The mind reels.

Weird. I was just blogging about Road House yesterday. Had no idea there was a stage revival.

Egads, that's some mullet.

With any luck, Ace, Jean-Michael Vincent is probably available for your production, and most likely needs the work.

Just wondering if they will include the classic Sam Elliot line "I used to fuck guys like you in prison" in the stage version. Pure gold, that.

Burnt out blogger goes looking for his missing funny.

Yeah, it can be set to music.

I'm awaiting a callback for my 'PointBreak: On Ice!" treatment.

Once you strip away the extraneous devices required by the medium of film and get at the essence of Point Break, it's quite a touching story of male bonding well suited to a performance on skates.

I'm hoping for something in the high fiv/low six figures, not including the decimal places. Obviously, pay scales are different for ice-based productions than your Airwolf one.

Good luck!

Ha! None of you have taken my idea.

"Red Dawn: A Celebration in Song," featuring the show-stoppers "AVENGE ME!" "Six Hundred Million Screamin' Chinamen" and "No More Tears."

This is going to be good. Tony Awards, here I come.

"Six Hundred Million Screamin' Chinamen"

Or as it's known in China: Tuesday.

Funny stuff.

I'm impressed with the idea of a Red Dawn Musical.

Slublog, care to workshop it?

Ahem.

Workshop?

Remember, my degree is in journalism. That means I'm dumb about entertainment stuff.

And a lot of other stuff, actually.

I just mean that maybe we could try a collective stab at a very dumb musical adaptation of Red Dawn.

Sort of like Wikipedia, only with an Andrew Lloyd Weber style song called Wolverines!

Actually, maybe that should be the title. Wolverines!: Red Dawn, The Musical.

re: Point Break

Don't look now, but a friend of mine had a gf that regularly staged a small theater version of PB in Seattle. The gimmick was that the Keanu Reeves character would be picked at random at the beginning of the show, given a cursory read-through behind the curtains, and then thrust on stage for the show.

Now that's high-concept.

Wolverines!

The exclamation point makes it.

How many of you can tap dance? Sing? Anything?

We can put the show in in Old Man Smithers' barn!

And you football guys... you can help us put the stage together, right?

I know we'll make enough for Ginny's operation!

Most of Swayze's movies would make good musicals. Can you imagine Ghost as a musical? With, say, Margaret Cho in the Oda Mae Brown role?

Sam: Molly, you're in danger.
Oda Mae: You can't just blurt it out like that! And quit moving around, because you're starting to make me dizzy. I'll just tell her in my own way.
[pause; then, to Molly]
Oda Mae: MO-LAAAAAN! YOU IN DANGER, GIRL!

How many of you can tap dance? Sing? Anything?

I can make a head shot down hill from over 1200 meters, will that help?

Oh, and I make baloon animals, but they all look like snakes.

WOLVERINES! A Musical Celebration of Red Dawn.

CURTAIN OPEN

The set is a small-town high school, with students milling about. Enter JED, ROBERT, MATT and DARYL.

Music starts.

ENSEMBLE: "Five hundred twenty five thousand six..."

Sorry, wrong play.

To hell with Ginny's operation!

Let's do this for the filthy lucre it will bring in. I can smell the money already.

We could turn this into a franchise - 80s movie musicals.

Better Off Dead - featuring "Two Dollars!", "I'm Sorry Ricky," and "Grown Up Smut"

Sixteen Candles - includes "I Need Your Panties," "My Happy Hand" and "Dong"

On Golden Pond - "You Old Poop," "Suck Face" and "My Daughter is a Bitch."

The possibilities are endless.

My kabuki version of Zapped! will not be outdone!

Good God, it must've been a decade since I've heard/seen/read an Airwolf reference. Solid work Ace.

You're really funny today. Hittin' the bottle?

I say get Yo-Yo Ma to play Stringfellow Hawke, Ian McKellen for Archangel and Jason Alexander (or Nathan Lane) for Dominic Santini.

I couldn't help but notice this:

The gimmick was that the Keanu Reeves character would be picked at random at the beginning of the show, given a cursory read-through behind the curtains, and then thrust on stage for the show.

Isn't this how Keanu Reeves got the role in the first place?

Maybe you could combine Road House and Dirty Dancing and instead of putting Baby in the corner you could have her beaten up.

Dman, ROFL!!

To the tune of "Shall We Dance":

Wolverines!
In blue jeans
For our country
For our homes
We're fightin' teens!

And then make it get really gay.

Me, I'm looking forward to C. Thomas Howell's dramatic solo number: "My Hate Keeps Me Warm".

Would Dead Alive be better as an opera or a ballet?

Opera, definitely. You sure as hell don't want some dainty little ballerina slipping & sliding around in all the blood & body parts from the "use your lawnmower as a weapon" scene.