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Supergirl/Flash: The Musical
Torchsong
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It was announced today that this upcoming season the Supergirl/Flash 2-part crossover would be a musical.
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That ellipsis back there was for everyone to get over their reaction to the first sentence and move on with their lives. :)
So the real question here is - what songs would you use in such a beast? The creators have said it'd mostly be existing songs that the characters would sing (hey, it's a lot of Glee kids) but there may be a few original tunes created for it.
A few off the top of my (and my friends) heads:
- That guy who was the Toyman's kid and who's carrying a torch for Kara/Supergirl should totally sing "That's Really Super, Supergirl" by XTC
- Ensemble cast singing "Greased Lightning" from Grease
- Cat Grant could totally sing "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley
- Kara and her sister trading verses singing "My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield
Also Miss Martian's going to show up sometime in Supergirl's 2nd season.! Woot!
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That ellipsis back there was for everyone to get over their reaction to the first sentence and move on with their lives. :)
So the real question here is - what songs would you use in such a beast? The creators have said it'd mostly be existing songs that the characters would sing (hey, it's a lot of Glee kids) but there may be a few original tunes created for it.
A few off the top of my (and my friends) heads:
- That guy who was the Toyman's kid and who's carrying a torch for Kara/Supergirl should totally sing "That's Really Super, Supergirl" by XTC
- Ensemble cast singing "Greased Lightning" from Grease
- Cat Grant could totally sing "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley
- Kara and her sister trading verses singing "My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield
Also Miss Martian's going to show up sometime in Supergirl's 2nd season.! Woot!
Comments
The musical episode of Buffy (Once More, With Feeling) is widely regarded as the best episode of the entire series (citation needed).
I'm all for monster-of-the-week type of episodes, I love those in fact, I just want the focus to be on character and telling a good story, not on a gimmick.
This isn't so much my insistence that superhero projects have to be all serious, all the time, but rather just someone questioning if a musical is necessarily the right way to offer something different or innovative. Because a musical episode may be many things, but it certainly isn't different or innovative.
Have fun, theatre majors!
Where is anyone from the shows saying they are doing this to be innovative? From what I've read they say they are doing it because they love musicals and have a lot of singers in both casts.
And as modern day Prime Time Soap Operas, the CW superhero shows already have a lot in common other recent examples of the genre like Glee, Nashville and Empire. And the mother of the current renaissance, Grey's Anatomy did its own musical episode. So this is entirely fitting for the genre.
To say that general viewing public seems to like this sort of thing is a bit vague. For every successful musical episode of a tv show, there are two more that failed. While some dramas like Chicago Hope can pull it off (using an aneurysm-fueled hallucination as an excuse for a character to burst into song), other shows like Oz are a mitigated failure on every level. I think most often a show that is campy (Buffy, Xena,) or comedy/dramedy (Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Love Boat) can pull it off, but if it's an action drama or anything similar, I think history has shown that it should stay far away from musical numbers.
The thing I love most about comics is that the only limitation is the creators' imaginations. When I talk to non-readers about comics, that's the point I stress: that there is literally something for everyone. You want humor, we've got it. You want superheroes, we've got them too. You want funny superheroes, why we've got some of them as well. So I don't mind when superheroes in other mediums reflect that "anything can happen" attitude.
Almost no one wants superheroes singing and dancing about what's happening. It isn't the 1930's and there aren't as many musicals produced for a reason. They're VERY hard to do right and most people don't care for them. Did everyone forget Spider-Man 3? Oh sure, there's a vocal minority out there that the moment they heard this idea immediately got excited and thought "we NEED this," but I assure you there is a majority out there that thinks this is a terrible idea.
Nonetheless, it should be better than the Flash movie, so it's happening, no stopping it now. But I intend to demand that King Shark appear just so The Flash can jump him...