<p>So I personally cant wait!!!</p>
<p>I would also like to see a musical based on…village peoople</p>
<p>I suppose that it will be like the ABBA musical–an unrelated story that uses Spice Girls music?</p>
<p>I assume you are kidding. Leaves my tastebuds flat, not spicy.</p>
<p>Hey! We all have our throwback enthusiasms - can’t hurt and it’s not like the world couldn’t use more smiling happy people. 
My tastes run more to American Idiot - the musical, but why not if people will go and be happy?</p>
<p>I admit that I like the Spice Girls music and would consider seeing it. (maybe I should be posting this on the guilty pleasures thread).</p>
<p>I was around 8 or 9 when they were popular, and for some reason they were wildly popular in my age group-- every girl played spice girls and picked a girl to be, and they would write songs and choreograph dances to perform on the steps at recess. They had a concert in Detroit in 2008 and it was the first time they’d been here, I went with my cousin for nostalgia’s sake and had the time of my life. I’d see this in a heartbeat!</p>
<p>Music doesn’t have to be high quality to be fun.</p>
<p>I would go to B-52s The Musical :)</p>
<p>Emahee, when my youngest was in private K-2 school they had a talent show. One group of girls lip synced and danced to a spice girls tune.
( another act consisted of burping the alphabet)
;)</p>
<p>We now have American Idiot, Rent and maybe Chicago to fill the angst ridden musical genre, but musicals are supposed to be fun and a bit corny - that’s the whole basis of the genre as far as I’m concerned.</p>
<p>Our first nanny bought D1 the CD for Christmas when D1 was 5. It was the primary (possibly only) CD in our car for quite some time. (she bought her the movie for Easter. It is very cute and could easily be the basis for the musical, however that would show a complete lack of creativity and I would not pay to see it…). </p>
<p>Best recent Spice Girls story…H loaded all our CDs on iTunes ages ago. The biggest iTunes fail this past December was asking in iPod to create a genius mix from the lovely Christmas song “All i want for Christmas is you”, yup, next song “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls. I did not realize I had any Spice Girls on my iPod…</p>
<p>Well I used to like The Bangles so I’m not judging.</p>
<p>What about the GoGo’s? That would be perfect!</p>
<p>& Bananarama!</p>
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<p>Sorry, but I disagree with this notion. Musicals, like plays, hopefully provoke thought. They can be comedic or serious. Some are purely entertaining without much depth. Personally, I would not want every musical to be pure fun and nothing more. Musicals like Ragtime, for example, have a great story to tell.</p>
<p>I agree soozie. A lyric can move the story along, but many important musicals are as far from corny as you can get.
Porgy and Bess isn’t corny.
I don’t expect [-</a> Allegiance](<a href=“http://www.allegiancemusical.com/cast-member/george-takei]-”>http://www.allegiancemusical.com/cast-member/george-takei) is either.</p>
<p>Mamma Mia is a great story. It took creativity to pull that together from the library of ABBA songs. Much like turning the lame Pirates of the Caribbean Disney ride into a very entertaining movie (only singular - they needed to stop after 1!).</p>
<p>Porgy and Bess was actually composed and first performed as an opera with classically trained operatic singers. That’s how I’ve seen it. As for light entertainment, is it so wrong? OK, Grease is a morality tale of teen pregnancy, love and angst on the Jersey Shore put to really great music. Yes Mama Mia has a cute story but it’s a rom-com with ABBA not Dostoyevsky for gosh sakes. Wicked? A heartfelt story of sibling rivalry? I am not intending to belittle the seriousness and talent of performers in musical theater (or theri instructors). It is possible to showcase incredible talent and be fun all at the same time.</p>
<p>When my son was around 5 he loved the Spice Girls. If I’ve seen the movie Spice Girls once, I’ve seen it a hundred times! I think it sounds like a fun musical, although there are other musicals I would want to see first (you know, when I win the lottery.)</p>
<p>I want to see Book of Mormon, but H doesn’t want to go.
Too bad I don’t think my (lds) sister has enough of a sense of humor.
Wicked is coming around again too, but I took younger D to see it the first time to Seattle after she had seen it in NYC in 2004, and frankly, I thought more of my older daughters high school musicals. D loved it though.</p>
<p>I didn’t say there was anything wrong with light entertainment.
But for myself, to spend that much on a ticket, I like something that makes me think. And you are right Porgy & Bess is an opera, not a musical. :o</p>
<p>I’m just grumpy cause ihadtickets to this last night, only I thought it was tonight.</p>
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<p>I guess that solved the question if I walk or drive. :p</p>
<p>My daughter and her female friends HATED the Spice Girls, who broke when she was in fifth grade or so. The boys were teasing them by identifying which Spice Girl they were most like, etc.; they instinctively knew that Spice Girldom was not about the sort of individualism they thought they had. Her younger brother, however, always loved the Spice Girls. Given his sister and mother, it was a huge relief to have a model of Girl Power that went out of its way to be 100% boy-friendly. Sign him up!</p>
<p>15 years or so later, he still has a soft spot for that sort of thing – J-Pop and K-Pop, the Pipettes. Happy music by pretty girls, in which boys are the center of attention, or at least close to it.</p>