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Thanks. Now I have the image of racers and pit crews suddenly bursting out into a song-and-dance routine.

With a huge crowd of bare-titted women applauding?

I have known dancers, more than one. They would have absolutely
assured you that the carefully choreographed synchronized motions of
a pit crew are a dance.

Even if the crew members don't realize it or think of it that way.

The crowd would be a nice bonus.

I would tend to agree with you on the choreography in what a pit crew does. And in a loud environment, with flammable liquids, large objects moving at high speeds and heavy things moving up and down. Coming up: NASCAR, The Musical!

This reminded me of a movie forum I used to frequent when someone started a thread "What if The Godfather was made into a musical?" That led to a bunch of posts with silly parody lyrics sung to the tunes of popular songs. I guess it could be done with any movie.

However, thinking on that, aside from comedic parody, certain genres or types of movies just don't seem to really work or fit in with musicals. Musicals in general seem to have storylines which tend to be light-hearted and somewhat "tame" compared to the more action-packed or intense thrillers which wouldn't really work as musicals (although they might still have pretty good music on the soundtrack just the same).

So, I guess that means Apocalypse Now: The Musical isn't hitting Broadway anytime soon?
Seriously, though. You're right, there are certain films and stories that just won't work in that genre. But, after a few moment's of thought, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby could possibly work along those lines, if you think about it. I only watched a little bit of that flick, but what I saw falls under the "light-hearted" descriptor. And there's race cars and pit girls too. Always a plus in my book.

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Thanks. Now I have the image of racers and pit crews suddenly bursting out into a song-and-dance routine.

With a huge crowd of bare-titted women applauding?

I have known dancers, more than one. They would have absolutely
assured you that the carefully choreographed synchronized motions of
a pit crew are a dance.

Even if the crew members don't realize it or think of it that way.

The crowd would be a nice bonus.

I would tend to agree with you on the choreography in what a pit crew does. And in a loud environment, with flammable liquids, large objects moving at high speeds and heavy things moving up and down. Coming up: NASCAR, The Musical!

This reminded me of a movie forum I used to frequent when someone started a thread "What if The Godfather was made into a musical?" That led to a bunch of posts with silly parody lyrics sung to the tunes of popular songs. I guess it could be done with any movie.

However, thinking on that, aside from comedic parody, certain genres or types of movies just don't seem to really work or fit in with musicals. Musicals in general seem to have storylines which tend to be light-hearted and somewhat "tame" compared to the more action-packed or intense thrillers which wouldn't really work as musicals (although they might still have pretty good music on the soundtrack just the same).

So, I guess that means Apocalypse Now: The Musical isn't hitting Broadway anytime soon?
Seriously, though. You're right, there are certain films and stories that just won't work in that genre. But, after a few moment's of thought, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby could possibly work along those lines, if you think about it. I only watched a little bit of that flick, but what I saw falls under the "light-hearted" descriptor. And there's race cars and pit girls too. Always a plus in my book.

There was a fairly successful Broadway musical called "Next to Normal" that dealt with bi-polar disorder and suicide. I came out of there shaking my head saying "WTF did I just see?"

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Now that you mention it, I seem to vaguely recall that.