i dunno why it is, but comic strip musicals have really intrigued me recently: https://youtu.be/PCOw9O_Dbyw?si=wC3WGHlWfRjSB39ihttps://youtu.be/DnOCJ672TCE?si=vyUb_T9r8TtjstSq(there’s like, very few of ‘em, too)
>>146904957also the choices seem to be relatively obscure for newspaper comics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfkVIUr3ek
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>>146904957Damn Nermal is a cute
>>146904957Ok but where's my Little lulu musical?>>146905075Oh that's really cute
>>146905619hopefully you don’t mind the Dawson’s casting trope being applied in that case
>>146905646>you don’t mind the Dawson’s casting tropeeh I don't mind too much as long as they're not too old and can still portray the characters well enough
>>146905646(pic related)
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>>146905075What the hell, don't make me care about Luann like that.
>>146906543honestly I’m more interested in bernice afaic heck i used her hairstyle for an cult pepper ann design I thought up
>>146905075also some of the pics for this kinda look like something that can be mined for horror flicks
>>146904957Li'l Abner, it got a movie toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqPBlSxb-0
>>146904957This unlocked a random memory from my highschool experience. For some reason, we had a production of some "Luann: Scenes in a Teen's Life" musical. I found a video of a more professional production of it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfkVIUr3ekApparently it was written by the same author of the comic, I think? I only know that because of searching for it online though, what I actually remember from my school's amateur production was that it wasn't very good, we all piled into the gym bleachers to watch classmates who couldn't sing very well sing kind of not great repetitive songs in a musical about a newspaper comic strip nobody in my generation read, I guess because they thought a play about the teenage experience would connect with us.
>>146907166(already posted that vid but) uh d'ya have any pics of the experience? it has to at least look goode
>>146907494None, unfortunately. Just hazy school memories.
Edie Adams as Daisy Mae in the Lil' Abner stage musical
Also in the Lil' Abner stage musical was Julie Newmar, future Catwoman, as Stupefyin' Jones.
Way back in 1933, songwriter Irving Berlin produced a musical revue called "As Thousands Cheer," which featured satirical topical sketches (like Saturday Night Live's) about stuff in the news and elaborate musical numbers about different sections of the daily newspaper: "Heat Wave" for the weather report, "Easter Parade" for the rotogravure photo section, and "The Funnies" for the comic strips. The latter had the cast dress up in cartoonish costumes as popular comic strip characters of the day against a giant-size comic strip backdrop.
I guess the most successful was "Annie," from Little Orphan Annie.There were at least two from Schulz's Peanuts: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" & "Snoopy: The Musical."There's also Superman and Spider-Man musicals ("It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman" & "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"), but although both characters had comic strips, they originated in comic books.And there's that Addams Family musical. The characters originated in Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons before becoming a TV sitcom, but I can't remember if it was ever a strip.
>>146904957https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7zT_agPGyAI've been a fan of the ancient Mary Worth short film for a long time.
>>146907908it depends on what you classify as a "strip" rly
>>146908129dang, myspacenow THAT'S old (relatively)
>>146905866Sluggo is lit
>>146908697that’s tubby, actually
ngl it rly is the garfield musical that set things off for methe costume varieties especially; there’s like so many ways to interpret a cat
>>146909263like, legit:
>>146904957A bunch of really early comics had stage plays. Life with Father (which I think actually had a pretty successful run), The Katzenjammer Kids, Yellow Kid, Buster Brown and Little Nemo in Slumberland. Not sure how the others did but Little Nemo was so complex that it didn't remotely make money which is pretty much how you'd expect it to turn out.
>>146909968ngl it’s the one in modern-day that fascinate me more, rly
Hey this isn't The Comic Strip! Where's Karate Kat? Minimonsters? Street Frogs? Tigersharks?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDSDtgEoAU&pp=ygURQ29taWMgc3RyaXAgaW50cm8%3D
