Fighting with my Family....The Musical!

[HarmonicGenerator]

37 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

It sold well but cost so damn much to put on that it was never making it's money back.

The book about it, Song of Spider-Man is a really interesting read. I think the author suggested it was shopped around Las Vegas venues afterwards but nothing came of it.

Anyway, I liked Fighting With My Family the film, but that by no means makes me interested in a musical version. Although I'd be interested to see how they fit wrestling into a musical with the choreography etc. There hasn't been a wrestling musical before, has there?

 

[The Reverend]

No idea how this will turn out but it's surprising what does work at the theatre - I never would've thought Back to the Future would have translated to the stage but it did, and it was very, very good. 

As @Merzbow rightly points out, a lot of the time it's not sometimes the popularity that kills it, it's the costs of running it. It's strange with musicals too - if you hit the right songs, the musical can be hugely successful with fans even if the subject matter isn't. If you go to any of the West End musicals you'll find fans who go almost every single night because that's their chosen musical. 

 

[BomberPat]

I saw a WIP wrestling musical called Babyface a couple of months ago - only part one of what will presumably become a bigger production - and the plot there was about a queer kid who just wants to be a poet, but happens to be the youngest member of a wrestling family, runs away to the big city, and ends up becoming a wrestler and finding themselves through wrestling allowing them to play a larger than life character. It was good fun, and worked with a few British wrestlers to flesh out the wrestling scenes, and make the training sequences feel more genuine. 

So the subject matter is doable, I just don't think there's much in this story that would translate well, and I'd be more worried that this will force out Babyface from  whatever spaces it might have been able to grow and run in, because it will end up looking like a knock-off or cash-in of a larger production.

[Merzbow]

Not a musical but there's a theatre show called Mythos: Ragnarok where all the action is done through pro wrestling in a ropeless ring. I haven't seen it in person but it looks quite cool, I'd go if it came on at the Belgrade in town.

[WyattSheepMask]

3 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Hopefully this will do well so we can get other ones. I'd love Hulk Hogan - The Documentary - The Musical.

With music from his stint in Metallica of course 

[TheScarlettChad]

Hogan's lies are so absurdly bonkers that a musical ala Jerry Springer the musical would absolutely be amazing. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

14 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

Not a musical but there's a theatre show called Mythos: Ragnarok where all the action is done through pro wrestling in a ropeless ring. I haven't seen it in person but it looks quite cool, I'd go if it came on at the Belgrade in town.

Also there was 'Living with Luke' which was based on real life experiences of a dad learning to deal with a severely autistic son and it was set as the dad being the face and autism being the heel and all the stuff that goes with it. Starred Philip Poll and Steve Hannam (author of the book and dad to Luke).

 

Phenomenal play

[HarmonicGenerator]

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

Not a musical but there's a theatre show called Mythos: Ragnarok where all the action is done through pro wrestling in a ropeless ring. I haven't seen it in person but it looks quite cool, I'd go if it came on at the Belgrade in town.

I saw it at the Fringe a couple of years ago, it’s good fun. The wrestling is all fairly basic stuff - arm drags, chokeslams, etc -  but it drew good reactions from a crowd that for the most part had never seen live wrestling before.

[The Reverend]

I remember seeing a 2 man (I think) play about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy about 10 years ago - it was actually very good. 

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10 hours ago, westlondonmist said:

With classic numbers such as Paige Here, There and Everywhere, It's only GBH but I like it, A little respect for hitting you with a pool cue and Bitter and Rough Hooligan. 

From personal experience….

[Fog Dude]

5 hours ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

Also there was 'Living with Luke' which was based on real life experiences of a dad learning to deal with a severely autistic son and it was set as the dad being the face and autism being the heel and all the stuff that goes with it. Starred Philip Poll and Steve Hannam (author of the book and dad to Luke).

Unless I've misunderstood something here, that sounds utterly atrocious. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

8 hours ago, Fog Dude said:

Unless I've misunderstood something here, that sounds utterly atrocious. 

Yes, yes you have. 

 

Its an amateur production dealing with real issues and was put on to raise money and explain how difficult it is as a parent of autistic kids. I dont know your situation, so apologies if speaking out of turn, but unless you have autistic kids it's not an easy thing to explain but this show really did act as a metaphor for a dad's battle against autism and dealing with dad stuff alongside it all.

To put it into context a bit more, the 'face' was the dad and he was doing quite well in 'round' (act) 1 against the 'heel'. As the play moved through the acts to round 5, 'autism' took more and more control. Alongside the ref in the ring too his son was in there too (an actor) and whilst he's trying to battle autism, his son was/is trying to do different things and the face was trying to fight off autism and help his son along the way. It also showed how broken the dad felt when nothing goes right and the battle takes its toll on him.

For me the most poignant part was when he decided enough was enough and he took a look at the heel and shook his head and put his street clothes on and climbed out the ring and walked away and then as he got down the steps and a few steps away his son shouted something like 'love you dad'. He paused, shook his head, took another few steps then turned around and ripped his clothes off and ran back into the ring and ignored autism and just hugged his son and then a montage played on the screen of Steve with his son and all their times together. Not a dry eye in the house.

[Fog Dude]

8 hours ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

For me the most poignant part was when he decided enough was enough and he took a look at the heel and shook his head and put his street clothes on and climbed out the ring and walked away and then as he got down the steps and a few steps away his son shouted something like 'love you dad'. He paused, shook his head, took another few steps then turned around and ripped his clothes off and ran back into the ring and ignored autism and just hugged his son and then a montage played on the screen of Steve with his son and all their times together. Not a dry eye in the house.

Fair enough, but that's a whole lotta Shawshank before you get to the redemption part.

If somebody had to leave early and then told their mates about it, you'd be in danger of attracting the wrong type of audience, although I suppose you could say that about a fair few plays and films.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Ricky Knight cock in hand watching Ray J pounding that arse on the families second hand Packard Bell desktop computer is not a sight I wanted.

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12 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

Ricky Knight cock in hand watching Ray J pounding that arse on the families second hand Packard Bell desktop computer is not a sight I wanted.

Wouldn’t put it past him. He used to post on here so we know he’s got no shame.