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Post by mywildlove4371 on Jul 26, 2005 16:36:58 GMT
I wonder if anyone has ever thought of doing a musical about the life of Jim or The Doors. there is so much to work with...I mean.. the end...or the unknown soldier..such theatrical performances. what do you guys think I would love to hear your input. Can you imagine being in the audiance. Now Im not really into the whole broadway thing...but if it were *The Doors the musical..hell I would be in the front row..amid the chaos and disorder..  |
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Post by ensenada on Jul 26, 2005 17:21:03 GMT
i know there has been a few plays done about jim. but yes! it would be so cool to go to a musical of the doors. i dislike musicals in gerenal, but thats only cos the musics crap  but the doors music would lend itself so well to a musical...their performances were so theatrical anyway.....it would be a great idea....it could tell the story of the doors and jim and what was happening in the world at the time.......also a tragic love story between jim and pam...it would be cool  you gotta ask yourself, why hasnt thishappened? |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Aug 4, 2005 17:44:51 GMT
It actually has A Broadway production has been planned for a while.... Also several similar ideas have taken place or been touted. Ray was involved with a musical venture on the West Coast and it lasted one night and bombed also that shite alan grahame was touting a musical version along with dave the familiar freak looking for backers. Obviously the Jay Jeffrey Jones play ...see the interview with him.... homepage.ntlworld.com/doors4scorpywag/page56.htmlThe idea is not one I favour after reading about Queen the musical rock bands and the luvvies do not a good mix make! What next Iron Maiden The Opera: 'Freddey wants to fuck wid choo'  |
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Post by jym on Aug 4, 2005 17:54:59 GMT
Yeah, a Broadway musical abt The Doors/Jim&Pam/etc would be so cheesy it would be ridiculous, lets keep The Doors a cult favorite & not try to lower to mainstream tastes & audience because I promise you it would devalue & trivialize The Doors we know.
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Post by ensenada on Aug 5, 2005 14:28:11 GMT
i know what you mean about the cheese aspect...but surely one could be done making it more like a film..that delved into jim's psychology etc etc and make it quite atmospheric and dark...nothing gay! it would be more like a tribute band act, but with acting parts of the doors and jim's history inbetween....and making sure ray had absolutely nothing to do with it!
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Post by mywildlove4371 on Aug 5, 2005 14:59:45 GMT
definately!!...no ray... just dark theatrical performences of the songs jim did so well..celebrations...I detest musicals too, but if it were the doors id have to see it for that reason alone!
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Post by wtd on Aug 8, 2005 9:35:34 GMT
The idea is not one I favour after reading about Queen the musical rock bands and the luvvies do not a good mix make! 'Freddey wants to fuck wid choo' Hey I saw that Queen show "We Will Rock You" in Las Vegas and it was great!! I liked how they tied all the songs together to the story. A Door's would be cool it they did it right. |
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Post by ensenada on Aug 8, 2005 16:23:33 GMT
thats what i'm ta;kin about! |
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Post by ensenada on Aug 15, 2005 14:45:24 GMT
john had this to say on his forum..there are several new Doors projects in the works,
including a theatrical documentary now in production.
i wonder what they ill be like? a dramatised documentary?
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 18, 2006 10:03:28 GMT
I found this review of the opening night......
THEATRE REVIEW:
“CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 2, 2000
MUSIC: the Doors: "Light My Fire"}
Jim Morrison. The Doors. Quintessence of the '60s. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. Death, resurrection, utopia.
The band broke up when Morrison, the darkly romantic poet, died in 1971, at age 27. But the Doors' recordings still go platinum every year. And now, their high drama has come to the stage -- at the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
"Celebration of the Lizard," an epic Morrison poem, is the title and inspiration of the world premiere musical, which features 33 songs by The Doors. The band's name came from the drug-hazed Aldous Huxley book, "The Doors of Perception." Conceived by Joel Lipman, with consultation from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the show is true to the band's music and esthetic.
It's all there: a decadent L.A., an L.A. woman, and a brooding outcast who dreams of a better place. 'Breaking on through to the other side' means achieving cosmic consciousness, seeking your own personal paradise, going inside to find Far Arden.
The vision is chilling but familiar; the costumes are terrific: all tattered black and white in the burned-out, fascist city; red and blue in the desert haunt of the fugitives who've created yet another dissolute, degenerate community; and all futuristic lamé glam in the tongue-flicking kingdom of the Lizard Woman. What's lacking in this post-apocalyptic wasteland is a leader, someone who can bring the spiritual energy back, who can light the fire again.
Enter a self-proclaimed former killer, liar and thief, a Stranger in this strange land. He meets the Queen of the Road, who leads him to the Lizard Woman and back to El Capitan, the guy who started it all in America and who ends it here, too.
It's all very… mystical… and sometimes pretty convoluted. Like many a new musical, the book needs a good deal of re-tooling and clarifying. Some of the great songs are less motivated than others. Some of O-Lan Jones' arrangements are magnificent. Some of Gina Angelique's choreography oozes sexuality. Coupled with Sam Woodhouse's muscular direction, some of her moves are so athletic and acrobatic they look downright dangerous. Some of the casting and some of the singing are superb. The sum of it all is sometimes electrifying.
At the center, Jeff Meek is irresistible. With his tight leather pants, bare chest and fulminating sensuality, he is Morrison incarnate. He even nails the sultry singing at times. As his seeker-sidekick, Karole Foreman is seductive, belting in a bluesy voice and a bare-breasted bandolier of bullets. Other standout performances are put in by Baruti, Alysa Lobo and, in a minor role, Melody Butiu. The band is both hot and very cool; it effectively re-opens The Doors.
All told, it's an often-energizing nostalgia trip that needs a good fix. The show starts out loud and garish and indecipherable; the sound was a problem all night at the opening, rendering dialogue and lyrics unintelligible. Though the first act drags, it ends in a dazzling display with "Light My Fire." All the plotlines coalesce in the second act, which declaims a ham-fisted message about protecting the earth and regaining a spiritual core.
'When the Music's Over,' you're left with a few great songs and a show that, buried beneath the rubble, actually has something to say. With considerable toning down and beefing up, given the good vibes that went into it, this new musical might just 'Break on Through.'
[MUSIC: Doors: "Break on Through"]
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