Why Are Weird Musical Adaptations So Popular? (ft. Sarah Z) 

I'm still waiting for that Megamind Musical

*even a story of a guy who didn't like musicals can be a musical*

The chorus of Hadestowns "why we build the wall" also builds upon itself like a wall. In every chorus there is one line added on top of the preexisting chorus.

pEoPle: I hate when the actors don’t look like the characters Hamilton Cast: • - •

See, I knew you were religious by the many and frequent veggietale references

Hamilton, Hadestown, Great Comet Ah yes, Hip Hop, Jazz, and R u s s i a T e c h n o

Now that Schaff has referenced Starkid, I need him to review The guy who didn't like musicals, twisted, or firebringer. Although I won't mind hearing more about Heathers. I love me some Heathers.

I think a fantastic example is, “West Side Story.” It broke boundaries when it appeared. “Romeo and Juliet as a modern New York gang war? Yeah. Sure. That’ll work.” And it did!!! It paved the way for theater through its songs, choreography, direction, etc. it still puts me in awe.

Young Scrappy and hungry people... So exactly the kind of people who can't afford a Hamilton ticket

madagascar: the musical when??? edit: HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL. thanks for having me!

Lmao shout out to Six for making me know wayyy more about King Henry’s wives than I thought I ever would

I thought that Burr was the narrator because of the emphasis on how he prefers to stand on the side and watch how things play out instead of always taking action.

There’s a fart joke in Madagascar the musical that goes on for 2 and a half minutes

Shaffrillas obsessed with Hamilton and Moana... what’s the overlap here? Oh wait ... Lin Manuel Miranda that beautiful man

me: wow one of the 6 people who still enjoy the great comet of 1812- comments: *DID SOMEBODY SAY* *S T A R K I D ??*

My school did Les Mis with a punk rock aesthetic! The music was all the same, but we did the costuming and set design our way. It was rad!

People who don't like musicals because people randomly burst into song have obviously never been to my house

I don't like hip hop, I don't like musicals, and I don't like history... I've listened to Hamilton at least 25 times.

starkid stans 🤝 great comet stans going ballistic when someone mentions our musical in pretty much any context

Schaffrillas has clearly never seen that weird bootleg of Les Mis which is set during a futuristic Zombie apocalypse

"Javert: A Star Wars Story" featuring the story of the Stupid Hat is something I would 100% pay money to see

Shaffrillas : * shows two second clip from TGWDLM * Me : Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.

*stares at film adaptations usually being crash grabs* *stares at beetlejuice musical* *sw e a t s as slowly g rabs it*

I think we’re forgetting the best musical The Spongebob Squarepants musical

My dudes, Schaf made a Starkid reference, I can now live at peace.

As you are clearly a StarKid watcher, PLEASE can you do a video on how Twisted has one of the best villain redemption stories ever!

"Probably the best arc in the entire Bible, up there with Noah's" Thanks, man

I loved the snippet of The Guy Who Doesn’t Like Musicals.

I can't wait for the musical version of the MCU Musical Cinematic Universe

I cant wait for the Schaffrilas musical with songs like "WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE SO PAINFULLY AVERAGE "

“I love les mis with all my heart... and I tolerate phantom fairly decently” ME

Trail to Oregon matches these too. Who would expect a simple video game from the 1980’s about the gold rush turn into such a phenomenal musical about a family’s struggles.

Everyone overlooks the masterwork that is Springtime For Hitler

PLEASE do a video about the StarKid musicals

Please talk about Starkid for once, you keep showing them to us I know you like them

The only thing Patrick Page couldn't do was fix Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

the only good movie adaptation on broadway rn that I love is beetlejuice, it really is a wild ride and stands out against its competitors

Hamilton - adapted from history/a book that Miranda happened to stumble upon Heathers - adapted from a cult movie Be More Chill - adapted from an obscure book Dear Evan Hansen - ...

Ah, yes, here we stan StarKid and Veggie Tales. Welcome to the greatest section of RU-vid.

Y’all forgetting about IT: The Musical where Pennywise was defeated by a Britney Spears dance battle

Still waiting for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure The Musical

The mean girls musical is actually a bop tho

Hi, just so everyone's clear: yes, Great Comet did get robbed of its rightful Tony.

*I shrieked when I heard the StarKid.*

Hadestown has fucking beautiful music. I know I’m biased as someone who loves early/mid 1900s jazz, but I don’t care.

schaffrillas: the great comet me, bursting in through the wall:

"No one would ever set Les Mis in space" Time to brush off the dust from my "Les Disposables" Transformers fanfiction...

Can we all appreciate how absolutely amazing Jekyll and Hyde is.

You know what musical adaptation from a snippet of a story would work amazingly? Working Boys: The Musical

I actually audibly gasped at that last line James you GENIUS

was i the only one that was screeching when there was that starkid/tgwdlm reference?

"While not being interested in any other portion of War and Peace whatsoever" okay fair BUT, despite its length, war and peace absolutely slaps. watch the bbc series for a general idea of the rest of the plot and mental images of the characters that don't appear in great comet, then read it or get an audiobook, because not only is it fun to brag about, but it goes fucking HARD. I recommend listening to the great comet soundtrack as you go when you get to volume 2 part 5 though, because you will appreciate Malloy's skills as an adaptor much more once you realise JUST HOW MANY of the lines are ripped right out of the book

The Schaffrillas Productions musical playlist- 1. "Subverted My Expectations" 2. "Why Shiny is the Best Disney Song" 3. "Sharktale was a Mistake" 4. "Painfully Average" 5. "Shrek the 3rd was a mistake" ((The Sharktale reprise)) 6. "A mastapeece" 7. "The Magic of Bradburd's Writing"

1:00 God bless you and your correct taste in musical theatre

"...Broadway has been inching towards weirdness for quite some time..." God! What an understatement.

Could you talk about Starkid’s The Trail to Oregon? I think it’s a really fun musical and I’d love to hear your opinion on it.

"The tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise" sounds like a Shakespeare play

Mmmmm The cgi for Cats on a technical level is actually really good. It's just that no one needs to see those cat humanoid monstrosities

Beetlejuice the musical. That is all. just had to drop that here

To be fair, depression era Greek adaptations isn't new. Oh Brother Where Art Thou? did it first.

Where is Shrek 4? There, now we can say something useful in this comment section.

great comet is my all-time favorite musical. i’m so blessed to see it live because it’s such an outstanding and breathtaking experience. how it didn’t win against dear evan hansen is beyond me. it’s so creative and inventive and you can tell dave malloy put his everything into it.

This video introduced me to Six: The Musical and now I’m obsessed!

This is just a video essay on why fanfiction shouldn’t be so hated on

Schaff: *uploads a video about musical theatre* Me: I AM SPEED

Patrick Page is a national treasure and must be protected at all cost. Because I loved him in Hunchback and was devastated it didn't go to Broadway I looked into his other works and discovered Hadestown. He has finally gotten the broadway recognition he deserves!!!

When I was in high school we did les mis twice, once normaly and then we did it as if it were set in a post-apocalyptic civilisation. It actually worked really well. We even managed to win an award at our state.

I like how Hamilton (the musical) actually makes Burr a better person than he was in real life. In the musical, he's concerned with upholding the legacy set forth by his parents, but in real life, he was a selfish and manipulative little man who eventually moved to Louisiana in an attempt to profit off of war with Spain, leading to Jefferson trying (and failing) several times to get him convicted of treason. He also had a strong desire to conquer Mexico for whatever reason, and to do this was soliciting funds in England for a while. He was eventually kicked out of the country, tried to flee to France, was booted by Napoleon, and ended up back in America. Somewhat ironically, his divorce lawyer was Hamilton's 3rd son.

My current weird musical obsession? Six. King Henry the 8th's six wives telling their stories. It's awesome, Go listen to it. Do it. Now. It's a wonderful musical and so much fun.

"...and seeing them not the way they are," Ho don't do it. "But the way they could be." 😭😭😭

What are your thoughts on Beetlejuice The Musical The Musical The Musical???

*sees Lin, Denée, Reeve, and Eva in th thumbnail* me: all my favorite broadway shows represented in one photo... i like that

When are we gonna get a LEGO movie musical along with a LEGO Batman movie musical and a LEGO ninjago movie musical? Oh I almost forgot a bionicle musical!

As someone who has loved Hadestown and Great Comet so so so so much, thank you so much for this video. These weird musicals have such a special place in my heart and I'm glad that someone else gets why they're so amazing.

The half second snippet from the Death Note musical caught me so off guard 😂 You're right tho, "where IS the justice, if there's any justice."

"TELL ME WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?!" omg and here I thought no one knew about that dark Death Note concept album

Yeah okay... They’ve got Shrek the musical and soon Madagascar the musical... Where’s my Bee Movie Musical?

Great comet is still the best musical experience on broadway I have ever had. The staging, lighting, costume design, and immersion is so amazing

24:05 "I LOVE musicals" so hard she spills her tea felt that

i was a massive greek mythology nerd in middle school, but by the time hadestown rolled around i forgot about orpheus and eurydice. when i found out how their story ended i CRIED. i hadn’t watched anything and knew no plot aside from the myth and wait for me one. then when i saw a bootleg i SOBBED for so long. and every rewatch or relistening through the album i sob again, and every time i still have hope that maybe this time it’ll change. i didn’t even get sad upon hearing the original myth because there was no personhood attached to them, just names and being told they loved each other. taking a myth that’s tragic and sounds hopeless and injecting hope and creating a deep connection to mythic characters that most people don’t know about or barely do??? that’s genius and takes so much talent. and to do it in a way that EVERYONE can relate and see themselves in the story, and to show the dichotomy between hades and persephone’s and orpheus and eurydice’s love? it creates a story you can learn from, but is innately hopeful, and teenagers to old people can relate to and CARE about, AND has accidental parallels to our real world problems (the fact that why we build the wall was written in 2006 and is so relevant now is poetic). setting it in a familiar more recent era like the great depression BUT having it also be post apocalyptic to give liberty is genius. it allows us to connect in a very different way than we would if it was set in ancient greece, especially because a song like flowers can be read as just straight eurydice’s experience with hades transitioning into the underworld, but also sexual assault and abuse and poverty. there’s so much you can recontextualize in hadestown to modern plights and that’s a sign of timeless writing. something like les mis is so much harder to recontexualize for some of the songs because they’re so specifically about the battle, and i think that’s what hamilton also does really well. that’s why it’s so popular, they’re not just broadway songs, they’re songs YOU can listen to and inject yourself into without tying, just like a normal cd

"and I'm personally religious" I like how you embrace who you are instead of shying away from it, props to you man

YOU USED THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS WE'RE MARRIED NOW Edit: jfc I've never had this many likes on anything before. The duck is pleased

My favorite historical musical adaptation is Firebringer. It is incredibly accurate and educational. Great way to learn exact how fire was discovered and also that time when we were all married to jemilla was golden

Love these in-depth musical theatre themed videos, looking forward to more hopefully

No mention of the greatness of Something Rotten. 0/10 Shakespeares.

all i saw in this video was "Majora's Mask video is coming 4/27/2020"

you keep talking about great comet so everyone say thank you to mr. dave malloy for casting pippa soo as natasha in the off-broadway run of great comet, leading to lmm seeing the show and the lead and casting her as eliza hamilton. we stan

19:17 OMG a Death Note Musical song! Omg, I feel like thats an obscure reference. I love that you put it in the vid😭

Ok so, I'm currently a minuite in. You uploaded a video. One point. Its about musicals. Another point. It refrenced some of the most currently known. ANOTHER point. YOU ADDED IN A STARKID CLIP! A billion points for you sir.

Me: *reads title* a surprise to be sure,but a welcome one

Everyone else: Hamilton. Other musicals. Me: *THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IS HERE! INSIDE MY MIND!*

Hhhhhh hadestown, I've been absolutely consumed by it for so long

Have you... watched the movie Cats Dont Dance? Because if you havent You need it

Oh god. I thought I finally escaped the hellish black hole that is the Hamilton fandom.

So first a Team starkid reference and after that a Persona reference? This is why I love this channel

2:38 Schaffrillas: See, I'm personally religious Me, a christian: *Happiness noise*

Ok, but what about the Phineas and Ferb Stage Show?

Please..... Revive....... Great comet Edit: please find a way to bring up Amber gray Edit 2: the lack of Amber gray is deeply upsetting

okay however comma mean girls is literally such a phenomenal adaptation not only is it Just as insanely funny as the movie but it makes everything great about the movie better and the casting and music is near Perfect thanks for coming to my te-

19:18 DEATHNOTEEEEEE! I LOVE THAT MUSICAL AND THE SONG AHHHHHHH-