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rockfenris2005 07:12 am UTC 06/01/11 |
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Spiderman (Batman) Musical w/ link to Ryan's site.... - Jacqueline 05:35 pm UTC 05/31/11 |
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This is cool. On the same day that one of the local newspapers published a story on our musical.
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> http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/05/4_comic_books_that_wouldve_mad.php
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> Four Comic Books That Would Make Better Musicals Than
> Spider-Man
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> BATMAN:This is the easiest of all because it's already
> been very, very close to actually happening. Jim Steinman
> of Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler fame was commissioned as far
> back as the last century to write a Batman musical. We
> waited patiently for years and year - well aware of the
> fact that Steinman in not a fast composer - and finally
> gave up.
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> Then we heard this...
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> That's "In the Land of the Pigs the Butcher is King" and
> it's easily the best song on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell
> III. We were so impressed with it we did a little research
> and found out that Steinman wrote the song for the musical
> as a lament by Lt. Gordon and other Gotham City officials
> about the rampant crime in Gotham.
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> We were literally this close to getting a killer Batman
> spectacular based on the Burton vision, with music done by
> one of the greatest operatic rock composers of all time.
> It's just criminal that it didn't happen.
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> More information about the dead project can be found
> here.
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> http://www.freewebs.com/batman_themusical/demos.htm
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