> I have to disagree that "The Wizard Of Oz" is a "second
> rate kids book".
Disagree about what? Kids book or the second rate? Of course for many Americans it could be considered literature for grown-ups, so yeah, if you disagree about the kids part you may be right :p
> However, I agree that a musical
> adaptation of a work by Lovecraft might be very
> interesting.
Currently mostly looking forward to Del Toros' Mountains of Madness movie.
> Do you think that Jim would enjoy working on a Lovecraft
> musical?
No, because it lacks horny teenagers, guitars and motorbikes. A Cthulhu seduction scene with lots of tentacles would also be something that the American Broadway audience wouldn't stomach.
Not to mention that I think that TdV meets Neverland was quite enough, we don't need a Cthulhu/Neverland crossover, which would undoubtedly happen with Steinman attached. Getting visions of Nyarlathotep entering the stage and doing the I remember everything speech. Nah, thanks.
> When the write up says: "by momentarily glimpsing
> the horror of ultimate reality and the abyss", I think of
> Jim's own post-apocalyptic vision of Obsidian.
No. Obsidian is still a place where people can exist under the rule of a human ruler. Lovecrafts abyss and the things that hide in the cracks of reality is something that would be too much for humanity to exist with. The Great Old Ones wouldn't really rule mankind either. Just as we are not ruling ants.
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