> The usual idea of recycling Jim's songs into a musical
> that they weren't written for instead of expecting that
> Jim could or would write new music.
Good point and I know you don't like the recycling but I just remembered this lost project, and my main point was I wouldn't mind seeing a smaller scaled musical from Jim (bearing in mind we 'aint seen the spectacular huge epic yet), plus I love TEOTH as a musical title (and sums up WH perfectly?).
I don't mind the recycling, as long as it improves on the previous incarnation (think Future over New Orleans), and with some lyrical tweaks I think the songs I listed could all work great (in a WH context).
Toss in a couple of new ones, write a great book and there's your new musical. Easy! LOL.
> people who believe Jim has all kinds of material sitting
> around and that he is writing all the time still just
> suggest he recycle everything.
Who knows? I don't reckon he has tons of new stuff but maybe 15-20 complete songs and probably lots of bits & pieces.
Also bear in mind that I would happily consider 'new' any lyrical re-writes to all his rare musical stuff (MTYD, Kid Champion, Garbo etc), Wonderful Toys being a great example.
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