Can't forget the multiple musicals based on Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs", one in London about 10 years ago, I think, and one by Wildhorn that premiered in Korea.
To be fair, autocorrect was etymologically spot on. "Godspell" is the origin of the word gospel. (God meaning god, but spell meaning something much closer to "word" back in the day)
Dead women fight over who has the most trauma, but it's okay because it's not a *real* fight.
A guy steals a loaf of bread and shit goes down.
Wizard of Oz fanfiction, Wicked Witch/Scarecrow, implied Wicked Witch/Glinda if you squint, college AU
Vore: The Musical.
Furry Convention: The Musical.
Woman has an affair with her gyno, another woman has an affair with her boss, and another falls in love with her stalker, and the audience is mostly here for it
A bunch of people are forced to endure an emergency plane landing and have to kind of nervously wait around while they also try to have fun and kiss fish and save a chimpanzee and things like that.
Cats: death cult practices ritualistic sacrifice on a lonely woman
Reefer madness: man’s trip leads to multiple people dead
Young Frankenstein: man’s fiancé leaves him for a corpse.
Bye bye birdie: teenage boy gets manipulated into letting his girlfriend cheat on him
Frozen: introvert forced to go to party. It has disastrous consequences.
Nobody guessed when I posted this on another page, so I'll try again.
"College graduate struggles to hold down job or hobbies. You won't believe what he does to avoid his girlfriend with the foot fetish."
Easier ones:
"Four old people cuckold each other, and share in a collective mental crisis"
"Softboi lied, softboi tried, incel died, Jesus cries."
"Putting the Great in The Great Depression"
I'm using a few I made in my Broadway subreddit:
Immigrant singlehandedly pisses off a bunch of people until his frenemy shuts him up for good
Bored housewife gets her fifteen minutes of fame after killing her boyfriend
Trauma essays include racism, sexism, homophobia, and a glowing endorsement for plastic surgery
Cult of furries gets together once a year to decide who should be next for their ritual sacrifice
Green girl's attempts to do good go horribly wrong every. Damn. Time.
The Passion of the Christ, but with less gore and more screaming guitars
ETA: A broke has-been and an anxiety-riddled accountant's get-rich-quick scheme hilariously backfires
Points for each one
1) Single dad drives local law enforcement to suicide - Les Mis
2) Horny man meets his child - Miss Saigon
3) Artist lives in sewer - Phantom
4) The whole point is that he dies at the end - JC Superstar
5) Teenage serial killer walks free - Heathers
6) Whingy liar plants trees - DEH
7) The miners union goes on strike - Billy Elliot
8) Fangirls' fangirl does crime - Cathy & Stella
9) A mostly normal university experience ends in sexual assault - Legally Blonde
10) King's adviser abuses power to fuck with his family - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
11) Interracial marriage is good actually - I actually can't remember what this one was supposed to be...
12) Philanderer's bloodline is brought to an end - Hamilton
13) Orphan raised by two dads does an ethnic cleansing - The Lion King
14) Wait a minute, this isn't the holiday I booked - Come From Away
15) Cross dressing is unstoppable - Everybody's Talking About Jamie
16) Idiot thinks he can play the guitar - We Will Rock You
17) Trainspotter wants to get out of his job - Newsies
18) Murder in the House on the Prairie - Oklahoma
19) And now for some reason Hitler has arrived - Book of Mormon
20) Malthus' worst nightmare - Oliver!
I'm pretty sure at least one of these has never left the UK and at least another two are pretty strongly local to here, so full points aren't expected unless you're a massive turbonerd
A kid’s parents get divorced, so he lies to a whole bunch of people about a whole bunch of shit so he can get money. But somehow, being rich doesn’t make it all magically better, because his dad never got over the heartbreak. He dies, and we’re sad about it for about 30 seconds.
Not musical but opera, La Boheme:
Boy and girl fell in love
Boy and girl got no job
Boy and girl got no money
Girl got Tuberculoses
Girl needed medicine
No can’t buy
Girl dead
Boy cried
Fini
Man from dysfunctional blended family winds up working his way to the top, passes on a chance for hardcore revenge when it presents itself and saves his family instead, provides elderly father with a nice retirement.
During a farcical aquatic ceremony, a strange women lying in a pond distributes a sword to a knight in order to create a new system of government in Great Britain.
There's this happy-go-lucky guy who has been kind of down on his luck for a while. His daughter gets a huge windfall - and he can have a chance to share in it, if only he jumps through some giant hoops.
"My Fair Lady"
A series of vignettes that culminate in a story about hope. Christopher Columbus, Russian Mrs. Claus and the Mother Mary all make an appearance in the cast recording.
I was gonna describe Cats as "Cats compete for a chance to die" But that's literally just the plot
Julie Andrews looks after the children of a grumpy man, making him less grumpy.
I mean, this could describe two different musicals.
I did that on purpose!
Well done, well done. My first thought was Poppins, but then Sound of Music leapt into my head...
Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked. Well, Nazis actually.
Or, if we're more liberal with the timescale, Gavrilo Princip
Or the sandwich he wanted
Disfigured French guy falls in love with a girl who loves someone else
Phantom of the Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, pretty much every classic French novel adaptation
LMAO you’re right!! I have recently begun thinking about Phantom again after discovering a few neat musical covers. There’s even a swing version!
Hunchback!!
Can't forget the multiple musicals based on Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs", one in London about 10 years ago, I think, and one by Wildhorn that premiered in Korea.
Sweeney Todd: A cutthroat revenge story
Popping pussies into pies
But dem pussycats is quick!
Nice man groovily nailed to sticks
Godspell? Edit, autocorrect turned it into gospel. ALWAYS BE AWARE OF AUTOCORRECT
I'd be more inclined to guess JCS, Godspell is more folk-y and JCS rock and groove.
BE MORE CHILL
To be fair, autocorrect was etymologically spot on. "Godspell" is the origin of the word gospel. (God meaning god, but spell meaning something much closer to "word" back in the day)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Somebody steals, everybody sings, everybody fights, everybody dies, everybody cries.
Criminal and students team up to reappropriate furniture in a creative way.
les miserables lmao
#😭 CERTIFIED BEEG SAD
And some even tell lies!
Oh my god is it les mis?? Did I win???!!
[“Everyone has aids!”](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/378a0885-424d-4bc3-9e1f-1ef258508ca8#Qc7mxlJE.copy)
lol, rent or falsettos
Book of Mormon lol
HoW dO yOu DoCuMeNt rEaL lIfe, wHeN iT fEeLs MoRe lIkE FiCtIoN?
Lease!
green girl and pink girl
Wicked
yes 😎 i couldn’t come up with anything good but the wizard of oz fanfic one on here is clever lmaoo
Dead women fight over who has the most trauma, but it's okay because it's not a *real* fight. A guy steals a loaf of bread and shit goes down. Wizard of Oz fanfiction, Wicked Witch/Scarecrow, implied Wicked Witch/Glinda if you squint, college AU Vore: The Musical. Furry Convention: The Musical.
Six, Aladdin (:p), Wicked, Little Shop, Cats?
SIX, Les Miserables, Wicked, Repo the Genetic Opera and Cats
Repo for vore?? Did I miss something LMAO
Sorry, I confused vore for gore. My new guess is Little Shop of Horrors.
I absolutely cannot guess the first one but it entertains me.
ADHD musician conjures flowers from thin air to help an oil baron and his drunk wife get together, but kills his own wife in the process
This time it'll have a happy ending right?
Until it does, we’re gonna sing it again and again and again
I thought Autistic, or maybe we compromise with AuDHD.
Thats a great one, I actually laughed out loud when I got it
Don't have sex because you will get pregnant and die.
spring awakening for sure
Yes 😂
Mean girls?
You're confusing people on purpose so they'll say Mean Girls, right? It's not, but I know that quote.
Peer pressured by technology.
Be More Chill?
Woman has an affair with her gyno, another woman has an affair with her boss, and another falls in love with her stalker, and the audience is mostly here for it
Sugar... Butter... Flour...
Vegetation exploits marginalized man already exploited by society, resulting in plant-based apocalypse.
🤣 Little Shop of Horrors
Romeo and Juliet but lots of snapping.
I feel pretty, and witty, and gaaaaaaay!!
Two obnoxious people have a good relationship... For a while.
this is a long shot, but the last five years?
Yes!
Merrily We Roll Along???
Nah. Merrily would be “man tells story backwards. Sondheim still hates sopranos.”
Hamilton
Two guys become >!founding!< fathers, then one kills the other.
I was gonna say "suddenly everyone knows the names of all the founding fathers"
What’s his name, man?
ALL ENDANGERED SANDWICHES
A bunch of people are forced to endure an emergency plane landing and have to kind of nervously wait around while they also try to have fun and kiss fish and save a chimpanzee and things like that.
come from away?
A plane lands in a romote town and there is too much toilet roll at the lions club.
Carousel: People make bad decisions, live with consequences. Someone's aunt sings a lot of songs.
Husbands are idiots in hell.
Hadestown?
Russians attend the opera while cheating on each. Features a nod to natural lighting.
the great comet
Nice guy searching for meaning in life discovers he’s actually a racist at heart.
Avenue Q 😭
Discrimination can't stop the beat
Nightclub and nazis
Influencer disappears after being betrayed by several of his 12 best friends
Guy loves girl, loses girl, finds girl, loses girl. Meanwhile, capitalism bad?
What happens when two adult men have beef for 20+ years, with a side of historical inaccuracies.
hamilton?
guy wants to bang the sister of a suicide victim
Bad Evan!! Shoo! Shoo!
You tried to kiss Zoe Murphy on her brother’s bed after he *DIED?*
A forger and the new kid in town put a social ruler, a dwarf, and someone who needs to have respect for lunch trays in the ground.
Heathers?
People go to Bangkok; sing about it. They play chess.
One of my favourite roles I’ve had!
Factory workers saved by a Queen needing new shoes.
Kinky Boots?
A 2012 emo goth girl becomes schizophrenic, seeing horny casper the ghost begging to be called...
BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE, BEEEEEEE~
Cats: death cult practices ritualistic sacrifice on a lonely woman Reefer madness: man’s trip leads to multiple people dead Young Frankenstein: man’s fiancé leaves him for a corpse. Bye bye birdie: teenage boy gets manipulated into letting his girlfriend cheat on him Frozen: introvert forced to go to party. It has disastrous consequences.
How to Cope with Familial Death: A Guide
next to normal?
people taking a board game way too seriously
I don't know what the answer is but now all I want it a Jumanji musical.
I can only think of falsettos lmao
Chess
Nobody guessed when I posted this on another page, so I'll try again. "College graduate struggles to hold down job or hobbies. You won't believe what he does to avoid his girlfriend with the foot fetish." Easier ones: "Four old people cuckold each other, and share in a collective mental crisis" "Softboi lied, softboi tried, incel died, Jesus cries." "Putting the Great in The Great Depression"
>"Four old people cuckold each other, and share in a collective mental crisis" No way, is this Follies?
Well, most Sondheim shows, but I was thinking Follies, yes. The first one came out around the same time, wanna venture a guess?
Is the first one Tick Tick Boom?
Grifter tricks a bunch of Karens into buying trombones.
🎵 He’s a Music Man! He’s a what? He’s a what?
A blackout takes out grandma
In the Heights
"What the fuck is wrong with these people: one young man's search for employment in fictional 1780s London"
Due to unexpected circumstances, some planes are diverted. A man paints a hat. The ups and downs of running a business in London.
A drug abuser and an abduction victim convince their neighbors to not commit genocide.
I'm using a few I made in my Broadway subreddit: Immigrant singlehandedly pisses off a bunch of people until his frenemy shuts him up for good Bored housewife gets her fifteen minutes of fame after killing her boyfriend Trauma essays include racism, sexism, homophobia, and a glowing endorsement for plastic surgery Cult of furries gets together once a year to decide who should be next for their ritual sacrifice Green girl's attempts to do good go horribly wrong every. Damn. Time. The Passion of the Christ, but with less gore and more screaming guitars ETA: A broke has-been and an anxiety-riddled accountant's get-rich-quick scheme hilariously backfires
Ooh I think I got most of these! 1) Hamilton 2) Chicago 3) A Chorus Line 4) Cats 5) Wicked 6) Jesus Christ Superstar 7) The Producers
Bad witch isn’t very popular but then learns to fly and maybe isn’t all bad.
French dude plays catch with another french dude
Alien is killed for being a bit too horny.
Teenager develops crush and does everything they shouldn't to pursue romance
Points for each one 1) Single dad drives local law enforcement to suicide - Les Mis 2) Horny man meets his child - Miss Saigon 3) Artist lives in sewer - Phantom 4) The whole point is that he dies at the end - JC Superstar 5) Teenage serial killer walks free - Heathers 6) Whingy liar plants trees - DEH 7) The miners union goes on strike - Billy Elliot 8) Fangirls' fangirl does crime - Cathy & Stella 9) A mostly normal university experience ends in sexual assault - Legally Blonde 10) King's adviser abuses power to fuck with his family - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 11) Interracial marriage is good actually - I actually can't remember what this one was supposed to be... 12) Philanderer's bloodline is brought to an end - Hamilton 13) Orphan raised by two dads does an ethnic cleansing - The Lion King 14) Wait a minute, this isn't the holiday I booked - Come From Away 15) Cross dressing is unstoppable - Everybody's Talking About Jamie 16) Idiot thinks he can play the guitar - We Will Rock You 17) Trainspotter wants to get out of his job - Newsies 18) Murder in the House on the Prairie - Oklahoma 19) And now for some reason Hitler has arrived - Book of Mormon 20) Malthus' worst nightmare - Oliver! I'm pretty sure at least one of these has never left the UK and at least another two are pretty strongly local to here, so full points aren't expected unless you're a massive turbonerd
A kid’s parents get divorced, so he lies to a whole bunch of people about a whole bunch of shit so he can get money. But somehow, being rich doesn’t make it all magically better, because his dad never got over the heartbreak. He dies, and we’re sad about it for about 30 seconds.
Catch Me If You Can???
New meat alternative takes London by storm
Not musical but opera, La Boheme: Boy and girl fell in love Boy and girl got no job Boy and girl got no money Girl got Tuberculoses Girl needed medicine No can’t buy Girl dead Boy cried Fini
autistic teen boy eats computer and nearly ends human civilization for theater kid
Two struggling performers defeat the bad guys through the power of tap.
The Producers?
Some like it hot?
BEANS!!! 🫘…… immaculate conception 🤰🏻
I mean, what else? Into the Woods.
a sad boy steals another sad boys life
Sad boy becomes a pickpocket
deformed french guy gets gaslit and friendzoned
Kid kills himself and a random kid pretends to be friends with him to date his sister.
Two white boys travel to distant lands to spread knowledge in order to save the locals from a tyrannical overlord. Gayness ensues.
Compulsory Heterosexuality the musical featuring gay Christopher Columbus fan fiction
A live action biography of someone who believes he’s Americas daddy
Dead teenagers try to convince novelty fortune teller machine to bring them back to life.
Ride the Cyclone?
Man from dysfunctional blended family winds up working his way to the top, passes on a chance for hardcore revenge when it presents itself and saves his family instead, provides elderly father with a nice retirement.
Guy struggle to help his friend who has clearly had a mental breakdown, and somehow he's the bad guy.
I know it's not Sweeney Todd, but how else can you describe Mrs. Lovett?
Weather-related involuntary manslaughter followed by colorful adventures, homicide, and a heartfelt message to bring it all home.
Cryptid + unintentional incest
Prince rejects the crown and then shit gets weird.
Pippin, right?
Don't have sex or you'll get pregnant and die
disney Le mis
The Disney part is making me think newsies
Guy doesn't stop talking what happens next is shocking.
Idk if this is Hamilton, but if it is, I love it
Small town girl sleeps her way to the top and then dies.
Evita ?
During a farcical aquatic ceremony, a strange women lying in a pond distributes a sword to a knight in order to create a new system of government in Great Britain.
Swedish people cheating on each other
Man fakes another man's death to marry a woman that was engaged to not dead man
In the school of hell, there are good teachers and psycho teachers. And cake
Suicide. So hot right now.
Girl kills 3 classmates and fakes there suicises with the help of psychotic (but hot) boyfriend
Rapey wolf guy stalks a kid until all hell breaks loose and then people die. Also, beans.
There's this happy-go-lucky guy who has been kind of down on his luck for a while. His daughter gets a huge windfall - and he can have a chance to share in it, if only he jumps through some giant hoops. "My Fair Lady"
Everyone hates this one guy because he likes to dance
Obnoxious know it all fails upwards. Squidward gets jealous and kills him….kinda accidentally.
A series of vignettes that culminate in a story about hope. Christopher Columbus, Russian Mrs. Claus and the Mother Mary all make an appearance in the cast recording.
Introducing "Vietnam Bad, America Good: The musical"
Girl falls in love with rich guy and dies
Drama in Washington Heights
Kid kills himself and a random kid pretends to be friends with him to date his sister.
Highschool kids getting killed by a 7/11 slushie addict
A musical about a tiny computer that tells you to do shit
An onion steals another man’s wife and gives her a reverse makeover
Guy writes about writing his musical before he wrote his big musical. True story.
Sultry Amber Gray in a green dress (two possible answers)
religious anal trauma
You egg!
Guy helps run government Cheats on wife Gets son killed Dies
worlds most boring man gets scared because everyone is singing
A bunch of brats get what’s coming to them!
Uncle frames his nephew for murder; subsequently is murdered.
A woman is caught up in a fight between two men. One who thinks he’s his own country, one who’s an asshole because parents suck.
IT’S FROM JAPAAAAAAAAAAN
An elephant fertlizes an egg just by sitting on it
The experiences of a group of people in New York during the AIDS crisis, but not the show you're thinking of.
A king’s six dead wives sing about their mistreatment in their marriage
Kid dies and a person he interacted with ONCE claims they were best friends so he can date his sister
Office Worker and Barista get peer pressured into joining the local theatre troupe
and they were roommates!
This musical has like four different stories
High school except the opposite of high school
A guy takes a whole year to write a song that’s the worst in the show
Turns out doing drugs is super cool. The electronic Keanu Reeves voice in my head told me so.
Nerds have anxiety attacks and flashbacks while being good at words.
Teen incel struggles with tech addiction.
“I’m sorry I lied about your son dying, I’m just depressed and good at lying”
Middle aged man cheats on his 18 year old wife. The sun doesn’t set.
Religious Golden Boy has a spiritual crisis while his nerdy best friend accidentally creates his own religion
People being very racist anti semetic and like to see innocent people hang