Sing Along

[thepaulo]

I think most people are afraid of Karoke....I've gotten up a few times and did okay but I still have stage fright....
now they have sing along movies....
they're relaunching Mama Mia as a sing along.....
It's a ridiculous movie (though it has done very well at the box office) and it's even more ridiculous with the silly Abba words at the bottom of the screen....
I just don't see an audience full of people singing along....
It worked with Rocky Horror because that appeals to the freaks....
Sing Along Sound of Music and Sing Along Grease did not sweep the nation....
but I could be wrong....and it would be fun to see real audience participation again.

[Thebazile78]

I think most people are afraid of Karoke....I've gotten up a few times and did okay but I still have stage fright....
now they have sing along movies....
they're relaunching Mama Mia as a sing along.....
It's a ridiculous movie (though it has done very well at the box office) and it's even more ridiculous with the silly Abba words at the bottom of the screen....
I just don't see an audience full of people singing along....
It worked with Rocky Horror because that appeals to the freaks....
Sing Along Sound of Music and Sing Along Grease did not sweep the nation....
but I could be wrong....and it would be fun to see real audience participation again.

I think it depends largely on a lot of things.

Rocky Horror doesn't just have a sing-along component ... it's a sing-along, shout-out, act-out, props and costumes midnight freakfest. It's a total experience. MUCH more than a sing-along.

I think that Mamma Mia! has the same potential. At the Broadway show, there's a dance-along/sing-along component that audiences have loved ... I can easily see the same thing happening with a "sing-along" push behind the movie. ABBA songs are catchy, silly and very easily learned and the girl who plays the daughter (Sophie?) is so much more adorable than Susan Sarandon was in Rocky Horror that it just might work.

Besides, Tony Scott in the NY Times described the overall Mamma Mia! experience as something akin to getting brain freeze from a frozen margarita.

The other sing-alongs are really niche markets - The Sound of Music and Grease just don't have the same energy as something like Rocky Horror. Besides, how much fun is it to dress up as a nun????

Cult films are very niche. If movies are going to be re-released/re-packaged like that, I could see a Hairspray midnight sing-along at some point in the future...the music is ridiculously catchy, there are great (weird) characters and it's just a lot of fun. Bouncy and silly and fun.

[thepaulo]

I think all the theater geeks out there should band together and get rowdy at one of these screenings.

[Thebazile78]

I think all the theater geeks out there should band together and get rowdy at one of these screenings.

That'd be a heck of a party, dude.

[thepaulo]

I guess this is the place to start.

http://www.mammamiafans.com/