I can think of a few musicals that are serious: Phantom, Les Mis, even 1776 to a lesser degree. But it is true that musical theater is very often comic. Theater, though... theater is pretty serious business. 
I can think of two plays that I'd call sf/f. Waiting for Godot is one, and No Exit is the other. They're precisely what I'm looking for, too: they both use the fantastic to remove preconceptions of the world and thereby explore characters in depth. It's interesting that both of them do this in a very similar way.
I can think of two plays that I'd call sf/f. Waiting for Godot is one, and No Exit is the other. They're precisely what I'm looking for, too: they both use the fantastic to remove preconceptions of the world and thereby explore characters in depth. It's interesting that both of them do this in a very similar way.
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Obviously I have musicals on the brain.
- 31/01/2010 06:36:33 AM
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Musicals are tricky things to do
- 31/01/2010 07:57:44 AM
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If sf/f relies on effects, then it doesn't deserve respect.
- 31/01/2010 08:04:10 AM
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I'm not saying it can be done or relies on effects. I'm just saying it might be tricky
- 31/01/2010 06:40:44 PM
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There is a musical episode of buffy....
- 31/01/2010 09:50:22 AM
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- 31/01/2010 09:50:22 AM
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The board ends up being about books, but it's actually titled "Sci-Fi & Fantasy."
- 31/01/2010 07:23:45 PM
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- 31/01/2010 07:23:45 PM
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Yes, but the site is read and find out. Maybe you should go to listen and find out? *NM*
- 31/01/2010 07:28:19 PM
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Tell that to the games board. 
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- 31/01/2010 07:50:53 PM
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- 31/01/2010 07:50:53 PM
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Which is an interesting example.
- 02/02/2010 06:41:08 AM
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Very silly. Less silly, though, when you consider the lack of a Theater/Musicals board. *NM*
- 02/02/2010 07:00:00 AM
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Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide stories were originally radio plays
- 31/01/2010 06:16:42 PM
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Which in turn reminds me of the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast with Orson Welles... *NM*
- 31/01/2010 06:36:32 PM
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Nonsense.
- 31/01/2010 07:22:25 PM
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I feel like I'm a broken record, telling you to re-read what I actually said
- 31/01/2010 08:40:17 PM
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Yes, well, it was a fairly weak defense when you started using it.
- 31/01/2010 09:23:49 PM
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I'd have to agree with you - it has become more of a niche.
- 31/01/2010 10:16:02 PM
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I think cinema has outstripped theater more than theater has declined.
- 31/01/2010 10:28:06 PM
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I don't know, I've seen a theater adaptation of The Hobbit, for instance...
- 31/01/2010 10:11:47 PM
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Not quite sure what I was thinking about cinema either. My defense was that it was 3 in the morning.
- 31/01/2010 10:26:03 PM
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I would definitely count Little Shop of Horrors among some sort of sf/f mold.
- 01/02/2010 12:56:40 AM
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Definitely. But again, it's campy and ludicrous.
- 01/02/2010 02:25:00 AM
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Repo! The Genetic Opera, both the play and the film were great. = Rocky-Horror + Bladerunner *NM*
- 02/02/2010 12:41:31 AM
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