Harry Potter as Stage Play

[heiditandy]

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From: heiditandy
Subject: Re: Harry Potter as Stage Play
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5979] Harry Potter as Stage Play
Date: 8/7/00 8:47 pm  (ET)

I know this is from yesterday, but I've been out of town since the 3rd,
and am just catching up on messages...
When I was in college, I took a class called Rise & Fall of the Great
American Musical - 1895 through 1991 (that was the year I took it) - our
final project was to write a musical based on a work of literature or a
movie (I and 2 friends did When Harry met Sally (can you guess which song
was only scales, no actual words?)) and since then it's been a hobby of
mine to turn books or stories or movies into musicals, using rewritten
songs- regular radio songs & broadway tunes - I've been working on a
Harry Potter one, just the first book, basically, but with more stuff
we've learned from the later books in there in various dream sequences &
asides - I will post it somewhere when it's done - but it, at this point,
involves a LOT from The Secret Garden (and not just because both of the
mothers of the lead boys are named Lily), and a little of The Who's Tommy
(imagine Draco as Tommy's Cousin, whose name I'm forgetting). For purposes
of magic, there's some Into The Woods. And since I hate the song Castle
on a Cloud more than anything in the world, that will NOT be there,
no matter how appropriater my sister says it is for the Harry In The
Cuboard portion.
In my mind it works.