Nobody Puts Mary In the Corner
A blogger is only as smart as her readers. Credit Jennifer Schultz when she asked in a comment box the other day, ". . . has the Little House on the Prairie musical with Patrick Swayze and Melissa Gilbert been discussed yet? I can't remember if I read it on a kidlit blog or on one of my Broadway message boards."
Not on my watch it hasn't. And sure as shooting, that's exactly what's going on. I mentioned back in February how amused I was that they were creating a musical called Prairie! (emphasis entirely my own) but I never dreamed they'd ever get any major names attached. Yet so sayeth Yahoo News: "Patrick Swayze and Melissa Gilbert will star as Pa and Ma in an April workshop presentation of "Prairie," a musical version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House on the Prairie.'"
Now I am old enough to remember Swayze's ill-fated leap into singing. It was when the notion of celebrities coming out with songs was a far more haphazard enterprise than it is today. Don't believe me? I got two words for you: Don Johnson. But I digress... Swayze put out a little song called She's Like the Wind (20 points if you read the words aloud just as you would Readers Theater), so we know that he can hold a tune. I just prefer to imagine crazy dance sequences with Swayze sporting a big old black Pa-beard. THAT I would pay money to see.
Labels: Please Feel Free To Make a Comment Listing the Songs You Think Should Appear In "Prairie"
posted by fusenumber8 @ 12:12 AM
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9 Comments:
I picture Swayze doing wild dances while fiddling, since Pa was reputed to play quite well. Kinda like Little Fiddler on the Thatch Roof on the Prairie. Or not.
Please, please, please let this come to DC when (don't say if) it goes on tour.
Lucky you, living in New York.
The eight o'clock number:
"Souuuuth Dakota!"
Oh. My. God.
I might finally have to revisit The Big City.
Some songs (and other kibitzing) are proposed here:
http://throwingthings.blogspot.com/2007_03_25_archive.html#6739472609903512919
You want a song? How about:
"Leeches!
Nellie's covered in leeches! Listen to her screeches,
I think that this'll teach us,
people get what they deserve."
Um. Can you say best song ever? I can already hear the tune.
How about "I've Been Working on the Prairie"
Great idea for a musical. Thanks for the scoop.
While you're waiting for Prairie, Anne of Green Gables is in town:
http://www.theatreworksusa.org/nyc_weekend.cfm
(It's not the one that's played PEI for eons. All brand new.)
Earlier, I think I meant 11 o'clock number.
"Jack (Come Back)" could be the breakaway hit. It's a song about a girl's love for her bulldog (whom she thinks is lost forever) but legions of singers from Barbra Streisand to Courtney Love will cover this power-ballad about The One Who Got Away.
P.S. Word Verifier was really hard this morning.
How about "You're as sweet as maple syrple, My little corn husk doll..." Shades of Billy Idol's China Doll, but more down-home.
I think it's got definate possibilities as a round, don't you?
I can't believe the producers haven't called asking for our input.
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