What would a musical written by the previous poster be like?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Simfan would do a rehash of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, except it would change parts of the overall message and have a generally snobbish, but ostensibly meritocratic, tone.

Vosem, I think Simfan might have confused you with TJ?

[Barnes]

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If I were to write a musical about Japanese history I'd strongly consider making it about a less depressing period than the Bakumatsu.

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[Barnes]

If I were to write a musical about Japanese history I'd strongly consider making it about a less depressing period than the Bakumatsu.

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Meh, I tought: "Nathan...he likes Japan...do I know any musicals about Japan?...Oh yeah...And I kind of have a Sondheim fix, so..."

[Simfan34]

Simfan would do a rehash of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, except it would change parts of the overall message and have a generally snobbish, but ostensibly meritocratic, tone.

Vosem, I think Simfan might have confused you with TJ?

How would it be different, exactly?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Simfan would do a rehash of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, except it would change parts of the overall message and have a generally snobbish, but ostensibly meritocratic, tone.

Vosem, I think Simfan might have confused you with TJ?

How would it be different, exactly?

The plot would be largely the same but I'd think you'd tone the satire a little. It's been a while since I've seen the show so I'm not sure precisely what that would entail, but I can see you cutting 'I Believe in You'. I'm not sure if you'd lionize or demonize Finch, but I'm pretty sure you would do one or the other.

Barnes, I actually like Pacific Overtures a lot, it's just, as I said, really depressing.

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Anyway, we're on Barnes, for whoever's next.

[Simfan34]

The travails of southern blacks in the 1930s, with a bit of righteous murder and martyrdom. A transposition of Le Mis and Rent, perhaps, with some Othello thrown in. Complicit Bostonian merchant, as well. The white daughter character ends up betraying the black leads and receives her just desserts at the end. A darker Wheels of A Dream, maybe. Certainly provocative and disconcerting.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

An opera about a group of six rich, black friends who journey to Africa and find something deep within themselves. One of them dies.

Spoiler (highlight to show): It's the one played by Seatown in blackface

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

OK people who say you couldn't understand the words in mine would be wrong, the songs would probably be like this or this.

Alfred is gay, so likely a rather standard musical, although with undertones even gayer than normal.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A conceptually interesting musical that stumbles because it's less than understanding of (and arguably vaguely disrespectful of) the conventions of the medium. The music would be awful but the book might be pretty good.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Batman

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Batman

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[Atlas Has Shrugged]

It would likely be rather optimistic, about a hero who always wins and never faces many challenges. I know I was rather vague in this post, forgive me.  But Clinton 1996 seems like a optimistic type of guy who does not get down over little things.