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nowhere_fast 12:59 pm UTC 08/03/16 |
| In reply to: | re: i've written a musical but need help - blondestingray 10:23 am UTC 08/03/16 |
You're kinda missing the point. The Bat musical opening next year in the UK will be the Mamma Mia or the We will rock you for fans of Jims and to a point Meat loafs work. Jim is involved with that production Some shows like what Steve Steinman does in the UK take some of jims songs along with other artists song and create a rock show with a loose theme tying the songs together. Thats fine,its much like what Alice Cooper does with his own songs and stage show. But to use all of Jims music with a book and to cast it as a musical in the style you are trying to do..well again i doubt you would be able to get the rights to mount such a production. You are trying to create an original work using songs that have a home elsewhere so as Ryan pointed out those songs are not available Back in the 70s people would try to mount bootleg productions of Jesus christ superstar and get around not have the rights by sticking in some songs from Godspell The stories about that are in a Tim rice or Lloyd Webber book,can't recall which Makes for interesting reading on how bootleg productions tried and failed to get around not being licenced productions I believe the rights are now available in australia for productions of Whistle down the Wind so if you wanted to get some Steinman into your local theatre maybe you could look at doing that > thanks for the messages, I have been sitting on this for a > few years now but with Meatloaf collapsing recently,kind > of scared me, we've lost too many legends recently, so I > dug this out of the drawer. I really need to find a > producer/ director who can advise me where to go next. > I've contacted APRA here to enquire about getting > permission and they pretty much told me to go away, its my > first script, so I really don't think I'm going to be > lucky enough to sell it to someone, But I think this play > like this could carry on in the tradition all ready > started by Mama Mia and We Will Rock You and enjoy huge > success around the world, I don't want to use the original > recordings, I have some backing tracks for a small theatre > production and of course have the cast sing the lyrics > live and for a large show I'd really prefer to use a live > band. > > > > I tried with Frankenstein a couple years back. I actually > > thought about that again recently just as a themed > > concert, but then they were doing 'Total eclipse' in > > Melbourne and I didn't want to 'compete' with that, if it > > ever happened. The idea was that it would have used all of > > Jim's greatest hits in the one show, with the idea that > > the songs were all like.. creations I suppose. It's easy > > to imagine Jim as Dr Frankenstein haha. When he wrote "All > > coming back" I think he was flying around all over New > > York at a Grand Piano which was like a rocket or something > > with exhaust pipes? Whoooosh. "Baby baby baby when you > > touch me like this" *bashing away at the notes on the > > keyboard* *Jim's hair actually starts glowing* "Oooh I've > > gotta write that bit down." > > > > Omg... Anyway!! I couldn't do it at the time because the > > songs in the context of a theatre piece were exclusive to > > the BOOH show. So that was that more or less. > > > > > > > > Given that an Official production of the Bat musical is > > > opening next year in the UK in Manchester before moving on > > > to Canada and the USA you would be hard pressed to get > > > permission i reckon > > > I may be wrong so if you wait till Ryan pops by he might > > > be able to offer another view point given his musical > > > theatre work > > > > > > > Hi, I'm in Brisbane Australia, I have written a musical > > > > based on the album Bat out of Hell, but I need some help, > > > > how do I get permission to use the great mans lyrics and > > > > music?? Any producers/directors like to help me take it to > > > > the next level?? I think Australia was one of the first > > > > country's to fall in love with this album, and I believe a > > > > musical like this could draw a whole new audience to this > > > > amazing piece of music all over again. thanks Doug > > > > Johnstone | |
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