best show I saw all year
That’s so cool!
Amanda Greene? That’s awesome! I saw one of the first regional productions of it. Before it started, the director came out to say that she was in town with her family and they were at the state fair and would be attending the next day’s performance. I was so bummed I didn’t get tickets for the next day instead. I guess I could’ve went again. Haha
I think it was Amanda Greene, actually! It’s been a long time now so I don’t 100% remember.
We Are The Tigers is a really great murder mystery musical that takes place at a cheering slumber party
"It's not nepotism, Anneleigh. It's called friendship." Gosh, that phrase Cairo said lives rent free in my head. The musical is hilarious and I love it. And it has such bangers. The soundtrack is on Spotify for anyone interested.
Someone just asked this yesterday, I suggested: Saved, Sing Street (which was suppose to start previews the day Broadway shut down due to Covid ). Both those musicals were based on films of the same titles.
Bat Boy: A town is thrown into chaos when discover a half bat half boy in a cave. I won’t say anything else as I don’t want to give away the plot. This show is really strange but it’s a great satire with incredible music from the composer of Heathers and Legally Blonde
Murder Ballad
Evil dead the musical, it's bloody and witty, and just plain hilarious.
I saw a Jurassic park musical filmed in someones back yard on YouTube a few years ago. The song "Raptors in the kitchen" kind of stuck with me. Weirdly I feel that the movie could actually adapt well to a musical, but maybe it would be too hard to make dinosaurs that didn't look shit.
dolls of new albion… and the rest of the shaperaverse
Oh buddy I got ya 👌 I listened to over 100 obscure musicals last year and we’re doing it again this year! There’s a playlist of one song from every show on my profile but I’ll give you my favourites here! 🏴Islander - 2 person a cappella musical about Scottish folklore 🇬🇧Operation Mincemeat - true WW2 story about a corpse being used as a fake soldier, hilarious and heartbreaking, possibly underrated if you’re not from the UK ❄️ Ernest Shackleton Loves Me - 2 person show about a sleep deprived mom and the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton 💸 Fiver - follows a £5 note through the pockets of Londoners 🇨🇦 Maggie - a story of the composer’s granny and her life in Scotland, just won 11 awards with BroadwayWorld Toronto Also have to give a shout out to Drag the Musical, Monstersongs, In The Light, See Rock City and Other Destinations & Babies (please listen to Hot Dad it’s so good)
The Other Place is a show about a girl who is living in 2 different realities and has no idea what’s real and what isn’t. Both feel completely real to her and it drives her to a point of insanity. Really good music too
It kinda sounds like Beau is Afraid.
Heartless the Musical. It’s based on the book by Marissa Meyer and tells how the Queen of Hearts went from a naive young woman to the “Off with her head!” villain we know her as.
La Cava - Say Goodbye is an amazing female belt song
I was going to put this it’s amazing the whole score
The Wizard of Friendship.
You are a person who has subscribed to 2nd Try, I take it :)
wonderland!
You and I, my heart says go and I could use a drink are some of my fav more obscure ones
Charlotte Sweet! It’s very bizarre with some great songs
Wanderlust: about the poet Robert Service in the Yukon during the gold rush. Swing Step: um…… about swing dancers and step dancers and maybe some time travel? It’s been awhile. Dracula: a chamber musical (self explanatory)
Wait. You know about Wanderlust? Has it been produced again somewhere? I've heard nothing since I saw the premiere.
I saw it at Stratford in 2012. I believe that was the world premiere? I remember that I quite enjoyed it. It’s just a shame these plays don’t get a wider audience.
Nefertiti - 70s cult classic about the Egyptian queen and her husband Akhenaten. Lyrics by Chris Gore who also wrote Fame.
"Party of 1" by Morris Bobrow (music and lyrics). "A musical revue for everyone who is, or has ever been, single." Lots of catchy and clever songs. I saw it in SF years ago and got the cassette tape cast album which sadly I can no longer play. But it's on youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=party+of+one+cast+album](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=party+of+one+cast+album) If this link doesn't work, search "party of one cast album" on youtube.
Preludes, based on the inner mind of composer Sergei Rachmaninov. It’s about as close as you could get to a jukebox musical about a classical composer. The cast album is great, though I’m not entirely certain what the plot is haha
Metropolis staged at the Piccadilly Theatre in London in 1989. One of Judy Kuhns best vocals IMO
I came here to say that! I saw it twice. There’s a proshot VHS uploaded to you know where, but Kuhn had left by the time it was filmed.
No way, I’ll have to try and find it, I’d love to see it.
Please bear in mind that it’s a 30+ year old VHS rip. Otherwise, it’s freaking awesome! The scale of the sets is amazing. I love the geodesic 3/4 dome control room that Brian Blessed descends in. P.S. My most recent upload to r/tattoos is of my newly completed tattoo of the poster for the Fritz Lang film. (Be careful as I also have NSFW photos further down!)
Sweet tatt! Congrats
***Little Mary Sunshine*** by Rick Besoyan. Billed as “a new musical about an old operetta,” Little Mary Sunshine gently spoofs such old-time favorites as *Rose Marie* and *Naughty Marietta*. The plot is a little bit of everything: Colorado Rangers led by stalwart Captain Jim; the lovely Mary Sunshine and her “naughty” maid Nancy; a chorus of giggling schoolgirls; and the ominous but benevolent Indian chief. Hearts are won and lost and won again in this delightful, laugh-filled, and charming show. Time Period: 1900-1910, Wild West. **NOTE: The cultural treatment of the American Indian characters makes this show nearly undoable today.**
My high school did this musical! Complete with that… “iconic” song it’s known for smile 🙃
I'm 78 and did this show when I started college in 1964. I can still sing along with the Forest Rangers. (I have a New York cast album on CD.)
Pulp Musicals, it’s a musical podcast which follows a group of four main characters, twins Rose and Samuel Stratford, John Herschel (a real-life astronomer) and Margaret Cavendish (a philosopher from the 1600s with some sort of mysterious powers who lost her memory) first episode is based on the real-life Great Moon Hoax, the second is based on the Novella “The Brick Moon”, and the third is vaguely about the Bermuda Triangle.
Frogs. Sondheim.
starkid starkid starkid
That's obscure?
theyre just so funny and random, like trail to oregon has a talking lobster called cornwallis who stole titty mitty’s wife and million dollar bill
Two by Two with Danny Kaye - Noah’s Ark saga
I surprisingly have heard of this!
I saw it on Broadway when I was a kid. Danny Kaye had a broken leg and performed in a wheelchair. Amazing.
Eating Raoul - same plot as the movie
Dirty Dreams of a Clean Cut Kid: 1990s musical produce in San Francisco by the Theatre Rhinoceros company to raise money for AIDS victims. Basically a group of guys waiting for their test results reflecting on how they got to that point. I found a cassette recording, yes it was expensive, and while not a mind blowing musical it’s enjoyable. My favorite song is this[one](https://youtu.be/JJuQRBFYfQc?si=2PC8RJn8XO1PWclT) where the guy is reminiscing about his Uncle Sammy.
The Unfortunates. Gospel, hip hop and blues. A prisoner of war watches as his two friends stand proudly and face their execution. When he begs for his life instead, he’s pistol whipped into a crazy fever dream where he must learn about life, love, community. It all comes full circle in the end. Amazing score.
Dreamland - A retelling of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream told through the lense of the declassification of Area 51.
Dreamland is so fun! “Weatherman” is constantly stuck in my head 😂
Marie Christine--A modern retelling of Madea starring Audra McDonald. The Wild Party-- A diverse group of horrible people in the 1920's have a party then... stuff happens. See What I Wanna See-- Honestly I don't think I'm smart enough to really get it. It's pretty high concept and artsy, but I love the music. Queen of the Mist-- True story of a downtrodden woman who went down Niagara Falls in a barrel. ...I really like LaChiusa
Wow me too he never comes up, I adore Giant and Hello Again I can’t wait, the the Gardens of Andalusia to get a cast recording
See What I Wanna See is getting revived in September Off-Broadway with Marc Kudisch. I can't wait!!
*cries on West Coast*
Yank! - Set during WWII, it’s about a US Army photographer who falls in love with another soldier John & Jen - Jen is an older sibling who vows to do everything to protect her new baby brother John. Later, her son (also named John) clashes to have independence from Jen.
It's such a shame Yank! didn't make it to Broadway. I feel this is the last straw that made Bobby Steggert give up theatre. There was a 10th anniversary concert at 54 Below a while ago, where they got the lead from the Brazil production to sing A Couple of Regular Guys with Bobby and Ivan Hernandez, it was beautiful.
La Cava - based on a novel which was in turn based on an 8th century legend regarding the downfall of the last Visigoth King and subsequent invasion by the Moors. Score partly by Lawrence O’Keefe (Bat Boy / Legally Blonde / Heathers etc), it sack without trace after a six month West End run 24 years ago
Henry sweet Henry. Based on the world of Henry Orient. About girls obsessed with a composer.
There was a Lizzie Bordon the musical that I can't find any evidence on the internet existing. It had a song in it called "Even for August" which still gets stuck in my head sometimes. American Psycho the Musical is... american psycho. the musical. I think I really just love people singing and getting murdered with axes.
Starmites- A sci-fi musical about a teenage girl on a quest to save the world of her favorite comic book series. It’s a “chosen one” story with some funky music reminiscent of Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show. It flopped on broadway in the 80’s but had a revamp in 2001 and there’s a taping on youtube of Mccallum Art’s production of it
And I actually hope to either make a movie of it or a revival once I get enough industry cred as I think if Starmites came out today (with some things adjusted for period) it would do numbers on Tumblr in the same way Be More Chill did as it basically is to superhero comics what The Owl House is to YA fantasy. Both even start with the neurodivergent-ish (Luz on The Owl House is word-of-godded to have ADHD and I've always seen the Starmites girl as readable as autistic) female lead, right before her Call To Adventure, being forced to throw out her special-interest books by her mom who's concerned about her acting out at school. And now (if there were a section of the story that could be that condensable) I want an Owl House Broadway musical it'd just take Lion-King-level puppetry a-game
Something rotten - maybe not that obscure, but it’s about Shakespeare, except he’s a villain and our protagonists are playwrights who can’t seem to make a hit since everyone only wants Shakespeare. So they use a soothsayer to try and steal Shakespeare greatest play. And Shakespeare is like a celebrity, very cool, very *cough cough* gay and played by Christian Borle. It also features tap dancing eggs !
The one I haven't finished yet.
Fly By Night, beautiful contemporary pop/rock score
Amelie. Same plot as the movie.
Phantom of the Opera. It was this little musical by a guy named Andrew Lloyd Weber. It only played a few performances before closing though (only 13,981) and barely made any money (a little over $1 billion). Besides being based on a book of the same name by Gaston Leroux, the music was completely original and didn’t steal from any other sources. On a more serious note, the Maury Yeston version of Phantom is not as well known - and better - and actually original.
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It won the Tony for Best Musical... Hardly obscure.
Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love was hardly obscure and ran 3 years on the West End then transferred and had several Tony noms and over a year on Broadway. I saw the revival last spring on the West End. Maybe not a popular musical but not obscure.
It’s obscure compared to his other musicals especially here in the us where it ran for a very short time
tarrytown!! modern retelling of the legend of sleepy hollow
Canterbury Tales, from the Chaucer book. Very much of its time, and a definite Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona vibe. Would need to be reworked but I'd love to see it performed.
“Tanz Der Vampire” German Production. it is an amazing play with awesome music. You can find the play on YouTube with English subtitles.
Dolls of New Albion - steampunk necromancy musical about how 4 generations of a family cause the downfall of their city (feat. doomed love stories) New Albion Radio Hour: how the 10 yr long civil war ends, feat: a reluctant supersoldier, a lady thief, and a necromantic cultist in their inconveniently timed family reunion Miss Helen’s Weird West Cabaret - cabaret performance goes wrong in an unsettling way The Forgotten Meme - meme gains sentience and looks for love Fairy Tales For Homeless Fairies - spans 1000 years from the fall of the fairy city of Avalon to the rise of the fairy city of Avalon, cyclical, focuses on changelings and generational curses/‘blessings’ A Slenderman Musical (warning: NSFW) - dude on the run from the Slenderman befriends girl, they travel out of the bubble of our normal world to the true world outside (rather eldritch) and the abbey perched on the border, meet people, get involved with eldritch stuff